Kimberly's Capital Punishment

It will blow cobwebs off your soul. Full of panache, heart and hideousnessSees [Milward] shift effortlessly from thrilling new talent to major literary force to be reckoned with... Milward contemplates the Big Questions in a bittersweet paean to the UK capital in his own inimitable style and does so with his most impressive series of textual experiments, poetic flashes and lip-smacking imagery to date. His punchy, super-smart prose is driven by an irresistible energy and masterful flair - The ListA modern psychedelic masterpiece . . . utterly uniqueDark and surreal yarn . . . Milward holds our attention with endearing characters and quirky storytelling techniques . . . a deliciously playful, marvellously adventurous fuck-you of a novel - Time Out Book of the WeekEven [Milward's] most ardent fan would have been hard pushed to imagine the glories he would give us with this year's offering... Kimberly's Capital Punishment is a typically punchy and experimental tale which puts most other 27 year-old British authors firmly in the shade - The List Best Books of 2012I can't help but admire the way he monkeys about with form, his blackly comic ambition, and the sheer demented energy of his storytelling . . . Likeably offbeat - Sunday TimesMilward's quicksilver inventiveness, which seems motivated by a truly weird sense of humour, provokes a sort of bewildered admiration - Independent