B. Catling

In the stunning conclusion to this endlessly imaginative saga, the young Afrikaner socialite Cyrena Lohr is mourning the death of her lover, the cyclops Ishmael, when she rekindles a relationship with famed naturalist Eugène Marais. Before departing down his own dark path, Marais presents her with a gift: an object of great power that grants her visions of a new world. Meanwhile, the threat of Germany's Blitz looms over London, and only Nicholas the Erstwhile senses the danger to come

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The cloven

Iain Sinclair

Published in a back-to-back double-A-side format are Brian Catling's account of the recovery of the enormous Ahnighito meteorite, from Greenland to New York, by explorer Robert Peary in 1897, and the psychogeology of Iain Sinclair's hunt for meteorites across 21st-century London. Across Greenland, the American frontier and contemporary London in search of space rock. Published in a back-to-back double-A-side format. Scales is an epic-in-miniature account of the recovery of the enormous Ahnighito, or Cape York, meteorite from Greenland to New York by explorer Robert Peary in 1897. With photographs by Rommel Pecson. Silenic Drift finds Iain Sinclair hunting meteorites across 21st-century London. 'Here was my idiot-simple proposition: psychogeology. The beach beneath the pavement. 20,000 streets under the sky. The rocks of the geological collection at the Natural History Museum in Exhibition Road, South Kensington, were calling me in.' With photographs by Anonymous Bosch.

Scales/Silenic Drift

Munky

"There hadn't been monks at the abbey since 1600. Not living ones, that is." When the puckish spirit of a monk begins haunting the storied village of Pulborough, known for its ancient abbey, Maud Garner, manager of the Coach and Horses Inn, arranges for the famous ghost hunter, Walter Prince, to come investigate. And from there, things spiral out of control. Peopled with richly drawn Dickensian grotesques and filled with bizarre and comical incident, Munky is as compelling as it is antic. Catling transports the reader to an interwar England in the throes of change. Part bizarre ghost story, part whimsical farce, part idiosyncratic literary experiment, it could be described as P. G. Wodehouse collaborating with Raymond Roussel, with a dash of M. R. James, if it weren't so uniquely its own thing.

Poetry. A COURT OF MIRACLES reaches back to the Albion Village Press editions edited by Iain Sinclair, through to The Tulpa Index, Thyhand, and The Stumbing Block Its Index. The final section of this cabinet contains uncollected works including "The Pittancer." Catling has an international reputation as a performance artist, sculptor, film maker, and poet.

A Court of Miracles

Fiction. The Authentic Narrative of an Imaginary Conversation Between the Death Mask of Bobby Awl and B. Catling, Contemporary Author and Sculptor.

B. Catling

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