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Country Life
Contemporary and accessible literary fiction by avant-garde author, musician and publisher Ken Edwards. Jobless, young Dennis Chaikowsky is house-sitting for his parents in the back end of nowhere, near a nuclear power station on the coast. His attempts at musical composition are stymied by his complicated relationship with his Neo-Marxist poet friend, city-dweller Tarquin, his sexual obsession with Alison, a.k.a Wanda, who works in the power station by day and is a singer by night, and his fear and awe of her rock musician husband Severin. It's an unsustainable comedy, but the world outside, natural and unnatural, described in Edwards' unnerving prose, doesn't care.
Secret Orbit
A dystopian novel, narrated on behalf of a dead man, unfolding in 33 chapters mirroring Dante's cantos, and set in a hellish world uncannily like post-Brexit Britain.
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The Grey Area
Despite being subtitled "A Mystery", Ken Edwards' third novel is no conventional crime story. An old and vulnerable woman has gone missing, and a private detective, Phidias Peralta, an illegal resident in a business park near the run-down port of Deadmans Beach, has been hired by her nephew to find her. His assistant, Lucy, is more concerned with her seven-year-old son who is failing at school - but she too is drawn into the quest to try to solve a mystery for which there appears to be no single solution.
Futures
"She heard the satellite continue to deviate from its orbit. . . . Her body plotted the satellite's errant path as it passed overhead unseen, more than a hundred miles above the city. She awoke briefly, then, moisture on her face, bruised. That would have been in the early morning, certainly before it was light. . . ". "Futures" -- British poet Ken Edwards' first published novel -- traces the paths taken by a woman named Eye travelling on her bicycle, across and out of an unnamed city in the wake of an event she can't remember, as she faces her terror and tries to retrieve the fragments of her life.
Down with Beauty
DOWN WITH BEAUTY explores, in a series of linked dialogues, dramatic monologues and short fictions, the themes of exile, the aftermath of war, paranoia, improvised music and nothingness. The collection is completed with the full text of NOSTALGIA FOR UNKNOWN CITIES, previously published separately. KEN EDWARDS is a writer, editor and publisher. He ran Reality Studios magazine from 1978-88 and later co-founded Reality Street. He lives in Hastings, on the south coast of England, where he currently plays bass guitar with The Moors.
