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  • 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
  • The Living Are Few, The Dead Many : Selected Works of Hans Henny Jahnn
    The Living Are Few, The Dead Many : Selected Works of Hans Henny Jahnn
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    The works of Hans Henny Jahnn exploded on to the inter-war literary scene in Germany as a crazed marriage of Gothic Romanticism, modernist literary Expressionism and the experiments of writers [...]

    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
  • Angela Carter – Nights at the Circus
    Angela Carter – Nights at the Circus
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    Welcome to the circus – strange, dirty and shameless, this is the greatest show on Earth. Sophie Fevvers is a seductress, a braggart and an ariel performer in Colonel Kearney’s […]

    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
  • Intan Paramaditha – Apple and Knife
    Intan Paramaditha – Apple and Knife
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    In this dazzling debut story collection from celebrated Indonesian writer Intan Paramaditha, fairytale, taboo, lust and death all come together in a heady, intoxicating mix. A black velvet [...]

    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
  • Marjorie Bowen – Black Magic
    Marjorie Bowen – Black Magic
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    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
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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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Russell Hoban – Riddley Walker
    Russell Hoban – Riddley Walker
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    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 – 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
  • Wayne Koestenbaum – The Cheerful Scapegoat: Fables
    Wayne Koestenbaum – The Cheerful Scapegoat: Fables
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    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
  • Joyce Carol Oates – Blonde
    Joyce Carol Oates – Blonde
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    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
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    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
  • Georges Perec – Life: a User’s Manual
    Georges Perec – Life: a User’s Manual
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    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…
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    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
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    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
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    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
  • Denton Welch – In Youth Is Pleasure: & I Left My Grandfather’s House
    Denton Welch – In Youth Is Pleasure: & I Left My Grandfathe…
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    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
  • Joseph McElroy – Cannonball
    Joseph McElroy – Cannonball
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    Written in a voice of passion, warning, and awakening, Joseph McElroy’s ninth novel, Cannonball, takes us to a distant war we never understood and have half forgotten upheld by an […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Pierre Macorlan – Mademoiselle Bambu
    Pierre Macorlan – Mademoiselle Bambu
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    Mademoiselle Bambù is Pierre Mac Orlan’s take on the spy novel, written and expanded between 1932 and 1966. Set in Hamburg, London, Palermo, Brest and other ports of call in […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Giorgio Manganelli – To Those Gods Beyond
    Giorgio Manganelli – To Those Gods Beyond
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    This combination of two key works by the Italian avant-garde writer Giorgio Manganelli (1922–90) is a major addition to the small number of his works available in English. In the […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Diane Di Prima – Pieces of a Song: Selected Poems
    Diane Di Prima – Pieces of a Song: Selected Poems
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    Feminist Beat poet Diane di Prima was born in Brooklyn, New York. She attended Swarthmore College for two years before moving to Greenwich Village in Manhattan and becoming a writer […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Jane Bowles – Plain Pleasures: Stories
    Jane Bowles – Plain Pleasures: Stories
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    In these uncanny and insidious tales, Jane Bowles presents an incendiary and groundbreaking vision of the mad possibilities of literary modernism. From “Everything Is Nice,” where an American [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Jane Bowles – Two Serious Ladies
    Jane Bowles – Two Serious Ladies
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    Jane Bowles’s avant-garde study of women breaking free from the bonds of convention is itself a master class in liberation from the constraints of everyday thinking, form, and feeling. Two […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Chester Himes – A Rage In Harlem
    Chester Himes – A Rage In Harlem
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    A special edition of A Rage in Harlem, a ripping introduction to Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones, who patrol New York City’s roughest streets in Chester Himes’s groundbreaking […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Bohumil Hrabal – Too Loud A Solitude
    Bohumil Hrabal – Too Loud A Solitude
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    Too Loud a Solitude is a tender and funny story of Hanta––a man who has lived in a Czech police state––for 35 years, working as compactor of wastepaper and books. […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Justine Frank – Sweet Sweat
    Justine Frank – Sweet Sweat
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    Sweet Sweat, the only novel by Belgian artist Justine Frank, is unusual, to say the least—a blend of feminism, pornography, Judaism, and art, written in French in 1931. Its heroine […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Thomas Pynchon – Against The Day
    Thomas Pynchon – Against The Day
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    Spanning the era between the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I, and constantly moving between locations across the globe (and to a few […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Robin Robertson – The Long Take : A Noir Narrative
    Robin Robertson – The Long Take : A Noir Narrative
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    From the award-winning British author–a poet’s noir narrative that tells the story of a D-Day veteran in postwar America: a good man, brutalized by war, haunted by violence and [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Eileen Myles – A Working Life
    Eileen Myles – A Working Life
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    The first new collection since Evolution from the prolific poet, activist, and writer Eileen Myles, a “Working Life” unerringly captures the measure of life. Whether alone or in [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Pathetic Literature
    Pathetic Literature
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    “Literature is pathetic.” So claims Eileen Myles in their provocative and robust introduction to Pathetic Literature, a breathtaking mishmash of pieces ranging from poems to theater [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Boris Vian – Trouble In The Swaths
    Boris Vian – Trouble In The Swaths
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    A rollicking adventure caper satirizing the soon-to-be ubiquitous aspects of spy sagas First published posthumously in 1966, Trouble in the Swaths was written by Boris Vian for a small audience [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • John Bowen – The Girls: A Story of Village Life
    John Bowen – The Girls: A Story of Village Life
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    In their lovely old Cotswolds village, Janet and Susan are known to all the other villagers as “the girls”—a fixture. Partners in love and work, co-proprietors of a picturesque shop […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Elizabeth Mavor – A Green Equinox
    Elizabeth Mavor – A Green Equinox
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    Hero Kinoull is an antiquarian bookseller whose sedate life in the picturesque English town of Beaudesert is turned upside down between the spring and autumn equinoxes of a single year. […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Pierre Louys – Pybrac
    Pierre Louys – Pybrac
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    A manuscript of obscenely erotic poetry from Pierre Louÿs, written in secret and published after his death By turns amusing and offensive, Pierre Louÿs’ Pybrac is possibly the filthiest [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Edmund White – Nocturnes for the King of Naples
    Edmund White – Nocturnes for the King of Naples
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    “Can’t sleep tonight. Was lying in bed reading the biography of a great man whose genius deserted him . . . The genius who deserted me was you.” In a […]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Leon-Paul Fargue – Vulturnus
    Leon-Paul Fargue – Vulturnus
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    When published in 1928, Vulturnus represented a new direction in Léon-Paul Fargue’s writing: a shift from the lyrical post-Symbolist melancholy of his early poetry to something more grandiose, [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Bess Brenck Kalischer – The Mill: A Cosmos
    Bess Brenck Kalischer – The Mill: A Cosmos
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    The hallucinatory English-language debut of an overlooked German Expressionist poet Bess Brenck Kalischer’s only work of prose was first published in German in 1922. Narrated by a woman being [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Alain-Paul Mallard – An Evocation of Matthias Stimmberg
    Alain-Paul Mallard – An Evocation of Matthias Stimmberg
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    A miniature Borgesian portrait in misanthropy In a sequence of anecdotes imbued with haughty melancholy and nihilistic irony, Alain-Paul Mallard assembles a puzzle of an Austrian writer who [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Gertrude Stein – The Making of Americans
    Gertrude Stein – The Making of Americans
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    In The Making of Americans, Gertrude Stein sets out to tell “a history of a family’s progress,” radically reworking the traditional family saga novel to encompass her vision of [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive
  • Moon Songs: The Selected Stories of Carol Emshwiller
    Moon Songs: The Selected Stories of Carol Emshwiller
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    Carol Emshwiller’s pioneering stories have been praised by and influenced a wide variety writers including Ursula K. Le Guin, Grace Paley, Samuel R. Delany, Harlan Ellison, Karen Joy Fowler, [...]

    GENRE: Fiction/Poetry/Essays/Criticism/Transgressive