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happy publication to Mark Bowles and all my precious madness
“A beautiful war machine.” —Lars Iyer
“A striking debut [that] explores working-class identity, masculinity and alienation… a polemic against narcissism, small-mindedness and mean-spiritedness… a poignant meditation on a son’s love for his father.” —Lucy Popescu, The Observer
“Funny and biting… vivid and spare… It’s the energy of the sentences that drags you along and makes sure that reading All My Precious Madness is a pleasure, even when Henry is at his most maddening.” —John Self, The Times
“Unapologetically erudite and frequently brutal… a devastating satire on the way in which class, education and masculinity act as a kind of trap.” —Jeremy Wikeley, The Telegraph
read our Q&A with Mark here
Read an extract here
buy a copy here
our july 2024 RElease: Noémi Kiss-Deáki and Mary and the Rabbit Dream
“This novel sing(s).” —Norma Cooke, The TLS
“A romp… Original, supple, smartly self-conscious… Mary and the Rabbit Dream is a delight: cunning, curious, cunicular." —Lucy Scholes, The Telegraph
“One of those novels that seemingly arrives from nowhere, fully-formed, as odd, disturbing and lingering as the most vivid of fever dreams. To create something so playfully provocative, subversive and gripping displays a rare literary talent.” —Benjamin Myers, author of Cuddy and The Gallows Pole
“A tense, nightmarish book about power and incarnation. … Stylish, visceral, incandescent.” —Clare Pollard, author of Delphi and The Modern Fairies
“Noémi Kiss-Deáki’s style is astonishing – hypnotic, poetic, persistent, wild, blazing and marvellous. Mary and the Rabbit Dream is utterly original and utterly brilliant.” —Victoria MacKenzie, author of For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy On My Little Pain
Read an extract here | buy a copy here
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CHarles dickens, ‘the signalman’
elizabeth gaskell, ‘the old nurse’s story’
muriel spark, ‘the leaf-sweeper’
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“One fearful night, when the snow was lying thick and deep, and the flakes were still falling – fast enough to blind anyone who might be out and abroad – there was a great and violent noise…” —Elizabeth Gaskell, ‘The Old Nurse’s Story’
RECENT TITLES
Beasts of england, by adam biles
“[Adam Biles] takes the code of Orwell’s 1949 book and makes them into something thrilling of his own.” —The Sunday Times
“A timely and worthy successor to Animal Farm.” —The Observer
“In Beasts of England, Adam Biles has updated and retooled Animal Farm for today, and in this clever, resourceful and at times painful novel, the risk pays off.” —The Guardian
Read an extract here
Listen to Adam on bbc open book here
buy a copy of beasTs of england here
The Book of Desire, by Meena Kandasamy
“Breath-taking… Electric… This classic, singing so freely of love and desire, has finally found the right translator – a poet who burns with as much fire as the ancients did.” —The Financial Times
“Precise and passionate… beautiful and resonant… No reader will find themselves left out of [The Book of Desire’s] fundamental language of yearning.” —The Irish Times
read meena’s interview in the irish times here
read meena’s top 10 love poems in the guardian here
read an extract here
buy a copy here
A WRITER’S DIARY, by toby litt
“A hugely readable achievement.” —The Guardian
“A deeply moving treatise on life, death, parenthood and the function of writing.” —The Observer
“An extraordinary record of life’s minitiae… a treasury of wisdom about the writing life.” —The Spectator
