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Rebecca Gransden — Figures Crossing the Field Towards the Group — Tangerine Press
Rebecca Gransden — Figures Crossing the Field Towards the Group — Tangerine Press
  • Three editions: paperback; 100 numbered & 26 lettered copies

DUE MAY 2025

A pilgrimage. An England in delirium.


In the midst of an apocalyptic event of unknown provenance – a mass of red spreading north from the southern counties – a young girl sets out on a journey. Along the way she encounters a series of eccentric characters, the few left behind in the wake of a widespread evacuation. Some of these individuals are ravaged and on the edge of death, while others are immersed in their own hermetic practices, be they solipsistic, nihilistic, or otherwise. None wish to engage for more than the brief time necessary to offer their meagre assistance. There is talk of ‘anti-spores’, pools of blood, and of a hum spreading through communication wires. The hum has altered the very appearance of written language, pushing words apart, leaving only single syllables behind. This constraint is present in the third-person narration we read but is removed during periods of dialogue. This results in a rhythmic, chantlike flow to the prose. As with the best of work that employs the tropes of apocalyptic fiction, Rebecca Gransden’s unusual novella ends with many of its questions floating in the scarlet haze it generates, leaving them for the reader to ponder in the wake of what is surely a singular literary experience.

HARRY ADAMS
Specially commissioned artwork by Harry Adams.

"Linguistically inventive, alert in every sense, and propelled with such narrative force that hairs burn on the unsuspecting reader’s neck."
Iain Sinclair

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First printing

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** pages. Format approx. Format approx. 7"/170mm wide x 10"/240mm tall. Acid-free card covers and text paper; full colour title page; acid-free endpapers colour tbc. Printed & bound in England. ISBN: 978-1-***

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100 Numbered/signed copies

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** pages. Pinched Crown format, approx. 7”/175mm wide, 10”/250mm tall. Handbound at the Tangerine workshop with cloth-covered acid-free boards, conservation glue and hemp cord; foil embossed front cover artwork; colour title page. ISBN: 978-1-***

Quarterbound with Fabriano Tiziano paper covered boards and cloth spine; acid-free text paper and endpapers; front cover embossed artwork; paste down spine label.

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Signed by Rebecca Gransden

26 Lettered/signed/signed artwork copies

£*** plus shipping

** pages. Pinched Crown format, approx. 7”/175mm wide, 10”/250mm tall. Handbound at the Tangerine workshop with cloth-covered acid-free boards, conservation glue and hemp cord; foil embossed front cover artwork; colour title page. ISBN: 978-1-***

Quarter bound with paper covered boards and cloth spine; front cover artwork embossed; acid-free text paper and endpapers.

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LETTERED COPIES SENT OUT WITH A COMPLIMENTARY 'READING COPY' OF THE FIRST PRINT PAPERBACK

ADVANCE PRAISE:

‘Linguistically inventive, alert in every sense, and propelled with such narrative force that hairs burn on the unsuspecting reader’s neck. A classic end-game pilgrimage under a black sun across a spoiled landscape, waiting to be absorbed once again into the marginless sea. The work of a poet in the sway of place, at whatever cost to herself. And to our unsuspecting psyches.’
Iain Sinclair

Reviews forthcoming . . .

Rebecca Gransden has always lived by the sea. She publishes her own prose and occasional ‘lost’ works via her Cardboard Wall Empire imprint. Tangerine Press published Ms Gransden’s Analoger +1 in 2018.

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