More Lies
Richard James Allen
More Lies is an offbeat comedy thriller – a playful hybrid of fiction, poetry and monologue – about a writer writing to stay alive. A timely satire on the nature of truth and trust, the novel opens with 'our hero' being held hostage in their New York apartment, forced to type to hide the manoeuvres of a femme fatale, holding a pearl-handled gun, and her brother, a small-time thug with big-time ambitions. Through a series of lies, backflips and alternative versions of this wild tale of assassination, lost gold, betrayal, passion and identity theft, the author moves from being a trapped hack, forced to prostitute themselves, to dazzling the world with the acrobatics of their imagination, to the heart of the matter: storytelling is all that is keeping them alive.
Richard James Allen is an Australian writer, filmmaker and performer, based in Sydney/Gadigal. A founder and co-artistic director with Karen Pearlman of the multi-award-winning Physical TV Company, his work has been screened, broadcast, published and presented on six continents. Richard’s thirteenth book, Text Messages from the Universe'(Flying Island Books, 2023), was a finalist for three international awards. A film adaptation won six awards and was nominated for Best Narrative Feature Film at the ATOM Awards. In an earlier incarnation, his novel More Lies was shortlisted for the Griffin Award for New Australian Playwriting. Richard was thrilled to collaborate with Jadzea Allen and John Hresc on the audiobook narration, which had its festival premiere at the 2025 FLICKERS’ Rhode Island International Film Festival.
Duration - 1h 23m.
Author - Richard James Allen.
Narrator - Jadzea Allen.
Published Date - Wednesday, 29 January 2025.
Copyright - © 2022 Richard James Allen ©.
Location:
United States
Networks:
Richard James Allen
Jadzea Allen
Interactive Publications
English Audiobooks
Findaway Audiobooks
Description:
More Lies is an offbeat comedy thriller – a playful hybrid of fiction, poetry and monologue – about a writer writing to stay alive. A timely satire on the nature of truth and trust, the novel opens with 'our hero' being held hostage in their New York apartment, forced to type to hide the manoeuvres of a femme fatale, holding a pearl-handled gun, and her brother, a small-time thug with big-time ambitions. Through a series of lies, backflips and alternative versions of this wild tale of assassination, lost gold, betrayal, passion and identity theft, the author moves from being a trapped hack, forced to prostitute themselves, to dazzling the world with the acrobatics of their imagination, to the heart of the matter: storytelling is all that is keeping them alive. Richard James Allen is an Australian writer, filmmaker and performer, based in Sydney/Gadigal. A founder and co-artistic director with Karen Pearlman of the multi-award-winning Physical TV Company, his work has been screened, broadcast, published and presented on six continents. Richard’s thirteenth book, Text Messages from the Universe'(Flying Island Books, 2023), was a finalist for three international awards. A film adaptation won six awards and was nominated for Best Narrative Feature Film at the ATOM Awards. In an earlier incarnation, his novel More Lies was shortlisted for the Griffin Award for New Australian Playwriting. Richard was thrilled to collaborate with Jadzea Allen and John Hresc on the audiobook narration, which had its festival premiere at the 2025 FLICKERS’ Rhode Island International Film Festival. Duration - 1h 23m. Author - Richard James Allen. Narrator - Jadzea Allen. Published Date - Wednesday, 29 January 2025. Copyright - © 2022 Richard James Allen ©.
Language:
English
Intro
Duration:00:00:09
Chapter 1: We Got Company, Ma
Duration:00:03:04
Chapter 2: Miraculously
Duration:00:03:56
Chapter 3: The Trick
Duration:00:02:09
Chapter 4: The Strangest Muse
Duration:00:01:24
Chapter 5: A Certain Fascination
Duration:00:02:05
Chapter 6: The Road to Utopia
Duration:00:02:18
Chapter 7: Aw, Where's Your Sense of Humour?
Duration:00:02:22
Chapter 8: Freeze-Frame
Duration:00:01:43
Chapter 9: Down Memory Lane
Duration:00:03:33
Chapter 10: Think Fast
Duration:00:01:15
Chapter 11: Which Part of This Do You Have a Problem With?
Duration:00:01:32
Chapter 12: Story Story
Duration:00:02:09
Chapter 13: Lights Out, Sweetheart
Duration:00:02:56
Chapter 14: Blackout
Duration:00:02:13
Chapter 15: Hard to Believe
Duration:00:03:28
Chapter 16: Human Nosiness
Duration:00:01:52
Chapter 17: This Falls Under the Sad But True Category
Duration:00:02:01
Chapter 18: Nothing Was As It Had Been
Duration:00:02:29
Chapter 19: Some Pretty Drastic Means
Duration:00:02:49
Chapter 20: The Rubbish of My Mind
Duration:00:02:22
Chapter 21: The Homeless
Duration:00:02:26
Chapter 22: Bad Command or File Name
Duration:00:03:32
Chapter 23: ¿Cuánto?
Duration:00:02:38
Chapter 24: Home is Where the Art Is
Duration:00:03:52
Chapter 25: Laugh at Will
Duration:00:02:40
Chapter 26: What?
Duration:00:01:09
Chapter 27: Sort of Blink
Duration:00:01:05
Chapter 28: Are You Still Here?
Duration:00:02:46
Chapter 29: Ulterior Motive
Duration:00:02:51
Chapter 30: Wakey-Wakey
Duration:00:01:21
Chapter 31: ...If I Can Remember It
Duration:00:02:31
Chapter 32: The Dark Rememberer
Duration:00:00:43
Chapter 33: Without Your Gaze
Duration:00:02:22
PS.: Epilogue, Dénouement, This is the End, etc
Duration:00:01:41
Credits
Duration:00:04:20