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HIRAETH. by Haydn Wilks

$HITCOIN. by Haydn Wilks

HIRAETH. – THE EXISTENTIAL MORON’S LOCKDOWN NOVEL.

HIRAETH. by Haydn Wilks

RELEASE DATE: 23 July 2023

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A “talentless, misguided d******d” attempts to make being “Welsh & desperate” seem “sexy” against the backdrop of a global pandemic.

The Main Character (Welsh, Virgo, ENTP, emo, 32, M) abandons the decadent neo-colonialist lifestyle of an English-as-a-Foreign-Language Teacher to pursue the workshy millennial ideal of life as a digital nomad.

A quick visit to Wales becomes months and months and etc. of escalating and easing lockdowns, marathon video chats, Valleys bike rides & ticket-free train travel, socially-distanced booze & weed sessions, and legally-questionable house and shed visits with his Dad & the Boys, mental disequilibrium fuelling an obsession with becoming a generation-defining best-selling author:

the Welsh Irvine Welsh, the ginger Jack Kerouac, the broke Bret Easton Ellis, the homebound Hunter S Thompson, penning Fear & Loathing in the Living Room:

a Tao Lin-eclipsing autofictional Voice of His Generation.

hiraeth [n.] [Welsh] an intense sense of longing for your homeland.

HIRAETH. [alt] [ALL CAPS.] the existential moron’s lockdown novel; Proust-like chronicling of life during a once-in-a-century viral outbreak – novel autofiction exploiting the millions dead from a novel virus to bring its author closer to enablement of his delusions than ever before.

RELEASE DATE: 23 July 2023

PRE-ORDER NOW @ amazon.com / amazon.co.uk

modern life is decent

songs, poems, & prose.

cold calling

American Psycho meets Crime & Punishment on the Cardiff call centre circuit.

the death of danny daggers

Cardiff. The last few days of summer. Danny Daggers is about to die. He just doesn’t realise it yet.

$HITCOIN.
Bears & Bulls make money.
Pigs get slaughtered.

$hitcoin: the first technothriller to fully capture the insanity of cryptocurrency’s ICO (Initial Coin Offering) gold rush. With billions of dollars to play for, who will survive the SHITCOIN’s rise?

“…a story of grift and determination, about the revolutionary potentials of distributed technology and how fortunes were made and lost in an instant.” CoinDesk

At the height of the digital gold rush, investors from around the world poured into cryptocurrency as Bitcoin, Ethereum, and countless others soared in value. Just like in the novel, many of these ICOs were launched by people with no experience in technology or finance. With a website, basic coding skills, and a little social media savvy, projects launched from bedrooms and university dorm rooms were able to capture millions from international investors. Packed with dark comedy and black humor, $hitcoin is a financial thriller that explores a unique time in history.

$HITCOIN. by Haydn Wilks