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Cosmogramma and other stories Photo © Sharron Wallace
COURTTIA NEWLAND
A dark and incisive collection of speculative short stories set in an Courttia Newland is the author of eight books including his much-lauded debut, The Scholar. His most recent novel is A River Called Time. He coedited
alternate future of interstellar space travel, robots, mythical creatures and the uncanny
The Penguin Book of New Black Writing in Britain, and his short stories have featured in various anthologies and been broadcast on BBC Radio 4. He was shortlisted for the 2007 CWA Dagger in the Library Award and the 2010 Alfred Fagon Award. In 2016 he was also awarded the Tayner Barbers Award for
‘Courttia’s writing is rich with passion and humanity’ STEVE McQUEEN
‘One of the most imaginative, freethinking writers working today. I love his work’ SARAH HALL In his sharply crafted, unnerving first collection of speculative fiction shorts, Courttia Newland envisages an alternate future as lived by the African diaspora.
science fiction writing and the Roland Rees Bursary for playwriting. As a screenwriter, he has written episodes of Steve McQueen’s 2020 BBC series Small Axe.
Robots driven by all-too-human urges set out to colonise space; Kill Parties roam the streets of a post-apocalyptic world; a matriarchal race of mer creatures depends on interbreeding with mortals to survive; mysterious seeds appear in cities across the world, growing into the likeness of people in their vicinity.
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Through transfigured bodies and impossible encounters, Newland brings a sharp, fresh eye to age-old themes of the human capacity for greed, ambition and self-destruction, but ultimately of our strength and resilience.
Also by Courttia Newland: A River Called Time £16.99 (9781786897060)
28 October 2021 Trade Paperback Fiction 224pp
Demy TPB £12.99 9781786897091
Ebook £10.39 9781786897107
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