When Daphne becomes pregnant, it isn’t only her life that changes… For her husband Amir, for their parents, and for their friends Guy and Abigail, the pregnancy and birth force them all to look at their own lives, at what they want, at their pasts and their futures. Each person has a different perspective of the delivery, and of the complexity of having a child: the difference between men and women, a changing self-perception of parents, conflicts between work and parenthood. Lives are changed, and the equilibrium each of them has achieved is fundamentally disturbed until, aſter the delivery, they can find a new balance for the future.
“A significant new artistic voice.” Aharon Appelfeld “Giving birth is almost never depicted in fiction. I don’t remember ever reading such a description of a delivery, neither in Hebrew fiction nor in world literature.” Interview with Alit Karp, literary critic of Haaretz and Makor Rishon “Te book focuses on daily issues and touches the deepest places… I loved the novel and kept thinking about it long aſter reading it.” Lee Yanini, reviewer in the Te Israeli Librarian Journal “…a very profound novel, polished and complex. It is practically impossible to put it down until the very end. Barasch Rubinstein is an extraordinary writer…” Review in Chi Tarbut
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Category: Literary Fiction PP: 205
Publication Date: 8th July 2021
A vision, a peculiar international movement flooding the city, an Empress, and a strange artefact called the Chimaera… Petty Veniz will never be the same again, for it seems the Apocalypse is at hand.
It is the bizarre culmination of a series of events which began a year or two before, when the ‘Te Most Ancient and Venerable University of St Mark the Evangelist, commonly known as Petty Veniz’, found that it is not, as it had thought, securely wealthy: it is, in fact, insolvent. When the university’s head, a hitherto unassuming academic called Bill Westey, announces that he has experienced a vision, the world of the University is turned upside down, culminating in the arrival of the Empress, who controls the Chimaera.
Te Professor of Moral Philosophy, Jim Gentry, infatuated with one of his doctoral students, becomes convinced that his mental disturbance is the cause of the city’s crisis. Fiſty years aſter Gentry’s death, his younger contemporary Moses Mandeville receives a copy of the journal Gentry kept at that time. It is the incentive that the now aged Mandeville needs, to complete his account of the ‘sometime embarrassments’ of Petty Veniz. A brilliant, unique book: gripping, satirical and thought-provoking, set in an alternative world which yet somehow our own.
Paperback: 978-1-910688-90-8 Price:
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Category: Literary Fiction PP: 300
Publication Date: 4th November 2021
Aſter the death of his child, a man – disconnected, lost, unable to sleep - explores the absence at the heart of life.
Gathering accounts of trauma and loss from the lives of people and places, past and present: of Isadora Duncan, Ana Mendietta, WG Sebald and Pier Paolo Pasolini; of a car crash, a fall from a skyscraper, the photographs of a murderer, a journey to Te Gate of the Kiss; he travels through a landscape of half-remembered events and lost works of art, attempting to fathom lives pieced together from borrowed and fragmentary stories of history, memory and existence; trying to recover his own life.
Part fiction, part essay, part meditation on absence and grief, A Certain Slant of Light is a profound and moving attempt to trace the connections, however unlikely and strange, between art, history and life. A unique and beautiful book, profusely illustrated, A Certain Slant of Light was shortlisted for the Fitzcarraldo Prize. Duncan White’s moving novel reverberates with unspoken grief. A beautifully written meditation on impermanence, in which art and human life are seen as signal flares into the darkness. Howard Cunnell, Fathers and Sons, Te Painter’s Friend
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Fiction/Non-Fiction 240
Publication Date: 16th September 2021
John Harvey is the prize-winning author of five highly acclaimed novels and four studies of clothes, colour, and illustration. He has reviewed widely, for the Sunday Times, the London Review of Books, and many others. Unusual in their scope and variety, his novels have tackled the asset-stripping that has devastated working communities; torture and resistance to a military dictatorship; family break-up in the world of road-haulage and motor-racing; a notorious love-crisis in the art-world of the Victorians. In the words of A.S. Byatt, his prose is poetic and incisive, while Anthony Twaite described his work as ‘Tolstoyan’. Most recently he published Pax, a dual timeline novel about Rubens in London, and a fictional contemporary artist; Anita Desai said of this book that ‘‘John Harvey, who is fascinated by the creative process involved in the making of art, finds the perfect subject in Rubens’ painting “Peace and War” and its themes that intrigue and inspire a contemporary English artist. Te result is a many-layered novel, impressively skillful and deeply absorbing.’ Holland House Books is delighted to announce it is republishing all of John’s previous novels in print and digitally.
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Paperback; £9.99 Publication Date: 18th November 2021
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