Lost in the Garden
Liverpool, Great Britain: Dead Ink, 2024. First edition. First Printing. Hardcover. 446pp. 5 1/4 x 8 inches. Paper over boards, stamped spine and front and rear boards. Book is a stated first edition with no additional printings shown on copyright page. The author has signed his name on a publisher's limitation page, this being # 566 of 1500 numbered copies. Book is unread, unmarked, tight and bright. Text block edges have been sprayed. Gift quality. Fine / no dj. Item #0004524
ISBN: 9781915368973
Won the Nero Prize for fiction in 2024.
The winner of the Fiction category is folk horror novel Lost in the Garden by Adam S. Leslie. Disturbing, dreamlike and unsettling, the book follows Heather, Rachel and Antonia travelling to Almanby, a place from an old wives’ tale that everybody knew nobody should go to. As they travel through ever-shifting geography and encounter strange voices in the fizz of shortwave radio, it becomes harder and harder to tell friend from foe. The judges described it as “a surprising folk horror about everyday encounters with the incredible. Vulnerable, rooted characters come of age in a hazy, hypnotic book that reflects contemporary Britain through a distorted lens.” Adam S. Leslie lives in Oxford and is a novelist, screenwriter and a psychedelic pop singer-songwriter who produces music under the name Berlin Horse. Lost in the Garden is published by Dead Ink Books, an independent press based in Liverpool.
Price: $75.00