CB editions publishes short fiction, poetry, translations and
other work which, as the Guardian noted, ‘might otherwise fall
through the cracks between the big publishers’.

In September 2009 we publish Nicky Singer’s Knight Crew,
a novel written for late teens but deserving of an unconfined
readership. And Wiesiek Powaga’s translation of Andrzej
Bursa’s Killing Auntie is at last available. In early 2010 we
publish This Is Not a Novel by David Markson, a US writer
whose best-known novel, Wittgenstein’s Mistress (1988), was
praised by David Foster Wallace as ‘pretty much the high point
of experimental fiction in this country’. In the slightly adapted words of Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742–99), the subject of Gert Hofmann’s Lichtenberg & The Little Flower Girl: ‘Whoever has two pairs of pants, sell one and buy these books.

• J. O. Morgan’s Natural Mechanical won the 2009 Aldeburgh First Collection Prize and was shortlisted for the 2009 Forward (First Collection) Prize.
• Beverley Bie Brahic’s translation of Francis Ponge, Unfinished Ode to Mud, was shortlisted for the 2009 Popescu Prize for poetry in translation.
• Jennie Walker’s 24 for 3 won the 2008 McKitterick Prize.

The driver above is identified here. CBe has no public funding
and we rely entirely on sales of the books to stay alive. Thank
you, kind readers, each time you press the ‘pay now’ button.