Tariq Goddard (born 1975) is a British novelist and publisher. He has written six novels, the first of which ''Homage to a Firing Squad'', was short-listed for the

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for First Novel. His first three novels were published by

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. In 2007, he founded the independent publishing company,

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, and is now the publisher of

Repeater Books Repeater Books is a publishing imprint based in London, founded in 2014 by Tariq Goddard and Mark Fisher, formerly the founders of radical publishers Zero Books, along with Etan Ilfeld, Tamar Shlaim, Alex Niven and Matteo Mandarini. Formation I ...

Life and career

Goddard was born in London and read philosophy at

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, and Continental Philosophy at the

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and the

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. In 2002 his first novel, ''Homage to a Firing Squad'', was nominated for the Whitbread (Costa) Book Award for First Novel. It was also nominated for the

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literary award for comic literature. He was included as one of

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' 'Faces of the Future' and the novel, whose film rights where sold,''

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'' (6 December 2002)
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s Four Debuts of the year. In 2003 his second novel, ''Dynamo'', was cited as one of the ten best sports novels of all time by

Sports Magazine. ''The Morning Rides Behind Us'', his third novel, was released in 2005, and short-listed for the

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for Fiction. In 2010 ''The Picture of Contented New Wealth'', his fourth novel, won The Independent Publishers Award for Horror Writing and he was awarded a development grant by

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. ''The Message'', published in 2011 and set in a fictional African state, received Silver at the 2012 Independent Publishers Award for Literary Fiction. His sixth novel ''Nature and Necessity'' was published in 2017. ''The Repeater Book of the Occult'', edited by Tariq Goddard and “horror philosopher”

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, was published in 2021. Goddard is a frequent contributor to The Quietus, and has written an opinion piece "Why Music Journalism is Important." In 2007 Goddard began the imprint

. In 2014 he and his co-founders left Zero Books and started

. He lives on a farm in Wiltshire with his wife and two sons.Repeater Books
Tariq Goddard

Bibliography

*''Homage to a Firing Squad''. Sceptre Books, 2003. . *''Dynamo''. Sceptre Books, 2004. . *''The Morning Rides Behind Us''. Sceptre Books, 2006. . *''The Message''. Zero Books, 2011. . *''The Picture of Contented New Wealth: A Metaphysical Horror''. Zero Books, 2009. . *''Nature and Necessity''. Repeater Books, 2017. . *''The Repeater Book of the Occult''. Edited with

. Repeater Books, 2021. . *''The Repeater Book of Heroism''. Edited with

Alex Niven Alex Niven (born 18 February 1984, Hexham, Northumberland) is an English writer, poet, editor, and former musician. He is a also currently a Lecturer in English Literature at Newcastle University and an editor at Repeater Books. Early life and ...

. Repeater Books, 2022. . *''High John the Conqueror''. Repeater Books, 2022. .

References

External links

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Audio interview with Tariq Goddard
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Excerpt from ''The Picture of Contented New Wealth''What Was Possible - Tariq Goddard on Outsider Publishing and Capitalist Realism Today
The Point (29 March 2019).
Low Culture Podcast: Tariq Goddard on the Sisters of Mercy
The Quietus (1 October 2020). {{DEFAULTSORT:Goddard, Tariq 1975 births Living people Alumni of King's College London Alumni of the University of Surrey 21st-century British novelists British publishers (people)