A Man in a Bag: Six Novels and What They Cover
A man hiding in a leather bag and a royal court ledger written out of gossip, six novels on what stays covered.
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A Man in a Bag: Six Novels and What They Cover
A man hiding in a leather bag and a royal court ledger written out of gossip, six novels on what stays covered.
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Biological Material: Three Novels and What the System Decides
A court, a committee and a wall, each fixing what a person is before the person has said a word.
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Business Continues: Ten Novels and the Speed of Harm
Violence converted into procedure across ten novels, from a Brazilian slaughterhouse to a predator whose vocabulary outlives him.
May We Feed the King
A curator rebuilds an unnamed king from kitchen ledgers kept by a royal court that turned a dropped egg into a miracle.
The End of Everything
Years of explanations for an unexplained invasion, thrown on a fire beneath a pier, then into the sea, leaving one page.
Three
A daughter returns to her hometown after years abroad and finds her ageing parents living a life she no longer shares.
There Is No Antimemetics Division
A war against creatures that eat memory, fought by people the world no longer remembers.
Perfection
Two people who sell difference for a living, and the uncle’s farmhouse that turns out to be funding it.
Paradise Burns
A young man dies at twenty-four, and the people who loved him each keep a different piece of his life.
Biological Material: Three Novels and What the System Decides
A court, a committee and a wall, each fixing what a person is before the person has said a word.
The Wax Child
Women who really do work magic, condemned by a court that manufactures its evidence anyway.
To the East of the East
A husband gone to Macau under another man's name, explaining himself in letters that reach his wife too late.
The Employees
An investigation into strange objects aboard a generational ship escalates into a labour dispute the organisation acknowledges and buries simultaneously.
Paradais
A gardener paid in rum to hear out the boy next door, turning a nightly fantasy into a plan.