When It Changed

'Science Into Fiction'
Ed. by Geoff Ryman
- A literary 'experiment' in the scientific sense.

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The Madman of Freedom Square

by Hassan Blasim
Translated from the Arabic by Jonathan Wright.

The first major literary work about the Iraq War from an Iraqi perspective.
'The news machine has shifted its attention to Afghanistan, and Iraqis are being left to fend for themselves. Blasim's collection reminds us that anything could still happen there. Iraq's story must still be told, and we need Iraqi voices like Blasim's to tell it.'
– Intelligent Life, Nov 09.
'Blasim pitches everyday horror into something almost gothic... his taste for the surreal can be Gogol-like.'

The Independent, 6 Oct 09.
Blasim moves adeptly between surreal, internalised states of mind and ironic commentary on Islamic extremism and the American invasion... excellent.
– The Metro, 22 Oct 09.
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The Shieling

by David Constantine
The much anticipated follow-up to Constantine's highly acclaimed Under The Dam.
'If it's possible to be a romantic existentialist, David Constantine is... But beware: this understanding, and Constantine's way with it, can leave some other kinds of contemporary fiction feeling brittle and empty.' – The Guardian, 7 Nov 09.

'The Shieling is so good I'll be surprised if there's a better collection this year...'
– The Independent, 2 Sep 09.
'Constantine uses words beautifully, balancing language and image with the sensitivity of a poet...'
– The Metro, 8 Oct 09.
‘Perhaps the finest of contemporary writers in this form’ – The Reader
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The New Uncanny

Ed. by Sarah Eyre & Ra Page
Featuring:
A.S. Byatt, Christopher Priest, Ramsey Campbell, Etgar Keret, Hanif Kureishi, Sara Maitland, Alison Macleod, Jane Rogers, Gerard Woodward, Frank Cottrell Boyce, Nicholas Royle, Ian Duhig, Matthew Holness, and Adam Marek.
'A masterclass in understated creepiness... a deliciously macabre collection that the old Austrian might well have enjoyed.'

- Book of the Week, Time Out, 12 Jan.
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The Silence Room

by Sean O'Brien
'Hugely entertaining... superbly chilling.'
- The Guardian, 1 Aug.
'The collection is as satisfying as it is stimulating... deeply unsettlingly... darkly thrilling.'
- The Independent, 9 Jan.

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Stone Tree

by Gyrdir Eliasson
Translated from the Icelandic by Victoria Cribb.
'In vivid and haunting prose, Eliasson shows how no man can be an island, as community intrudes upon their self-exile in the most unexpected ways.'
- The Independent on Sunday, 10 May.
'Almost every story in the collection is worth picking out for special mention... Stone Tree is unlike any story collection I have read. The stories felt fresh, crisp - perfect renderings of narrative ideas.'
- Scott Pack, Publisher at The Friday Project, Harpercollins, MeandMyBigMouth, 29 June.
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Amuse-Bouche

by Arnon Grunberg
Translated from the Dutch by Ron de Klerk & Lisa Friedman.
'Deadpan, offbeat, quirkily comic but steeped in loneliness'
- The Independent.
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Long Days

by Maike Wetzel
Translated from the German by Lyn Marven.
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I Love You When I'm Drunk

by Empar Moliner
Translated from the Catalan by Peter Bush.
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