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A Day at the Office is the story of Edinburgh in the year of the fall of the Berlin wall. A snapshot of time in its long history, of which the year 1990 is a short footnote. Daring, truly...

This anthology collects five novels published between 1975 and 1994: Snipe's Spinster, The House Party, The Gold Hole, The Patriarchs, Teeth.Author: Jeff NuttallPublisher:...

In Mark Axelrod's new book, marketplace crudity and the immortal artist intersect in a riotous and outrageous fashion. Discover the chain of restaurants run by Flaubert's researchers Bouvard and...

Bartleby is an endlessly inventive comic masterpiece, and the finest continuation of Tristram Shandy ever written. The novel contains copious interruptions and digressions, parodies of the...

Caliban, an embittered screenwriter of B-grade movies, yearns to be a great novelist. He is torn between the harsh reality of gainful employment, its inauthenticity, and the conflicting impulse to...

Veteran critic Nicolas Tredell has been conversing with fellow critics for over three decades. This revised and expanded volume contains twenty interviews with Britain's leading intellectuals,...

In this remarkable tetralogy of short novels, Nichols envisions the nature of our communal, yet highly individualized society in which decentralized democracy, ecological sensibility, bioregional...

Completed in 1962, first published in 1972, Tom Mallin's third novel Erowina is an encyclopaedic portrait of the titular troubled heroine, whose traumatic experiences in childhood and adolescence are...

Brooklyn-born New Yorker Marvin Cohen published numerous surreal and whimsical fictions in books and magazines from 1967 to 1982. This anthology collects Cohen's four volumes of short fiction.Author:...

Image for Investigation: About my Father is Christoph Meckel's celebrated work of memoir or "father-biography" in the mould of Paul Kersten's Der alltAgliche Tod meines Vaters and Ruth Rehmann's Der...

To enter the fictional world of Imaginary Women is to revisit a lively cultural era where one read Jacques Lacan and Roland Barthes in the morning, sampled the cinema in the afternoon, and danced to...

Stuart Evans's first novel is a comedy-of-ill-manners set in a nouveau riche milieu: a fantastic satirical performance and hyper-referential homage to masters past and present. Paul Keller is the...

Set against a backdrop of public scandal and private dilemma, Mirrors on which dust has fallen presents the quotidian concerns of the average and the not-so-average inhabitants of the fictitious...

Contains Buster, Europe After the Rain, Celebrations & Babel. These four novels showcase the inventive and exciting prose innovations of one of Britain's most daring novelists.Author: Alan...

The Exagggerations of Peter Prince is a sublime, endlessly inventive metafictional classic that will open you to new ways of not just reading, but of looking at things around-and within-you.Author:...

The Greater Infortune and The Connecting Door were both originally published as halves of a pair. The Greater Infortune is a revision of his Saturnine, first issued in 1943. They represent...

This omnibus edition collects the four full-length novels from prolific poet, essayist, playwright, and novelist Penelope Shuttle, published between 1969 and 1980. Shuttle's novels merge poetic...

Nina is happily married to Gael, until his recently published book rouses the ire of a not-quite-there critic, Howard, intent on becoming the mover and shaker of London's literary circles. Howard...

The Utopian consists of two intertwined storylines unfolding in two radically different settings. First, the story of Mesmer, who in 2411 sets out on his Journey, a rite of passage which is to last a...

A miscellany of essays, creative non-fiction, interviews, and reviews.Author: M. J. Nicholls, G. N. ForesterPublisher: VerbivoraciouspressPublication Date: Mar 01, 2016Number of Pages: 200...

A delightfully noir parody of parliamentary (mal)practice in an anonymous East Canada province. The low-down tricks, egregious insults, and unsavoury antics of the politicians are recorded by a...

Rikki Ducornet is a magical surrealist, postmodern fabulist, multi-talented artist and poet, and author of several novels ripe with epicurean vocabulary, vivid and outrageous imagery, fantastically...

The fifth issue fEtes tireless innovator in fiction and poetry, renowned Beckett scholar, relentless self-mythologiser, impish postmodern theorist, riotous humorist, playful pedagogue, friend and...

The sixth Verbivoracious Festschrift is a brobdingnagian spectacular fEting the famous workshop of potential literature, The Oulipo, now entering its 57th year. Our contributors were invited to write...

A monument to our insatiable verbivoracity, The Syllabus is an act of humble genuflection before the authors responsible for those texts which have transported us to the peak of readerly nirvana and...

The centrepiece of Brooke-Rose's Intercom Quartet, Xorandor and Verbivore explore the shifting language of technologies and their catastrophic potential. In Xorandor we meet Jip and Zab, two...