Now published for the very first time, Through the Billboard Promised Land Without Ever Stopping (House Sparrow Press) is Derek Jarman’s only piece of narrative fiction. Somewhere between a fairytale, acid trip and road movie, the work lays the foundations for many of the themes and styles that characterise Jarman’s work in film, painting and design. Joining host Matthew Barrington, film curator … Read More
Through the Billboard Promised Land Without Ever Stopping at Small Wonder Festival, Charleston House, Saturday 14 October, 6pm
In 1971, a young Derek Jarman wrote his first and only piece of narrative fiction, Through the Billboard Promised Land Without Ever Stopping. The surreal, lyrical tale, which has remained unpublished until now, was described by the Turner Prize-nominated artist as ‘autobiographical although deeply buried’. In this special event marking what would have been the artist, author and film-maker’s 80th … Read More
Chloe Aridjis and Lynne Tillman at the LRB Bookshop (16 November, online)
Renowned internationally for her lyrically unsettling novels Book of Clouds, Asunder and Sea Monsters, the Mexican writer Chloe Aridjis crosses borders in her work as much as she traverses them in life. Now, in Dialogue with a Somnambulist (House Sparrow Press) her stories, essays and personal portraits, collected here for the first time, reveal an author as imaginatively at home in the short form as in … Read More
Book Launch: Dialogue with a Somnambulist by Chloe Aridjis (4 November)
We are delighted to announce the launch of Chloe Aridjis’s Dialogue with a Somnambulist: Stories, Essays & A Portrait Gallery, in partnership with the Swedenborg Society, where Chloe is currently artist in residence. Renowned internationally for her lyrically unsettling novels Book of Clouds, Asunder and Sea Monsters, the Mexican writer Chloe Aridjis crosses borders in her work as much as she traverses them in life. Now, collected here … Read More
Launch of Doorways
Please join us to celebrate the launch of Doorways: Women, Homelessness, Trauma and Resistance. Monday 13 May@ SET 27A Dalston Lane, London E8 3DFDoors 7.30pm Books only £10 on the night Join the Facebook event page here.