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Galley Beggar Pocket Ghosts
Get ready for winter with our new annual Pocket Ghosts range
“The monstrous thought came into my mind as I perused the fixed eyes and the saturnine face, that this was a spirit, not a man…” —Charles Dickens, ‘The Signalman’
Charles Dickens’s last great ghost story is also his most personal, inspired by a terrible accident on a train he himself was riding on. He revisited this haunting memory on the figure of a railway signalman, who hears bells ringing in his signal box when no one else does, sees a figure no one else can see… and who, following those ominous signs, always witnesses horrible incidents. “I am troubled, sir,” he cries. “I am troubled!” But what exactly is it that is troubling the signalman? … And what does it want?
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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’
Hester, a teenage girl, is left in charge of a young child in a cold, gloomy manor house under the looming shadows of the Cumberland fells. She hears strange organ music playing, but everyone tells her the sounds aren’t real. She is forbidden from visiting the mysterious East Wing. She is desperate to keep her young charge safe from some unknown disaster, one she feels sure is coming… But – as the terrible events that have happened in her new home become clear to her – she feels increasingly unable to do so…
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“On the afternoon of Christmas Eve I was walking with a friend, noticing what had changed in my absence, and what hadn’t. We passed a long, large house, once famous for its armoury, and I saw that the iron gates were wide open …” —Muriel Spark, ‘The Leaf-sweeper’
So speaks the narrator of Muriel Spark’s haunting tale, ‘The Leaf-sweeper’, before going on to recount the disturbing and mercilessly witty story of a certain “madman” – Johnnie Geddes, hell-bent on outlawing Christmas – who meets the most terrifying of all apparitions: himself.
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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
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other RECENT TITLES
Mary and the Rabbit Dream, by noémi kiss-deáki
“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
“To create something so playfully provocative, subversive and gripping displays a rare literary talent.” —Benjamin Myers, author of Cuddy and The Gallows Pole
Read an extract here
read our q&a with noémi here
buy a copy here
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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
