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Pre-order Uncertainties 5, The Fatal Move, The Green Book 17
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Our Forthcoming Titles . . .
Hi Folks, I hope everyone has been keeping well. So here's a bit of an update:
International Post, while still somewhat slow, has vastly improved since the holiday period. My understanding is that there is still a backlog being worked through, though this doesn't affect current post, which is being delivered with only short delays. I assure you this remains utterly out of my control.
Production quality will change with these next hardbacks. We're upgrading the paper stock from 80 gsm Munken to 100 gsm. We'll also be printing our boards on buckram. I'm eager to see how this all turns out. If people like it, we'll continue. We will be doing all of these upgrades without increasing the current prices.
Three New Titles. The reason we've been so quiet lately is we've been prepping three titles at once. This mainly has to do with issues caused by Brexit and the continued havoc that bad decision has wreaked on small businesses internationally. So if you'll have a look below, you'll see the three titles we are offering for pre-order. They'll be arriving back from the printer in late April and shipping simultaneously--however it will be a lot of work, so please bear with me.
Paperbacks are still being worked on, though the process is slow. But we hope to make more of our back catalogue available in due course. If you want to know when X or Y will be available as paperback, the answer is I'm working on it!
Thank you again for all your support during these difficult times. Again, I hope everyone is keeping safe.
As always, if you have any questions, please drop me a line and I will do my best to answer them.
Until then, I hope you like the looks of our forthcoming titles . . .
All the best,
Brian
P.S. If you'd like me to sign or inscribe your copy of Uncertainties 5, please let me know when you order and I'll be happy to do so.
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The Fatal Move
Written in Belfast and Bangor during the partition of Ireland, the six strange stories comprising Conall Cearnach’s The Fatal Move are unusual documents of the time. “Cearnach” was the pseudonym of F. W. O’Connell, a peculiar Protestant divine, linguist and Irish language scholar, oddball essayist, and early national broadcaster. His sole fiction collection showcases a wide scope: the conte cruel, the ghost story, the locked-room mystery, and the science-fictional satire. What unifies the stories is O’Connell’s playful, outward-looking perspective, inspired by his love of the diverse cultures and languages of the world and his home country in equal measure.
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Uncertainties 5
Uncertainties is an anthology series — featuring authors from the island of Ireland, Canada, America, and the United Kingdom — each exploring the concept of increasingly fragmented senses of reality. These types of short stories were termed “strange tales” by Robert Aickman, called “tales of the unexpected” by Roald Dahl, and known to Shakespeare’s ill-fated Prince Mamillius as “winter’s tales”. But these are no mere ghost stories. These tales of the uncanny grapple with existential epiphanies of the modern day, when otherwise familiar landscapes become sinister and something decidedly less than certain . . .
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The Green Book 17
As it turned out, Issue 15, which was comprised entirely of fiction, proved to be quite popular. So I had a look in my files to see if I could put together another such issue of refugee writings that did not fit elsewhere in our publishing schedule. Let the curtains rise on Oscar Wilde’s “The Harlot’s House”, first published in The Dramatic Review (11 April 1885), which publisher Leonard Smither’s notes is “not included in the edition of his collected Poems” — I assume a reference to the volume issued by Elkin Mathews and John Lane in 1892. While “The Harlot’s House” has since become available, we would like to present it here as Leonard Smithers had in a portfolio edition in 1904: with five “weirdly powerful and beautiful” drawings by Althea Gyles.
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