This autumn brings a flurry of great reissues: Dinah Brooke’s brilliantly horrible Lord Jim at Home; a spooky Margaret Oliphant; Elizabeth Mavor’s absolutely wild sounding A Green Equinox; and a Faber Edition of the still criminally neglected Brigid Brophy.
I’m also excited about the beautiful new Powell and Pressburger book, released to tie in with the major retrospective at the BFI; Alison Rumfitt’s follow up to Tell Me I’m Worthless; and Weird Walk zine taking full book form.
And a special shout out to the legend Lydia Davis. A new book of short stories from her is always to be celebrated, but this time doubly so: she's not allowing Am*zon to sell it. Buy it from your friendly local independent bookseller now!
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‘There is a lot of pain in Lord Jim at Home. And a lot of humour . . . If it weren’t such a pleasure to read, I’d say that Lord Jim at Home – read by a novelist, like me – was an instrument of…
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Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger were true visionaries of British cinema, creating glorious Technicolor masterpieces including A Matter of Life and Death (1946), Black Narcissus (1947) and The Red Shoes (1948).Delving into their…
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While I waited for sleep I retraced the road which brought me to you. Unbelievably it only took six months, equinox to equinox. This dazzling rediscovered classic, shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1973, is a heady, witty and seductive…
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A classic ghost story illustrated by acclaimed cartoonist, Seth.Retired officer Colonel Mortimer takes a lease on the mansion of Brentwood, the grounds of which share the ruins of an older house, including a strange, vacant doorway, but…
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The first book by iconic zine creators and cultural phenomenon Weird Walk. This is a superbly designed guide to Britain’s strange and ancient places, to standing stones and pagan rituals, and to the process of re-enchantment via weird…
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When a TERF bombs Frankie’s workplace, she blows up Frankie’s life with it. As the media descends like vultures, Frankie tries to cope with the carnage: binge-drinking, sleeping with strangers, pushing away her friends. Then,…
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An eccentric professor saves a London Zoo ape from a rocket experiment in this dazzling classic by a trailblazing animal rights activist, introduced by Sarah Hall.‘Pitch-perfect.’ Ali Smith‘So…
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A new collection of short fiction from the critically acclaimed master of the form and winner of the Man Booker International Prize, Lydia Davis‘A trailblazer in the world of short-form prose’ New YorkerLydia Davis is a…
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