Edward Vass is the author of the novella Milton in Purgatory, published by Fairlight Books on 1 August 2019.
In this richly inventive and humorous novella, Edward Vass brings the themes of Dante’s Divine Comedy 700 years into the future.
With a degree in marketing and advertising from the University of Lincoln, Edward now works at the British Medical Association. He lives just outside Brighton with his family.
Graduating Lincoln, Edward left the UK to teach English in the South Korean city of Daegu. This turned into an eighteen-month tour of Asia. During that time he began to experiment with writing and ideas for stories without ever committing to a complete novel. After he moved to Oxford to work at a publishing house, he was inspired by its literary past to begin writing an idea he’d come up with in South Korea.
In his spare time Edward Vass scuba dives, paints and plays a wide range of sports: football, tennis, boxing training and badminton.
Milton in Purgatory is his debut novella. Read our full interview with him about it here.
Edward’s Instagram can be found here.
Praise for Edward Vass:
‘Let Milton in Purgatory take you into the beyond. There you’ll meet God (though not as you know him), find out why the Saints frown upon queue-jumping, and discover that life comes down to the same fundamental truths: must mate, is that it, time to die. Smart, funny, and an excellent writer, Edward Vass is the ideal guide for a journey into the beyond.’ – Dr. Owen Clayton, Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University of Lincoln
‘A funny, original and quintessentially British account of a twenty-first-century man confronted by the afterlife.’ – Abbie Walker (@ ab_reads), London Book Fair’s 2019 Bookstagrammer of the Year
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