Most Anticipated Books of 2024 mentions in The Telegraph, Guardian, Stylist, and Vice After a year away, a woman returns to her English hometown to live in a sublet. She is always on edge, anticipating a visit from her landlord, the arrival of her unknown roommate, and an impending reunion with her mother, Moffa. Her thoughts also drift back to the rented room she has just left and the life she imagines its new occupant to be leading. The dramas of temporary housing and the lasting effects of impermanence are turned out in this irreverent and boldly stylish novel that examines a life lived in other people's spaces. A subtly comic novel about Generation Rent, this is a stunning debut from a writer already hailed as one of the most original poets of her generation. "It is a rare debut that manages to tell a uniquely personal story whileilluminating the problems of a generation. Holly Pester's The Lodgers is such a book, reading more like a modern classic than a first novel."--The Irish Times "Holly Pester is a genius and The Lodgers gets into everything that matters."--Kate Briggs, author of The Long Form

The Lodgers

Literature & Fiction

Pester, Holly

Literary

Assembly! Press

The long-awaited first collection of poems from an influential young poet.\nA POETRY BOOK SOCIETY WILD CARD CHOICE\nComic Timing, Holly Pester's extraordinary debut collection of poems, chronicles the experience of living and working as a radical and resistant act. These poems shunt a reader between the political and personal via unique, fragmentary and illusory turns of phrase. Holly tackles marginal bodies, landlords, bog butter, desire, domestic and civic spaces in an unique and illusory voice. She chronicles the prevailing mood of our times, mining radical and anarchic histories to offer a collection of political resistance with both absurdity and seriousness.\nThese poems interrogate and poke fun at the expectations of people in a commodified culture with a wry humour. Combining a beautifully performed naivety with a profound intellect, this collection is a hugely original approach to a number of pressing issues. Worker's rights, feminisms, reproductive rights and marginalised bodies and their positions are all through in this startling and innovative voice.

Comic Timing

Poetry

Granta Books

Whatever happened to British protest? For a nation that brought the world Chartism, the Suffragettes, the Tolpuddle Martyrs, and so many other grassroots social movements, Britain rarely celebrates its long, great tradition of people power. In this timely and evocative collection, twenty authors have assembled to re-imagine key moments of British protest, from the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381 to the anti-Iraq War demo of 2003. Written in close consultation with historians, sociologists and eyewitnesses – who also contribute afterwords – these stories follow fictional characters caught up in real-life struggles, offering a streetlevel perspective on the noble art of resistance. In the age of fake news and post-truth politics this book fights fiction with (well researched, historically accurate) fiction.

Protest: Stories of Resistance

Green, Michelle

Clanchy, Kate

Maitland, Sara

CONSTANTINE, David

Bedford, Martyn

Ross, Jacob

Evers, Stuart

Jacques, Juliet

GEE, Maggie

Hird, Laura

Newland, Courttia

Alland, Sandra

Cottrell-Boyce, Frank

De Waal, Kit

Hedgecock, Andy

Holness, Matthew

QUINN, Joanna

Rhydderch, Francesca

Sayle, Alexei

Genre Fiction

Comma Press

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