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'An unsettling novel of juxtapositions and surprises, Paradise moves between city and forest, bringing both to teeming, violent life. Tufnell creates landscapes that work upon us on the deepest level.'
– Aliya Whiteley, author of The Beauty and Skyward Inn
www.influxpress.com/paradise
The cover of ‘Paradise’ by Ben Tufnell, depicting a dense forest
'An unsettling novel of juxtapositions and surprises, Paradise moves between city and forest, bringing both to teeming, violent life. Tufnell creates landscapes that work upon us on the deepest level.' - Aliya Whiteley, author of The Beauty and Skyward Inn
'A powerful novel of psychogeography set between two landscapes, urban and rural, in a world palpably on the brink of collapse. Febrile with paranoia and alienation, Paradise confronts the crucial, intimate matter of our time: how 'to be' at the end of all things.' - Charlotte Tierney, author of The Cat Bride
'Paradise begins as an engrossing neo-noir before pivoting into something considerably stranger, in a manner that recalls a peculiar array of other works: Ben Wheatley's Kill List, Neil Jordan's The Crying Game, Michael Ende's children's novel Momo. A Kafkaeseque end-times parable of acceleration and collapse, violence and repair, it is a resonant page-turner fit for the Capitaloscene. ' - Séan Padraic Birnie, author of I Would Haunt You If I Could
It is here!
Huge thanks to @influxpress.bsky.social @dan.coxon.belly.social @charlotteseymour.bsky.social, Luke Bird and Vince Haig, and profound gratitude to the blurbers: @aetwigg.bsky.social @charlieratpig.bsky.social @seanbirnie.bsky.social, James Miller and Aliya Whiteley
In bookshops now!
Paradise is the brilliant new novel from Ben Tufnell, an uncategorizable eco-thriller combining elements of noir, folk horror and nature writing, addressing the most urgent of contemporary issues.
www.influxpress.com/paradise
‘A powerful novel of psychogeography set between two landscapes, urban and rural, in a world palpably on the brink of collapse.’
– Charlotte Tierney, author of The Cat Bride
www.influxpress.com/paradise
‘A Kafkaesque maelstrom of a novel, with folk horror lurking at the edges. Tufnell remains a wonderfully strange writer.’
– Amy Twigg, author of Spoilt Creatures
www.influxpress.com/paradise
'An unsettling novel of juxtapositions and surprises, Paradise moves between city and forest, bringing both to teeming, violent life. Tufnell creates landscapes that work upon us on the deepest level.'
– Aliya Whiteley, author of The Beauty and Skyward Inn
www.influxpress.com/paradise
Happy publication day to @bentufnell.bsky.social!
PARADISE is out now.
www.influxpress.com/paradise
Enjoy!
Front cover of Paradise by Ben Tufnell, published by Influx Press. Cover shows a dense forest under an apocalyptic sky.
I was just wondering what to read next when this popped through the door. Will read straightaway! @bentufnell.bsky.social @influxpress.bsky.social
Loved this book. Big recommend to folk-horror and/or weird-landscape fans.
Ben will be on Uncanny Landscapes soon!
PARADISE, the new genre-defying eco-thriller combining elements of noir, folk horror and nature writing by @bentufnell.bsky.social, is published early March!
Interested reviewers please get in touch.
Pre-order here: www.influxpress.com/shop/paradis...
@bentufnell.bsky.social chooses six books that influenced the upcoming PARADISE for Interzone
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THE NORTH SHORE TO PARADISE
@bentufnell.bsky.social will be appearing at the Norfolk & Norwich Festival in May, in conversation with Tracee Findlater about his two books, THE NORTH SHORE and his brilliant new novel, PARADISE.
Thursday 14 May
6pm
🎟️ £15
nnfestival.org.uk/whats-on/the...
@bentufnell.bsky.social chooses six books that influenced the upcoming PARADISE for Interzone
www.patreon.com/posts/six-bo...
Coming soon from contributor @bentufnell.bsky.social
PARADISE, the new genre-defying eco-thriller combining elements of noir, folk horror and nature writing by @bentufnell.bsky.social, is published early March!
Interested reviewers please get in touch.
Pre-order here: www.influxpress.com/shop/paradis...
Lucifer Over London, A Guide to the Adopted City, Various Authors. London, a city of constant transition, transaction, translation. London does not exist; London is a language without a place and it is the aphasic city; it's the mother of all languages. Lucifer Over London is a new anthology nine narrative essays written by a host of international prize-winning authors including Chloe Aridjis, Viola di Grado, Xiaolu Guo, Joanna Walsh and Zinovy Zinik. First published in Italy by Humboldt Books, Lucifer Over London is now appearing in English for the first time. This is a version of London as seen from the immigrants of recent migrations, of deportations to come, from those who create London even as they contradict it.
2021 #7
Eight narrative- and one photo-essay by award-winning authors about their adopted city, London. An excellent little collection originally published in Italy and then by @influxpress.bsky.social . Includes a couple of my favourite authors and is a thoroughly enjoyable read.
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The Stone Tide, Adventures at the End of the World, Gareth E. Rees. The problems started the day we moved to Hastings...' When Gareth E. Rees moves to a dilapidated Victorian house in Hastings he begins to piece together an occult puzzle connecting Aleister Crowley, John Logie Baird and the Piltdown Man hoaxer. As freak storms and tidal surges ravage the coast, Rees is beset by memories of his best friend's tragic death in St Andrews twenty years earlier. Convinced that apocalypse approaches and his past is out to get him, Rees embarks on a journey away from his family, deep into history and to the very edge of the imagination. Tormented by possessed seagulls, mutant eels and unresolved guilt, how much of reality can he trust? THE STONE TIDE is a novel about grief, loss, history and the imagination. It is about how people make the place and the place makes the person. Above all it is about the stories we tell to make sense of the world.
2020 #82
The final book finished in 2020 was this eclectic novel full of psychogeography and strange goings on in Hastings from @garetherees.bsky.social and @influxpress.bsky.social . There's some blurb in the alt text as usual and this remains one of my personal favourite.
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Local Haunts is brilliant. You should buy it.
My favourite book from last year. It wrapped its tendrils round my brain.
Hackney-based artist, Nick Jensen has made a series of paintings inspired by my book 'Marshland' for his exhibition at the Paul Smith Gallery, which includes a new short fiction I penned for the occasion www.meer.com/en/102905-dr... cc @influxpress.bsky.social
‘One of the most interesting and original young British writers about landscape, culture and people that I know; consistently adventurous in his explorations of place as a novelist, essayist, critic and film-maker.’
– Robert Macfarlane
LOCAL HAUNTS by Adam Scovell: www.influxpress.com/local-haunts
'The loneliness and longing of the characters in Deliverywoman really stayed with me, I found these stories haunting and beautifully constructed.'
– Daisy Johnson, author of The Hotel
DELIVERYWOMAN by @evawyles.bsky.social
Order here: www.influxpress.com/deliverywoman
A FOREIGN COUNTRY IS THE PAST by Fernando Sdrigotti is out now
Order here: www.influxpress.com/a-foreign-co...
TENDER by Lauren DuPlessis
Out now.
Order here: www.influxpress.com/tender
The Blue Mask by Joel Lane
The Blue Mask (2003) by Joel Lane
I've loved Joel Lane's stories since the gorgeous Influx (@influxpress.bsky.social) reissues started coming out, but this was my first time reading one of his novels. I think I might prefer the stories, but it says something this was still a BOTY. Haunting.
