The Book Plank

Author interview with David Towsey One of the most genre-bending novels out this year is Your Brothers Blood from David Towsey. Like I mentioned in my review I was expecting something totally different with a book set in the zombie genre, they lend a hand to create a horrific, gruesome story. In Your Brother's Blood David Towsey changes the perspectives of a lot of elements, just for starters the main protagonist Tomas is one of the Walkin' (an undead yes) this change put the story into a completely different daylight, but moreover there is a strong current of humanness making you to abandon some of the stereotypical thoughts about this genre. Your Brother's Blood is a definite recommendation. Read my full review here Author Bio: David Towsey is a graduate of the Bath Spa Creative Writing Masters programme. He is continuing his studies as a Ph.D. student at Aberystwyth University, where he lives with his girlfriend and their four cats. His first n...

Your Brother's Blood by David Towsey Thomas is thirty-two. He comes from the small town of Barkley. He has a wife there, Sarah, and a child, Mary; good solid names from the Good Book. And he is on his way home from the war, where he has been serving as a conscripted soldier. Thomas is also dead – he is one of the Walkin’. And Barkley does not suffer the wicked to live. Your Brother's Blood is the debut book of David Towsey which was released last month by Jo Fletcher Books. David Towsey is an MA graduate of the Bath Spa Creative Writing course and continuing his studies as a Ph.D student at Aberystwyth University. The synopsis of Your Brother’s Blood really got me curious. With solely the mentioning of the Walkin' you can pretty much guess the direction this story will go into, however it seemed to me that with a main protagonist as a Walkin' it could be interesting. And Your Brother's Blood proved that it was indeed so, at many fronts. I have to con...