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Written in the form of diary, Deceit is a psychological self-portrait of an unnamed narrator, a neurasthenic and aspiring author, whose often-thwarted pursuits of his love interest and muse provide the grounds for his beautifully wrought extemporisations on love, art and human nature.Modulating between the paroxysms of his tormented romance and his quest for an aesthetic mode befitting of the novel he intends to write, Deceit is a remarkable work of introspective depth and psychoanalytic inquiry.Quite unlike any other writer in the Russian canon, Felsen evokes in rich, poetic, idiosyncratic prose not only the Zeitgeist of interwar Europe and his émigré milieu, but also its psychology and the existential crisis of the age. What Nabokov achieves with images and the physical world, Felsen does with the emotional and metaphysical.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN 9781913513238. 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It tells a story of damage and destruction, both painful and restorative, and necessary.The trajectory of the novel – of becoming part of the planetary process, awake to it, enlivened by it, compassionate towardsit – is dramatised through two minds, with an honesty and openness that urges us to contemplate our relationships with others and with our environment.By engaging with the thought processes of its characters, Our Last Year examines human nature and selfhood with an unrelenting gaze, asking us to reconsider our understanding of our own consciousness – how it controls us, and how it might become a source of invention, creativity and connection.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN 9781913513269. 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Conversations with the presences who dwell on the threshold of waking and reverie – these pieces will stay with you long after the lamps have flickered out.At once fabular and formally innovative, acquainted with reverie and rigorous report, sensitive to the needs of a wider ecology yet familiar with the landscapes of the unconscious, her texts are both dream dispatches and wayward word plays infused with the pleasure and possibilities of language.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN 9781913513290. 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It is also haunted by the then emerging ecological crisis in its juxtaposition of the beauty of nature with the reckless consumption of modernity.This edition features facsimile images of the story’s handwritten drafts from Jarman’s archive, a link to an exclusive audio recording of Jarman himself reading the story in full, and is comprehensively informed by a vivid foreword from Philip Hoare, a deeply researched afterword by Jarman scholar Declan Wiffen, and a warm memoir by artist and Jarman’s friend Michael Ginsborg.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN 9781913513320. 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Co-published by Tenement Press and Prototype, this anthology captures, refracts, and reflects a vital moment in independent publishing in the UK, and is built on the shared values of openness, collaboration, and total creative freedom.Features works of (in order of appearance): Mario Dondero, Erica Baum, Jess Cotton, Rebecca Tamás, Stephen Watts, Helen Cammock, Salvador Espriu, Lucy Mercer, Lucy Sante, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Ryan Choi, John Yau, Nicolette Polek, Chris Petit, Sascha Macht, Amanda DeMarco, Mark Lanegan, Vala Thorodds, Richard Scott, Joshua Cohen, Hannah Regel, Nick Cave, Daisy Lafarge, Holly Pester, Matthew Gregory, Olivier Castel, Emmanuel Iduma, Joan Brossa, Cameron Griffiths, Imogen Cassels, Hisham Bustani, Maia Tabet, Raúl Guerrero, Velimir Khlebnikov, Natasha Randall, Edwina Attlee, Matthew Shaw, Aidan Moffat, Lesley Harrison, Oliver Bancroft, Lauren de Sá Naylor, Will Eaves, Sandro Miller, Jim Hugunin, Levina van Winden, Aram Saroyan, Glykeria Patramani, Will Oldham, Antonio Tabucchi, Yasmine Seale, Elizabeth Harris, Nina Mingya Powles, Isabel Galleymore, Makiko Faruichi, Jason Shulman, Jeffrey Vallance, Preti Taneja, Stanley Schtinter, the Wayne Koestenbaum papers (℅ Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book \u0026amp; Manuscript Library), Sophie Seita, Ralf Webb, Jonathan Chandler, Iain Sinclair, SJ Fowler, Cass McCombs, David Grubbs, Agustín Fernández Mallo, Pere Joan, Thomas Bunstead, Adrian Bridget and John Divola.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN 9781913513467. 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Attempting to lie low after a fateful night back home, the friends find themselves navigating an unnerving new reality in this haunting story of psychological destruction.A crime novel inspired by a real-life incident, and distinguished by its sensitivity to the subtleties of language and dialogue, Along the River Run is a story of guilt and retribution played out amid the streets, sounds and sights of this bewitching city.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN 9781913513047. 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The village appears to be semi-alive; the landslide which ominously awaits and which will eventually lead to the abandonment of the place has yet to arrive – yet its rumbles are heard.Pellegrino peoples Alento with eccentrics, luminaries, an eternally optimistic town crier. In the closing pages, the narrator Estella summons the remaining ghosts for a final dinner. The overall effectis unsettling, haunting and uncanny, the trapped souls doomed to repeat their circumscribed daily life for ever, cut off from the world but dimly aware of its continued presence outside. The pervading mood of nostalgia and melancholy works in stark contrast with the inevitability of the impending catastrophe of the landslide that threatens to obliterate their world forever.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN 9781913513474. 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Written by the invented anthropologist Hälikcio von Fuhrängschmidt, the essay utilizes eccentric Latin and a tongue-in-cheek pompous discourse to explain the origins of the first umbrella and in what ways “Myths” are merely “corrupted Myrtles.” Also included are newly discovered writings, including three short stories, never before published in any language.Remedios Varo (1908–63) was a Surrealist painter who worked in Spain, France and Mexico. Her paintings were influenced by Old Masters such as Bosch and El Greco, as well as Jungian philosophy and occult writings. While living in Mexico she became close friends with fellow Surrealist Leonora Carrington.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN 9781939663917. 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It is a flippant, at times outrageous parody of genre fiction laced through with bursts of Sadean violence, absurdist slapstick and excessive wordplay in which the author makes his fictionalised debut under such anagrammed monikers as the Baron Visi and the detective Brisavion. Despite preceding Ian Fleming’s novels by several years, Trouble in the Swaths nonetheless anticipates and ridicules such spy thrillers and their sexism, casual murders, plot twists and technological gadgetry. The adventure involves bombs and machine guns, planes and parachutes, trapdoors and underground caverns, a secret manuscript that endeavours to absorb the novel and, at the centre of it all, the core of the narrative maelstrom: the “forked barbarian.” Boris Vian (1920–59) was a French polymath best known for his novels: both the crime novels he published under the pseudonym Vernon Sullivan and the surrealistic writing he published under his own name.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN 9781939663962. 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Set around a foster home in Kilburn and in the squares of Bloomsbury, where its protagonist Hannah sleeps, the novel grapples with how agency is given to the sexual lives of refugees, presenting gender-fluid, trans and androgynous African immigrants, and insisting that the erotic and intimate side of life is as much a part of someone’s story as ‘land and nations’ are.Hannah arrives in London with her mother’s diary, containing a disturbing sexual story taking place in Keren, Eritrea, where the Allies defeated the Italians in the Second World War. In a gripping, continuous paragraph, The Seers moves between the present day and the past to explore intergenerational histories, colonial trauma, and the realities of the UK asylum system and its impact on young refugees.Sulaiman Addonia is an Eritrean-Ethiopian-British novelist. He spent his early life in a refugee camp in Sudan, and his early teens in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He arrived in London as an underage unaccompanied refugee without a word of English and went on to earn an MA in Development Studies from SOAS and a BSc in Economics from UCL.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN 9781913513511. Prototype Publishing. pb. 232 pages. 17.8 x 11.2 cm.\u003cbr\u003ein stock\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Prototype Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44303340470502,"sku":"9781913513511","price":37.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0506\/2590\/4811\/files\/9781913513511.jpg?v=1789709412"},{"product_id":"9781939663979","title":"Vacated Landscape","description":"\u003cb\u003eAuthor: Lahougue, Jean\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn editor at a Parisian publishing house receives a manuscript by someone calling himself Desiderio – a manuscript that bears an eerie resemblance to his own life \u0026amp; to a book he was planning to write on a Renaissance painter of the same name. He decides to use his vacation time to visit the place from which it was sent – the quaint seaside town of V. 'Vacated Landscape' is both ingeniously fractal and exuberantly byzantine. It is the first novel of Jean Lahougue’s to be translated into English. The narrator decides to play amateur detective and track down the writer of the manuscript, unaware that as he becomes more deeply enmeshed in the mystery, the streets of V. will bend around him like a Möbius strip to form a loop that seems to offer no escape.Jean Lahougue (born 1945) is a French novelist. A lifelong Agatha Christie fan, he won (and refused) the Prix Médicis in 1980 for 'Comptine des Heigh', a puzzle-novel patterned on 'Ten Little Indians'.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN 9781939663979. Wakefield Press. pb. 240 pages. 20.3 x 13.3 cm.\u003cbr\u003eavailable to order\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Wakefield Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45031480328422,"sku":"9781939663979","price":37.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0506\/2590\/4811\/files\/9781939663979.jpg?v=1789709720"},{"product_id":"9781939663993","title":"Messengers, the","description":"\u003cb\u003eAuthor: Chateaureynaud, Georges-Olivier\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfter becoming a fugitive after a late-night misunderstanding, the unnamed adolescent drifter of this novel encounters a wry middle-aged man tasked with delivering a message sealed in a tube. The two pursue a dreamlike chain of clues and horror in their mission. An at times unsettling narrative of initiation, the torments of desire and the death of youth, 'The Messengers' is an oneiric exploration of a realm that embodies the parables of Kafka and the atmosphere of Alain-Fournier.This novella was the winner of the Prix des Nouvelles littéraires when it was first published in French in 1974.Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud is a French novelist and short-story author. He has been the recipient of the Prix Renaudot, Prix Goncourt de la nouvelle, Prix Giono, Prix Valéry Larbaud and the Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN 9781939663993. Wakefield Press. pb. 172 pages. 17.8 x 11.4 cm.\u003cbr\u003ein stock\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Wakefield Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45031480393958,"sku":"9781939663993","price":32.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0506\/2590\/4811\/files\/9781939663993.jpg?v=1789709721"},{"product_id":"9781962728003","title":"Tower of Love, the","description":"\u003cb\u003eAuthor: Rachilde, Melanie C. Hawthorne (tran.)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen Jean Maleux, a young sailor, is appointed assistant keeper of the Ar-Men lighthouse off the coast of Brittany, he is drawn into a dark world of physical peril, sexual obsession and necrophilia. The lighthouse is home to the eccentric keeper Mathurin Barnabas: an irascible and grizzled old man who appears to be more animal than human. First published in French in 1899 and never before translated, this title will be of  interest to readers of Decadent, Symbolist and Romantic horror fiction.Time passes in alternating stages of mind-numbing monotony and bouts of horror as our hero struggles against the endless assaults of wind and loneliness, with only his duties and his mute companion for distraction. The sea evolves into a wild force and the lighthouse itself into a monster that Jean must tame if he is to survive. Rachilde was the pen name of Marguerite Vallette-Eymery (1860–1953). She was the only female writer for the literary journal Le decadent .Melanie C. Hawthorne is a professor in the Department of Global Languages \u0026amp; Cultures at Texas A\u0026amp;M University. She is the translator of Rachilde’s novels The Juggler and Monsieur Vénus.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN 9781962728003. Wakefield Press. pb. 176 pages. 20.3 x 13.3 cm.\u003cbr\u003ein stock\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Wakefield Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45031499104486,"sku":"9781962728003","price":37.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0506\/2590\/4811\/files\/9781962728003.jpg?v=1789710313"},{"product_id":"9781962728027","title":"With Their Hearts in Their Boots","description":"\u003cb\u003eAuthor: Martinet, Jean-Pierre\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGeorges Maman is a down-and-out actor sinking into despair and no longer able to scrape by, failing to make his mark even in the porno industry; Dagonard is a loudmouthed camera assistant who executes his refusal to read a room with almost surgical skill. Drawing from his own aborted career as an assistant director in the film industry, Jean-Pierre Martinet’s last work  describes a sordid, cynical and disturbingly humorous descent into the hell of failure and the company we keep there. Their paths cross one evening in a bar, and the two proceed to share a night in Paris: drink, dinner and psychological torture. 'With Their Hearts in Their Boots' is joined by 'At the Back of the Courtyard on the Right', an equally dark and lengthy prose poem inspired by the work of Henri Calet, a kindred literary spirit whose dimmed star Martinet helped to resuscitate through his brief career as a literary critic.Jean-Pierre Martinet (1944–93) wrote only a handful of novels, including what is largely regarded as his masterpiece: the psychosexual study of horror and madness 'Jérôme'. William Boyle is from Brooklyn. His books include 'Gravesend', which was nominated for the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière in France.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN 9781962728027. Wakefield Press. pb. 120 pages. 17.8 x 11.4 cm.\u003cbr\u003ein stock\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Wakefield Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45031499432166,"sku":"9781962728027","price":29.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0506\/2590\/4811\/files\/9781962728027.jpg?v=1789710313"},{"product_id":"9781913513597","title":"Dialogue with a Somnambulist (revised \u0026 expanded 2nd edition)","description":"\u003cb\u003eAuthor: Chloe Aridjis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRenowned internationally for her lyrically unsettling novels 'Book of Clouds', 'Asunder' and 'Sea Monsters', the Mexican writer Chloe Aridjis crosses borders in her work as much as in life. Now, collected here in an expanded new edition, her stories, essays and pen portraits reveal an author as imaginatively at home in the short form as in her longer fiction. This revised second edition includes five new texts and a new cover.At once fabular and formally innovative, acquainted with reverie and rigorous report, sensitive to the needs of a wider ecology yet familiar with the landscapes of the unconscious, her texts are both dream dispatches and wayward word plays infused with the pleasure and possibilities of language.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN 9781913513597. Prototype Publishing. pb. 336 pages. 17.8 x 11 cm.\u003cbr\u003ein stock\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Prototype Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45103558590694,"sku":"9781913513597","price":37.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0506\/2590\/4811\/files\/9781913513597.jpg?v=1789709415"},{"product_id":"9781913513580","title":"i will pay to make it bigger","description":"\u003cb\u003eAuthor: Ahren Warner\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'i will pay to make it bigger' is a novella and photobook, by poet and artist Ahren Warner, in which ‘you’ are the main character. Through text and image – autofiction, docufiction, and just plain fiction – you work your way through a tangle of preoccupations: from what it means to buy enjoyment, to the fragile construction of your own self as a cultural product. The photographs were produced during three months documenting ‘party hostels’ in Thailand. ‘Ahren Warner has a claim to be the “poet’s poet” of his generation. Even in apparently domestic and personal guise, he’s a writer whose work conveys voluptuous but intelligent delight in language and technique.’ – Carol Rumens, The Guardian\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN 9781913513580. Prototype Publishing. pb. 216 pages. 20.6 x 16 cm.\u003cbr\u003ein stock\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Prototype Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45247369052390,"sku":"9781913513580","price":49.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0506\/2590\/4811\/files\/9781913513580.jpg?v=1789709415"},{"product_id":"9781913513641","title":"Mountainish","description":"\u003cb\u003eAuthor: Zsuzsanna Gahse, Katy Derbyshire (trans.)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA narrator and her dog are criss-crossing the Swiss Alps. She travels with friends who share her interest in food, languages and their topographical contexts. In 515 notes, Zsuzsanna Gahse unfolds a finely woven interplay between six characters while giving us a vivid panorama of mountain worlds, a multi-layered typology of all things mountainish.Alongside her companions, they collect colours, even look for colourlessness,and develop the idea of a walk-in diary, a vain attempt to archive their observations, encompassing portraits, descriptions and ruminations on mountains, hotels, people, language, food, flora and fauna. Gradually, other mountains appear in their observations and memories, as do the mountains of literature and art. Mountains may be sites of fear and awe, of narrow-mindedness, racism and ever-looming collapse; Alpine lodges may be places of hospitality, retreat and unexpected encounters; of nature under threat.Zsuzsanna Gahse, born in Budapest in 1946, has lived in Vienna, Kassel, Stuttgart and Lucerne, and is now based in Müllheim (Switzerland). Her literary work moves between prose and poetry, narrative and scenic texts. She has published more than thirty books, most recently Bergisch teils farblos (2021) and Zeilenweise Frauenfeld (2023), both with Edition Korrespondenzen in Vienna. A number of her stage projects have also been performed. Shewas awarded the Johann Heinrich Voss Prize of the German Academy in Darmstadt for her translations from Hungarian to German in 2010, and the Swiss Grand Prix for Literature in 2019.Katy Derbyshire, originally from London, has lived in Berlin for over 20 years. She translates contemporary German writers, including Inka Parei, Heike Geissler, Olga Grjasnowa, Annett Gröschner and Christa Wolf. Her translation of Clemens Meyer’s Bricks and Mortar was the winner of the 2018 Straelener Übersetzerpreis (Straelen Prize for Translation), longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2017, and shortlisted for the 2019 Best Translated Book Awards. She occasionally teaches translation and co-hosts a monthly translation lab and the bi-monthly Dead Ladies Show. She helped to establish the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation, awarded annually since 2017.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN 9781913513641. Prototype Publishing. pb. 180 pages. 17.8 x 11.2 cm.\u003cbr\u003ein stock\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Prototype Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45546188996838,"sku":"9781913513641","price":35.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0506\/2590\/4811\/files\/9781913513641.jpg?v=1789709416"},{"product_id":"9781962728041","title":"Hashish Films of Customs Officer Henri Rousseau, the and Tatyana Joukof Shuffles the Cards","description":"\u003cb\u003eAuthor: Szittya, Emil\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEmil Szittya’s earliest known work of significance, 'The Hashish Films of Customs Officer Henri Rousseau and Tatyana Joukof Shuffles the Cards', was published in German in Budapest in 1916, yet it portrays the hallucinatory Paris in which the author had chosen a temporary dwelling at that time. Prose poems for lack of a better word, Szittya’s \"hashish films\" were almost lost to time but can now be recognised as similar to the work of Blaise Cendrars and Guillaume Apollinaire. They nevertheless reflect the author’s lifelong refusal to ally himself to any literary or artistic movement. It is a strange literary work as international and untethered as the author himself had been, a symbolic map of Montparnasse that incorporated the visual world of the painters around him.Emil Szittya was the most established pseudonym of the Hungarian–born Adolf Schenk (1886–1964). A vagabond in both his writing and his practice, his life intersected with notable names throughout Europe in the years of high modernism. Schenk eventually settled in Paris, fighting in the Resistance and working at the café Les Deux Magots before dying of tuberculosis.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN 9781962728041. Wakefield Press. pb. 80 pages. 17.8 x 11.4 cm.\u003cbr\u003eavailable to order\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Wakefield Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45667581984998,"sku":"9781962728041","price":29.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0506\/2590\/4811\/files\/9781962728041.jpg?v=1789710314"},{"product_id":"9798988606123","title":"Morgesons, the","description":"\u003cb\u003eAuthor: Stoddard, Elizabeth\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCassandra and Veronica Morgeson are wild girls. Adored by men, hated by women and feared by their parents – they break the mold. Veronica refuses to leave the family hearth or look at the ocean. Cassandra travels from one house to another around Massachusetts, breaking hearts and sending men to their deaths wherever she goes. She narrates it all in a bold voice that will surprise and shock even those most familiar with 19th-century literature. Henry James called 'The Morgesons' \"a remarkable book by those who had the good fortune to come across it.\" As with all of Mandylion’s bespoke publications, this new edition of Stoddard’s first novel includes a visual glossary that illuminates the social conventions and restrictions of the 19th century.Elizabeth Drew Barstow Stoddard (1823–1902) was the author of three novels, 'The Morgesons' (1862), 'Two Men' (1865) and 'Temple House' (1867). These received mixed reviews and sold poorly in her lifetime, though her work received renewed interest at the end of her life. Her career underwent another critical reevaluation among feminist scholars in the 1970 and 1980s. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN 9798988606123. Mandylion Press. pb. 416 pages. 96 b\/w ills. 19.1 x 12.7 cm.\u003cbr\u003eavailable to order\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Mandylion Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45667748118758,"sku":"9798988606123","price":55.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0506\/2590\/4811\/files\/9798988606123.jpg?v=1789526288"},{"product_id":"9798988606130","title":"One or Two","description":"\u003cb\u003eAuthor: Everett, H.D.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrances Bethune is desperate to lose weight before her husband’s return from India – in just two weeks. On the advice of a bad-breathed spirit, Frances undertakes a slenderising séance. While she succeeds in her quest for thinness, she is horrified to discover that her discarded weight has taken on a new life of its own. Featuring an original introduction written by Mandylion cofounder Madeline Porsella, as well as a glossary that provides visual, material and affective image footnotes.Of this chilling, revolting tale, H.P. Lovecraft raved that Everett \"reaches singular heights of spiritual terror.\"This new edition from Mandylion Press restores Everett’s 1907 masterpiece. Henrietta Dorothy Everett (1851–1923) was born in Kent, England. Between 1896 and 1920, she published 22 books under the pen name Theo Douglas. She was an influential figure in the early days of science fiction and fantasy writing, and was cited in H.P. Lovecraft’s extended 1927 essay \"Supernatural Horror in Literature.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN 9798988606130. Mandylion Press. pb. 256 pages. 72 b\/w ills. 19.1 x 12.7 cm.\u003cbr\u003eavailable to order\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Mandylion Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45667748217062,"sku":"9798988606130","price":51.5,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0506\/2590\/4811\/files\/9798988606130.jpg?v=1789526288"},{"product_id":"9781939663948","title":"Fantastic Orgy","description":"\u003cb\u003eAuthor: Frey, Alexander M.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst published in Germany in 1924, 'Fantastic Orgy' is most notable for its title story, an account of a drinking rout organised for maimed beggars in honour of a sideshow attraction, a mechanical woman doomed to early death through disintegration from entertaining the masses. All four stories, however, explore the emotional and material needs of a crippled society and the economic trap of poverty. Alexander Frey presents the troubling notion of a prosthetic humanity for damaged times.Alexander M. Frey (1881–1957) was a German author whose antiwar novel 'Die Pflasterkästen' ('The Cross Bearers') is considered by some critics to be superior to 'All Quiet on the Western Front'. Frey refused to join the National Socialist Party, despite having served as a medic in the trenches of World War I alongside dispatcher Adolf Hitler, and fled Germany during World War II.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN 9781939663948. Wakefield Press. pb. 88 pages. 17.8 x 11.4 cm.\u003cbr\u003ein stock\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Wakefield Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45714296635622,"sku":"9781939663948","price":27.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0506\/2590\/4811\/files\/9781939663948.jpg?v=1789709719"},{"product_id":"9781962728034","title":"Domesticity","description":"\u003cb\u003eAuthor: Huysmans, Joris-Karl\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHuysmans’ third novel, first published in French in 1881, signalled his turn toward a \"new naturalism\" that laid out the negative consequences of determinism. 'Domesticity' tells the tale of two men struggling between the urges of the body and the urges of the soul, \u0026amp; with the failure of matrimony or artistic endeavour to fulfil the needs of either. More than a psychological character study it stands as one of the most memorable portraits of late 19th-century Paris \u0026amp; its sad, futile affairs of the heart.Earning a wage through a career in the French civil service, Joris-Karl Huysmans (1848–1907) quietly explored the extremes of human nature and artifice through a series of books that influenced a number of literary movements: from the grimy naturalism of Marthe to the cornerstone of the decadent movement, 'Against Nature' and the Satanist classic 'Down There', to the dream-ridden Surrealist favorite 'Becalmed'.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN 9781962728034. Wakefield Press. pb. 320 pages. 20.3 x 13.3 cm.\u003cbr\u003eavailable to order\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Wakefield Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45714303680742,"sku":"9781962728034","price":42.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0506\/2590\/4811\/files\/9781962728034.jpg?v=1789710314"},{"product_id":"9781962728058","title":"Employee, the","description":"\u003cb\u003eAuthor: Sternberg, Jacques\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA nameless employee stands outside the door to an office, hesitating to enter because he is five minutes late. This banal opening then launches into a frenetic narrative that switches genres, modes and universes with abandon. First published in French in 1958, the first English-language translation of this seminal Jacques Sternberg novel presents an entropic exercise of the imagination that will leave readers bewildered and breathless.From an account of his feral childhood with a nymphomaniacal mother, to his early development of a third arm and a second head, the employee unspools his subsequent life as department-store wrapper, ladder-descending bureaucrat, traveling salesman, murder suspect and other occupations. Years return and reverse through a series of inflicted hellscapes as a tension builds between an untrammeled imagination willing to commit any crime and the inescapable rigidity of the mind. First published in French by Les Éditions de Minuit in 1958, \u003ci\u003eThe Employee\u003c\/i\u003e was awarded the Grand Prix de l’Humour Noir in 1961. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJacques Sternberg\u003c\/b\u003e (1923–2006) was a literary maverick, who wrote over 50 books that roamed freely through genre and influence without ever adhering to anything that might threaten constraint. He was briefly a member of the Panic Movement, founded by Fernando Arrabal, Alejandro Jodorowsky and Roland Topor.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN 9781962728058. Wakefield Press. pb. 192 pages. 20.3 x 13.3 cm.\u003cbr\u003ein stock\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Wakefield Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45714303779046,"sku":"9781962728058","price":37.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0506\/2590\/4811\/files\/9781962728058.jpg?v=1789710315"},{"product_id":"9781962728065","title":"Diabelli","description":"\u003cb\u003eAuthor: Burger, Hermann\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn following the tales of these magicians of madness, Swiss author Hermann Burger offers unique confessional accounts of linguistic self-destruction. Chief among them is prestidigitator Grazio Diabelli, who refuses an invitation to perform and instead discourses on the history of escapology as he contemplates his own final and permanent disappearing act. Added to this first English edition is Burger’s tale “The Laughter Artist,” an account of a nameless professional artist of cachinnation.Also waiting in the wings is August Stramm, “pianistic abortion” applying for the post of orchestra minion despite being hard of hearing; and Anatol Zentgraf, private scholar and maniacal reader who is the alleged epicenter of an earthquake.Hermann Burger was a Swiss author, critic and professor. He first achieved fame with his novel \u003ci\u003eSchilten\u003c\/i\u003e, the story of a mad village schoolteacher who teaches his students to prepare for death. At the end of his life, he was working on the autobiographical tetralogy \u003ci\u003eBrenner\u003c\/i\u003e, one of the high points of 20th-century German prose.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN 9781962728065. 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With sharp prose \u0026amp; an addictive plot, Lind crafts a daring examination of female agency, sexuality, and the complexities of consent. The novel evokes the idea of the girl as animal – a creature conditioned to be both docile pet and wild beast, torn between submission and rebellion, innocence and desire. Brave, provocative, and unflinching, Girlbeast is a gripping, vital novel for our times.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN 9781913513771. 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Though his first book was celebrated when released in 1966, he died largely forgotten.One morning, the Sunday Quicksands Excursion Company bus stops outside the professional excursionist SchrummSchrumm’s building. His registration application having been accepted, SchrummSchrumm lets himself be stripped down, smeared with catechumenal balm for hallucination protection, manacled to armrests and blindfolded for the journey to the distant walled city of Misunderstanding. It is there that SchrummSchrumm will undergo a series of increasingly absurd ritualistic initiations under the supreme rule of Abocketaback as he prepares for the incessantly forestalled excursion to the Quicksands on the city’s outskirts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN 9781962728072. 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This time it is a new cast of storytellers picking up where the others had left off – a motley crew that includes a Prioress with a taste for executions and a madman who once made the mistake of asking after the Uhu. Also among them is a new listener: Tobias Weep, secretary of the Upper Thames Book Club, who has stumbled onto their impossible gathering, pinned to his chair by the impossible weight of E.T.A. Hoffmann’s talking tomcat on his lap. Jean Ray (1887–1964) is the best known of the multiple pseudonyms of Raymundus Joannes Maria de Kremer. A pivotal figure in the “Belgian School of the Strange,” he authored some 6,500 texts in his lifetime, along with his own biography, which remains shrouded in legend and fiction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN 9781962728096. 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It bears allegiance to the most radical French fiction of its time, particularly the work of Jean Genet whose own novels explored the sanctification of criminal behaviour.Through a first-person narrative that varies in tone from scientifically clinical to darkly humorous, mingling together references to the Bible and Greek mythology, odd bits of dialogue and obtuse descriptions, we learn of K and L’s shocking crimes, as well as the professional and personal entanglement of L and an older man they call the Red Pig, their mother’s former lover. Yumiko Kurahashi (1935–2005) was an influential Japanese writer of experimental fiction. She was nominated early in her career for the Akutagawa prize and later won the Izumi Kyōka Prize for Literature for her anti-utopian work 'Journey to Amanon'.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN 9781962728102. 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Includes the Mandylion Press's signature visual glossary. Mandylion Press’ second run of 'The Gadfly' includes a new preface by Madeline Porsella and a visual glossary illustrating the world of the novel. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll smuggle guns over the border and, if you’re anything like the Gadfly, you’ll do it all with incomparable style.Ethel Lilian (Boole) Voynich (1864–1960) was born in Cork, Ireland, and raised in Lancashire, England. Her peripatetic adult life was defined by passions for music and leftist politics. In 1902, she married Wilifrid Michael Voynich, a Polish revolutionary and antiquarian book dealer. She spent her final decades in New York City, where she worked in a music school and as a translator of Russian, Polish and French texts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN 9798988606147. 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Written in 1897 but not published until 1907, the book was, in Machen’s own estimation, his masterpiece. All Mandylion books come adorned in a translucent dust jacket that emphasises the unique material qualities of the book.Arthur Machen (1863–1947) was born Caerleon, Wales. His most well-known works include 'The Great God Pan' and 'Ornaments of Jade'. He has influenced writers as diverse as H.P. Lovecraft, Stephen King, Jorge Luis Borges and Sylvia Townsend Warner.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN 9798988606154. 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'Elsie Venner' was one of three “medicated novels” written by physician and author Oliver Wendell Holmes. In this work, he coined the phrase “Boston Brahmin,” and dissected the eccentricities and hypocrisies of his local culture. Published after Darwin’s 'On the Origin of Species' and before Freud’s 'Studies on Hysteria', 'Elsie Venner' is a scientific mystery that undresses Puritanism and anticipates psychoanalysis. This Mandylion edition includes the publisher’s signature visual glossary that illuminates the world of 19th-century society, science and medicine. Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–94) was an American physician, writer and public intellectual. He established a medical practice in Boston and served as a professor and dean at Harvard Medical School, while also cofounding the Atlantic Monthly, a magazine he named. His son, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., served as an associate justice of the US Supreme Court from 1902 to 1932. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN 9798988606161. 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Giving the reader glimpses into how gay lives were secretly lived and horrifically extinguished in 1950s rural America, and with an unforeseen ending that can only be described with the delicately complicated touch of Whitmore’s enigmatic prose, Nebraska will stay in your mind long after finishing it.Craig Mullen, a young boy in Nebraska, gets hit by a car on the way to buy groceries. After having his leg amputated, he is bedridden, lonely, bored and addicted to painkillers. His rare interactions with kids his own age, specifically with a neighbor boy who often spends the night, awaken his feelings to further explore. When Craig’s uncle moves into the family home, a world of hope, pain, mystery and despair descends upon the Mullen family.George Whitmore (1945–89) was an American playwright, novelist and poet. 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A tender meditation on endings, the limits of understanding, and the act of letting go.During a time of restricted movement, the narrator of Mr Outside visits his reclusive father Thomas who is packing up to move into a care home. As father and son grapple with the task, long-buried conflicts resurface. Thomas, a poet and former radical priest, slips between affection and fear, while the narrator struggles to find the words he’s been holding back. Yet amidst confusion and grief, moments of humour and connection emerge, as both men discover new ways to understand each other and let go.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN 9781913513801. 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The title offers an opposition to the reductive logic of Western capitalism which views other-than-humans as only resources for extraction. Other beings feature as metaphors, or omens, but also as fleshly, agential creatures. Often the encounters are erotically charged, using Audre Lorde’s definition of the erotic as an intentionality that can permeate all aspects of life.In one story, the protagonist attempts to figure out how to have sex with a bathroom mirror; in another, a catfish drags itself through Piccadilly Circus tube station with an uncomfortable level of intimacy with all the surfaces they come into contact with; a person births a stone from their rectum; a lump of topaz in someone’s brain triggers their depression; a human tries to talk to a limestone cliff using touch; a swan drinks the bathwater of their human lover.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN 9781913513825. 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Forgetting is examined and toyed with from every angle. Mythical hybrid creatures are invoked: a snake-headed lion, wolf- snakes, a wolf-peacock. How did this come to be? In a cunningly, wittily wrought rush, the unique, unpredictable voice of the narrator speaks from multiple perspectives to express powerful anguish and, ultimately, catharsis.Hélène Cixous is one of the most important feminist voices of the 20th and 21st centuries.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN 9781739371777. 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