Instar Hotel
Jon Stone
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From the publisher
Winner of the 2025 Sarabande Chapbook Prize
At the heel-end of the southeasternmost limb of some unknown great city, lies a slender, five-floor Instar Hotel that is full to the brim. It is 10.05pm on a Friday night, in September, and the hotel guests are in their rooms - packing up, settling in or contemplating the days ahead and those past. But the guests are not your usual suspects. Award-winning British author Jon Stone takes us from room-to-room asking the reader to observe and listen to the Red-Tailed Bumblebee in Room #4, the Devil’s Coach-Horse in Room #12 and the Cranefly in Room #14. Equal parts Kafkaesque and an amusement park fun-house, this slim collection is witty, sharp, and pays homage to the smallest of creatures.