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My first novel, The Worms of Euston Square, was published in August 2006 by independent Scottish publisher, Mercat Press. An Amazon review describes it as "a blast from the capital's past which brilliantly mirrors our own troubled and nervous times." Thanks to those of you who've bought it, taken it out of the library, and asked your local bookshops for it.
"Thoroughly enjoyable." Scotsman review by novelist, Allan Massie. "If William Sutton can maintain this standard of invention, this mastery of linguistic tone, he is on to a winner." I am now at work on a follow-up novel, in which Campbell Lawless gets embroiled with European radicals: Chief of the Assassins. xxx William More on Worms of Euston Square 
The Worms of Euston Square is a literary mystery set in Victorian London.
First-rate Victorian crime fiction. The Herald
The action moves with dizzying speed from the highest quarters in the land to the vilest slums and low dives of the teeming city. … Thoroughly enjoyable. Allan Massie, The Scotsman
"Highly original and engaging ... Prose and interweaving plots built like wrought-iron Victorian follies … Genuinely funny." Michael Gardiner, Scotland on Sunday
A blast from the capital's past which brilliantly mirrors our own troubled and nervous times. … Challenging and supremely witty … Beautifully written and utterly absorbing ... Compelling, unpredictable and entertaining. Amazon reviews
Shines in its evocation of Victorian London: a living, breathing, stinking beast of a city. BookBag
Feel free to add your comments and critiques at Amazon.You can order Worms from your local bookshop, at amazon.co.uk or at a 25% discount from Mercat Press. (Postage to Europe, £3.90 + £0.95 for each further copy, postage to Australia, £4.90 + £0.95 for each further copy.)
(If you don't like internet purchasing, from their distributor, BookSource: 0044 845 370 0067. Pretend you’ve tried to purchase it online & you get the 25% discount.)
- Photos of Filthy MacNastys reading, by Ronnie Hackston
- Photos of reading at Pan's cafe, by Brian Micky
- Readings Info - 'Twas a veritable tour, including London, London, Ealing, Dunblane and Edinburgh (Oct 30, 31, Nov 1, 8, 9). Sabotage, scandal & stink live.
- Worm Quiz won by J Gilbert of Ludlow
- Scotland on Sunday Review
- Interview with WriteWords
- Online Review from the Book Bag
COMING SOON
- The Second Quiz
- Sources, Links & Books which Birthed the Worms
- MP3s of more readings and songs
- photos and excerpts from articles and plays
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We launched Worms at the Edinburgh International Book Festival at 6pm, Monday 21 August, in a most excellent reading with Bruce Durie, polymath, novelist and editor of Dick Donovan, the original curmudgeonly Glasgow detective.
I also read at Thirsty Lunch in The Jazz Cafe, Edinburgh, where I was awed to meet esteemed Scottish novelist, Alasdair Gray, who signed my book in a childlike scrawl, and then went on a wee London/Scotland tour.
Try the Quiz, to test your knowledge of Worms, Vermiculture and Victorian va-va-voom.
William's other stuff: readings & teaching, plays & music, articles, translation.