Send us a textShort story special: Two collections from two great independent presses. First up is Make A Home of Me by Vanessa Santos. Dead Ink Books bring us an exciting new voice in the horror landscape. Eight unsettling stories full of haunted children, impossible reappearances and unnatural forces desperate to be known. Definitely one for fans of Carmen Maria Machado or Matt Hill.Then we meet Eva Wyles to discuss DeliveryWoman, recently published by Influx Press. A stunning debut that dives into the complexities of human connection and the struggles of modern day loneliness. A collection that comfortably sits alongside the work of A.M Homes or Ottessa Moshfegh. Get your copy directly from the publisher rather than feed the beast xwww.deadinkbookshop.comwww.influxpress.com @fieldzine www.fieldzine.comwww.patreon.com/fieldzine
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Field Ramble with Gurnaik Johal
Send us a textSaraswati Published by Serpent's TailIt’s hard to talk about Gurnaik Johal’s debut novel without using the word epic. Saraswati is transcontinental, multi-generational and led by a broad cast of characters - if you’re a fan of fiction on the scale of a book like Martin MacInnes’ In Ascension, then Saraswati is for you.Beginning with the re-emergence of a supposedly mythical river, Saraswati follows the descendants of a lone couple Sejal and Jugaad, pursuing familial tributaries that run across borders and time. Weaving in themes of climate change, resurgent nationalism and ancient religious texts, it is a novel brimming with images that live long in the memory. Huge crowds mass at river banks, cities flood, mountains beckon and a single piece of cloth links characters around the world. More than anything, Saraswati continually returns to the power of story telling. The stories we tell to understand ourselves, the stories we are told by those in power and the stories we leave for those that follow.‘A surging, roaring deluge of a novel.’ Jon McGregor‘Immersive, intimate and epic.’ Preti Taneja‘A bold, intriguing tapestry that pulses with frenetic energy.’Aube Rey@fieldzine www.fieldzine.comwww.patreon.com/fieldzine
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Field Ramble with Wendy Erskine
Send us a textOn June 19th Wendy Erskine’s long awaited debut novel The Benefactors is published. Many of you will already know Wendy from her two acclaimed short story collections Sweet Home and Dance Move and you’ll find The Benefactors filled with the same deep curiosity for people, the same raw laughs and the same unsparing honesty. Set, once again, in her much loved Belfast it is a broad and embracing portrait of a community that moves from the sexual assault of one of its central characters ‘Misty,’ to explore the isolating and insulating effects of class and money and the regenerative power of love.At its heart The Benefactors is a novel that asks us to consider both the unknown and far reaching effects of our actions and the enduring place we hold in each other’s lives.@fieldzine www.fieldzine.comwww.patreon.com/fieldzine
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Field Ramble with Holly Dawson
Send us a textOn this episode Holly Dawson speaks to us about her debut All of Us Atoms. Faced with the prospect of losing her memory Holly set out to revisit the moments that had shaped her, from the earliest recollections of childhood to her diagnosis. What follows is the documenting of a ‘felt’ life. In a series of essays, letters and short stories she weaves together memory, dreams, and reality, grasping hold of the consolations of science and discovering a deep love for the forgettable and forgotten moment. At its heart All of Us Atoms is a rejection of the forms and rationalities we are offered for something altogether more satisfying. An archeological dig site, where Holly turns over the soil and sieves it through her fingers to rediscover what’s there, before its lost. ‘Brilliant, brave, wild and marvellous.’ Juliet Nicholson ‘To read Holly’s writing is to live it.’ Helena Bonham Carter‘I loved this. The smarts, lyricisms, surprises and deep humanity of it all.’ Susie Orbach@fieldzine www.fieldzine.comwww.patreon.com/fieldzine
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Field Ramble with Lucia Lijtmaer
Send us a textOn this episode we meet Lucia Lijtmaer to hear all about her upcoming novel Cautery. Published for the first time in English by Charco Press, it is a novel filled with apocalyptic fantasies and a deep mistrust of the supposed greater good. Set between modern day Barcelona and puritan New York Cautery follows the stories of two women (one real, the other imagined) who, although separated by 400 years both share a vision of either escaping the confines of society or burning it to the ground. It’s a novel that shares some of the same ‘end of days’ terrain as Ali Millar’s Ava Anna Ada as well as the critique of bourgeois, hipster lifestyles found in Vincenzo Latronico’s Perfection, as unnerving as it is compelling. 'A searing, twisted feast.' Laura Fernández'Masterful,' CLARINGet your copy herehttps://charcopress.com/bookstore/cautery@fieldzine www.fieldzine.comwww.patreon.com/fieldzine
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