Current PS Catalogue

Everland and Other Stories [hc]
collection by Paul Witcover
publication date: Mid 2009
£20.00 [$30.00]
Hardcover
ISBN: 978-1906301477

Synopsis / Contents:

In the quarter century since the publication of his first short story, "Red Shift," Paul Witcover has slowly but steadily produced an impressive body of short fiction alongside his critically acclaimed novels, Waking Beauty, Tumbling After, and Dracula: Asylum. Fusing elements of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and fairy tales, Witcover's work inhabits the borderlands of genre. Everland collects twelve of his best stories, seven previously published, including the Nebula Award finalist "Left of the Dial," and five appearing here for the first time, including the title story, which does not so much reimagine as reinvent J. M. Barrie's classic tale of a boy who never grew up.

Everland and Other Stories [sc]
collection by Paul Witcover
publication date: Mid 2009
£50.00 [$75.00]
Slipcased Hardcover
ISBN: 978-1906301484

The Writer, The Book, The Reader [hc]
colllection by Zoran Živkovic
publication date: Mid 2009
£20.00 [$30.00]
Hardcover
ISBN: 978-1905834365

Synopsis / Contents:

THE WRITER

Where does all the writing come from? Is it divine inspiration, a bolt of lightning that reveals a whole new work in a single glimpse, or a unique gift granted by demonic forces to penetrate the darkness and see beyond it?

THE BOOK

The Book is not quite a novel, although almost half of it takes the form of a narrative, neither is it an essay, although quite a lot of what is said in it adopts that style. It is actually closest to that rare type or "para-genre" of satirical prose embodied in the exemplary In Praise of Folly by the famous humanist from Rotterdam.

THE READER

In this suite of eight stories, the three ages of woman "youth, midlife and senescence" engage in a complex and fruitful dance.

The Writer, The Book, The Reader [sc]
collection by Zoran Živkovic
publication date: Mid 2009
£50.00 [$75.00]
Slipcased Jacketed Hardcover
ISBN: 978-1905834372

Shrike [hc]
novella by Quentin S. Crisp
publication date: Early 2009
£10.00 [$15.00]
Hardcover
ISBN: 978-1906301378

Synopsis / Contents:

Brett Stokes is already middle-aged and yet feels that his life has not begun. In an attempt to make sense of his existence he travels to the provincial town of Otani in Japan, hoping that, through his writing, he will obtain the insight that he lacks. But in Japan it is late autumn and, closeted within the garden of the lately widowed Mrs Kunisada, the motley collection of arboreal reds and yellows works upon Stokes' imagination, until reality itself becomes spectral. As the strange season unfolds, and Stokes meditates upon the meaning of life, death and literature, the power of the Shrike gradually takes centre-stage.

In this startling novella Quentin S. Crisp fuses delicacy with darkness and pathos with terror, creating a blend of Japanese and English literature that is as deeply moving as it is unique.

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