Galley Beggar Press - 3AM Ebooks

On Snakes & Other Stories

jordison — Tue, 17 Sep 2013 11:00:00 +0000

Price:

£5.00

EBOOK ONLY

From a destructive encounter with a lover's long-lost sister in On Snakes, to a delirious but inevitably doomed night in Manchester in This Blue, Blue Air, and from a relationship between family members in bloom (but not for long) in The Way That Things Feel, to reflections on personal value in Love and Money - Yrsa Daley-Ward's collection of short stories is a lively and entertaining debut. With a clear, confident voice and a comforting and often poignant intimacy, her stories are a series of adventures with fascinating characters and emotionally charged unpredictability.

Author:

Yrsa Daley-Ward

Pages:

153

Published:

September 2013

Body Parts

jordison — Tue, 17 Sep 2013 11:00:00 +0000

Price:

£5.00

Body Parts compiles Dylan Trigg's thinking on subjects as diverse as haunting, agoraphobia, horror, animals, death, and the uncanniness of the human body. At the heart of the book is a phenomenological exploration of the relation between absence and anonymity. For Trigg, the experience of absence cannot be understood in terms of the simple disappearance of things but instead by their reappearance. Whether it be the melancholy of our relation with animals or the memory of a dead friend, absence marks a rupture with the world as we normally understand it.

At once a philosophical reflection on the nature of experience, Body Parts is also a series of confessions located at the intersection between fiction and memory.

Author:

Dylan Trigg

Pages:

205

Published:

September 2013

Grey Cats

jordison — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 11:00:00 +0000

Price:

£10.00

As an ash cloud impends over Paris, our English narrator wakes up alone and heads out in search of his French girlfriend, a habitual night-time wanderer. Passing through the unfamiliar landscape he recollects how they met and how their lives intertwined. But as his leads dry up and the ash falls heavier, he realises that even his most basic assumptions – about Paris, his girlfriend, and himself – are overturned once darkness falls.

Grey Cats is a picaresque descent into the belly of the Parisian night – a mischievously comic novel that explores the psychology and mythology of place, questions the fluid boundaries of consciousness, and ideas of identity, love, and lost direction.

Against a backdrop including the illusive Commissaire; a gang of roller-skating urban guerrillas; an army of demonic marionettes; an underground swingers’ club and the blood-soaked Theatre-du-Grand-Guignol, unseen in Paris for half a century, we quickly come to understand the truth behind the old French expression: "At night, all cats are grey."

Author:

Adam Biles

Pages:

180

Published:

April 2013

Death of a Ladies' Man

jordison — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 11:00:00 +0000

Price:

£5.00

Death of a Ladies' Man follows the rise and fall of politician Adrian Lowe and the effects of that descent on those closest to him.

From a debauched past as a student at Cambridge to greedy, shiny London in the late eighties with his wife, Adrian's personal politics veer increasingly towards the anarchic even as his public life stays intact. But as that behaviour begins to destroy Adrian's marriage, family, and unfortunate acquaintances, the personal becomes political, and his unlawful deeds turn to propaganda.

Spens' novella is a dark and satirical portrait of a man losing control in the public eye, and taking his loved ones with him.

Praise for Death of a Ladies' Man

Upon its opening dialogue Spens' narrative ignites—its momentum fuelled by lean, concise prose, which provides engaging intellectual considerations that never over-extend and beautifully define Adrian’s world. Above all Spens displays a brilliant emotional control in crafting the Lowes' tribulations — they are never melodramatic, but genuine with an underlying tenderness. What ultimately emerges is a carefully considered thematic fusion of human fragility and a dangerous world of limitless influence and control. With a potent wit and contagious dark humour, Spens' narrative illuminates emotional intersections of guilt and pride, delusion and reality, abuse and exploitation. -- Lindsay Parnell, The Culture Trip

Rich characters and a very grounded, real-world plot. Stylistically it delivers clean, sometimes stark and always measured prose, a narrative that stays close to the protagonists and takes it's time without being long-winded - a pleasure to read… There is something tragic about this tale, but Spens is forgiving in her portrayal, giving us the ugly but also the softer side, the frailty beneath the cold, hard surface of things. After all, even the worst of us are only human. -- Yann Rousselot, Margana

All author royalties of Death of a Ladies' Man are going to the charity UNSEEN, which works to stop human trafficking.

Author:

Christiana Spens

Pages:

136

Published:

April 2013

Par Avion Vol 1

jordison — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 12:00:00 +0000

Price:

£2.50

From a romantic encounter in Cuba to a night train heading from Berlin to Paris, and from buying alcohol (with difficulty) in India, to navigating the social etiquette of the Arabian Peninsula, the travel stories collected in the first volume of PAR AVION inspire exploration of the world off the beaten track, challenging barriers and boundaries, both physical and social. With work from authors Francine Elena, Adam Biles, Sara Grady, Anna Aslanyan, Joseph Ridgwell, Chris McKeon, Raoul Colvile, Jamie Otsa, Kirill Kobrin, Dylan Trigg, Joanna Walsh and edited by Christiana Spens.

Please note that there is no PDF version of Par Avion - you will get an EPUB and MOBI version of the book only.

Author:

Various

Pages:

107 (estimated)

Published:

January 2013