My Death romance

My Death romanceA struggling writer hits on the subject for her next book: a biography of an overlooked female artist. But her literary detective work soon leads to bizarre, unnerving twists The book will be about Helen Ralston, a visionary early twentieth century artist and writer who seems to have been completely written out of history. Amazingly Ralston turns out to be still alive and a series of conversations between the two women begins. But a story about the

interactive sensory book of sounds

different inner lives and different truths

broken by memories of first loves

Brilliance is on display here' Percival Everett

Who gets to classify illness and why

Barely educated and valued since childhood strictly for his labour

' TOM BENN'One of the summer's most talked-about books

A married man

The tower from which all the power of the Empire flows

One little girl makes a bid for escape from her sadistic parents' reign of terror and turns to school for salvation

the tree just won’t drop a single sweet

from the stolen sandstone of Scone to the unexpected acoustics of Stonehenge