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Widowed geologist Jon Tain is found dead in a remote Scottish graveyard. Death from exposure; a tragic accident. His daughter Jane is baffled by the events which led up to his death and sets out to make sense of his final mysterious car journey from Hampshire to the Highlands. As she journeys deep into her father's past she uncovers a secret love - and finds a new love of her own. The Professor's Wife - a poignant tale of deceit, secrecy and betrayal. As he read through the manuscript of this unpublished novel written years earlier, the writer was struck by how false it seemed, both in its language and plot and in its representation of the story underlying the narrative. But could anything be rescued from it? Month of the Drowned Dog - a novel about death, biography, literature and the deceptions of narrative.

The wife of Britain's greatest living novelist hears terrible screams coming from his study. She knows there are two people from his past who want to kill him. As she runs from the grounds of their country estate into their manor house to confront his attacker, the novelist's life and career unfold before the reader, leading to that terrible moment when the source of the horror finally becomes clear. This is the extraordinary tale of one man's life. Concrete Impressions - a novel about literature and biography.

This charming tale tells the story of Ed Pig's escape from Pigland and his wanderings in the land of the humans. In rural England Ed found himself involved in a sequence of strange and colourful adventures. He attended his first music festival. He discovered terrible things about what humans do to animals. He fell in love. And in a local bookshop he came across a paperback entitled Animal Farm. Ed knew then that he had to return to Pigland to tell everyone the truth about the foul libels told against pigs - and the horrifying reality which lay in wait both for himself and for his listeners.

Stalin fakes his death, swims to England and starts a new life. Strange paranormal phenomena occur shortly before the pregant mothers of future American presidents go into labour. A purple mould spreads across Europe and a marriage collapses. In the idiosyncratic and distinctive stories of his first collection - now enlarged to include the contents of three rare early chapbooks published before it - Ellis Sharp synthesizes fact and fiction to provide dark, comic parables for our times.

Los Angeles, 1932. Hack Hollywood writer Eliot Blunt finds himself involved in the mysterious death of a top movie producer - an event which provides him with the chance to produce exciting and original screen treatments of work by Virginia Woolf. Ellis Sharp's powerful new novel is a savage and extreme tale of VIOLENCE and MURDER which tells the TRUE STORY of a SHAMEFULLY NEGLECTED NOVEL and a FORGOTTEN LITERARY GENIUS, taking us deep into the heart of HOLLYWOOD, a SCREEN GODDESS and a lost GOLDEN AGE of fiction. Neglected Writer - a sizzling tale of lust, ambition and deception. Includes earthquakes.

When Ben Turner comes to Southwold in winter to escape a failed relationship, he encounters a mysterious and elusive stranger. This leads to the discovery of the town's connections to George Orwell and a growing obsession with events which happened in the town long ago. As the days pass Ben finds himself drawn into a passionate engagement with Orwell's life and writing, and a love affair which begins to echo Orwell's own romantic entanglement with a local woman. A novel about a love affair - but also involving a passionate debate between a woman and a man about George Orwell, his treatment of women, his books, and his evolving politics. Ellis Sharp is a novelist who is "ferociously brilliant" - Iain Banks, "utterly invigorating" - China Mieville, "targets the deadly absurdities and frustrations of our civilisation" - Ken MacLeod, "his books are jam-packed with wondrous things" - Lee Rourke, "Ellis Sharp demands that we set aside a whole set of expectations, not only about realism, but also about political fiction and English literature" - Mark Fisher, New Statesman, "You can trust Ellis Sharp because beneath the zaniness, at the level of the sentence, he is very good indeed" - Guardian.

History collides with fantasy as Ellis Sharp tackles the big questions of our time and uncovers startling new facts about Emily Brontë, extra-terrestrials and gastric secretion. These thirteen inventive stories answer such questions who invented yogurt? Why was the British Government prepared to spend one million roubles in an attempt to seize Lenin's trousers? And what did happen to Fred, Laura and the children in Brief Encounter after Alec left for South Africa?

THREE NOVELLAS by Ellis Sharp. TO WETUMPKA - He was running on empty and troubled by strange dreams. Plus maybe he'd read too much F. Scott Fitzgerald and seen too many movies. So Tollinger went looking for a new beginning. But what he encountered on an east coast beach was to change the direction of his life in a way he could never have imagined, in this tale of trauma and disintegration and of a struggle to survive disturbing events. INTOLERABLE TONGUES - In the spring of 1939, during the final phase of the great Palestinian rebellion, Dr Donald McCollum went on a motor tour of the Holy Land. His intention was to write a travel book about his pilgrimage to the places associated with the life of Jesus. This is not that book. THE DUMP - In a narrative which at times reads like a dystopian yet comic News from Nowhere retold by Samuel Beckett, we are taken inside the mind of a half-deranged inhabitant of The Dump, a vast waste tip on the edge of London, where the outcasts of our society wander amidst its filth and rubbish.

In this new collection, cult writer Ellis Sharp reinvents the possibilities of fiction. Paying homage to the 1960s experimental novelist Ann Quin, these stories take the reader on a rollercoaster ride through a dark, absurd world where the fabric of reality is twisted into strange new shapes in which anything is possible