Stanley Manly

Who is Stanley Manly?

Stanley Manly is a pseudonym for British author Neil Nixon. His first novel - Raiders of the Low Forehead - was issued in 1999, by Attack! Books a division of Creation Books dedicated to a style characterised as 'avant pulp.' Other authors published by the same imprint included Steven Wells and Tony White. Raiders of the Low Forehead is made of up of 45 chapters, the titles of the chapters rotate - Sex, Food, Violence - allowing every third chapter to include a graphic description of one of the three. In 2008 Manly published a second novel - Workington Dynamo - a coming of age tale set in West Cumbria in the mid 70s.