Rum Blazer

Rum blazer: a writing game for two or more. Everyone invents, or takes from a written source, a title for an imaginary book: a word, phrase or sentence. Pass the title to the player on your left, who has to write a precis for the imaginary book / blurb to go on the back cover. Here are the ones we did yesterday (not sticking to the rules by making up our own titles):

Rum Blazer (title NM, text JM)
This touching parable features an autistic child and the intense but controversial world of his imagination. His fantasy ego, 'Rum Blazer', both shocks and seduces in equal measure. Despite his mother's efforts, Figaro descends into a darkness from which only his dentist can save him. A riveting read!

Rum Blazer (title NM, text NM)
The shocking saga of a man born into privilege, operating in the shady interstices of legality, sexuality and alcoholism in a seductive and nightmarish Barbados.
The interconnections of the Bullington Club, colonial prostitution and organised crime are laid bare through the exploits of Tarquin Meriwether, an old-Etonian blackballed from the Board of the City firm he thought was his entitlement, as he lives life to the full, cocking a big snook at the establishment that bred him.

Santa Theresa (title NM, text NM)
The heart-breaking but ultimately life-affirming story of an autistic girl from the slums of Barcelona, rejected by her family and the world in which she grew up for her physical and mental disabilities, who rises to world prominence and finds love of a higher order after her encounter with an Olympic diver, who is horribly injured after health and safety lapses at the Barcelona Olympics, and is miraculously healed by her prayers. A novel of the recent historical past suitable for committed Christians and sports followers.

Fresh Peach (title NM, text JM)
Breaking controversial new ground, this experimental novel by an exciting young author explores the limits of personal identity, destiny and the body. The voice is that of a mole on Julie Burchill's thigh: suspended between two moments defining her lesbianity, the mole (the 'Fresh Peach' of the title) offers a searing commentary on local politics in Hove, and the 'green' movement.

Learning Music (title JM, text NM)
A profound document of human experience, this fictionalised memoir tells the story of the poignant relationship that develops between an Aboriginal tribal elder and an orphaned European boy growing up in the Australian outback in the 1970's. 
A classic coming-of-age story that makes an important contribution to the emerging canon of Gaia literature. 

55% (title NM, text JM)
Did you know that 55% of the UK population harbour host parasites in their bloodstream?  Starting from this little-known fact, the author explains what it really means to be subject to a cross-species onslaught from micro organisms. This clear tome explains an awful lot of health problems, from migraines to menstrual pain, headaches to heart disease.