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  • Celine – Journey To The End Of The Night
    Celine – Journey To The End Of The Night
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    Céline’s masterpiece―colloquial, polemic, hyper realistic―boils over with bitter humor and revulsion at society’s idiocy and hypocrisy: Journey to the End of the Night is a literary symphony of [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Robert Westall – The Stones of Muncaster Cathedral: Two Stories of the Supernatural
    Robert Westall – The Stones of Muncaster Cathedral: Two Stories …
    $10.00 | , ,

    “I dreamt I was standing in the dark, looking up at the south-west tower … And our Kev was up there on top, in the dark, and screaming as if […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Robert Westall – Spectral Shadows: Three Supernatural Novellas
    Robert Westall – Spectral Shadows: Three Supernatural Novellas
    $10.00 | , ,

    Three supernatural novellas by Robert Westall, hailed as the finest British author of ghost stories since M.R. James, collected together for the first time BLACKHAM’S WIMPEY Why should [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Robert Westall – Shadows of War
    Robert Westall – Shadows of War
    $10.00 | , ,

    In ‘Adolf’, a young boy becomes convinced his elderly neighbour is actually Adolf Hitler in hiding. The British soldiers in ‘The German Ghost’ have an otherworldly [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Robert Westall – Antique Dust: Ghost Stories
    Robert Westall – Antique Dust: Ghost Stories
    $10.00 | , ,

    ‘Dealers are undertakers of a sort. When a man dies, the undertaker comes for the body, and the dealer comes for the rest. I deal in dead men’s clocks, pipes […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Sylvia Townsend Warner – The Corner That Held Them
    Sylvia Townsend Warner – The Corner That Held Them
    $10.00 | , ,

    A unique novel about life in a 14th-century convent by one of England’s most original authors. Sylvia Townsend Warner’s The Corner That Held Them is a historical novel like no […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Nina Antonia – Flitting
    Nina Antonia – Flitting
    $4.00 | , ,

    Thus opens Flitting, a short Christmas story offered as a Fiddler’s Green holiday special. A darkly poetic telling of English changeling folklore set in the modern day, Flitting provides a […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Raymond Pettibon: A Reader
    Raymond Pettibon: A Reader
    $22.00 | , ,

    Raymond Pettibon is famed for the breadth and depth of his reading: his art draws on it (excuse pun) at every turn. This anthology of Pettibon’s favorite authors assembles an […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Vladimir Sorokin – The Blizzard
    Vladimir Sorokin – The Blizzard
    $16.00 | ,

    A darkly comic dystopian odyssey, from one of Russia’s leading contemporary novelists. Garin, a country doctor, is desperately trying to reach the village of Dolgoye, where a mysterious [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Dennis Cooper – Closer
    Dennis Cooper – Closer
    $14.00 | ,

    Physically beautiful and strangely passive, George Miles attracts his fellow students’ attention, like a wallet lying on the street. One after another, his teenage friends rifle through [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Jewelle Gomez – The Gilda Stories
    Jewelle Gomez – The Gilda Stories
    $14.00 | ,

    In this radically reimagined vampire myth, the night hides many things… Louisiana, 1850. A young girl escapes slavery and is taken in by two mysterious women. Rumoured to be witches, […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Audrey Niffenegger – Her Fearful Symmetry
    Audrey Niffenegger – Her Fearful Symmetry
    $14.00 | ,

    When Elspeth Noblin dies she leaves her beautiful flat overlooking Highgate Cemetery to her twin nieces, Julia and Valentina. But until the solicitor’s letter falls through the door of [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Hitomi Kanehara – Autofiction
    Hitomi Kanehara – Autofiction
    $14.00 | ,

    In this darkly addictive, devious novel, love is pain. Rin is flying back from her honeymoon. She’s madly in love with her husband. The future looks rosy. Then he disappears […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Ottessa Moshfegh – Death in Her Hands
    Ottessa Moshfegh – Death in Her Hands
    $14.00 | ,

    Her name was Magda. Nobody will ever know who killed her. It wasn’t me. Here is her dead body. While on her daily walk with her dog in the woods […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Yoko Ogawa – The Diving Pool
    Yoko Ogawa – The Diving Pool
    $14.00 | ,

    Three strange, tortuous stories from the shadow queen of contemporary Japanese fiction. A lonely teenage girl falls in love with her foster-brother as she watches him leap from a high […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Marjorie Bowen – Black Magic
    Marjorie Bowen – Black Magic
    $14.00 | ,

    A rediscovered gothic classic with a groundbreaking, gender-nonconforming protagonist at its heart. ‘I do not sin,’ he smiled. ‘I am Sin’In a quiet medieval city, alone in his shadowy chambers, [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Constance Debre – Offenses
    Constance Debre – Offenses
    $16.00 | ,

    Is a criminal born or made? What turns them towards violence?A young man stabs an elderly woman ten times for the sake of a 450 euro debt. But why would […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Ryu Murakami – Audition
    Ryu Murakami – Audition
    $16.00 | ,

    Documentary-maker Aoyama hasn’t dated anyone in the seven years since the death of his beloved wife, Ryoko. Now even his teenage son Shige has suggested he think about remarrying. So […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Ryu Murakami – Piercing
    Ryu Murakami – Piercing
    $16.00 | ,

    Every night, Kawashima Masayuki creeps from his bed and watches over his baby girl’s crib while his wife sleeps. But this is no ordinary domestic scene. He has an ice […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Anna Kavan – Sleep Has His House
    Anna Kavan – Sleep Has His House
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    In an unhappy suburban household, a young girl begins to retreat into a nighttime world of her own imagining. As her daytime life deteriorates, she decides to take up permanent […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Kurt Vonnegut – Cat’s Cradle
    Kurt Vonnegut – Cat’s Cradle
    $14.00 | ,

    ‘Vonnegut looked the world straight in the eye and never flinched’ J. G. BallardThis bitterly funny Cold War satire on the end of the world expresses our deepest fears of […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Susan Sontag – The Way We Live Now
    Susan Sontag – The Way We Live Now
    $8.00 | , ,

    “This book is the result of a unique collaboration. ‘The Way We Live Now’ was first published as a short story in the New Yorker in 1986. It concerns the […]

    GENRE: Art/Photography, Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Christopher Norris – Hunchback ’88 (Permanent Sleep Edition)
    Christopher Norris – Hunchback ’88 (Permanent Sleep Editio…
    $30.00 | , ,

    “Hunchback ‘88 is a book… or a novel mirror of haunted house ferox… or a puzzle in no rush to be solved… or a plot dug in ocean mist… or […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Laszlo Krasznahorkai – Seiobo There Below
    Laszlo Krasznahorkai – Seiobo There Below
    $17.00 | ,

    Beauty, in László Krasznahorkai’s new novel, reflects, however fleeting, the sacred – even if we are mostly unable to bear it. In Seiobo There Below we see the Japanese goddess […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Andreas Eschbach – The Hair Carpet Weavers
    Andreas Eschbach – The Hair Carpet Weavers
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    In a distant universe, since the beginning of time, workers have spent their lives weaving intricate carpets from the hair of women and girls. But why? Andreas Eschbach’s mysterious, [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Dorothy B Hughes – In a Lonely Place
    Dorothy B Hughes – In a Lonely Place
    $14.00 | ,

    ‘The new crime and espionage series from Penguin Classics makes for a mouth-watering prospect’ Daily TelegraphLos Angeles, the late 1940’s. A serial killer stalks the foggy [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Davis Grubb – The Night of the Hunter
    Davis Grubb – The Night of the Hunter
    $16.00 | ,

    Two young children hold the key to a secret stash of money – and a relentless psychopath is on their trail… Harry ‘Preacher’ Powell, his fingers tattooed with LOVE and [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Russell Hoban – Turtle Diary
    Russell Hoban – Turtle Diary
    $14.00 | ,

    Born to swim thousands of miles in the ocean, the giant sea turtles are now trapped in a tank of golden-green water at London Zoo. But not for much longer. […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Russell Hoban – Riddley Walker
    Russell Hoban – Riddley Walker
    $16.00 | ,

    Wandering a desolate post-apocalyptic landscape, speaking a broken-down English lost after the end of civilization, Riddley Walker sets out to find out what brought humanity here. This is his [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Russell Hoban – Mr Rinyo-Clacton’s Offer
    Russell Hoban – Mr Rinyo-Clacton’s Offer
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    You want to buy my death for a million pounds!’ Piccadilly Circus tube station is an unlikely location for a pact with the Devil, but this is where Jonathan Fitch […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Russell Hoban – The Medusa Frequency
    Russell Hoban – The Medusa Frequency
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    It all begins the night a leaflet comes through the door of unsuccessful novelist Herman Orff, promising a magical cure for writer’s block. The strange treatment plunges him into a […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Russell Hoban – Kleinzeit
    Russell Hoban – Kleinzeit
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    On an ordinary day in a strangely unfamiliar London, Kleinzeit is fired from his advertising job and told he must go to hospital with a skewed hypotenuse. There on Ward […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Russell Hoban – Fremder
    Russell Hoban – Fremder
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    On 4 November 2052, Fremder Gorn is discovered drifting in deep space. He has no spacesuit, no helmet, no oxygen, but he is still alive: the sole survivor from the […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Kobo Abe – The Ruined Map
    Kobo Abe – The Ruined Map
    $14.00 | ,

    A private detective is hired to find a missing person, but nothing is normal about this case. Why has the beautiful, alcoholic wife of the vanished salesman waited over half […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Georges Bataille – Blue of Noon
    Georges Bataille – Blue of Noon
    $16.00 | ,

    Set against the backdrop of Europe’s slide into Fascism, Blue of Noon is a blackly compelling account of depravity and violence. As its narrator lurches despairingly from city to city […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Jorge Luis Borges – The Book of Sand and Shakespeare’s Memory
    Jorge Luis Borges – The Book of Sand and Shakespeare’s Mem…
    $16.00 | ,

    THE BOOK OF SAND was the last of Borges’ major collections to be published. The stories are, in his words, ‘variations on favourite themes… combining a plain and at times […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Stanislaw Lem – The Cyberiad : Fables for the Cybernetic Age
    Stanislaw Lem – The Cyberiad : Fables for the Cybernetic Age
    $16.00 | ,

    A charming, mind-bending and anarchic book of imagined civilizations’Most cosmic civilizations long for things, in the depths of their souls, they would never openly admit [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Wayne Koestenbaum – The Cheerful Scapegoat: Fables
    Wayne Koestenbaum – The Cheerful Scapegoat: Fables
    $7.00 | ,

    In his first book of short fiction–a collection of whimsical, surreal, baroque, ribald, and heartbreaking fables–Wayne Koestenbaum takes the gloom and melancholy of our own terrifying [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Joanna Walsh – Break Up
    Joanna Walsh – Break Up
    $7.00 | ,

    In this “novel in essays,” Joanna Walsh simultaneously flees and pursues an ambiguous partner in an affair conducted mostly online. Traversing Europe, she awaits emails and texts and PMs, awash [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Cormac McCarthy – The Passenger Box Set (The Passenger/Stella Maris)
    Cormac McCarthy – The Passenger Box Set (The Passenger/Stella Ma…
    $20.00 | , ,

    An artfully designed box set of Pulitzer Prize–winning author Cormac McCarthy’s final masterpiece, told in two volumes, each a New York Times bestseller. The Passenger is a fast-paced and [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Joyce Carol Oates – Blonde
    Joyce Carol Oates – Blonde
    $8.00 | , ,

    One of America’s most acclaimed novelists boldly re-imagines one of America’s most enduring icons in Blonde—the National Book Award-nominated bestseller by Joyce Carol Oates. The legend of [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Karl Ove Knausgaard – The Wolves of Eternity
    Karl Ove Knausgaard – The Wolves of Eternity
    $12.00 | ,

    From the internationally bestselling author Karl Ove Knausgaard, a sprawling and deeply human novel that questions the responsibilities we have toward one another and ourselves—and the limits of [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Marguerite Duras – The Impudent Ones
    Marguerite Duras – The Impudent Ones
    $7.00 | , ,

    Marguerite Duras rose to global stardom with her erotic masterpiece The Lover (L’Amant), which won the prestigious Prix Goncourt, has over a million copies in print in English, has been […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Georges Perec – Life: a User’s Manual
    Georges Perec – Life: a User’s Manual
    $25.00 | ,

    Structured around a single moment in time ― 8:00 p.m. on June 23, 1975 ― Perec’s spellbinding puzzle begins in an apartment block in the XVIIth arrondissement of Paris where, […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Fernand Combet – Schrummschrumm, or the Sunday Quicksands Excursion
    Fernand Combet – Schrummschrumm, or the Sunday Quicksands Excurs…
    $20.00 | ,

    In translation at last, a delightfully delirious novel in which absurdity gives way to nightmare This novel by French writer Fernand Combet is at long last available in English. A […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Franz Werfel – The Forty Days of Musa Dagh
    Franz Werfel – The Forty Days of Musa Dagh
    $29.00 | ,

    The internationally acclaimed novel based on the heroic resistance during the Armenian genocide of 1915. This is the story of how the people of several Armenian villages in the mountains […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Philippe Soupault – The Voyage of Horace Pirouelle
    Philippe Soupault – The Voyage of Horace Pirouelle
    $13.00 | ,

    A Rimbaudesque novella of wayward wanderlust and liberty from the cofounder of Surrealism Conceived in a hospital bed in 1917 and written a few months later after his fateful encounter […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Sam Shepard – Motel Chronicles
    Sam Shepard – Motel Chronicles
    $17.00 | ,

    Motel Chronicles reveals the fast-moving and sometimes surprising world of the man behind the plays that have made Sam Shepard a living legend in the theater. Shepard chronicles his own […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Jacques Prevert – Paroles: Selected Poems
    Jacques Prevert – Paroles: Selected Poems
    $17.00 | ,

    In the years immediately following World War II, Jacques Prévert spoke directly to and for the French who had come of age during the German Occupation. First published in 1946 […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Denton Welch – In Youth Is Pleasure: & I Left My Grandfather’s House
    Denton Welch – In Youth Is Pleasure: & I Left My Grandfathe…
    $18.00 | ,

    A tender and fierce account of boyhood and nascent homosexual desire First published in 1945, In Youth Is Pleasure is a beautiful and unassuming coming-of-age novel by the English writer […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive