Fiction unconstrained
Fiction unconstrained
Fiction unconstrained
Fiction unconstrained
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Edward Matthews – Border Memories
Why live one life, when you could live a thousand?
Sol works for a start-up that traffics in the underground memory trade—harvesting memories from donors in Mexico and implanting them in Americans.
Sol’s newest client is Mr. Bray—old, rich, well-connected, blind. Mr. Bray hears rumors of a graveyard where miracles occur and has tracked down a young librarian, Nora, who remembers it.
Sol’s task is simple—find Nora, extract her memory.
But when Sol befriends Nora, he begins to understand who Mr. Bray is and what he is capable of doing…
As genuine art should, Border Memories explores important and ongoing problems and confidently reimagines them for a new audience.
– Margarita Pintado, author of Una muchacha que se parece a mí
Border Memories sires a dusk-fallen near future of abandoned lots and rusted chain-link. Written with elegant restraint and a raptor’s eye for the small details, Matthews is less interested in whether memories make us who we are, than who we become once memories are ours to give away.
Glen James Brown, author of Ironopoli
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Central Russia, 1919, a sanatorium cut off by the chaos of the Russian civil war. The murder of the chief doctor sets in motion a nightmarish series of events involving mysterious experiments, the secret police, the Tsar’s double, an enigmatic ‘visitor’, giant corpses, possessed cats, sorcery, and the overwhelming madness of war, in this fantastical and wildly exuberant historical novel.
An epic novel of considerable scope – Mark Blayney
A delicious mystery on every page – David Towsey
Carole Hailey – The Book of Jem
In the aftermath of catastrophic religious wars, God has been banned. A young woman – Jem - arrives in the isolated village of Underhill, announcing that not only does God exist, but It has sent her to deliver an apocalyptic message. Some of the villagers, convinced Jem is lying, watch in horror as others flock to join the new God's Threads religion. As the prophesied apocalypse draws near, Jem’s divisive message eventually threatens the very existence of Underhill.
Bold storytelling, with the satirical force of Naomi Alderman's The Power but its own claustrophobic sense of place – Francis Spufford, author of Golden Hill
Carolyn Lewis – Some Sort of Twilight
These twelve stories are of people unsure of their place in the world – Cassie who discovers she can fly and has no-one to tell, Christine who’s been in her friend’s shadow for a long time, Bernard who loses his job through no fault of his own and Hannah who knows her father is waiting for her to sort his life out.
These stories combine pathos, humour and wisdom to explore how the ordinary can be strange, heartbreaking or comic, illuminating the inner lives of people who feel in some way they’re on the edge of their own lives.
Carolyn's stories are a joy to read. Her characters are so perfectly formed that we feel we have always known them. Of course people collect coat hangers! Who doesn't one day find they can fly? Her empathy for them all shines through and we feel in very safe hands - Sally Bramley, Winner 2021 Caledonia Novel Prize.
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