Books by Emma Glass

Peach

by Emma Glass

Introducing a dazzling new literary voice--a wholly original novel as groundbreaking as the works of Eimear McBride and Max Porter.

Something has happened to Peach. Staggering around the town streets in the aftermath of an assault, Peach feels a trickle of blood down her legs, a lingering smell of her anonymous attacker on her skin. It hurts to walk, but she manages to make her way to her home, where she stumbles into another oddly nightmarish reality: Her parents can't seem to comprehend that anything has happened to their daughter.

The next morning, Peach tries to return to the routines of her ordinary life, going to classes, spending time with her boyfriend, Green, trying to find comfort in the thought of her upcoming departure for college. And yet, as Peach struggles through the next few days, she is stalked by the memories of her unacknowledged trauma. Sleeping is hard when she is haunted by the glimpses of that stranger's gaping mouth. Working is hard when her assailant's rancid smell still fills her nostrils. Eating is impossible when her stomach is swollen tight as a drum. Though she tries to close her eyes to what has happened, Peach at last begins to understand the drastic, gruesome action she must take.

In this astonishing debut, Emma Glass articulates the unspeakable with breathtaking verve. Intensely physical, with rhythmic, visceral prose, Peach marks the arrival of a visionary new voice.

Hag Forgotten Folktales Retold

by Imogen Hermes Gowar, Kirsty Logan, Eimear McBride, Daisy Johnson, Naomi Booth, Emma Glass, Irenosen Okojie, Natasha Carthew, Mahsuda Snaith, Liv Little

'Engaging, modern fables with a feminist tang' Sunday Times

DARK, POTENT AND UNCANNY, HAG BURSTS WITH THE UNTOLD STORIES OF OUR ISLES, CAPTURED IN VOICES AS VARIED AS THEY ARE VIVID.

Here are sisters fighting for the love of the same woman, a pregnant archaeologist unearthing impossible bones and lost children following you home. A panther runs through the forests of England and pixies prey upon violent men.

From the islands of Scotland to the coast of Cornwall, the mountains of Galway to the depths of the Fens, these forgotten folktales howl, cackle and sing their way into the 21st century, wildly reimagined by some of the most exciting women writing in Britain and Ireland today.

'A thoroughly original package that has a hint of Angela Carter' The Times

'Sharp writing and cleverly done' Spectator

Mrs. Jekyll

by Emma Glass

By turns tender and devastating, Mrs Jekyll contorts Stevenson's gothic classic into a sumptuous and shocking account of modern womanhood.

Rosy Winter is dying.

Something is growing in her. A hard knot in her chest. A dark spot that cannot be cut out, now seeping outward.

Her husband, Charlie--kind, supportive, but somewhat out of his depth--offers what relief he can as she suffers. His sister, Sally, offers even less, distracted by a shift within her own husband.

But beyond the homeopathic remedies, the dinner party obligations, the snatched whispers on wards and in staffrooms, a force --murderous, sensual, feverish--has been awoken and is stirring within her. A refusal to live, as much as to die.

In searing, lyrical prose that shimmers with rage and longing, Emma Glass has delivers an utterly singular and surreal story of power and powerlessness, light and dark, and life and death.