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Cloud Lodge Books has acquired Disbanded Kingdom, a coming-of-age story set against the "emotive" backdrop of the UK's breakaway from the European Union, by playwright Polis Loizou.
The publisher acquired exclusive world rights to Disbanded Kingdom from Eric Akoto at Litro Represents.
The book follows 22 year-old Oscar, who is a "lost cause". He roams central London, looking for distraction, drugs, and random hook-ups. The publisher said: "But this isn’t quite Bright Lights, Big City: Oscar is gay but feels disconnected from London’s gay scene. He is naive and rootless, an emotionally stunted foundling who lives in upscale Kensington with his foster mother, novelist Charlotte Roux. But all of this changes when he meets Tim, Charlotte’s thirty-something literary agent with whom Oscar becomes hopelessly infatuated. Whilst he struggles to understand Tim’s politics and his rejection of religion, Oscar’s developing friendship with Tim affects a profound change in the young man, making him want to understand the world and his place in it."
Loizou is the founder of London’s Off-Off-Off Broadway Company. His short stories have been featured in The Stockholm Review of Literature and Liars’ League NYC, and he is a frequent contributor to Litro Magazine. Disbanded Kingdom is his first novel, which will publish on 21st March 2018.