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Ice
"In a frozen, apocalyptic landscape, destruction abounds: great walls of ice overrun the world and secretive governments vie for control. Against this surreal, yet eerily familiar broken world, an unnamed narrator embarks on a hallucinatory quest for a strange and elusive "glass-girl" with silver hair. He crosses icy seas and frozen plains, searching ruined towns and ransacked rooms, all to free her from the grips of a tyrant known only as the warden and save her before the ice closes all around. A novel unlike any other, Ice is at once a dystopian adventure shattering the conventions of science fiction, a prescient warning of climate change and totalitarianism, a feminist exploration of vio...
Change the Name
First pub. 1941. Set in Burma and England immediately after the First World War: the life and development of a young woman and her own and her husband's family.
Machines in the Head
Enter the strange and haunting world of Anna Kavan, author of mind-bending stories that blend science fiction and the author's own harrowing experiences with drug addiction, in this new collection of her best short stories. Anna Kavan is one of the great originals of twentieth-century fiction, comparable to Leonora Carrington and Jean Rhys, a writer whose stories explored the inner world of her imagination and plumbed the depths of her long addiction to heroin. This new selection of Kavan’s stories gathers the best work from across the many decades of her career, including oblique and elegiac tales of breakdown and institutionalization from Asylum Piece (1940), moving evocations of wartime...
The Case of Anna Kavan
"Kavan's childhood was marked by an emotionally distant mother and a father who killed himself when she was fourteen. Twice divorced and deeply depressed, she coped by taking heroin daily for forty years. Despite her addiction and several suicide att
Who are You?
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My Madness
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A case of Anna Kavan
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Let Me Alone
An early work from Anna Kavan strongly evoking life in England and its colonies from the early years of the century through the period following the First World War. More straightforward than her more famous novels, Let Me Alone is nevertheless fascinating for its hint of the personal stresses that was to inform much of her uncompromising storylines.
A Scarcity of Love
A novel about a young girl, rejected by her mother, whose life is constantly betrayed and consequently the girl goes mad.
A Bright Green Field
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