The People's Act of Love is a very strange book with a very tangled and complicated plot. It takes place in a small village in Siberia during the time of the Russian Revolution. One would think that this piece of information would get the reader started fairly well on having a sense of time and p...
This collection features surreal short stories from James Meek. The array of characters who populate his world are driven by paranoia, as well as hopes and fears of things only half-glimpsed.
A few miles west of Bristol she dry-heaved into the stinking pan of the train’s toilets. O’Donabháin’s session was one of the earliest, at eleven a.m. on a weekday. He’s a harmless old murderer poet these days was what Wales reckoned, by the look of it; his session was three lines lost in the mid...
Signal Failure Privatised railways On a mild, wet February morning, a work gang of ten men moved around a stretch of railway line near the village of Goostrey, between Crewe and Manchester airport. Against the extreme green of fields and the whipped grey of rainclouds their synthetic orange work ...