Riots I Have Known
- 128 pages
- 5 hours of reading
Ryan Chapman's gritty, bracing debut set during a prison riot is dark, daring, and laugh-out-loud hilarious.
Ryan Chapman Books
This author is currently navigating the highs and lows of a writer with a recently published debut novel. Their background includes experience in marketing and online editorial roles at esteemed publishing houses and literary magazines. Further developing their craft, they have been honored with fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center and the Millay Colony for the Arts. Beyond their own writing, they actively contribute to the literary community by organizing events and hosting a unique book-themed trivia night.
The story follows Henny, a lively Border Collie x Cattle Dog, as she embarks on an exciting journey in the Australian outback. This chapter from the heartwarming series, A True Australian Adventure, showcases Henny's spirited nature and the captivating experiences she encounters along the way, promising readers an engaging blend of adventure and charm.
A bracing satire about the implosion of a Theranos-like company, a collapsing marriage, and a billionaires’ “philanthropy summit,” for fans of Hari Kunzru and The White Lotus. In 72 hours, a blockbuster exposé will reveal Victoria Stevens’s multibillion-dollar startup as a massive fraud. And Victoria has gone missing. Has she faked her death, leaving her husband, Guy Sarvananthan, to face the fallout— and potential jail time? Should Guy flee to his native Sri Lanka, an outcast and a failure? Or embrace denial? Opting for the latter, he takes the corporate jet to a private Caribbean island, where the 0.0001% have gathered to decide which one of the world’s biggest problems to “eradicate forever.” Guy drinks and drugs his way into oblivion, through manicured jungles and aboard superyachts, amid captains of industry, legions of staff, and unlikely saboteurs. Meanwhile, Victoria narrates her side of the story from an off-the-grid location in the California desert. In scribbled diary entries shot through with cultish self-help mantras, she plots her comeback, confident she’ll prove everyone wrong. Again. Ryan Chapman’s incisive novel is a swan dive into the abyss and “Martin Amis’s Money for really late, late capitalism” (Amitava Kumar, author of A Time Outside This Time).
