The Angel and the Cuckoo

Gerald Kersh

Pan Books

Nightshades and Damnations (Coronet Books)

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Science Fiction

Coronet

The Light Fantastic - Science Fiction Classics from the Mainstream

Jorge Luís Borges

JOHN CHEEVER

anthony-burgess

Scribner’s Sons

<p>Paul Auster, Ian McEwan and Don DeLillo all know that the city is a place of absurdity, and each of them have played with the form of their novels to accentuate and clarify the absurdities that city-dwellers face on a daily basis. Yet before any of them had their first novel published Gerald Kersh had written his last masterpiece The Angel And The Cuckoo. This is a novel of London that cuts back and forth in time through the Depression years between the two World Wars, following artists, criminals, lovers, singers, conmen, film producers, writers and other lowlifes as they each follow their singular obsessions. There are three love stories, all connected by Steve Zobrany, proprietor of The Angel And The Cuckoo, a caf in a hidden courtyard at one end of Carnaby Street. Through Zobrany we meet film producer Gza Cseh, the sublime Alma, artist without an art Tom Henceforth, omnipotent criminal mastermind Perp, and many others. Kersh shows that each of them carries the seeds of corruption, and what they do with these desires will define them for the rest of their lives. All this, and the book is as funny as hell.</p>

Literature & Fiction

Literary

London Books

The Secret Masters

Disruptive Publishing

<p>Venture into this alarmingly convincing world, meet the horse whose stubbornness changed history, or the man damned to everlasting love, or the murderer who confessed... and confessed... and confessed. Learn, too the secret of the Mona Lisa's smile, or what really happened to Ambrose Bierce. And ponder, if you can, the case of Simple Simon, who lost the only important thing he had--and never even missed it. Lean back, relax, take a long look at the world of Kersh. You may never recover.</p>

Men Without Bones

Genre Fiction

Black Mask

Fowler's End is a bustling, ram-shackle community where bathtubs are considered effete. Daniel Laverock comes to the neighbourhood in search of employment. Thanks to his horrifying countenance, he wins a job as manager of a movie house owned by the vicious tyrant Sam Yudenow.

Fowlers End

Humor & Satire

Vintage, UK

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