The Floating World
A grieving critic reads signs in everything except the plot he is carrying, in a funny, uneven debut.
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The Living Realm
A gay archaeologist spends a drought summer cruising a Berlin forest, where he sees his dead lovers.
Attention-Seeking Behavior
A stranger’s corpse invented for a new boyfriend, then defended by a liar who would rather be understood.
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.
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.