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  • Ryu Murakami – Coin Locker Babies
    Ryu Murakami – Coin Locker Babies
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    Two babies are left in a Tokyo station coin locker and survive against the odds, but their lives are forever tainted by this inauspicious start. As they grow up, they […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Roberto Bolano – By Night in Chile
    Roberto Bolano – By Night in Chile
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    Father Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix is dying. A priest, a member of Opus Dei, a literary critic and a poet, in his feverish delirium the crucial events of his past swell […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Julio Cortazar – 62: A Model Kit
    Julio Cortazar – 62: A Model Kit
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    ‘A deeply touching, enjoyable novel, beautifully written and fascinatingly mysterious and intricate in its designs’ New York TimesIn a city that could be Paris, London or Vienna, a loose-knit [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Clarice Lispector – The Burned Sinner and the Harmonious Angels
    Clarice Lispector – The Burned Sinner and the Harmonious Angels
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    A housewife’s life is shattered by a sudden epiphany. A simple tale of killing cockroaches fragments into multiple narratives, each uncovering new truths. In this selection of haunting short [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Leon Genonceaux – The Tutu
    Leon Genonceaux – The Tutu
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    The nineteenth-century French writer and publisher Léon Genonceaux (1856―?) is as much of an enigma as those two legendary enfants terribles whom he was the first to publish: Arthur Rimbaud […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • M. John Harrison – The Course Of The Heart
    M. John Harrison – The Course Of The Heart
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    On a hot May night, three Cambridge students carry out a ritualistic act that changes their lives. Decades later, none of the participants can remember what transpired; but their clouded […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Mircea Cartarescu – Solenoid
    Mircea Cartarescu – Solenoid
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    Based on Cartarescu’s own experience as a teacher, Solenoid submerges us in the mundane details of a diarist’s life and spirals into an existential account of history, philosophy and [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Ryu Murakami – From the Fatherland with Love
    Ryu Murakami – From the Fatherland with Love
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    An ambitious, epic dystopian novel – part political thriller and part satire. From the Fatherland, with Love is set in an alternative, dystopian present in which the dollar has collapsed [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Philip K Dick – Ubik
    Philip K Dick – Ubik
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    In a dystopian future of psychic powers, Glen Runciter runs a lucrative business — deploying his teams of anti-psychics to corporate clients who want privacy and security from psychic spies. […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Larry Townsend – The Severed Head
    Larry Townsend – The Severed Head
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    During the riots that followed the unpopular verdicts in the Rodney King trial, a group of skinhead punks preys on the Gay Community of West Hollywood. In the course of […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • David Tibet – Sing Omega [1st edition]
    David Tibet – Sing Omega [1st edition]
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    “This volume brings together a collection of the major part of the words that I have written, or which have been written through me, for my dream channel Current 93, […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • William Gibson – Zero History
    William Gibson – Zero History
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    When she sang for The Curfew, Hollis Henry’s face was known worldwide. She still runs into people who remember the poster. Unfortunately, in the post-crash economy, cult memorabilia [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • William Gibson – Spook Country
    William Gibson – Spook Country
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    Hollis Henry is a journalist, on investigative assignment from a magazine called Node. Node doesn’t exist yet, which is fine, she’s used to that, but it seems to be actively […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • The Oxford Book of the Supernatural
    The Oxford Book of the Supernatural
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    From the eerie visitation of Scrooge by Marley’s ghost, to the three witches brewing evil on the heath in Macbeth, to the deadly lust for blood of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • John Bennett – The Night of the Great Butcher
    John Bennett – The Night of the Great Butcher
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    A collection of short stories & pieces by the iconoclastic proto-beat writer. This book is in Good readable condition. It has been read and may show some age & wear […]

    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 …
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    “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
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    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
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    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
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    ‘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
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    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
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    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
  • Unica Zurn – Katrin: The Tale of a Young Writer
    Unica Zurn – Katrin: The Tale of a Young Writer
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    Katrin is a novel by the artist Unica Zürn (Berlin 1916 – Paris 1970). It was written in 1953, although it would not be published in her lifetime. This is […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Vladimir Sorokin – The Blizzard
    Vladimir Sorokin – The Blizzard
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    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
  • Leonora Carrington – The Hearing Trumpet
    Leonora Carrington – The Hearing Trumpet
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    The Hearing Trumpet is the story of 92-year-old Marian Leatherby, who is given the gift of a hearing trumpet only to discover that what her family is saying is that […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Heather Lewis – Notice
    Heather Lewis – Notice
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    Her name is not Nina, but that’s the name she uses sometimes. At her local bar, in the carpark with her tricks, when she needs to score. She doesn’t really […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Dennis Cooper – Closer
    Dennis Cooper – Closer
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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
  • Constance Debre – Offenses
    Constance Debre – Offenses
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    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 – In The Miso Soup
    Ryu Murakami – In The Miso Soup
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    It’s just before New Year, and Frank, an overweight American tourist, has hired Kenji to take him on a guided tour of Tokyo’s nightlife. But, Frank’s behaviour is so odd […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Ryu Murakami – Audition
    Ryu Murakami – Audition
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    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
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    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
  • Samuel R. Delany – Driftglass
    Samuel R. Delany – Driftglass
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    Samuel Delany is one of the most radical and influential science fiction writers of our age, who reinvented the genre with his fearless explorations of race, class and gender. Driftglass […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Yevgeny Zamyatin – We
    Yevgeny Zamyatin – We
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    Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We is a powerfully inventive vision that has influenced writers from George Orwell to Ayn Rand. In a glass-enclosed city of absolute straight lines, ruled over by the [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • H.P. Lovecraft – The Colour Out of Space
    H.P. Lovecraft – The Colour Out of Space
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    The master of weird fiction, H. P. Lovecraft combines cosmic fantasy with creeping horror in these three tales of malevolent alien forces, body-switching and travel across the space-time continuum.

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Susan Sontag – The Way We Live Now
    Susan Sontag – The Way We Live Now
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    “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
  • Laszlo Krasznahorkai – Seiobo There Below
    Laszlo Krasznahorkai – Seiobo There Below
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    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
  • J.G Ballard – Crash
    J.G Ballard – Crash
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    The definitive cult, post-modern novel – a shocking blend of violence, transgression and eroticism – reissued with an introduction from Zadie Smith. After being bombarded endlessly by road-safety [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • J.G Ballard – The Atrocity Exhibition
    J.G Ballard – The Atrocity Exhibition
    $14.00 | ,

    A prophetic and experimental masterpiece by J. G. Ballard, the acclaimed author of ‘Crash’ and ‘Super-Cannes’, featuring an introduction by Hari Kunzru. The human organism is an atrocity [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • James Tiptree Jr – Warm Worlds and Otherwise
    James Tiptree Jr – Warm Worlds and Otherwise
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    ‘Tiptree’s narratives of alien worlds and alienation make up one of science fiction’s most vivid and influential bodies of work’ The New York TimesThis landmark collection [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • James Tiptree Jr. – Ten Thousand Light-Years From Home
    James Tiptree Jr. – Ten Thousand Light-Years From Home
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    ‘Unquestionably one of the brightest-burning talents in the constellation of science fiction’ The New York Times. Written under the pseudonym James Tiptree Jr., the pioneering and [...]

    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
  • Kobo Abe – The Ark Sakura
    Kobo Abe – The Ark Sakura
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    ‘One of Japan’s most venerated writers’ David MitchellIn this unnerving fable from one of Japan’s greatest novelists, a recluse known as ‘Mole’ retreats to a [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Dorothy B Hughes – In a Lonely Place
    Dorothy B Hughes – In a Lonely Place
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    ‘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
  • Ingeborg Bachmann – Malina
    Ingeborg Bachmann – Malina
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    Part detective novel, part love story, part psychoanalytic case study, Malina is a staggering portrait of a writer trying to tell her own story in a world dominated by men. […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Russell Hoban – Turtle Diary
    Russell Hoban – Turtle Diary
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    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