Seankingonline: 2 books

You’d have to know Sean King, to understand what makes him tick, think, abstain and engage. ‘Empire of the Mind’ is a towering sentinel, standing guard over one man’s vulnerabilities. A rare work of blood-stained word compilation, stripped back to a bare light bulb swinging in an empty room....

“When he told me he needed a fountain pen, I dismissed it as normal, what normal passes for anyhow in this world we inhabit. And then, later, I thought, hold on, he’s going to stick that nib into his vein and write a book out of his own blood. A few moments of panic and then normality grabbed...