Cover Reveal: Fox Bites by Lloyd Markham

COMING IN APRIL 2024... FOX BITES

The new novel from Betty Trask winner Lloyd Markham

Surely we can all come back from the edge? Can we?

Set in Zimbabwe during the early 2000s, amidst a backdrop of political turmoil, FOX BITES is a dark coming-of-age horror fantasy about pain, loneliness, and stepping back from the abyss.

Available to pre-order: https://www.parthianbooks.com/collections/pre-order/products/fox-bites

Lloyd Markham was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. He spent his childhood in Zimbabwe before moving to and settling in south Wales at the age of thirteen. His first novel 'Bad Ideas\Chemicals' was shortlisted for Wales Book of the Year and won a Betty Trask award. He was awarded a bursary from Literature Wales to develop his second novel 'Fox Bites'. He lives in Cardiff where he likes making and listening to strange music.

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