Background
Gibson was born in a squatters camp at an abandoned World World War II airbase, Royal Air Force Holmsley South in the New Forest, and raised in Mudeford, Dorset.
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Dancing With Mermaids
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Murder and mayhem decked out in fantastic and erotic prose."" - The Times. ""A wild, poetic exhalation that sparkles and hoots and flies."" - The New Yorker. This mysterious fairy-tale, fragranced with twists of madness and lust, returns to print. Ray Bradbury called this 1985 novel, ""Absolutely first rate. Absolutely wonderful,"" when it was first published in 1985. Strange things are afoot in the fishing town of Rams Horn. Set close to the poisonous swamps at the mouth of the River Sheep, the town has been isolated from its neighbors for centuries. But mysterious events are unfolding... A seer who has waited for years for her drowned husband to reappear is hunted by demons, an African sailor arrives from the sea and takes refuge with a widow and her idiot daughter. Young boys plot sexual crimes and the doctor, unhinged by his desire for a woman he cannot have, turns to a medicine older than his own.
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The Sandman: Dancing with Mermaids: AND Dancing with Mermaids
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Dancing with Mermaids
( First published in 1985, Miles Gibson's phantasmagoric ...)
First published in 1985, Miles Gibson's phantasmagoric second novel returns to print with a new preface by the author. Wreathed in legends and haunted by ghosts, the little Dorset village of Rams Horn is a fantastical seaside world where reality ebbs and flows like the tide. A clairvoyant, waiting for her drowned husband to return from the grave, is taunted by demons, a mysterious African sailor arrives from the sea in search of lodgings, small boys spy on their mothers, and the new doctor, sitting in his empty surgery, turns to ancient remedies in a bid to cure his own love sickness. 'An imaginative tour de force and a considerable stylistic achievement... Gibson has few equals among his contemporaries.' Time Out 'An extraordinary talent dances with perfect control across hypnotic pages.' Financial Times
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Vinegar Soup
(From the author of KINGDOM SWANN, a lighthearted novel, f...)
From the author of KINGDOM SWANN, a lighthearted novel, first published in 1987. A middle-aged, overweight chef decides to start a new life in an African hotel after his wife drowns in a pan of soup. However, his dreams of an exotic new beginning soon wither, only to be resuscitated by the arrival of a travelling brothel.
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Dancing With Mermaids by Miles Gibson (1998-04-14)
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Kingdom Swann
(As in Defoe's Roxanna, a voyeuristic fascination plays ga...)
As in Defoe's Roxanna, a voyeuristic fascination plays games with high morality."" - The London Times. ""With enormous relish Gibson presents a memorable and hugely enjoyable portrait of both the man and the world he inhabited-a world in which the double standard abounded."" - The Daily Mail. Kingdom Swann is a delicious fantasy by one of Britain's most exuberantly imaginative novelists, a comic foray into the sub-world of Victorian and Edwardian pornography and the double standards that marked life and art. Rambunctious and bawdy, it imagines the red-hot reality behind the coy sepia nudes of ninety years ago. Kingdom Swann, Victorian master of the epic nude painting turns to photography and finds himself recording the erotic fantasies of a generation through the eye of the camera. This is a disgraceful tale of murky morals and unbridled matrons in a world of Suffragettes, flying machines, and the shadow of war. Art has come to life and all hell is breaking loose.
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Miles Gibson
Edit ProfileEducation
He was educated at Sandhills Infant School, Somerford Junior School and Somerford Secondary Modern.
Career
Upon leaving school he migrated to London and worked in advertising as a copywriter at J. Walter Thompson after winning a place in their Ten most ingenious undergraduate writers in Britain today competition, despite lacking the primary qualification - a university education. Gibson later flirted with Fleet Street as a regular contributor to the Daily Telegraph Magazine under the editorship of the renowned John Anstey. He was the Telegraph"s runner-up Young Writer of the Year in 1969.
Gibson has written fiction and science-fiction, drama for British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4, and his essays, poetry and short stories have appeared in various newspapers, journals and anthologies.
Adaptations Kingdom Swann was adapted by David Nobbs as the feature-length comedy drama Gentlemen"s Relish for British Broadcasting Corporation television, starring Billy Connolly, Sarah Lancashire and Douglas Henshall (2001). Legacy His manuscripts and papers are in the Special Collections of the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Centre at Boston University United States of America.
Works
book
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Dancing with Mermaids
( First published in 1985, Miles Gibson's phantasmagoric ...)
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Vinegar Soup
(From the author of KINGDOM SWANN, a lighthearted novel, f...)
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Kingdom Swann
(As in Defoe's Roxanna, a voyeuristic fascination plays ga...)
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Dancing With Mermaids
(Murder and mayhem decked out in fantastic and erotic pros...)
- The Sandman: Dancing with Mermaids: AND Dancing with Mermaids
- Dancing With Mermaids by Miles Gibson (1998-04-14)
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Dancing with Mermaids
