"My God, its full of books"

This was an inventive and experimental novel, Lanchester's debut, the story of Tarquin Winot, a snobbish Francophile food connoisseur. It is told in the form of Winot's narrative description of various menus, through which he gradually reveals his past, and the fact that he might not be all that he at first seems.

Enjoyable, without entirely blowing me away.

Winner of the 2026 Queen Mary Small Press Fiction Prize and published in a beautiful limited edition by Tangerine Press.

I am not quite sure what to make of this one. A strange prose poem, written in a clipped pidgin English, that makes it a challenging read. It tells the tale of Flo, a young woman in search for her lost brother in a never fully defined post apocalyptic England, where she encounters a series of increasingly bizarre characters. A fever dream (nightmare) like cross between A Clockwork Orange and The Road.

Winner of the 2026 Queen Mary Small Press Fiction Prize and published in a beautiful limited edition by Tangerine Press.

I am not quite sure what to make of this one. A strange prose poem, written in a clipped pidgin English, telling the tale of a young woman's search for her lost brother in a never fully defined post apocalyptic England, where she encounters a series of increasingly bizarre characters. A fever dream (nightmare) like cross between A Clockwork Orange and The Road.