Still Life

Still Lifeby Zo Wicomb An inventive and genre bending new novel from a master of the form, exploring the legacy of past exploitation and present day authorship: who should be remembered and who should tell their story. Still Life juggles with our perception of time and reality as Wicomb tells the story of an author struggling to write a biography of long forgotten Scottish poet and abolitionist Thomas Pringle. In her efforts to resurrect Pringle, the writer

Redo uncovers two soldiers from an earlier time

a terrifying

Ballard lies a deep-beating

Bouncing from job to job

stuffed with necessary power

and as they do

Killer sentences

this definitive collection will surprise and delight established fans and new readers alike

’ – Josh Cohen

Brennan turns her anatomist’s eye to the resentment

now available in the UK for the first time

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