A 12-year-old girl spends summers at a lake with her parents and little brother. The days are long and hot and while the parents entertain their friends, the two children are left alone to play and dream and let the future come down upon them.

Rain

Literature & Fiction

Kirsty Gunn

Contemporary

Faber Faber Inc

'The hills only come back the same: I don't mind . . .' begins Kirsty Gunn's The Big Music, a novel that takes us to a new understanding of how fiction can affect us. Presented as a collection of found papers, appendices and notes, The Big Music tells the story of John Sutherland of 'The Grey House', who is dying and creating in the last days of his life a musical composition that will define it. Yet he has little idea of how his tune will echo or play out into the world - and as the book moves inevitably through its themes of death and birth, change and stasis, the sound of his solitary story comes to merge and connect with those around him. In this work of fiction, Kirsty Gunn has created something as real as music or as a dream. Not so much a novel as a place the reader comes to inhabit and to know, The Big Music is a literary work of undeniable originality and power.

The Big Music

Literary

Faber&Faber

Infidelities

Faber & Faber Fiction

Caroline's Bikini

'Provocative and absorbing.' Sarah Bower, National Association of Writers in Education 
Exciting and provocative essays in a collection that is fun, entertaining, and deeply serious. 
In words and images that explore our environment, culture and architecture, that reflect on literary and artistic creation, mortality, mental health, depression, the North (as a place both real and imagined) and education, Imagined Spaces returns the essay to its original activity of having a go, trying and weighing something out, taking a risk.

Imagined Spaces

Politics & Social Sciences

Anthropology

The Voyage Out Press

Featherstone

Humor & Satire

Text Publishing

Pretty Ugly by Kirsty Gunn

Arts & Photography

Rough Trade Books

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