Everything in the small town of Rabbit Back seems to focus on Laura White, a Tove Jansson-esque children’s author whose strange creature-filled books have captured the hearts of Finnish children for generations. The streets of the town are filled with sculptures of her characters, cafés have tables named after her and everyone has their own stories about the novelist. Her most enduring legacy, however, is that of the Rabbit Back Literature Society; a select group of children that she took under her wing, all of […]
A dense and multi-layered novel about art, misogyny and the power of masks and perception.
The late Harriet Burden had been creating unusual and visceral installations for thirty years, but had largely gone unnoticed by art critics and the general public. Recognised more for being the widow of renowned art dealer Felix Lord, she was constantly ignored or passed over as (in her eyes) talentless young men ascended the dizzying heights of the art community. Fed up, angry and craving attention, she devised a brilliant ruse – to use three male artists as puppets with which to reveal and shame […]
A delightful and unusual novel about obsession, the power of poetry and fate.
Bilodo lives a solitary life, performing his duty as a postman before dodging his only friend’s attempts to drag him out for a night on the town, instead preferring to head home to be by himself. Unbeknownst to his colleagues, however, Bilodo has a clandestine hobby. For in the secrecy of his own home, he slowly opens select pieces of post to immerse himself in the lives of strangers, skipping between recipients like changing the channel on his television. But there is one conversation he […]
An irreverent, frequently hilarious and near-forensic collection of highly scientific answers to inane or idiotic questions.
XKCD is a webcomic with a difference. Usually populated by stick figures, it’s a highly intelligent and often thoughtful comic that deals near-exclusively in mathematical concepts and scientific theories. If all this sounds a bit heavy -going, he also peddles a mean fart joke.What If? is a recurring section on the site where people can ask the ex-NASA employee daft questions such as inquiring how far a steak would have to fall before it cooks; and Munroe will answer them by researching, hypothesising, and describing in […]
A charming and surprisingly haunting graphic novel about mistakes, friendship, spirits and cookery from the author of Scott Pilgrim.
Katie is the head chef behind Seconds, the best restaurant in town, but she’s already looking towards new pastures and new challenges. All of her friends have moved away, and she’d like to run her own restaurant, rather than work in somebody else’s kitchen. She’s found the perfect place across the river, but the building work is taking far too long and seems to be tied up in a bureaucratic limbo. She also has the ghost of her previous relationship hanging over her head in […]
The dark underbelly of Victorian London, a strange and secretive club, a dab of the supernatural – an enthralling blend of Sarah Waters and Anne Rice.
James Norbury leaves his sister in the Yorkshire mansion that was his childhood home to make out for London, in search of a readership for his gloomy and laboured poetry. Before long, he is rapidly running out of money, and so accepts the offer of a room from an old university acquaintance and finds his life much improved. Moving in different social circles and inspired by love and an Oscar Wilde play, he decides to become a playwright and spends a good few months living […]
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