'If there is a date when my story begins, it is 13 September 1981. That day was not only my first day at school; it was the first time that I realised I was not like the others.’ So begins GOOSEMAN, M. G. Sanchez’s new darkly comic novel. Its protagonist is Johann Guzman, a cynical but quick-witted young Gibraltarian loner. Shunned by his schoolmates and bullied by his father, Guzman dreams about leaving the small-town atmosphere of his native Gibraltar and starting a new life in the UK. But when he finally overcomes his demons and cuts the umbilical cord tying him to the British Overseas Territory, things don't quite go according to plan....

'Thrillingly transgressive.’
Esterino Adami, Lecture in English Language and Translation Studies, University of Turin.

'In GOOSEMAN, Sanchez uncovers the ambivalence of UK political and social attitudes towards the not-quite-British 'Other'. An important - and at times disturbing - new addition to the field of Brexit-related writing.'
Dr Gwyn Fox, Honorary research fellow, University of Auckland, New Zealand.

‘M. G. Sanchez further cements his reputation as Gibraltar’s most daring novelist, taking us on a white-knuckle ride through a world full of booze, drugs, sex, racism, mental illness and the corrosive effects of toxic masculinity. GOOSEMAN presents a picture of the life of a Gibraltarian, both in Gibraltar and abroad in the UK, that is so raw and unfiltered it’s impossible to ignore.’
Giordano Durante, Gibraltarian poet.

'Writers like Sanchez ... demonstrate [that, even though] borders may confine and separate, they also generate rich, hybrid expressions that can be drawn upon to cement collective identities, or to make broader connections.'
Robert Newcomb, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of California, Davis.

‘Sanchez is the writer who, both in his fiction and non-fiction, has most deeply and subtly explored the Gibraltarian predicament. For him, salvaging the stories of the Rock is partly a political project: Following Chinua Achebe, Sanchez believes that if you do not tell your own stories, others will. But what takes precedence for Sanchez as a creative writer is the urge to explore the reservoir of stories, the rich sediment of lives that this small territory has to offer.’
Ina Habermann, Professor of English Literature, Basel University.

‘M. G. Sanchez’s novels and memoir[s] situate themselves in this liminal space of multiple cultural traditions and linguistic contami-nation. The writer anatomizes this space crossed and partitioned by multiple and fluid borders and boundaries. What appears as deficient or lacking from the British and the Spanish points of view, the curse of the periphery, the curse of inhabiting a no man’s land, is repossessed in Sanchez’s writing in order to flesh out a border culture with very specific linguistic and cultural traits.’
Ana Maria Manzanas, Professor of English and American Literature, University of Salamanca.

'Working in a variety of genres, including the historical novel, detective fiction, and the ghost story, among various others, M. G. Sanchez has created a world-class body of prose that can convey to readers everywhere the astonishing hybridity and complexity of past and present Gibraltarian society.'
David Alvarez, Professor of English, Grand Valley State University, USA.