Fiction

Mind-bending cult fiction

Strange, sinister and steeped in hallucinatory dread, One Night, Two Liars is a mind-bending descent into obsession, identity and the mistakes of the past.

Hungover, bloodied and lost in more ways than one, Bill stumbles into a peculiar second-hand shop, drawn to an old trunk that seems to hum with secrets. The shop’s enigmatic owner, Jack, offers him a drink—something dark, something potent, something that unravels the mind.

Over the course of a long, fevered night, fuelled by this strange elixir, the two men exchange confessions: failed love, broken homes, petty crime and violent secrets.

But as their stories twist together, something isn’t right. Identities blur. Time fractures. And Jack speaks of a man named Jon—angry, desperate and, somehow, all too familiar.

By morning, the question remains: What’s in the trunk?

And worse—who will be left to open it?

For fans of works of cult fiction like Fight Club, American Psycho and A Scanner Darkly, One Night, Two Liars is a hallucinatory spiral of deception, self-destruction and the terrifying fluidity of identity.

Amazon customer 5-star reviews

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'This book works on several levels, twisting time and space into a metaphysical mystery. Intriguing, repulsing and even amusing. Not for the faint hearted, but very rewarding.'

★★★★★

'a plot driven page turner that is also dazzlingly written with a precision of language and character; dizzying and disturbing but tautly structured'

★★★★★

'Having recently read the challenging Last Exit to Brooklyn, One Night, Two Liars shares a similar sense of being challenging yet ultimately rewarding.'

★★★★★

'Buy it. Read it. Then re-read it. And then try getting some sleep.'

★★★★★

'This jigsaw puzzle of a book comes together and yet at the same time – and maybe it is this that makes it feel so satisfying too – the jigsaw pieces do not fit altogether snugly, with themes, such as mental health, past lives, parallel lives possibly giving clarification on one level and yet at the same time generating questions for the reader to think about'

★★★★★

'This is a gloriously unpredictable, beautifully descriptive, fast moving and dark read'