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Nunslinger is a 2014 Western novel by UK author Stark Holborn, first published in digital format, in installments over 12 months by Hodder, then in print format on completion.

Format

Nunslinger was first published by Hodder as a 12-part digital serial, published in installments over the course of a year before being released in paperback on completion. The Guardian makes the following comment on this unusual means of delivery:^[1]

The plot's urgency and tension must owe something to the writing process. I had wondered if the serial publication was merely a way of marketing a finished novel, but no, Nunslinger is being written as we read it, with each instalment turned around in record time by its editors at Hodder.

Episodes

Nunslinger 1. UK: Hodderscape. 2013. ASIN B00H4EP884.
Nunslinger 2: The Good, the Bad and the Penitent. UK: Hodderscape. 2013. ASIN B00GIUG3VQ.
Nunslinger 3: A Pilgrim and a Stranger. UK: Hodderscape. 2013. ASIN B00GIUG5C8.
Nunslinger 4: The Habits of Strangers. UK: Hodderscape. 2014. ASIN B00FRKPEI6.
Nunslinger 5: Litany For the Brave. UK: Hodderscape. 2014. ASIN B00FRKPE04.
Nunslinger 6: The Judgement of Abraham. UK: Hodderscape. 2014. ASIN B00FRKPI8C.
Nunslinger 7: Westward Order. UK: Hodderscape. 2014. ASIN B00HW2EKOQ.
Nunslinger 8: The Brother of Bone Orchard. UK: Hodderscape. 2014. ASIN B00HW2EKSW.
Nunslinger 9: Homily For the Damned. UK: Hodderscape. 2014. ASIN B00HW2EL1I.
Nunslinger 10: Gospel Sharp. UK: Hodderscape. 2014. ASIN B00J3797E6.
Nunslinger 11: Ninth-Hour at Noon. UK: Hodderscape. 2014. ASIN B00J379A4S.
Nunslinger 12: West of Absolution. UK: Hodderscape. 2014. ASIN B00J379548.

Background

Holborn has said in interview that a number of characters in Nunslinger are based on historical figures. Benjamin Reasoner is based on Bass Reeves, the first African American deputy west of the Mississippi. Mark Twain inspired a number of characters,^[2] and

Plot

Set in the USA in the 1860s, the novel is a first-person account of the story of Sister Thomas Josephine, a Visitandine nun with unusually well-honed survival skills,^[3] as she travels across America. Having survived an attack on her wagon train, and been accused of a crime she did not commit, Sister Thomas Josephine is forced to go on the run, and to team up with a series of outlaws, bandits and undesirables,^[1] including the deserter outlaw Abraham Muir. Pursued by the obsessive and relentless First Lieutenant Theodore F. Carthy, Sister Thomas Josephine - now know as Six Gun Sister - struggles against impossible odds to keep to her principles in a deeply unprincipled world, surviving wars, misadventures and challenges to her faith on the way.

References

^ ^a ^b Baddeley, Anna (2014-03-30). "Meet the nun on the run who's a serial offender". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2024-09-07.
^ Shurin, Jared (2014-10-16). "The Best of the West: Jawin' with Nunslinger Author Stark Holborn". Reactor. Retrieved 2024-09-08.
^ "Nunslinger Review". www.crimereview.co.uk. Retrieved 2024-09-08.

[:0-1] Baddeley, Anna (2014-03-30). "Meet the nun on the run who's a serial offender". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2024-09-07.

[2] Shurin, Jared (2014-10-16). "The Best of the West: Jawin' with Nunslinger Author Stark Holborn". Reactor. Retrieved 2024-09-08.

[3] "Nunslinger Review". www.crimereview.co.uk. Retrieved 2024-09-08.

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