Francis Ponge  Unfinished Ode to Mud
translated by Beverley Bie Brahic
Shortlisted for the 2009 Popescu Prize for European poetry in translation
ISBN 978–0–9557285–6–3; £7.50

A bilingual French/English edition of new translations of prose poems by a writer whose admirers included Picasso, Sartre and Calvino.

‘The directness and simplicity of Brahic’s translation are refreshing, and to finally see such previously untranslated works as the titular ode is a great thing indeed’
– Luke Kennard, Poetry London

Beverley Bie Brahic is a poet (Against Gravity, 2006) and translator (Apollinaire, Cixous, Derrida, Roubaud). A Canadian, she lives in Paris and Stanford, California.
 
   
 
Gert Hofmann  Lichtenberg & The Little Flower Girl
translated by Michael Hofmann
ISBN 978–0–9557285–5–6; £7.50

‘Europe’s belated answer to Lolita’ – Gabriel Josipovici, Times Literary Supplement

‘“It’s probably the zaniest, gloomiest and funniest thing you’ve read in a long time, if not ever,” says Michael Hofmann in his Afterword, and this isn’t idle boasting.’
– Nicholas Lezard, Guardian

Gert Hofmann (1931–93) was ‘one of the finest 20th-century German writers, extraordinarily versatile, a writer of surprises’ (Irish Times). His son Michael Hofmann is a poet and the translator of works by Joseph Roth, Kafka, Brecht and others.
 
   
 
Stefan Grabinski  In Sarah’s House
translated by Wiesiek Powaga
ISBN 978–0–9557285–3–2; £7.50

Set among the villages and small towns of Poland around the start of the twentieth century, these tales of the supernatural by Stefan Grabinski (1887–1936) are written with an abounding lyricism that accentuates their elements of horror and fantasy.

‘These stories, all with a bizarre twist, are beautifully realised and attentive to detail and I couldn’t recommend them highly enough’ – Nicholas Murray

Translated from the Polish and introduced by Wiesiek Powaga, whose several other translations include White Raven by Andrzej Stasiuk (Serpent’s Tail, 2001).
 
   

Erik Houston  The White Room
ISBN 978-0-9557285-1-8; £7.50

‘A haunting reverie on love and loss’ – Christopher Hope

‘A beautifully crafted tale of interlocking lives in London and Norway, imbued with a Scandinavian melancholy’ – Monocle

Born in 1972, Erik Houston is a violinist who has played as a soloist and chamber musician throughout Europe and in the US, Japan and Russia. He teaches at the Purcell School and at the Royal College of Music.
 
   
 
Saxon: the screenplay  Greg Loftin
+ the making of a guerrilla film
ISBN 978–0–9557285–4–9; £7.50

‘Wielding a budget so low as to be imperceptible, first-time director Greg Loftin somehow turns in an original piece of work with a distinct black comedy sensibility . . .Entirely independent and gleefully multi-genre.’ – Guardian

Saxon was nominated for the Michael Powell Award at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in 2007 and won the top award at the 2008 European Independent Film Festival in Paris. Included here, with the screenplay and production stills, is the story of how this guerrilla film was made and achieved success.
 
   
 
Elise Valmorbida  The TV President
ISBN 978–0–9557285–7–0; £7.50

‘[This] strange and timely novel . . . is most concerned to show how far people will go in a bid to run away from themselves, and how skilfully this desire is courted by corporations . . . luridly entertaining fiction’ – Times Literary Supplement

Part mystery, part road-movie, this novel offers a wholly original and blackly funny switchback ride fuelled by an unholy mix of celebrity, democracy and reality TV.

Italian-Australian émigré Elise Valmorbida’s works include The Book of Happy Endings (2007) and The Winding Stick (2009).
 
   
 
Jack Robinson  Days and Nights in W12
ISBN 978–0–9557285–2–5 £7.50

A book of idle speculation, unlikely stories and occasional history lessons prompted by photographs of Shepherd’s Bush, London W12.

‘Buy this book . . . then ask yourself: How can I be that imaginative? That perceptive? That concise?’ – thefictiondesk.com

Jack Robinson is a freelance writer and editor living in West London.
 
   
 
Jennie Walker 24 for 3  McKitterick Prize 2008

‘I loved it’ – Mick Jagger

‘Read 24 for 3. Give it to smart friends, dull ones, brainy and dense ones . . . It achieves the hardest thing in fiction: joy from difficulty’ – Spectator

The CBe edition of 24 for 3 has been replaced by a revised edition published by Bloomsbury.
 
   

 

 
 
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