In `prose that glides and shimmies and pivots on risky metaphors, low puns and highbrow reference points' (Brian Dillon, FRIEZE), Ian Penman's first book in twenty years is cause for celebration.
Co-winner of the 2022 Novel Prize, this incredible life-after-death novel asks us to consider how much of our memory, of our bodies, of the world as we know it - how much of what we love - can we lose before we are lost? And then what happens?
Melancholy I-II is a fictional invocation of the nineteenth-century Norwegian artist Lars Hertervig, who painted luminous landscapes, suffered mental illness and died poor in 1902.
A landmark in contemporary Spanish literature, Agustin Fernandez Mallo's Nocilla Trilogy charts a hidden and exhilarating cartography of contemporary experience.