Nicky Singer  Knight Crew
ISBN 978-0-9561073-2-9; £7.99 [£7.50 when bought from this site]

‘A story for this generation . . . written with love, passion and intelligence’
– Benjamin Zephaniah

After a gang feud claims its first life, Art and the girl he loves have one chance to make good, one chance to bring honour and peace to a murderous world . . . Knight Crew retells the legend of King Arthur as the story of Art, Quin and Lance – members of a teenage knife gang who experience violence, love and a revelation of how their lives may be changed.

In early 2010 Knight Crew will be staged as an opera at Glyndebourne.
Nicky Singer’s award-winning Feather Boy is published in 28 countries; the TV adaptation won a BAFTA. From reviews of Nicky Singer’s previous books: ‘a contemporary drama about courage, love, memory and the power of stories’ Sunday Times / ‘Singer’s simple, lyrical prose deals deftly with themes of origin and loss, of denial and acceptance, of love and hate’ Observer / ‘This is tough stuff but mesmerising. Singer is fearlessly dramatic’ Guardian / ‘Simply unmissable’ Waterstone’s Books Quarterly
 
   

J. O. Morgan  Natural Mechanical
Aldeburgh First Collection Prize 2009
PBS Recommendation; shortlisted for Forward Prize 2009
ISBN 978-0-9557285-9-4; £7.50

‘Natural Mechanical is wonderful – a memoir written in language that is cannily involved with the ordinary miracles of childhood. By looking hard and exactly at particular things in a particular place, it speaks to everyone, everywhere’ – Andrew Motion

‘Remarkable. A gem of a poem’ – Simon Armitage

‘It is a shower, a veritable downpour, of fine particulars in a single, robust life . . . It is one vivid gathering sensation in skilfully calibrated real language’
– George Szirtes, Poetry London

‘This arrestingly lovely memoir’ – The Scotsman
 
   
 
Christopher Reid  The Song of Lunch                                                                   
ISBN 978-0-9561073-0-5; £7.50

‘An instant classic’ – David Wheatley

Lunch in Soho with a former lover – but Zanzotti’s is under new management, and as the wine takes effect fond nostalgia gives way to something closer to the bone . . . A mock elegy for the heady joys of old-time Soho, The Song of Lunch displays the full range of Christopher Reid’s wit, craft and human sympathy.

‘Reid is a poet who lives on in the mind, becomes part of one’s own inner vocabulary. In every poetic generation there are not more than one or two like that’
– John Bayley, Poetry Review
 
   
 
Andrzej Bursa  Killing Auntie & other work
translated by Wiesiek Powaga
ISBN 978-0-9557285-8-7; £7.50

We kill auntie – who is kind, who looks after us – to free ourselves. But how do we dispose of the body? And then, after the blunt saw and the mincer and the choking stove, what to do with the freedom?

Born in Kraków in 1932, Andrzej Bursa grew up amid war and terror, and died aged twenty-five. He first published in 1954, the year after Stalin’s death, and in just two years wrote a body of work remarkable for its precocious maturity. His early death established him as a cult figure – the voice of his generation, and of later generations of restless, ambitious, disenchanted youth.

Translated from the Polish by Wiesiek Powaga, this volume includes, in addition to the first English translation of the short novel Killing Auntie, poems, parables, short stories, lyrics and dramatic scenarios, showing the full range of Bursa’s work.
 
   
 
David Markson  This Is Not a Novel
ISBN 978-0-9561073-3-6; £7.50

‘Magnificent, a compilation that so exceeds the scatter of its parts that one must take some time to ponder why this should be . . . It’s almost impossible to stop turning pages.’ – Sven Birkerts, New York Observer

Deaths (more than 500); the obsessions and afflictions of a vast number of writers, artists and composers through the centuries; quotations of heart-stopping beauty – and Writer, making of these an echo chamber of the creative life.

David Markson, resident in New York for most of his life, has been making original, allusive, daring fictions for over four decades.
 
   
 
Jack Robinson  Recessional                                                                                    
ISBN 978-0-9561073-1-2; £7.50

A Marxist dog rails against politicians who have spent the past decades redefining liberty as the freedom to buy what you want. Bankers are crucified. Money and sex, same difference. Brecht smokes cheap cigars. On his fifth drink with his debt counsellor, Jack knows that they are Bonnie and Clyde. God has quit, but his mail keeps piling up. Seagulls? It’s 2009, and Marshalsea prison has never been more overcrowded.

Jack Robinson – author of Days and Nights in W12 – offers a recession collage of text and photographs, fact and fantasy, rant and reflection.
 
   

 

 
 
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