{"title":"Fiction","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"catkin-sail","title":"Catkin Sail","description":"\u003cp\u003eby Jona Xhepa\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eJoan Publishing\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003ePaperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e112 pages\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn the dream she sees herself turn into a bold type script, while the landscape around her is all in italics. With purpose, as moving through custard which is the dreaming way of movement, she digs a hole underneath the exhibition in the gallery, and begins to travel to find her dead husband.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFor some reason, the sensors of the dream have convinced her that he has been swallowed by a flower to be rightfully turned into his normal state, drying him into his apostate plant lithograph. Before identifying the flower, she passes through columns on the graveyards and stone circles, more italicized than they would be normally in real life, with parallel scratching on the side of each column, each cluster forming words from an ancient alphabet, vaguely corresponding to letters of the alphabet.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJona Xhepa writes about domesticity, myth and rural places. She holds a general unease about things.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50767020163406,"sku":"","price":12.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0837\/0680\/6606\/files\/zeg0bxyt.png?v=1735230709"},{"product_id":"how-we-made-the-kick-inside","title":"How We Made 'The Kick Inside'","description":"\u003cp\u003eby Paul Becker\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eI began a kind of doodling whereby I was gathering together guitar leads, speaker cables and various inexplicable wires and repurposing them, sometimes winding them up into objects or, as I had with the string, stretching them out around the room into a kind of network. I would strip off conduit and rip out the copper wires from all the leads. I began to disembowel the mixing desk, pulling out its entrails: green, white, red, brown leads. I fixed all the wrong type of wiring to the wrong type of power and then I would turn the whole system on again to see what happened.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book, ‘voiced’ by Kate Bush, is a fictional inhabiting (via the Guardian’s ‘How We Made…’ feature) of the production of her remarkable first album. A meditation on the idiosyncrasies of the creative process and what constitutes an artist’s sensibility, and then an unravelling towards a manifestation of that process and the strangeness, the rapture, that can follow.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘The first part of this short book is the most alive and profound, intensely specific and supernaturally communicative sequence of insights into the process of making art I have ever read. And then. I don’t actually have the words to describe what comes next. My mouth fell open. My mind fell open. I think you’ll just have to read it.’\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e– Kate Briggs\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘I used to think that Anthony Burgess had a rubber stamp with which he printed the words ‘His best book yet’ for every publication he was sent to review. I have never read anything by Paul before and don’t get asked for my opinion much, so I would rather not waste this opportunity with disingenuousness. This is a fascinating book with a brilliant conceit as its impetus. I never knew Kate Bush was so interesting and then again, maybe she still isn’t.’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e– Stephen Sutcliffe\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘This is writing as dance, an extraordinary choreography of crystalline images and rare tableaux. It moves in (im)perfectly controlled ara- besques toward a crescendo as exciting as anything in contemporary writing. It’s a summa, a guide, a Fellini-esque sleight of hand, and it represents a powerful condensation of what Bush\/Becker describe as ‘instinct, grounded, earned and achieved through knowledge.’ It’s art, in other words. Rare and beguiling art.’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e– John Douglas Millar\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘Becker has found a way to hide an hallucinatory description of the artistic process inside a Kate Bush documentary. (It may not even need the Kate Bush part—she can look after herself.) The result is a rapturous, peculiar fantasy, a confessional about the psychological experience of making things.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e– Dan Fox\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50767170208078,"sku":"","price":12.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0837\/0680\/6606\/files\/np97tgs7.png?v=1735232012"},{"product_id":"the-unreliable-nature-writer","title":"The Unreliable Nature Writer","description":"\u003cp\u003eby Claire Carroll\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Unreliable Nature Writer\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is the eagerly-awaited debut collection of exhilarating, macabre and dreamy short stories from Claire Carroll, where she portrays an unsettlingly hot, vaguely familiar world of humans facing the strain of intimate and global anxieties – trying to live alongside new technologies, failing environments and unknowable natural crises. Delightful to read and unsettling to imagine, these are haunting stories about love, loss, strangely-exposing housing applications and cows.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eClaire Carroll lives in Somerset, UK, and writes experimental fiction about the intersection of nature, technology, and desire. She is also a PhD researcher at Bath Spa and Exeter Universities, where she explores how experimental writing – particularly short stories and prose-poetry – can reimagine how humans relate to the natural and non-human world. Claire’s short stories and poetry have been published by journals including Gutter Magazine, perverse, Lunate Journal, The Oxonian Review, and Short Fiction Journal. In 2021, her short story \u003cem\u003eMy Brain is Boiling with Ideas\u003c\/em\u003e was shortlisted for The White Review’s Short Story Prize, and her short story \u003cem\u003eCephalopod\u003c\/em\u003e was the recipient of the Essex University \u0026amp; Short Fiction Journal Wild Writing Prize. Both pieces are included in \u003cem\u003eThe Unreliable Nature Writer.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50771729023310,"sku":"","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0837\/0680\/6606\/files\/9781739830182.webp?v=1735307858"},{"product_id":"they-fell-like-stars-from-the-sky","title":"They Fell Like Stars From The Sky","description":"\u003cp\u003eby Sheikha Helawy\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThey Fell Like Stars From the Sky \u0026amp; Other Stories\u003c\/em\u003e is a collection of eighteen illustrated short stories celebrating the courage, resilience, tragedies and triumphs of Bedouin Palestinian women and girls.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom a woman whose tattoo arouses the alarm of sexual taboos to the young girls whose curiosities of womanhood spark endearment, and from the tragic outcome of a husband consumed by jealousy of his wife’s teenage love to the ecstatic love of an elderly woman for the game of football, these stories offer mesmerising portraits of life on the margins.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFeaturing beautiful illustrations throughout, \u003cem\u003eThey Fell Like Stars From the Sky \u0026amp; Other Stories\u003c\/em\u003e is a powerful ode to the Bedouin women and girls of Palestine and their spirit for every form of freedom.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50773203321166,"sku":"","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0837\/0680\/6606\/files\/Cover_They_Fell_Like_Stars_from_the_Sky_and_Other_Stories-scaled-wpv_479x0_bbba720c-c35f-45a1-8edc-890c8f3f1da4.jpg?v=1735320605"},{"product_id":"journeys-and-flowers","title":"Journeys and Flowers","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cspan\u003eMercè Rodoreda\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA mesmerising and enigmatic collection of short stories, haunted by the horrors of war, and divided into two parts: journeys and flowers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA lone traveller with no endpoint in sight finds himself journeying through villages where the dead walk at solstice, silkworm-like women live in cocoons and a thousand men in gleaming armour play at being soldiers. Reality blurs, shimmers and darkens; unease grows.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStories of invented flowers follow and allow nature to bloom, vivid and intoxicating, to the fore. Absurd, lush and dreamlike, they capture different truths of humanity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this collection, inventive force and lyrical power come together in a poetic voice of indelible magnetism to create a beguiling, uncanny world – and confirm Mercè Rodoreda as one of the greatest Catalan writers of the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘These vignettes are planted thick with charm and eccentricity; but there is also a persistent seam of melancholy, and violence frequent erupts.’ \u003cem\u003eTLS\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘Rodoreda has bedazzled me by the sensuality with which she reveals things within the atmosphere of her novels.’ Gabriel García Márquez \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘Rodoreda’s stories are a collection of snowglobes, frozen and beautiful.’ \u003cem\u003eThe Skinny\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘Rodoreda’s prose . . . is bold and beautiful.’ Jesmyn Ward\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘Rodoreda’s writing pays such fierce and tender attention to the experience of being alive, and the tempest that ordinary life can be.’ Helen Oyeyemi\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘The stories or vignettes or prose-poems that make up Mercè Rodoreda’s \u003cem\u003eJourneys and Flowers \u003c\/em\u003eeach operate with their own peculiar but perfect logic which is exactly the logic of dreams . . . not just the logic of dreams but their crisp and bleached reality.’ Thom Eagle\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘Spare of words, these gorgeous, hypnotic vignettes contain whole worlds of sorrow and joy.’ \u003cem\u003eDaily Mail\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘Mercè Rodoreda’s artistry is of the highest order.’ Diana Athill\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘The un-self-conscious beauty and the phantasmagoric pain in her work add up to a kind of sharp, transportive pleasure.’ Jia Tolentino\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘A lightning strike of a book that leaves behind a drift of violet smoke and a scent of sulphur and mimosa.’ David Hayden\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘It is a total mystery to me why [Rodoreda] isn’t widely worshipped . . . She’s on my list of authors whose works I intend to have read all of before I die. Tremendous, tremendous writer.’ John Darnielle\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘Rodoreda plumbs a sadness that reaches beyond historic circumstances . . . an almost voluptuous vulnerability.’ Natasha Wimmer\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50778141589838,"sku":"","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0837\/0680\/6606\/files\/o9blunwb.png?v=1735384206"},{"product_id":"caesaria","title":"Caesaria","description":"\u003cp\u003eby Hanna Nordenhoek\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTranslated by Saskia Vogel\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"comp-kvqleo6z\" class=\"HcOXKn SxM0TO QxJLC3 lq2cno YQcXTT comp-kvqleo6z wixui-rich-text\" data-testid=\"richTextElement\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"comp-kvqleo711\" class=\"HcOXKn SxM0TO QxJLC3 lq2cno YQcXTT comp-kvqleo711 wixui-rich-text\" data-testid=\"richTextElement\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003eWinner of the Swedish Radio’s Prize 2021\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"HcOXKn SxM0TO QxJLC3 lq2cno YQcXTT comp-kvqleo711 wixui-rich-text\" data-testid=\"richTextElement\"\u003e\n\u003cem class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"HcOXKn SxM0TO QxJLC3 lq2cno YQcXTT comp-kvqleo711 wixui-rich-text\" data-testid=\"richTextElement\"\u003e\n\u003cem class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003e\"A novel as beautiful as it is unsettling. Hanna Nordenhök’s prose combines with singular mastery the density of poetry with the feverish atmosphere of a gothic tale\u003c\/em\u003e.\" \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"HcOXKn SxM0TO QxJLC3 lq2cno YQcXTT comp-kvqleo711 wixui-rich-text\" data-testid=\"richTextElement\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003eFernanda Melchor, author of \u003cem class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003eHurricane Season \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003eParadis\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"HcOXKn SxM0TO QxJLC3 lq2cno YQcXTT comp-kvqleo711 wixui-rich-text\" data-testid=\"richTextElement\"\u003e\n\u003cem class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"HcOXKn SxM0TO QxJLC3 lq2cno YQcXTT comp-kvqleo711 wixui-rich-text\" data-testid=\"richTextElement\"\u003e\n\u003cem class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003e\"I was astounded by Caesaria. It's such a captivating immersive read, like falling down a rabbit hole of shifting impressions, small revelations and the unravelling of time itself. I've never read anything quite like this. Every sentence is a poem. The language is both furious and careful. The characters are grotesque and gorgeous. It's a hall of mirrors bound up in a book.\"\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"HcOXKn SxM0TO QxJLC3 lq2cno YQcXTT comp-kvqleo711 wixui-rich-text\" data-testid=\"richTextElement\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003eJan Carson, author of \u003cem class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003eThe Raptures\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003eQuickly, While They Still Have Horses\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003e\"\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"HcOXKn SxM0TO QxJLC3 lq2cno YQcXTT comp-kvqleo711 wixui-rich-text\" data-testid=\"richTextElement\"\u003e\u003cem class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"HcOXKn SxM0TO QxJLC3 lq2cno YQcXTT comp-kvqleo711 wixui-rich-text\" data-testid=\"richTextElement\"\u003e\n\u003cem class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003eNordenhök's locked up mansion is a disciplinary system of supervision and punishment, a claustrophobic spectacle where death and disaster are indisputable components in the condition of being a girl. Caesaria is simply wonderful!\"\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"HcOXKn SxM0TO QxJLC3 lq2cno YQcXTT comp-kvqleo711 wixui-rich-text\" data-testid=\"richTextElement\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003eJohanne Lykke Holm, author of \u003cem class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003eStrega\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"HcOXKn SxM0TO QxJLC3 lq2cno YQcXTT comp-kvqleo711 wixui-rich-text\" data-testid=\"richTextElement\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"HcOXKn SxM0TO QxJLC3 lq2cno YQcXTT comp-kvqleo711 wixui-rich-text\" data-testid=\"richTextElement\"\u003eIn 19th-century Sweden, Caesaria is kept in a doctor's mansion as a trophy: she is the first baby to be born alive from one of his c-sections. In a Gothic ambiance, Caesaria narrates in first person her experiences in the mansion and her encounters with its mysterious inhabitants and visitors. Does she know where she comes from? Where is her mother? Is there a world beyond these walls?\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"HcOXKn SxM0TO QxJLC3 lq2cno YQcXTT comp-kvqleo711 wixui-rich-text\" data-testid=\"richTextElement\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"HcOXKn SxM0TO QxJLC3 lq2cno YQcXTT comp-kvqleo711 wixui-rich-text\" data-testid=\"richTextElement\"\u003eHanna Nordenhök masterfully blends the elements of storytelling with the history of gynecology, bringing to life the story of Caesaria.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"HcOXKn SxM0TO QxJLC3 lq2cno YQcXTT comp-kvqleo711 wixui-rich-text\" data-testid=\"richTextElement\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"HcOXKn SxM0TO QxJLC3 lq2cno YQcXTT comp-kvqleo711 wixui-rich-text\" data-testid=\"richTextElement\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003eHanna Nordenhök\u003c\/span\u003e (Malmö, 1977) has been awarded several major literary honors for her work, both as novelist, poet and essayist. Her novel \u003cem class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003eCaesaria \u003c\/em\u003e(2020) scooped Swedish Radio’s Literary Prize and was shortlisted for Vi’s Literature Prize. Nordenhök also works as atranslator from the Spanish and has been praised for her translations of Fernanda Melchor, Andrea Abreu and Alia Trabucco Zerán. Her last novel \u003cem class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003eWonderland \u003c\/em\u003e(2023) was listed among the Best Books of the Year in Dagens Nyheter, Svenska Dagbladet, Expressen, Borås Tidning, Hufvudstadsbladet and Magasinet ETC, as well as shortlisted for Vi's Literature Prize.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"HcOXKn SxM0TO QxJLC3 lq2cno YQcXTT comp-kvqleo711 wixui-rich-text\" data-testid=\"richTextElement\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font_8 wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"\u003eSaskia Vogel\u003c\/span\u003e is a writer and translator of over two-dozen Swedish language books. Her novel Permission was published in five languages. She is a recipient the Berlin Senate grant for non-German literature, the Bernard Shaw Prize, two English PEN Translates Awards, and was a PEN America Translation Prize finalist. She was Princeton’s Fall 2022 Translator in Residence. Born and raised in Los Angeles, she lives in Berlin.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50783771033934,"sku":"","price":10.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0837\/0680\/6606\/files\/g19plb48.png?v=1735481298"},{"product_id":"aerth","title":"Aerth","description":"\u003cp\u003eby Deborah Tomkins\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWinner of Weatherglass Novella Prize 2024.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMagnus lives on Aerth, which is currently moving into an Ice Age, with a strange virus limiting the population. When the planet Urth is discovered, he vows to become an astronaut and travel there, but on arriving he finds it hot, crowded, corrupt and violent, despite it being initially welcoming. Slowly Magnus realises he will not find what he’s looking for, but there seems no way back.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAerth is a story about migration, climate, conspiracy theories and interplanetary homelessness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“What planet are we on? Can we leave? Does it mean we can never go home again if we do? What does a phrase like worlds apart really mean? Deep-forged, witty and resonant, this dimensionally stunning novella deals with dystopia and hope in a way that reveals them as profoundly related. A work of real energy and narrative grip, brilliantly earthy and airy at once, it blasts open a reader’s past\/future consciousness and taps into literary antecedents as disparate as Hardy and Atwood. Funny, terrifying, humane, this is a thrilling journey in a story the size of a planet – no, the size of several, all of them altogether strange and uncannily familiar.”– Ali Smith\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDeborah Tomkins\u003c\/strong\u003e writes long and short fiction. Her prize-winning flash fiction and other work has been published in print and online. She has recently been announced as the joint winner of the Virginia Prize for Fiction, and her winning novel will be published by Aurora Metro. She lives in Bristol with her family.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50942565384526,"sku":"","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0837\/0680\/6606\/files\/Aerth-Cover.webp?v=1737651494"},{"product_id":"astraea","title":"Astraea","description":"\u003cp\u003eby Kate Kruimink\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt's the early 19th century and a small sailing ship with a cargo of convict women and their children is crossing the ocean to a penal colony. Among those trying to survive is a 15-year-old girl. After caring for her only friend who has poisoned herself, she discovers a kind of liberation within the confines of the ship, as she moves into her unknowable, distant future.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e“A shipful of women corralled by a crew of men crosses an ocean whose swell is deeper and darker than imaginable. Is it a ghost ship?  It’s a haunting matter. This powerful novella, historical and immediate, atmospheric, visceral, lyrical and frank, crosses the horizon between story, history and reality. Its passengers might be in the grip of some foul brutal institutional power but their life, their vitality and their survival form the beating heart of a unique read, the language of which forms a rough fabric so tangible you can feel it on your skin. The blood heat and the cool clean soul of this tale will stay with you long after you’re back on dry land.” - Ali Smith\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e‘A novella of clarity and strange grace, etched with a fierce and patient skill.’ - Sebastian Barry\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKate Kruimink\u003c\/strong\u003e is a writer from southern Lutruwita. Her first novel, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Treacherous Country\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, won the 2020 Vogel\/Australian's Literary Award. 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Many of their fates are inextricably linked and we follow their testimonies with bated breath as they unravel in almost thriller-like fashion until the story's shocking, yet inevitable, conclusion.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"C9DxTc\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"zfr3Q CDt4Ke\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"C9DxTc\"\u003e‘A collection of impressive, drastic stories from the war in Turkey the likes of which have never been read before in German literature.’ - Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"zfr3Q CDt4Ke\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"C9DxTc\"\u003e‘A novel as a declaration of war –\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"C9DxTc\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand a warning.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"C9DxTc\"\u003e’ -\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"C9DxTc\"\u003eDer Standard\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"zfr3Q CDt4Ke\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"C9DxTc\"\u003e‘\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"C9DxTc\"\u003eA\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"C9DxTc\"\u003en artist and writer everyone will soon be talking about\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"C9DxTc\"\u003e.’ -\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"C9DxTc\"\u003eDie Zeit\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"C9DxTc\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"C9DxTc\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"C9DxTc\"\u003e‘\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"C9DxTc\"\u003eThe determination, clarity and rigour in Cemile Sahin's tone is a force to be reckoned with\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"C9DxTc\"\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"C9DxTc\"\u003e’ -\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"C9DxTc\"\u003eJulia Encke\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"zfr3Q CDt4Ke\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"C9DxTc\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCemile Şahin\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Kurdish Alevi author and artist. 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Smart, trippy and irreverent, Monahan Brown’s narrative style is just as confident crawling under the bonnet of sci-fi as it is doing Celtic realism, moshing or luring us, fable-like, close to the wood wide web. What use is there for existentialism in an accelerated world of sex dolls, conceptual thanatos and perpetual technical difficulty? Drift on to find out. ”\u003cbr\u003e— Maria Sledmere, author of \u003ci\u003eMidsummer Song\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Ricky Monahan Brown’s stories evoke the uncanny reality of contemporary life and simultaneously summon the likes of Robert Louis Stevenson and Poe. Behind his precise prose lurk surprises around every corner, and Monahan Brown walks a fine line between reality and fable in a world that is at once familiar and strange. Spending time with these stories will be richly rewarding.”\u003cbr\u003e— Stephen Sacco, host of Plague Remedy podcast\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Ricky Monahan Brown’s language has real pop and fizz. 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There’s still chance to recover ourselves and the world as new and totally strange. - Jennifer Hodgson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLooking at art is not a straightforward experience; neither is summing up an artist’s life. Claire-Louise Bennett’s crackling, vivid prose is full of images, associations, feelings and analysis – an extraordinary evocation of a great artist by a great writer. - Jennifer Higgie\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBennett and Aridjis do as great art writing does—they free Tanning’s art from its origins and from the parameters of the frame, refuse it as a fixed entity, and then imbricate its surface like the tide lapping at the shore, leaving residues, washing things away, and depositing new materials. - Rose Higham Stainton\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFish Out of Water \u003c\/i\u003ewas originally published in 2020 by Juxta Press, Milan, as part of their Words for Portraits series. 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Sometimes at dawn, it was as though the birds were holding a private chorus inside. It had grown so large that as soon as the sun rose the wood around it was instantly permeated with the aroma of sawdust and pine resin.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGood Work \u003c\/i\u003eis set within and around the ending, and the making of the ending of Claire Denis’ 1999 film \u003ci\u003eBeau Travail\u003c\/i\u003e, while in another strand a girl observes a mysterious wooden fortress being assembled in a forest. This, like Becker’s previous book, is concerned with the madness, beauty, and impossibility of making artwork from thin air.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat compels about \u003ci\u003eGood Work\u003c\/i\u003e is the mix of intimacy and unashamed density. It is truly a many-layered text, filled with encounters, names and shadows both unexpected and pleasing - Klaus Nomi - and others more disquieting. What I enjoyed most was the textual risk-taking. A reclamation of the neo-modernist, post-everything sensibility that has been rare in recent literature, and is most satisfying to find here. Good work indeed. - Michael Bracewell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCaptivating and incantatory, Paul Becker’s novel is a thrilling meditation on the tension of creation. Just as we can never know the dancer from the dance, it would be hard to fully separate the gifted author of this book-- its imaginative reach, its dreamlike atmospheres anchored by a very particular conceptual precision, and the ways in which whole worlds spiral out of small observations-- from the splendid artist he is too. - Chloe Aridjis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFluid, nocturnal and sensational text. It layers like a skin over the frame of singular. Almost too obscene and not exactly. - Misha Honcharenko\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54941019570510,"sku":null,"price":14.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0837\/0680\/6606\/files\/5eu2d60k.png?v=1759857238"},{"product_id":"the-solar-circus","title":"The Solar Circus","description":"\u003cp\u003eby Gustave Kahn\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal;\"\u003eTranslated by Sam Kunkel\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal;\"\u003eFirst to Knock\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal;\"\u003ePaperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal;\"\u003e232 pages\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal;\"\u003eHave I understood the philosophy of \u003ci\u003eThe Solar Circus\u003c\/i\u003e correctly? One must savor life in a few fevered grasps, as one might squeeze all of the juice and all of the beauty from a fruit, before casting aside its useless skin. — Albert Mockel\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal;\"\u003eHenceforth, \u003ci\u003eThe Solar Circus\u003c\/i\u003e shall be one of the two or three novels that I savor during the quiet hours of dream and melancholy, when the soul surrenders to the painful nostalgia of infinity and the beyond. — Filippo Tommaso Marinetti\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Solar Circus \u003c\/i\u003eis the great forgotten masterpiece of French Symbolist literature. Written by Gustave Kahn—the man whom Stéphane Mallarmé and Jules Laforgue credited as inventing free verse poetry—the novel drips in decadent images of pastoral vistas, exotic gemstones, merfolk, and a phantasmagoric menagerie. Inverting day for night and reality for a dazzling dream, \u003ci\u003eThe Solar Circus\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of a solipsistic, isolated Bavarian count who falls in love with the star of a traveling circus. Their relationship, in both love and jealousy, dramatizes that great tension between the inner life of contemplation and the dynamic beauty of the external world. And as they set out from the count’s castle, the couple examines this duality while encountering a world in transformation: peasants in rebellion, the bright lights of London’s Orpheum theater, and even an ether-swilling Jack the Ripper who analyzes humanity through a fog of opium.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal;\"\u003eBest known as a poet and member of the Symbolist movement, \u003ci\u003eThe Solar Circus\u003c\/i\u003e showcases Kahn’s talents as a narrative writer and bears the hallmarks of many of the poetic endeavors unique to late 19th century. Indeed, in the same way that the novel’s circus coaxes the count out of oppressive isolation, so too does Kahn’s prose lead the reader in new and fantastic directions. \u003ci\u003eThe Solar Circus \u003c\/i\u003eis a text unlike any other, one that vacillates effortlessly between imagistic poetry and obliquely philosophical prose, prefiguring those seminal 20th century works of Modernist literature which would appear more than two decades later.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal;\"\u003eThis publication marks not only the novel’s first appearance in English but also its first independent reissue since it was published in 1898. \u003ci\u003eThe Solar Circus\u003c\/i\u003e has been newly translated by Sam Kunkel, a scholar of 19th century Symbolist literature. Kunkel has also provided translations for the First To Knock collection \u003ci\u003eEchoes of a Natural World—Tales of the Strange \u0026amp; Estranged\u003c\/i\u003e (2020) as well as \u003ci\u003eA Beam of Sunlight in the Deep Forest—Mystical Prose Works by Édouard Schuré\u003c\/i\u003e (2021).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal;\"\u003eIt is a tale that is lucid, transparent, crystalline, but also enveloped in, and thick with, legend and dream. Is it an adventure or a daydream?... [A] blend of novel and legend, of poetry and prose: this transient world, dotted with figures who are painted with disarming clarity and soft style give to \u003ci\u003eThe Solar Circus\u003c\/i\u003e its enigmatic and persistent charm. This novel is a true dream, drained and exhausted by the vigor of logic and thought. — Léon Blum\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal;\"\u003e[With \u003ci\u003eThe Solar Circus\u003c\/i\u003e,] Kahn is perhaps the only Symbolist to have successfully composed a novel free from the Naturalist mindset still perceptible in \u003ci\u003eAgainst Nature\u003c\/i\u003e. — Sophie Basch, professor of 19th century French literature at the Sorbonne\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54956520112462,"sku":null,"price":15.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0837\/0680\/6606\/files\/gustavekahn.png?v=1760093279"},{"product_id":"echoes-of-the-natural-world-tales-of-the-strange-estranged","title":"Echoes of the Natural World. Tales of the Strange \u0026 Estranged.","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal;\"\u003eBy Various Authors\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal;\"\u003eTranslated by Sam Kunkel\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal;\"\u003eEdited by Michael P. Daley\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal;\"\u003eFirst to Knock\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal;\"\u003ePaperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal;\"\u003e175 pages\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal;\"\u003eStrange Tales by Jean Lorrain \/ Michael P. Daley \/ Lou Perliss \/ Marcel Schwob \/ Dan A. Stitzer \/ Jeremy Kitchen \/ Janice Law \/ Joris-Karl Huysmans \/ Julia Bembenek \/ Mark Iosifescu \/ Villiers de l’Isle-Adam\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eEchoes of a Natural World\u003c\/i\u003e presents a continuum of discomforting reactions to a world perpetually out of whack. Nature—so oft considered the epitome of “order” and “tranquility” in the human mind—is herein explored at its most aberrant, absurd, and nightmarish. Through eleven weird tales, \u003ci\u003eEchoes of a Natural World \u003c\/i\u003eraises questions about Nature’s influence on the mind and the mind’s unnatural influence on Nature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal;\"\u003eContributions include new translations of \u003ci\u003efin de siècle\u003c\/i\u003e Decadent masters—sensual accounts of amphibian horrors and secret caverns below country inns. These sparkling 19th century pieces sit against contemporary American fiction that delivers haunting scenarios and darkly comic ontological routines. Behold accounts of whispering mold and Midwestern strip-mall desolation; occult hypnosis and regenerated limbs; void-bound train rides with a hallucinatory hustler king; ghost boars in German battlefields; spiraling anxiety that only peach trees and country cottages could produce. Parse through questionable documents that detail the aftershocks of a once idyllic world no longer salvageable.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal;\"\u003eThis kaleidoscopic collection wades in those nebulous waters where the inner world and outer landscape mesh. For as we barrel into a reality where technology has seemingly penetrated even the most remote corners of the earth, one must ask: Is it even possible to have a genuine interaction with Nature anymore? Has it ever been? Or have these longings always been the romantic delusions of a species obsessed with itself? \u003ci\u003eEchoes of a Natural World \u003c\/i\u003edefies easy categorization and easy answers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal;\"\u003eThis is the missing link between Baudelaire and the Area X Trilogy, strange, beautiful, and bizarre as any denizen of a romantic ruin, nuclear test site, or poisonous overgrown garden could ever want. — CrimeReads\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal;\"\u003eObscure, hilarious, profane, and human, \u003ci\u003eEchoes of a Natural World\u003c\/i\u003e brilliantly juxtaposes fresh oddities with classic gems of French literature. Speaking from the margins of fiction, but never marginal, each piece in this collection affirms that great, weird writing never goes out of style.” — Maryse Meijer, \u003ci\u003eHeartbreaker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eEchoes of a Natural World\u003c\/i\u003e submerges you in the high strangeness of the world around us. The eleven tales herein—both new works and rediscovered gems—form an uncanny menagerie. Its monstrous toads, murmuring fungi, and ghostly boars will haunt your imagination. — Gabriel Mckee, \u003ci\u003ePink Beams of Light from the God in the Gutter: The Science-Fictional Religion of Philip K. Dick\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal;\"\u003eWhat’s interesting about the project here—and I think that it succeeds beautifully—is that these tales represent American voices and symbolist, \u003ci\u003efin de siècle\u003c\/i\u003e, French decadent voices with a century between them and they’re all interlocked perfectly. —Chris Via, \u003ci\u003eLeaf by Leaf\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54956563857742,"sku":null,"price":13.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0837\/0680\/6606\/files\/echoesof.png?v=1760099562"},{"product_id":"the-orchid-stories","title":"The Orchid Stories","description":"\u003cp style=\"line-height: normal;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eBy Kenward Elmslie\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eWith an afterword by Robert Glück\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003ePilot Press\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003ePaperback, 2025\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e261 pages\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"display: none; mso-hide: all;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eA little-known classic of twentieth century queer literature and a masterpiece of eccentric detail, poet Kenward Elmslie’s only novel \u003ci\u003eThe Orchid Stories \u003c\/i\u003epresents us with interwoven stories as delicate and exquisite as the flowers for which they are named, conveying a dreamlike, otherworldly beauty. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA masterpiece of astounding and steadfast invention. — Robert Glück\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eKenward Elmslie's insouciance, inventiveness and fearlessness suffuse \u003ci\u003eThe Orchid Stories\u003c\/i\u003e. No one writes like him, no one. His mind travels in language and through sentences that jolt a reader out of settled linguistic paths. His writing marks the road less taken, his stories excursions without plans or plots. Instead, \"Nirvana juice [is] for sale,\" heavenly pleasures the goal. — Lynne Tillman\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eA sweetly bizarre fiction that might be a secret autobiography. You tumble ahead and keep reading, led on by the metrics, though it's mostly prose. You just keep reading. The book contains no \"official\" emotions—ones you're supposed to have—but they feel exactly right. This book, first published in 1973, is still way ahead of the times. — Alice Notley\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKenward Elmslie is one of the unforgettable writers of our time. It is as though Burroughs’ permanent apocalypse were being observed by someone else: not a closet Savonarola, but someone motivated by the humor, sensuality, and joie de vivre of an O’Hara. . . The world may be an industrial swamp, but Elmslie’s dazzling one-step ahead induction of it is a cause for rejoicing and even joy. — John Ashbery\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eKenward Elmslie (1929–2022) was a radical poet, artist, performer and librettist. An important figure of the New York School of poets and artists, he was the author of numerous books of poetry in his lifetime, as well as plays, opera librettos, and his only novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Orchid Stories.\u003c\/i\u003e The latter was first serialised by \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e in the late 1960s and published together as a novel in 1973, remaining out of print for decades. Alongside his own work, he also edited \u003ci\u003eZ Press\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eZ Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, promoting the work of fellow poets, including John Wieners, Bernadette Mayer, John Ashbery and Anne Waldman. From 1963, he was the life partner of the poet and artist Joe Brainard, living and working closely alongside one another until the latter’s death from AIDS in 1994. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eRobert Glück is a poet, fiction writer, editor and potter. In the late 1970s, he and Bruce Boone founded New Narrative, a literary movement of self-reflexive storytelling that combines essay, lyric and autobiography in one work. Glück is the author of the story collections, \u003ci\u003eElements\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDenny Smith\u003c\/i\u003e; the novels, \u003ci\u003eJack the Modernist\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMargery Kempe\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAbout Ed\u003c\/i\u003e; and a volume of collected essays \u003ci\u003eCommunal Nude\u003c\/i\u003e. His books of poetry include \u003ci\u003eLa Fontaine\u003c\/i\u003e with Bruce Boone, \u003ci\u003eReader\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eIn Commemoration of the Visit\u003c\/i\u003e with Kathleen Fraser, and \u003ci\u003eI, Boombox\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in San Francisco.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54972966699342,"sku":null,"price":14.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0837\/0680\/6606\/files\/cat9a6br.png?v=1760374834"},{"product_id":"the-punk-rock-birdwatching-club","title":"The Punk Rock Birdwatching Club","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal;\"\u003eBy Richard Foster\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal;\"\u003eOrtac Press\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal;\"\u003ePaperback, 2025\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal;\"\u003e176 pages\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhere have all the ravers gone\u003cb\u003e?\u003c\/b\u003e Following his debut, \u003ci\u003eFlower Factory\u003c\/i\u003e, Richard Foster presents a new batch of psychedelicized, autofictive fairy tales from the Netherlands. \u003ci\u003eThe Punk Rock Birdwatching Club\u003c\/i\u003e introduces a diverse cast of voices - from addicts to grandmothers - who narrate eight short stories dealing with the major social changes that country underwent during the mid-noughties.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0cm; mso-add-space: auto; line-height: normal;\"\u003eWe learn of the upheavals brought on by the Euro and the influx of Polish workers alongside the slow disappearance of the British and Irish worker-raver tribes post-Schengen, all set against a backdrop of rising costs, political murders and foreign wars. 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