In these irresistible and riotously plotted stories, Violet, who has powers 'as marvelous as her height', gleefully flouts aristocratic proprieties, finds joy in building 'a cottage of one's own', and travels to Japan to help create a radical new social order. Amid flights of fancy such as a snowfall of sugared almonds and bathtubs made of painted ostrich eggs, The Life of Violet upends the marriage plot, rejects the Victorian belief that women must choose between virtue and ambition, and celebrates women's friendships and laughter.

A major literary discovery that heralds Woolf's ambitions to revolutionise fiction and sheds new light on her great themes, The Life of Violet is first and foremost a delight to read.

This volume features a preface, afterword, notes, and photographs that provide rich historical, literary, and biographical context.

Urmila Seshagiri is Distinguished Professor of Humanities and Professor of English at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She is the author of Race and the Modernist Imagination, the editor of the Oxford World's Classics edition of Virginia Woolf's Jacob's Room, and a contributor to the Los Angeles Review of Books.

It's 1988, and on the verge of a reunion with friends she hasn't seen since graduation, Julie recalls her halcyon student days of 1984 and the strange tumultuous time they lived through.

The friends each from a very different background are living in a gorgeous terraced flat in their Edinburgh idyll. As they navigate relationships and the unspoken rules of flat sharing, the troubled world all around them seems rather distant. But in the nearby hometown of one of the flatmates, the Miners' Strike is bringing about a huge political shift.

Despite their differences, can these six strangers help each other see the world from a different perspective? Is there such a thing as being too close? And what are the limits of love between friends?

They a mother and her sixteen-year-old daughter live in an apartment above a hairdresser's shop in a small island town. Each day is marked by routine and quiet intimacy. They are so enmeshed, so alike in their manners and opinions, it can be hard to tell them apart.

Then the mother begins to feel unwell. They carry on with their lives, talk about anything but the diagnosis. The mother goes in and out of hospital, and the daughter, just starting high school, makes new friends Tove Dunk, Hafni, Bob, Desert Boots but remains essentially alone. Illness, and the possibility of loss, cast a growing shadow over her life.

Writing in a multi-layered, perpetual present tense, Helle Helle finds a tender voice for the comedy and awkwardness of her heroines' lives, rendered into riveting and affecting English by acclaimed translator Martin Aitken. they is an exquisite portrait of the fragile love between a mother and daughter, and a love letter to 1980s life on the island of Lolland, where the author grew up.

Praise for Helle Helle:

'Helle has enchanting gifts as a storyteller...the words so light they nearly float off the page.' New York Times

'One of my favorite Danish writers she's the master.' Olga Ravn, The Guardian

'One of Scandinavia's finest authors.' Dagbladet

'Helle Helle's minimalism isn't boring; it crackles with mystery. It's the everyday, and yet it's insistently beautiful.' Weekendavisen

'You laugh and laugh, cry and cry. Not bawling or sobbing, but quiet and intense. That's what it's like reading Helle Helle.' Politiken

Martin Aitken is an acclaimed translator of Scandinavian literature, including works by Karl Ove Knausgaard, Hanne rstavik and Olga Ravn. He has received the American-Scandinavian Foundation's Nadia Christensen Translation Prize, the US National Translation Award in Prose and the PEN America Translation Prize, among other awards. His translations have also appeared on the shortlists of the Dublin Literary Award, the US National Book Awards and the International Booker Prize.

The haikus collected in For the Seasons are arranged in sections, beginning with Spring then progressing to Summer and Autumn and ending with Winter. One is immediately struck by the delicacy of Farmer's observations, drawn from her immersion in the coastal landscape around Point Lonsdale on the Bellarine Peninsula in southern Victoria. The constraints imposed by the haiku form encourage attention to the finest details and textures of light and colour, of air and sand and sea and foster an awareness of the transient life they hold, its beauty, vitality and decay. The emotion is all in the detail, the 'I' barely features, yet the mood of the seasons, and their progression is keenly registered. Farmer's poetry is remarkable in this respect, modest, self-effacing, and yet revelatory in its intensity.

The Seal Woman was first published to acclaim in 1992 but has been out of print for many years. The novel explores the mind of a middle-aged Danish woman mourning the recent death of her husband at sea, in a cottage lent to her by friends in the seaside village in Victoria where she had spent her honeymoon. Farmer's prose is marked by the suppleness of its language, and its extraordinary attention to detail. Dagmar's observations of the sea and its creatures, the light, the mist, the wind, the life of plants are so intense and evocative, it is as if she has dissolved into her surroundings. On the other hand, her passivity leaves her vulnerable to the deceit of others, particularly the man she depends on as her lover. Her retreat into wonder is undercut by a persistent questioning, as to how far it might lead her into a state of submission.

The Seal Woman was originally published two years after A Body of Water, an imaginative montage of journal, commonplace book, stories and poems, which it resembles in its own use of mixed sources, from myth and legend and history. In bringing these two books back into print, alongside Farmer's first work of fiction Alone, and her last books The Bone House and This Water, Giramondo is building on its commitment, not only to this remarkable author, but to the republication of contemporary classics by Australian women authors.

Immortal beloveds Rebekah and Hugh are on vacation! Against a backdrop of ongoing war, this pair of chic emotional vampires from San Francisco sets off on a queer Black Sea Cruise, eager to relax, join an orgy, and feast upon their fellow passengers' desires and sorrows. When Hugh becomes enchanted by an alluring and possibly magical nonbinary social media influencer named Heaven, Rebekah's reality capsizes, and her true nature is unleashed.

A smutty horror-comedy featuring unbridled narcissism, Vampires at Sea is a hilarious snack!

Justine is a vampire. Keith just lives like one. An ex-junkie and ex-rock star, his hands mangled by his dead ex's own jealous ex, he's let go of his ambitions. He's content to be Justine's live-in Renfield, helping her pick up dinner when she needs a bite, keeping an eye on her lavish L.A. manor when the sun is out and she's down for her beauty sleep. It's true that Justine has been around for a few centuries and Keith barely three decades, but they're good for each other: Justine is teaching Keith to take the long view; Keith is reminding her how it feels to be alive. Yet a cohort of criminals, desperate artists, dead-enders, hangers-on, and wanna-bes, undead and otherwise, threaten their curious union. Can love stay untainted in a world of monsters?

First published in 1996, Todd Grimson's Stainless is a noir fantasia, a symphony of bloody horror, and a woozy, erotic tour of night-side L.A. Not only is it the greatest vampire novel of the twentieth century, it may be the last, best farewell to the mythic Los Angeles of Bette Davis, Dennis Hopper, and Less than Zero. In a league with the best of James Ellroy and Raymond Chandler and closing the coffin for good on poor old Bram Stoker Stainless is the final word on fangs, hangovers, and heartbreak.

Brigid that's the Irish Breej, not 'Bridge-id', though it's not like she'd correct you has had a rough go of it. Her mother abused her when she was little, her best friend (and secret crush) is too busy chasing some blonde to answer Brigid's calls, and she lost her job thanks to chronic pelvic pain with no identifiable cause. As a self-doubting, disabled adult, she's certain that everything that has happened to her is her fault.

Now her mother has gone missing and Brigid's only option is to move back into her childhood home in the idyllic Midwestern town of St. Charles, Illinois. Soon the uncanny begins: A particular crow that once harassed her reappears, following her everywhere. A painting of Jesus keeps coming back, no matter how many times she throws it away. Frozen body parts show up in places rubber band balls and door stoppers ought to be. Every night the same nightmare repeats: her real mother is dead and decaying in the closet, and the identical mother who raised her is not her mother. But it's all in Brigid's head. It's all her fault. It must be. What other explanation could there be?

After all, since when can a sick woman be trusted?

Australia is often referred to as The Lucky Country - a land of economic opportunity and vast natural resources. But how does this myth square up against the true experiences of Indigenous and culturally diverse Australians living in our nation's most densely populated regions?

Featuring original works of prose, poetry and non-fiction which centre and celebrate the eclectic vibrancy and linguistic fluidity of a new generation of Australian writers.

Povo features a ground-breaking collection of works by emerging and established writers from diverse cultural and socio-economic backgrounds. The collection includes experimental writing from the Asylum Seekers Centre, Macquarie Fields High School and Leumeah High School.

Acclaimed & Award-Winning contributors include:

Phoebe Grainer is a Kuku Djungan, Muluridji, Wakaman, Tagalaka, Kunjen, Warrgamay and Yindinji actor, writer and editor from Far North Queensland. In 2023, Phoebe won the prestigious Australia Council Dreaming Award.

Natalia Figueroa Barroso is a Uruguayan-Australian writer from Penrith. Natalia is currently working on her debut novel, Hailstones Fell Without Rain (UQP, 2025).

Daniel Nour is an Egyptian-Australian writer. In 2020, Daniel won the New South Wales Premier's Young Journalist of the Year Award. Daniel is currently working on his debut novel as a recipient of the 2021 Affirm Press Mentorship for Sweatshop Writers.

Commissioning editor: Sara M. Saleh is the daughter of migrants from Palestine, Egypt and Lebanon, and lives on Gadigal land. She won the 2021 Peter Porter Poetry Prize and the 2020 Judith Wright Poetry Prize. Sara's debut novel is Songs for the Dead and the Living (Affirm Press, 2023). As a commissioning editor on Povo, Sara curated an original collection of works called Crumbs.

Project manager: Winnie Dunn is a Tongan-Australian writer from Mount Druitt. She is the General Manager of Sweatshop Literacy Movement and the editor of several critically acclaimed anthologies, including Another Australia (Affirm Press, 2022). Winnie's debut novel is Dirt Poor Islanders (Hachette, 2024).

Hope has nothing going for her. She's in a job she hates, she's been forced to quit her band after losing the ability to play guitar and, to make matters worse, her ex the love of her life, Julia is now getting married to her best friend's ex (messy, right?). But there's one silver lining: Hope has been invited to play at their wedding...and she's going to get Julia back.

However, the road to true love is never easy, and Hope's journey is blocked by tarot readers, hen parties, visions from the past and, worst of all, Ruby. With their big eyes and extremely kissable mouth, Ruby is new to London's convoluted queer scene and a much-needed breath of fresh air for Hope.

Will Hope win back the woman she loves, or does the universe have something else in store?

'A journey to hell with Osamu Dazai, Japan's ultimate bad boy novelist' - Damian Flanagan, The Japan Times

No Longer Human is the story of Yozo Oba, who, from early childhood, finds it impossible to form meaningful relationships with family or friends. As a child he copes by acting the fool - mocking himself while entertaining others; as an adult he turns to alcohol, sex and drugs, which lead to his eventual self-destruction.

In this novel, based closely on his own life, Dazai skillfully leads the reader to sympathize deeply with Oba. Although the book was published in 1948, the timeless and universal themes of social alienation, failure, and one man's inner torture at his inability to feel like a normal human still resonate with young people everywhere, making an enduring classic.

After Soseki Natsume, Osamu Dazai (19091948) is Japan's most famous writer. Dazai is enjoying a surge in popularity among young people today thanks to the success of the recent manga, anime and film series Bungo Stray Dogs, whose protagonist, a detective named Osamu Dazai, is based on the real-life author.

Juliet Winters Carpenter is an American translator of modern Japanese literature. She studied Japanese literature at the University of Michigan and the Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies in Tokyo. After completing her studies, she returned to Japan where she became involved in translation and teaching. She is professor emeritus at Doshisha Women's College of Liberal Arts in Kyoto and has received numerous awards for her translation work including the 20192020 William F. Sibley Memorial Award for Japanese Translation for Mizumura Minae's An I-Novel and the 20212022 Lindsey and Masao Miyoshi Translation Prize for a lifetime of achievement as a translator of modern Japanese literature.

Carnivals and sideshows are settings closely entwined with the history of horror cinema, but in the realms of literature, there is a strain of uncanny fairground fiction with even deeper roots. Home to a sinister troupe of conjurers, puppeteers, beast tamers and crowds baying for blood beneath the Big Top, the performance spaces of these classic weird tales are borderlands where the unearthly meets the darker cravings of the human heart.

Presenting sixteen sensational short stories, hailing from Edgar Allan Poe's 1840s through to Robert Aickman's 1960s, Edward Parnell invites you to enjoy a cavalcade of uneasy thrills courtesy of Gerald Kersh, Ray Bradbury, Margery Lawrence and many more.

London, August 1759. Lizzie Hardwicke, society harlot and occasional investigator for the magistrate, is shaken by an encounter with her estranged brother during a riotous evening hosted by the notorious Devil's Brotherhood. Beyond the opulence of this Mayfair party, a streetwalker is found strangled on the doorstep of a well-known moral campaigner, her cheek branded with the letter V.

When more girls are discovered dead and similarly marked, Lizzie fears that someone stalks the streets with a violent hatred of women, and as the evidence begins to point to her own brother, any remaining family loyalty she has is severely tested.

Her past catches up with her and her future becomes increasingly dangerous, yet Lizzie is still unaware of darker plots being hatched in the shadows by those who wish to silence her for good. This time, the consequences of her investigations will lead her to a place where even Will Davenport, the one man she trusts, won't be able to find her.

The year is 1759, and London is shrouded in a cloak of fear. With the lawmen at the mercy of robbers and highwaymen, it's a perilous time to work the already dangerous streets of Soho. Lizzie Hardwicke is somewhat protected from the fray at Mrs Farley's Bawdy House, a reputable brothel. But then a wealthy customer is found brutally murdered...and Lizzie was the last person to see him alive.

The magistrate's assistant, William Davenport, has no hard evidence against Lizzie, but his presence and questions make life increasingly difficult. Desperate to be rid of him and prove her innocence, Lizzie turns amateur detective, determined to find the true killer, whatever the cost. Yet as the body count rises, Lizzie realises that, just like her, everyone has a secret they will do almost anything to keep buried...

An undercover assignment for the Bow Street magistrate sees Lizzie Hardwicke trade Mrs Farley's Bawdy House in Soho for life as a seamstress at a theatre on Drury Lane. Once there, she quickly realises that what goes on in the wings is much more intriguing than the theatrics being played out onstage...

When a high-profile investor is brutally hanged at centre stage, Lizzie discovers the body and is once again thrown together with William Davenport, the magistrate\'s assistant with whom she is growing ever closer. The suspect list rivals any casting call, and Lizzie must use every trick hidden up her sleeve to see through all the performance and bring the culprit into the spotlight.

Lizzie's search for answers takes her from the smoke-filled rooms of fashionable gambling houses, where politicians mix ambition with pleasure, to the violent streets of Soho, ready to erupt with riots in the sultry summer heat. All the while, she is navigating her complicated feelings for the magistrate's trusted assistant, Will Davenport, and a disturbing situation at home.

Then a gambling house owner is brutally murdered, and Lizzie finds herself tangled in a chaos that she cannot control. The darkest of secrets threatens to turn Davenport against her forever; its exposure will send her to the gallows.

Praise for Georgina Clarke

'A gripping page-turner with a sassy and fabulously original heroine in the form of Lizzie Hardwicke I loved it!' - Annie Lyons, author of Eudora Honeysett is Quite Well, Thank You

'From sumptuous depravity to brutal murder, Death and the Harlot is a wild ride through the seedy side of 1750s London, while its heroine, Lizzie Hardwicke, is razor sharp and brilliantly original. I couldn't put it down' - Joe Heap, author of When the Music Stops

'Fans of Sarah Waters and Kate Atkinson will adore this compelling, evocative and utterly gripping tale... It deserves to be huge' - Red Magazine on The Dazzle of the Light

'A marvellous read... Two fabulous protagonists, you will be rooting for them both' - Prima on The Dazzle of the Light

'A vibrant story of survival, feminism, misogyny and living life on the edge' - Sunday Express S Magazine on The Dazzle of the Light

'Cinematic' - Daily Mail on The Dazzle of the Light

'This is vital, elastic, expertly handled language in a Pacific voice of cultural and musical sensibility, poetry to be spoken aloud or in the mind.' Cilla McQueen, MNZM, and former New Zealand Poet Laureate

This own-voices collection is a kind of lyrical world map of the South Pacific, built up through a lush epic catalog of flora, fauna, and artifacts.

This collection is a kind of lyrical word map of the South Pacific, built up through a lush epic catalog of flora, fauna, and artifacts. The poems are frequently infused with a wry humour and while they often eschew both narrative and personal epiphany, they make intensely detailed, vigorous observations of place and landscape that are curious, sparkling, and sometimes hilarious.

Linguistically agile, this book's stanzas bring together the lyrical and the slangy, celebrating the local vernaculars of New Zealand, Australia, and Polynesia. Many of its poems work as cascading streams of image; of pronouncements; of dramatic tonal shifts almost line by line; and with dense, daring metaphor clusters that entertain as well as illuminate.

The acclaimed, New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Ruth and A Map of the World returns with a stunning coming-of-age novel about girls, mothers, and finding one's way in the world.

Seventeen-year-old Phoebe was never interested in her birth family. But on the cusp of her high school graduation, her adoptive mother, Greta, insists on a visit to meet her biological parents and siblings. The encounter is a jolt, a revelation that derails Phoebe.

With the help of her best friend Luna, Phoebe runs away-as far as their friend Patrick O'Connor's chaotic home, where she hopes to go unnoticed among his thirteen siblings. But when Phoebe asks Patrick to chop off her hip-length hair, she's suddenly transformed. Patrick's older brothers can't help but notice the striking, Peter Panlike stranger who has suddenly appeared in their midst.

What starts as an adolescent rebellion soon spirals into a whirlwind of self-discovery and unexpected connections. As she grapples with her shifting identity and strained relationships, Phoebe must navigate the tumultuous road out of girlhood and chart a new and unknown course.

For readers of Octavia E. Butler, Tananarive Due, and Gwendolyn Christie, comes Caramelle, Jewelle Gomez's latest addition to the universe of The Gilda Stories. This short story offers a supernatural alternate history where vampires seek love, laughter, and blood in 1860s slavery America.

Inspired by a glimpse of affection in Joseph Le Fanu's 1872 classic vampire novella Carmilla, Caramelle follows two vampires who arrive at a way station on the Underground Railroad not to stalk their prey but to seek sanctuary, intertwining the haunting legacy of American slavery with gothic horror and the resilience of Black women.

In Carmilla, included here alongside Caramelle, Le Fanu serves the sensual, sapphic, and spooky packaged into the experience of girlhood in 19th Century Austria. This original vampire story predates Dracula and introduces the genre as reliant on themes of gender, sexuality, and race.

Gomez's foreword deftly links the two works by exploring the historical and cultural contexts that surround these two powerful iterations of the vampire genre.

'As in the past we still hold our freedom and our pleasure in our own strong hands. Hands made even stronger when holding on to the hands of others.' Jewelle Gomez

Caramelle & Carmilla is the first book in the new series Aunt Lute Colloquy, a publishing space dedicated to fostering feminist conversations across literary generations.

Irish writer Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu was a popular author of gothic tales mysteries, horror, ghost stories in the Victorian era.

The sharp, sensual stories of Coming. Apart. chart the unraveling of relationships in all their complexity. From rural Norway to Berlin, Edy Poppy follows characters caught between intimacy and escape lovers who drift, clash, fracture. A couple's erotic games slip into something darker. A woman retreats to the countryside, shadowed by memory. Another navigates obsession, ambivalence, and solitude with uneasy clarity.

Written in a voice that is both visceral and exacting, Edy Poppy's first story collection movesalong the fault lines of connection and desire. Blurring fiction and lived experience, Poppyoffers a fierce meditation on what it means to stay or leave.

May-Brit Akerholt's published translations of Norwegian works include plays, novels, and poetry collections by writers such as Henrik Ibsen, Jon Fosse, and Ruth Lillegraven. She lives in Australia, where she is a recipient of a fellowship from the Theatre Board of Australia Council.

A new epic novel about a teenage queer runaway from cult classic author of Black Wave and Valencia Michelle Tea.

In Spencer's fantasies, the breezy, queer streets of Provincetown, MA, are utopia, a place where he can be free. Yet when a violent attack in his suburban Arizona schoolyard sends him to the hospital, he decides queer utopia can't wait. And one night, with the help of his best friend, the teenage witch Joy, he hitches a ride to find it.

The cross-country road odyssey that follows brings Spencer from new moon rituals in Arizona canyons to Texas bus stations, from the luxe drag stages of Houston's Montrose district to the jazz-soaked streets of the French Quarter and beyond. This new novel from Michelle Tea tells the story, by turns raw, romantic, and sweet, of a sheltered boy taking his first leap into queer life, among all the complicated queers who live it.

J. Scherpenhuizen is an author, illustrator and academic whose illustrations, fiction, comic-book work and reviews have appeared on and in publications for Bolinda Press, Hinkler books, Echo Bonnier and IFWG Publishing International. Currently he is working on the art for a five-issue story arc of The Human Fly written by Christopher Sequeira and Jason Franks and published by IPI comics.

Eulo Juke's gambling debts have cost him his weapons, his horses and his pride. If he doesn't pay what he owes Iskarlia's Scabmen soldiers in enchanted kilili silveriron, they'll slaughter his brother.

Silveriron trader Tali Sarsega offers Eulo a marriage of convenience in Vernesia, dragging him into an unfamiliar world where women rule politics, society, and commerce.

The Vernese culture relies on wits and diplomacy, but the Scabmen are coming to take the kilili the Iskarlian way: with hard fists and sharp blades.

Can Eulo slip behind Tali's dedication to her horse breeding enterprise, rundown estate and dysfunctional family to find out her silveriron secrets before it's too late for his brother?

No-one is ready for what's coming their way, because some things are not free to be taken.

S. K. Neilson writes fantasy fiction in worlds inspired by Australia's unforgiving environment and tenacious outback folklore.

Aliens that just want to help humanity along a little bit.

Monsters who love their fight club.

A woman who trades a piece of her future to help a child.

Guilt that serves as a door to dark visions for a young boy.

Matt Tighe's Drowning in the Dark and Other Stories is a collection of the bitter sweet, the darkly comedic, and the disturbingly confronting. Including multi-award winning and nominated tales as well as originals, the characters within will scare you, hurt you, and raise you up for the truest of reasons they are you.

And now, the anonymous adventurer has re-emerged, in a drama ripped from TODAY's headlines as the Fly confronts startling new adversaries: drug cartels, suspicious federal agents from three nations, and a men's-rights terrorist group led by the charismatic, media-savvy Fire Sword?

Featuring glorious, insane stunts at real-life locations in Canada, the USA and Mexico! The Human Fly is back in a high-octane series containing everything fans loved about him in the sizzling ' 70s, but with intriguing new mysteries.

Is today's Fly the same man who nearly died in a Montreal Olympic Stadium crash of 1977? Who is his new apprentice, Mercury, and is she secretly out to betray him? How long is the Fly' s legacy decades or centuries? The Human Fly swings into peril for the sake of worthy charities again, but he remains the most amazing superhero of all because he's REAL!

J. Scherpenhuizen is a mainstay of the Australian comics scene. His work includes writing and illustrating the gritty horror graphic novel The Time of the wolves, pencilling with Michal Dutkiewicz (Wolverine, Lost in Space) and inking Chewie Chan on Buckaroo Banzai. He's also done a slew of work with ace comics writer Christopher Sequeira, with whom he has developed and created numerous properties including Mister Blood and The Catamorph.

Tony Babinski is a Montreal-based Writer, Producer, Director, and Creative Director. He is the President of Human Fly International Inc, which controls the rights to The Human Fly. He is the author of 20 Years Under the Sun, the official history of Cirque du Soleil, and co-author (with Bertrand Cesvet and Eric Alper) of Conversational Capital. He is a published short story writer and poet, the writer of several feature film plays, a podcast host a musician and songwriter, and devoted husband and father.

Dan Lynch is a Blue Mountains-based artist who has been working on various Australian and international comic books since 2004 . Published work includes Sea Dragon (Cult Fiction Comics Australia), Tides of Hope charity anthology. Retro Sci Fi Tales (Dark Oz), The SuperAustralians for IPI Comics, and Steam-Age Wasteland (Antarctic Press) just to name a few. Dan is currently busy colouring The Human Fly, studying cyber security, and raising his 5 children.

Christopher Sequeira has written for Marvel, DC, Dynamite. Boom! Studios, FrewPublications, and more. He also has a significant profile as a conceptualist, contributing short story writer, and commissioning editor of mystery, science fiction, horror and fantasy prose anthologies. Thus, he has worked on such books as Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Was Not; Sherlock Holmes : The Australian Casebook; Dracul Unfanged; and the all-star creator anthology Caped Fear.

Peter J. Lawson illustrated promo art for The Southern Squadron, covers for Air Hawk and Bronwyn, and finally The Human Fly. As someone who loved the original run of the Fly back in the '70s, Peter was thrilled to get the call to be a part of this. IPI Comics has a much longer Human Fly arc in mind for Peter!

Most eligible young women in Cabarac have two possible futures: accept an offer of marriage or risk being gathered for the quota and shipped to the Legion Isles, never to be seen again. But when Kira forgoes her only chance for a betrothal token to save the life of a young boy, she faces a fate far more terrifying. Accused of using magic by the fanatical dispatcher, Piscator, a bewildered Kira is imprisoned for execution inside the brazen dragon. Her only option is to escape as part of the quota and flee.

As she strives to control a magic that erupts whenever her life is threatened, Kira struggles to reconcile her burgeoning power with her healer's ethics to do no harm. Helped by an old conjurer, a blind seer nun and the shade of a dragon dead for two centuries, Kira discovers her entire life has been built on a lie designed to protect her from the very threat she is now confronting. What she does with that knowledge could not only change her own future but the fate of an entire Kingdom.

Nestled between rolling hills and a panoramic coastline, she lives amidst the wetlands of an eco-village, free to write the fantasy books she loves and always wanted to read.

When not at her desk, Barb loves family get-togethers, playing sadly inconsistent golf, catching up with friends, and early morning walks along the beach to watch the sunrise.

In a dorm room at her safety school, surrounded by corn-fed boys and contemptuous girls, Alice is losing her mind. Her first semester is spent clinging to middling grades between drunken hookups and roommate fights. The next brings sleepless nights, extreme weight loss, and effortless, compulsive energy, paused only by an unexpected summoning from the RA for evaluation. Thus begins an endless march of lithium, antidepressants, and Klonopin; doctors and therapists when health insurance allows along with overwhelmed parents and well-intentioned friends; all helpless bystanders as Alice descends deeper into chaos.

As chilling as a psychiatric case study, as wry and precise as Flaubert, The Mind Reels peels back society's polite trappings to portray the experience of mental illness in all its complexity.

In the luxurious setting of London's Savoy Hotel, an opulent dinner party hosted by the legendary filmmaker Orson Welles takes a sinister turn. Amidst the grandeur of the Pinafore Room, fourteen renowned guests, including Alfred Hitchcock, Cary Grant, and the scandalous Miss Christine Keeler, gather for an unforgettable evening. However, the spectre of an old curse looms over the event a curse said to bring doom to the first guest who leaves a dinner with thirteen attendees. Kasper, a three-foot-tall sculpture of a sleek black cat is said to be the antidote to the curse if only the reckless attendees had paid heed to the superstition!

In the aftermath of the party, blackmail, betrayal, and murder ensue, entwining the guests in a web of deceit and danger. Once again, Priscilla Tempest, plucky head of the Savoy's press office, finds herself at the heart of the intrigue. The mysterious events even draw the attention of the Queen, hinting at a conspiracy that reaches the highest echelons of society. Is the curse real, or is something more sinister at play? This riveting mystery, as sparkling as a Buck's Fizz, promises celebrity gossip and scandal along with twists and turns that will delight readers until the very last page.

Prudence Emery worked as the press and public relations officer at the Savoy Hotel, and later as a publicist on more than a hundred film productions. She is also the author of the bestselling memoir Nanaimo Girl (Cormorant Books, 2020).

Both Prudence and the fictional protagonist, Priscilla Tempest, held the job as press secretary at the Savoy. When asked just how much they had in common, Prudence would answer, with a twinkle in her eye, that 'there are things that Priscilla does that I would never do...and there are things I have done that Priscilla would never do. I will not say anything else.'

Emery died in Victoria BC, on April 14, 2024, at the age of 88.

'I have always been too sensitive, a weeper / from a long line of weepers', writes Limn. 'I am the hurting kind.' What does it mean to be the hurting kind? To be sensitive not only to the world's pain and joys, but to the meanings that bend in the scrim between the natural world and the human world? To divine the relationships between us all? To perceive ourselves in other beings-and to know that those beings are resolutely their own, that they 'do not / care to be seen as symbols'?

With Limn's remarkable ability to trace thought, The Hurting Kind explores those questions-incorporating others' stories and ways of knowing, making surprising turns, and always reaching a place of startling insight. These poems slip through the seasons, teeming with horses and kingfishers and the gleaming eyes of fish. And they honour parents, stepparents, and grandparents: the sacrifices made, the separate lives lived, the tendernesses extended to a hurting child; the abundance, in retrospect, of having two families.

Along the way, we glimpse loss. There are flashes of the pandemic, ghosts whose presence manifests in unexpected memories and the mysterious behavior of pets left behind. But The Hurting Kind is filled, above all, with connection and the delight of being in the world. 'Slippery and waddle thieving my tomatoes still / green in the morning's shade', writes Limn of a groundhog in her garden, 'she is doing what she can to survive'.

A USA TODAY 'Must Read Poetry'

'Startlement is a book of rare treasures. With lyrical mastery and intimate storytelling, Limn's poetry reveals new ways of paying attention. This powerful collection is a gift.' Amy Tan

An essential collection spanning nearly twenty years of emphatic, fearlessly original poetry from one of America's most celebrated living writers.

Drawing from six previously published books including widely acclaimed collections The Hurting Kind, The Carrying, and Bright Dead Things as well as vibrant new work, Startlement exalts the mysterious. With a tender curiosity, Ada Limn wades into potent unknowns the strangeness of our brief human lives, the ever-changing nature of the universe and emerges each time with new revelations about our place in the world.

Both a lush overview of her work and a powerful narrative of a poet's life, this curation embodies Limn's capacity for 'deep attention', her 'power to open us up to the wonder and awe that the world still inspires' (The New York Times). From the chaos of youthful desire, to the waxing of love and loss, to the precarity of our environment, to the stars and beyond, Limn's poetry bears witness to the arc of all we know with patient lyricism and humble wonder.

'A poet of ecstatic revelation' (Tracy K. Smith), Limn encourages us to meet our shared futures with open and hungry hearts, assuring 'What we are becoming, we are / becoming together.'

Bearing witness to the realities of the Palestinian genocide, You Must Live is a bilingual anthology of recent poetry from Gaza and the West Bank. Translated from Arabic and edited by Tayseer Abu Odeh and Sherah Bloor, this collection gathers the voices of poets currently living in Palestinian territory, most of whom have never left. Yet the poems in You Must Live refuse to cast their speakers as perpetual victims. Diverse voices and styles shine throughout powerful, prayerful, theatrical, and even humorous as poets write love letters to the landscape, elegies for martyrs and homes, and proclamations for the future. Negotiating the interplay between aesthetics and politics, the individual and the collective, You Must Live sounds as an urgent call to the global community.

Sherah Bloor is a South African poet and scholar. Her first poetry collection, The Gathering, an epic in cantos, is forthcoming from Omnidawn in fall 2026. She is currently working on a second collection, tentatively titled Archives of the Free World. Having studied philosophy and social theory in Australia, she is completing a doctorate at Harvard University in philosophy of religion on the medical history of the mystical and poetic imagination. Bloor is also the editor-in-chief of Harvard Divinity School's literary and arts journal, Peripheries: A Journal of Word, Image, and Sound (Harvard University Press). Her own poems have appeared in Chicago Review, Colorado Review, Conjunctions, Dialogist, Lana Turner, and Paperbark, among other magazines.

Hotshot literary agent Henry Richmond Pendel knows how to find the next big thing and is even better at selling them. But a perfect career becomes increasingly disconcerting as he begins to feel like he's being watched. There are rumors of a boogeyman in publishing, a rejected writer who has cracked and started killing off writers.

When Pendel's star clients turn up brutally murdered and unsolicited queries become more and more frantic, Pendel must decide whether to act out of safety for himself and his clients or to capitalise on the attention. Is it worth a few more casualties if it means inking a few seven-figure deals?

Part slasher and part scream at the publishing industry, Michael J. Seidlinger, the master of psychological terror, offers a brutal new take on the relationship between art and commerce. On Submission is full of villains, where some harm with a pen and others with a knife.

Spaceships aren't programmed to seek revenge but for Dracula, Demeter will make an exception. Demeter just wants to do her job: shuttling humans between Earth and Alpha Centauri.

Unfortunately, her passengers keep dying and not from equipment failures, as her AI medical system, Steward, would have her believe. These are paranormal murders, and they began when one nasty, ancient vampire decided to board Demeter and kill all her humans. To keep from getting decommissioned, Demeter must join forces with her own team of monsters: A werewolf. An engineer built from the dead. A pharaoh with otherworldly powers. A vampire with a grudge. A fleet of cheerful spider drones. Together, this motley crew will face down the ultimate evil Dracula.

The queer love child of pulp horror and classic sci-fi, Of Monsters and Mainframes is a dazzling, heartfelt odyssey that probes what it means to be one of society's monsters and explores the many types of friendship that make us human.

'A really charming and fun reworking of the Dracula story.' Sian Cain, The Guardian Australia

'This is absolutely one of my favourite reads ever it's adventurous, imaginative, emotional, humorous, palpably queer and full of characters that I would follow into the furthest reaches of space just for the banter. Anyone who loves imaginative fiction full of adventure and lovable characters will love this book.' Jemimah Brewster, ArtsHub

'I'm normally not too interested in reboots and remakes (God knows we are in a crisis of unoriginality right now) but this bonkers re-telling of Dracula has me intrigued.' Soaliha Iqbal, Missing Perspectives