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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.
20.01.2026 12:44 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0My favourite book from last year. It wrapped its tendrils round my brain.
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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
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βOne 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.β
β 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.'
β 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.
Book 35 of the 40 I aimed to read from my backlog this year was Bindlestiff by Wayne Holloway published by @influxpress.bsky.social
A satire on Hollywood filmmaking, it centres on a film about a hobo in the speculative dystopia of a post-federal USA.
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Car Park Life, A Portrait of Britain's Unexplored Urban Wilderness, by Gareth E. Rees. Car parks: commonplace urban landscapes, little-explored and rarely featured in art and music, yet they shape the aesthetics of our towns and cities. Hotspots for crime, rage and sexual deviancy; a blind spot in which activities go unnoticed. Skateboarding, car stunts, drug dealing, dogging, murder. Gareth E. Rees believes that the retail car park has as much mystery, magic and terror as any mountain, meadow or wood. He's out to prove it by walking the car parks of Britain, journeying across the country from Plymouth to Edinburgh, much to the horror of his family, friends - and, most of all - himself. He finds Sir Francis Drake outside B&Q, standing stones in a retail park, and a dead body beside Sainsbury's. In this darkly satirical work of non-fiction, Gareth E. Rees presents a troubling vision of Brexit Britain through a common space we know far less about than we think.
2020 #55
My first encounter with the distinctive work of @garetherees.bsky.social , one of the best chroniclers of modern Britain around. Love the quote that described this as a "retail park Heart of Darkness." π There's info in the alt text and I loved it. @influxpress.bsky.social
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'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 βto beβ at the end of all things.β
β Charlotte Tierney
Many thanks to @charlieratpig.bsky.social for these wordsβ¦..
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PARADISE by @bentufnell.bsky.social is published March 2026
www.influxpress.com/paradise
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PARADISE by @bentufnell.bsky.social is published March 2026
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. Febrile with paranoia and alienation, Paradise confronts the crucial, intimate matter of our time: how βto beβ at the end of all things.β
β Charlotte Tierney
Extract from DELIVERYWOMAN by @evawyles.bsky.social in Fashion Journal Magazine
fashionjournal.com.au/life/excerpt...
'Brutal but restrained stories, each one an unusually uplifting feel-bad experience'
Joel Lane's THE LOST DISTRICT chosen as one of @reactorsff.bsky.social's Six Dark, Chilly Reads to Liven Up Late Fall
reactormag.com/six-dark-chi...
'A striking work of folk horror and a compelling character study.'
TENDER by Lauren Du Plessis gets a wonderful review in @thefantasyhive.bsky.social!
fantasy-hive.co.uk/2025/11/tend...
'A striking work of folk horror and a compelling character study.'
TENDER by Lauren Du Plessis gets a wonderful review in @thefantasyhive.bsky.social!
fantasy-hive.co.uk/2025/11/tend...
Extract from DELIVERYWOMAN by @evawyles.bsky.social in Fashion Journal Magazine
fashionjournal.com.au/life/excerpt...
'Brutal but restrained stories, each one an unusually uplifting feel-bad experience'
Joel Lane's THE LOST DISTRICT chosen as one of @reactorsff.bsky.social's Six Dark, Chilly Reads to Liven Up Late Fall
reactormag.com/six-dark-chi...
Half Price Engines Beneath Us and You Will Grow Into Them and other Influx goodies. And a very tangential excuse to repost this picture of my son's Halloween Lego house even though neither it nor the books have anything to do with Black Friday.
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Jonathan was fortunate to meet Lauren Du Plessis and interview her about her debut body horror TENDER:
"I do love isolating characters in a strange place, an unfamiliar place. I feel like that brings personalities to the front quite quickly"
More: tinyurl.com/33s23a6v
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