Saturday, May 29, 2021

 

Students of Myself


My new novella, STUDENTS OF MYSELF, is now available for pre-order from Elsewhen Press. This work is one of my personal favourites of everything I have written over the past 30+ years. In fact I regard it as my joint favourite with another forthcoming novella, MY RABBIT'S SHADOW LOOKS LIKE A HAND.

STUDENTS OF MYSELF is constructed with a framing tale and lots of stories within that frame. Together all these stories make up the bigger picture, which is the life of a university professor who is compelled to teach a subject he has no interest in. These stories are strange and become stranger as the book progresses. They feed back into the reality of the professor's world until he finally understands that the framing tale itself is framed by the stories within the frame. But paradoxes aren't the main point of this book.

The story is set in Africa, in an unnamed city that is an amalgamation of Cape Town, Maputo and Freetown, but there is a little of Rio de Janeiro in there too. There is a sense of hope, of a better future among the chaotic magic, provided the main protagonist can free himself from the limits that have been imposed upon him and which he has accepted.

The ebook will be published on June 11th and the paperback will follow two weeks later.

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