'Melancholic transboy swagger' — Andrea Lawlor

Ponyboy pops pills, snorts speed, and attempts art as he comes to terms with his transmasculinity and addiction in Paris and Berlin, in the electric debut from Eliot Duncan.

Ponyboy

Eliot Duncan

A bildungsroman set over three acts, Ponyboy is a quest for self-identity set among the art world of Paris and Berlin. In the first act, Ponyboy's eponymous narrator-a pill-popping, speed-snorting trans-masculine lightning bolt-unravels in his Paris apartment. Ponyboy is caught in a messy love triangle with Baby, a lesbian painter who can't see herself being with someone trans, and Toni, a childhood friend who can actually see Ponyboy for who he is. Strung out, Ponyboy follows Baby to Berlin in act two, where he sinks deeper into drugs and falls for a fellow writer, all the while pursued by a megalomaniacal photographer hungry for the next hot thing.

As Ponyboy's relationships crumble, he overdoses and finds himself alone in his childhood home in Nebraska. The novel's final act follows Ponyboy to rehab, exploring the ways in which trans identity, addiction and recovery can reforge the bond between mother and child.

ISBN: 9781804440308

Subject:

Fiction

Published: Jun2023

Binding: Paperback

Format: 216mmx135mm

Extent: 240pp

Rights: WEL excl. US,Can,Phil

'Utterly brilliant - engaging, thrilling, disturbing, revelatory, explosive' — George Monbiot

An urgent, eye-opening study by leading climate change activist, researcher and writer that draws on the latest research and evidence to unravel systemic ways that climate change is driving people mad - and show how we can find inspiration in that madness.

Spinning Out

Climate Change, Mental Health and Fighting for a Better Future

Charlie Hertzog Young

The dominant culture is driving the Earth mad. Now, the Earth is driving us mad in return. The relationship between climate chaos and mental health goes far deeper than eco-anxiety. It goes to the roots of our civilisation – its principles, its practices and its false solutions.

Charlie Hertzog Young became a climate activist in his early teens. His journey led him onto airport runways and the halls of power, but also mental health diagnoses and multiple breakdowns. Eventually, in 2019, he jumped from a six-storey rooftop. He spent a month in a coma and lost both legs. This book draws on the lessons he learned from rebuilding himself, physically and psychologically, but this book isn’t about him, it’s an exercise in collective recovery. We hear from dozens of activists, organisers and researchers across every habitable continent – from radical psychiatrists, youth organisers and co-operative builders in flooded Pakistan, to systemfocused activists in Nigeria and indigenous earth defenders in Mexico – to outline models for post-traumatic growth.

ISBN: 9781804440315

Subject: Climatechange

Published: Jun2023

Binding:

Paperback

Format:

216mmx135mm

Extent: 272pp

Rights: World

Spinning Out explores – and demonstrates – how climate chaos and those in power are causing an almost inevitable mental health crisis across the globe. From the psychological fallout of losing your home, livelihood and loved ones due to floods, droughts or rising sea levels, to the increase in stress, domestic violence and drug use during extreme heatwaves, not to mention the existential dread caused by the prospect of an increasingly alarming future

Spinning Out is collection of solutions from across the globe and a manual for anyone who wants to get (un)real in fighting for a better world, while avoiding burnout and despair. Meaningful action from unlikely people, places and states of mind – action that aims to change not just our emissions but systemic changes to our entire way of life – can be a powerful means of both psychological recovery and planetary renewal, wedding the needs of the earth with the needs of the human mind.