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CB editions publishes books that offer pleasure and surprise. We favour writing that is original and has conviction, and that often arrives in genres neglected by larger publishers: novellas, short stories, translations, poetry, illustrated fiction or non-fiction.

The purpose is enjoyment rather than profit. Editing, design, typesetting and proofreading are provided free, all by professional and book-loving people who have worked in publishing for many years. After covering printing and binding costs, any further income will go towards funding new titles.

Writers write, according to Walter Benjamin, ‘because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like’. We aim to publish for a community of like-minded readers who are interested in books they have not learned to expect.

The first four CB editions are published in November 2007.
Gypsy Rose Lee
Gypsy Rose Lee writing The G-String Murders,
photographed by Eliot Elisofon in 1941. © Time Inc.
 
01 Erik Houston: The White Room, 02 Jennie Walker: 24 for 3, 03 Jack Robinson: Days and Nights in W12, 04 Stefan Grabinski: In Sarah’s House
   
 
March 2008

Many thanks to all who have bought the books and to the independent bookshops which have supported us.

Publishing rights in Jennie Walker’s 24 for 3, which attracted a fine review in the Guardian, have been sold to Bloomsbury, who will publish a new and revised edition of the book this summer. The CBe edition of 24 for 3 is therefore no longer being sold.

In summer 2008 we will publish the screenplay of Saxon, a film written and directed by Greg Loftin which has been shown at festivals in Edinburgh and Israel and at the European Independent Film Festival in Paris. Publication will coincide with the film’s first screening in London cinemas. For more information, see the film’s website.

In autumn 2008 we will publish four new books, including Killing My Auntie and other work by Andrzej Bursa (translated from the Polish by Wiesiek Powaga) and The TV President by Elise Valmorbida. Further details – and an expanded website – will follow shortly.

Surprises, arguments, champagne, new friendships: these have been a good few months.


01 Erik Houston: The White Room
Love approaches at odd angles; death too. Which has something to do with why a failed artist, with a knife in the pocket of his borrowed pink trousers, comes to be waiting outside a second-rate hotel in Piccadilly for a Norwegian shoe salesman to come out.
  
ISBN 978–0–9557285–1–8; 194pp; £6
   
03 Jack Robinson: Days and Nights in W12
A book of idle speculation, unlikely stories and occasional history lessons prompted by dull photographs of Shepherd’s Bush, London W12.
  
ISBN 978–0–9557285–2–5; 54pp; £6
   
04 Stefan Grabinski: In Sarah’s House
Translated by Wiesiek Powaga, these tales of the supernatural by Stefan Grabinski (1887–1936) reveal an unrecognised European master whose work is infused with a unique blend of lyricism and horror.
 
ISBN 978–0–9557285–3–2; 124pp; £6


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