Garrick Jones

AUSTRALIAN AUTHOR

Wheelchair

Going to edits on the 5th of May, this book, both in paperback and in e-book versions, available on the 18th September, 2020, with a lead up of a few weeks of pre-purchase.

You can never judge an academic book by its cover. Simon Dyson, a quiet assistant professor, is a man of hidden depths. To the world he presents as a harmless, innocuous, shy and retiring intellectual. However, the man who lurks behind that public persona is far more interesting … and dangerous … and driven. 

Wheelchair is a slow burn contemporary psychological crime thriller about a man who suffers from both OCD and PTSD, a man who is unwittingly caught up in a cross-border war between rival crime gangs—a conflict that almost leads to his death, and more than once. 

It’s a study of compulsion and disability, and the many faces of emotional and sexual dependence and obsession. It’s about how some men cannot just love or make love because their hearts or their bodies lead them to it, but who can only connect emotionally and physically through self-imposed rituals which involve struggle or self-abasement.