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Give My Heart Ease
Set in England, Boston, and the Caribbean, this Pinteresque, artfully crafted story describes a relationship between Justine, a young dancer, and Roy, her philosophy teacher at Oxford. It is a story of love and sex, pain and intellect, and ultimate redemption. The story is narrated by Justine, who chronicles her own awakening from disciple to equal; from blind, yet innocent masochism to full personhood; from student/lover/wife to emancipation from Roy a tormented, though brilliant man who is obsessed with the question of free will and his own intense, yet twisted sexuality. Ultimately, this first novel describes a spiritual journey that leads Justine and Roy beyond pleasure, beyond renunciation, to a transcendent knowledge of the deepest meanings of love and loyalty.
Little Poems for Children
Funny and sweet, these are poems for children who are anything but angels!Printed on high quality glossy stock, with 11 delightful full-page colour illustrations by artist Viktoria Samoilova. An Andromache Books title.
You Are There Behind My Eyelids Forever
'Now we are not two but one transparent thing, an octopus of light moving in the underwater darkness.' Set against the backdrop of the depraved and glamourous New York of the early 1970s, this is the story of Rose, a young girl who endures incest and violence at the hands of her father, and flees into a dangerous love affair with an older man. But Anton, son of a perished Nazi fighter pilot, has problems of his own. Together they experience both delicious thrills and frightening excesses: bliss and fear, sadness and loss, confusion and despair. The novel moves with great subtlety through time and space, blending elements of myth, story-telling, memory and alternate reality to create a powerful and kaleidoscopic world of its own. A book for the #metoo era, full of real insights into the horrors of physical and sexual abuse, as well as ferocious humour and an unquenchable spirit.
The Prodigy
When a woman of a certain age develops an obsessive crush on a boy half her age, who's more likely to get hurt? Jeffrey Sunshine is no ordinary boy but a prodigy, a singer whose voice and person alike are of an unearthly beauty. And this beauty is matched by a banality equally extreme. In this extraordinary novella the author flirts with voice and time, weaving a tale of devilish intricacy, where pity, terror and laughter chase one another through the dark labyrinths of a dream-like world. An Andromache Books title.
Two Martyr Plays
The exquisite workmanship and extraordinary imagination of author Grace Andreacchi are resoundingly showcased in these plays. Andreacchi unites the traditions of the Medieval mystery play, the beautiful form and style of classical drama (particularly in her use of the chorus), and the stories of these beloved saints.These two plays can be performed separately as one-act dramas, or together for a longer programme. Both are suitable for all audiences.AGNES: A twelve-year-old girl is ordered to marry a young man of her family's choosing. But Agnes has other ideas - she is already secretly betrothed to the lover she prefers, and she's willing to die for him. LAWRENCE: Christians are being hunted down and killed by the Roman authorities. The Bishop of Rome is arrested, but not before he has time to entrust the entire church treasury to a young, untried deacon. When the Emperor orders him to hand it over on pain of death, what will he do? An Andromache Books title.
Thelonious Magpie
Thelonious Magpie flits about, snatching up all the fine, shiny words and refashioning them to her own taste and purpose. Then riffs freely and fancifully, like the finest jazz. These poems are taken from many diverse sources, including online forums, advertising copy, journals, letters, interviews and texts both literary and otherwise. Each poem is made up only of words from the cited source text. Some of these poems are great fun, some more thoughtful, sad, or even terrifying. There are poems about love and sex, about children, death, angels and animals. A book to discover the rich language lurking in unlikely places.
GOLDEN VANITIES
Stories, tales and occasional pieces by Grace Andreacchi. This collection brings together the complete short fiction up to the present.
Poetry and Fear
BY GRACE ANDREACCHI. A short novel written in poetic and elliptical prose, rich in emotion, sometimes playful, sometimes tragic. Set in the opera world of Berlin just after the fall of the Wall, 'Poetry and Fear' is a gripping tale of spiritual love and pain and the whole damn thing. Orpheus singing in the Underworld. The melancholy Queen of Spain. For everyone who's ever been there, or wants to be.... Published by Andromache Books, London.
Two Hands Clapping
A beautiful art book, TWO HANDS CLAPPING is a unique collaboration - a book of drawings by artist Alexandra Rozenman, accompanied by a series of poems directly inspired by these drawings. There is a quality of strangeness about Alexandra's work, an 'otherness', something surreal, delicate, fleeting that invites fantasy. 'Every picture tells a story' the saying goes, and these really do, but the stories are as complex and disturbing as our dreams. Who are the wiry bird-like creatures, tragi-comic in their awkward postures, that inhabit this world? What is that dripping through the ceiling? Sky? Tears? And are those eyes lying on the floor? The poems by Grace Andreacchi suggest but don't dictate: in this book you're invited, through pictures and poetry, to form your own answers to these questions.
Two Brothers
One brother is rich and selfish, the other is poor and noble-hearted. When the poor brother helps a little swallow with a broken leg, he's rewarded in an extraordinary manner. What's growing inside those giant pumpkins anyway...' A tale of brotherly love and hate from ancient Korea. An Andromache Books title.
