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Kitty Mrosovsky

Foreword by Maggie Gee

“A writer of great intelligence and sensibility who never received the critical attention she deserved.” —Amanda Mitchison, The Independent

A lush, labyrinthine novel of one woman’s erotic odyssey, and the final testament by a neglected writer of extraordinary talent.

Philip Hensher

New Preface by the Author

“[An] elegant novel of poisoned love and intimate violence . . . Sharp and funny . . . a beautifully polished performance.” —James Lakeman, The Times Literary Supplement

“Political intrigue, sexual chicanery, disappointment, betrayal” combine with “dazzling” effect (Jane Shilling, The Sunday Telegraph) in this scandalous novel that exposed the secrets of Margaret Thatcher’s government.

Philip Owens

Foreword by Allen Bratton

“Truly unlike any other book I have read. Shakespeare and AntiShakespeare, a time-slipping tragicomedy of errors, grim and gorgeous, sparkling and sliding with wit and melancholy . . . Picture of Nobody is a masterpiece, and a very strange one too.” —David Tibet, Current 93

Transposed into the early twentieth century, a nonentity named Shakespeare rails against poverty, mediocrity, and misunderstanding, in forgotten modernist Philip Owens’s brilliant, one-of-a-kind satire.

Beryl Bainbridge

Foreword by Yiyun Li

“Pinteresque menace and Sparkian malice . . . A former actress herself, Ms. Bainbridge chronicles the backstage antics of her fictional theater company with knowing aplomb.” —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times Book Review

A blackly comic story of the secrets, sex, and violence behind the curtain of a repertory theater’s postwar production of Peter Pan: its “close observation and hilarity are underlain by a sense of tragedy as deep as any in fiction.” (The Times)

Felix Platter

Foreword by Stephen Greenblatt

Translated and introduced by Seán Jennett

“Like the diary of Samuel Pepys or the memoirs of François-René de Chateaubriand, Beloved Son Felix [is] an invaluable and entertaining firsthand exploration of a bygone era . . . We are allowed a rare glimpse into the street-level experiences of a common Renaissance man.” —Michael Patrick Brady, The Wall Street Journal

The wildly vivid, rare, and revealing journals of a sixteenth-century medical student.

Diane Ackerman

Foreword by Maria Popova

“Stunning . . . it is spectacularly good poetry, clear, lyrical and soaring . . . One of the triumphs of Ackerman’s pastoral is the demonstration of how closely compatible planetary exploration and poetry, science and art really are.” —Carl Sagan, The New Republic

From Marginalian Editions comes a gorgeous reissue of celebrated poet and naturalist Diane Ackerman’s debut: a soaring ode to our solar system, planet to planet, blending science and imagination, astronomy and cosmology, as well as fantasy, satire, myth, and reflection.

Francis King

Foreword by Rumaan Alam

“A compact, intricately patterned story of unrequited erotic obsession, focused on the relationship between a closeted English novelist and a beautiful Italian philosopher  . . . Among the novel’s daring ideas is its suggestion that closetedness and English taciturnity are part of a common condition, each an art of concealment.” —Charlie Tyson, Harper’s Magazine

A witty, heartbreaking tale of unrequited love by “one of the finest and most remarkable of English novelists of our time.” (The Scotsman)

Kay Cicellis

Foreword by Rachel Cusk

A fiery modern retelling of three Greek tragedies, “written in an ageless prose that instantly strikes the reader as the work of a master.” (Rachel Cusk, from the foreword)

Dinah Brooke

Foreword by Emma Cline

“A devastating account of the sexual awakening of an English lady . . . An intense, fastidiously crafted and disturbing novel.” —Publishers Weekly

From the “brilliant forgotten novelist” behind the “ferocious” Lord Jim at Home (The Telegraph) comes a searing tale of a young woman’s unravelling beneath the unforgiving Tuscan sun.

Isobel Lola Brown

Photography by Melanie Dunea

Gorgeously produced and full of fascinating interviews, profiles, and recipes, Cafe Gitane: 30 Years tells the story of the vibrant downtown New York culture that thrived in the ’90s and 2000s through the lens of an iconic institution nestled at its heart.

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Todd Grimson

“If Raymond Chandler or Flannery O’Connor had written a vampire novel, it might read with the brutal and passionate clarity of Stainless . . . The ultimate late night in L.A.” —Katherine Dunn

A bloody, erotic love story from “the greatest horror writer you’ve never read . . . In Stainless, Todd Grimson set out to write ‘the Ultimate, Final Vampire Novel’—and succeeded.” (The Guardian)

Carolivia Herron

New afterword by the author

“An unblinking, poetic journey into America’s true heart of darkness.” —Marlon James

Family trauma, race, and the destiny of a nation corrupted by slavery, cast in the light of epic myth: “More than a saga of Black revitalization . . . Part vision, part parable, it is a story for all America.” (The New York Times Book Review)