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Julia Armfield
A haunting and moving debut novel about love, loss and grief - about what life there is the deep ocean and what happens when we go looking for it.
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The bestselling author of Our Wives Under the Sea returns with a stunning, unsettling novel following three sisters navigating queer love and faith at the end of the world.
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'Brilliantly audacious' GUARDIAN
'Stunning' DAZED
'Her prose sparkles' ELIZA CLARK
'Hauntingly good' iNEWS
'A must read' GLAMOUR From the bestselling author of Our Wives Under the Sea, a haunting, heart…
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From the BELOVED, AWARD-WINNING author of Our Wives Under the Sea, a speculative reimagining of King Lear, centering three sisters navigating queer love and loss in a drowning world
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From White Review Short Story Prize winner Armfield, a brilliant, provocative debut story collection for fans of Carmen Maria Machado and Kelly Link. Reading this collection is the only thing…
Salt Slow is the electrifying debut collection of short stories about the monstrous in all of us, from a prize-winning new British talent.
Mikaella Clements, Onjuli Datta
A terrifying-yet-sexy LGBTQ+ horror about messy lesbians fighting a grotesque monster, for fans of OUR WIVES UNDER THE SEA and PATRICIA WANTS TO CUDDLE.
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Issue 2 of Backstory, the antidote to weighty literary journals for serious readers. With 68 pages of original features by the most exciting authors, Backstory is a colourful, zippy and…
From the winner of the White Review Short Story Prize 2018, Salt Slow is an extraordinary and beautiful collection of short stories that are sure to dazzle and shock.
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Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover - or more accurately, by its title. This new series aims to reprint the best short stories…