Kevin Breathnach

Kevin Breathnach is the author of Tunnel Vision and Morphing.

Extreme Jogging: The ‘Nocilla’ Project

Kevin Breathnach, 18 February 2021

AgustínFernández Mallo, then a Spanish physicist with one book of poetry to his name, was on holiday from his laboratory in 2004 when he was hit by a motorbike in Thailand. Convalescing in hospital after surgery, he wrote Nocilla Dream and made notes for two succeeding volumes in a trilogy. Nocilla Dream wasn’t the first work of prose Mallo had written, but it was the...

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