Daddy's Spaceship

jordison — Wed, 04 Jun 2014 11:00:00 +0000

Price:

£1.00

A new story from Galley Beggar author Andrew Lovett. Another haunter. Another evocation of lost childhood. Another funny, sad, beautiful, wonderful story from this talented and deeply humane author.

It's bitter, it's sweet and it's very, very tasty.

"Our own spaceship was the most thrilling plan Daddy had devised since the perpetual-motion-machine we'd made the summer before. It sat resplendent in the kitchen corner: little silver balls trundling merrily back and forth along frictionless tubes; the pilot light trembling in any passing breeze; spinning wheels, pistons, valves and the tiny pumps shooting up and down like billy-oh, making odd little wheezy-burps that filled the house all night and day. It heated us, cooled us and lit the narrow, dark hallways of home; the envy of the town."

Author:

Andrew Lovett

Pages:

18 (estimated)

Published:

June 2014

Everlasting Lane

jordison — Wed, 02 Oct 2013 23:00:00 +0000

Price:

£4.50

Ebook only at the moment...

Galley Beggar Press's third release is another novel from a wonderful new talent, following the success of The White Goddess: An Encounter in 2012, and Eimear McBride's remarkable A Girl Is A Half-formed Thing (June 2013).

Andrew Lovett's Everlasting Lane evokes the eternal summer of a 1970s childhood: sun-soaked, nostalgic, with the soft focus and warm glow of a Polaroid – but offset by darkness.

Peter is a boy who doesn't really understand the present, who refuses to think properly about the past, but is compelled to come to terms with both, in a story that is part Secret Seven, part I'm Not Scared, and part A Month In The Country.

Glorying in the joys and gentle adventures of childhood, and featuring a sidekick – Anna-Marie – as memorable as Dill in To Kill A Mockingbird, Everlasting Lane is a bittersweet and delightfully strange exploration of the complexities of family relationships, and the shadows that the past can cast over the present.

It is an intriguing and instantly captivating book from a unique new voice in English writing, who captures perfectly the idiosyncrasies of village life and the unique character of the people on our strange island. As well as a testament to the breadth of imagination in the very young, it is also a portrait of a place; a place we all know, inside us, in our past, and – for those who call England home – around us.