The Odium Trilogy charts a complete academic year in the misfortune, decline and fall of a dysfunctional provincial English university. An American Professor arrives at the beginning of term one to take up a research post, but he is not what he seems. He has been hired by the University’s ruthless Vice Chancellor to sort out the many problems he has with his enemies among the staff, but we come to learn that he has a mission of his own. His unorthodox methods cause the University to spin entirely out of control, leading to an explosive climax that will haunt it for the rest of the year. Seven deadly plot twists follow, involving blackmail, homophobia, misogyny, violence, ignorance, corruption and deceit. Amidst a welter of comic characters are Nigel Asterisk, the weasel-like Registrar; Avril Poon, the opportunistic Union president; James Redman, her morally upstanding deputy; Robert McNamara, a disillusioned specialist in Politics; Drusilla Frost, the overripe head of PR; not to speak of a femme fatale postgraduate student, a Professor of Arabic poetry who always wears a white suit, a Ukrainian lecturer with madcap broken English, an educationist who gives a lecture which causes an international diplomatic incident, a Welsh malcontent, and one or two notorious leaders of the western world. Clockman’s hilarious triple-decker epic encapsulates all the features of the twenty-first century academy: sexual intrigue, thirst for revenge, viciousness, erudite stupidity, hypocrisy, selfishness, egomania, greed and iniquity.

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Jungle Without Water and Other Stories is a collection that crosses borders and boundaries. People in these stories inhabit different stages of movement – those who have emigrated, those who want to, and those who regret it. The stories also depict our human prejudices around how we move from place to place and culture to culture. In “The Lovely Village” citizens of an unnamed settlement build a strong wall to keep newcomers out. In “Circular Feed”, refugees at a detention centre protest by standing on the roof of their living quarters. Alienation works across cultures, across boundaries of inequality. In “Green Grass” an inter-racial couple have a fight during their honeymoon in the husband’s homeland, while in the title story, two migrant boys look for the right place to pray on foreign soil. Altogether, the collection touches on how we view and understand race, colour, love, and what happens to us when we shift our selves in different environments.

“Sreedhevi Iyer deftly maps the human shifts of our time in a way few writers can, with an ear for the prejudices, accents and hopes we carry with us. This is clever, compelling twenty-first century writing, and we need more of it.”NICK EARLS

“Iyer is a wonderful storyteller, and this debut collection shows an incredible knack for locating and revealing fractures, faultlines and tensions – cultural, familial and historical – in any given moment.”BENJAMIN LAW

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In this 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 – from an encounter with Franz Kafka’s second fiancée and a journey into a demon-populated hell to the disturbing climaxes of a paranormal communication and an all-night party. Shadowed by themes of death, passing time and lost love, this book confirms Sharp’s reputation as one of Britain’s most idiosyncratic and innovative writers.

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This series focuses on the production of new World Englishes fiction. It features country anthologies of newly sourced writing in English, edited and presented with a critical and historical introduction. The first four volumes in the series concentrate on contemporary African writing. The title story of the Uganda volume, "Butterfly Dreams", was shortlisted for The Caine Prize for African Writing in 2011.

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"Daughters of Eve" is full of surprise, suspense and carefully sculpted characters. This collection of eleven strories offers new departures in genre and voice through narratives of crime, love and urban living.

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Black and Whites is the fifth volume in the World Englishes Literature series. It shows that Malaysian writing in English has reached a stage of considerable advancement and independence. It explodes the official government ideology of ‘One Malaysia’ from almost every perspective conceivable, be it familial, racial, religious, cultural, economic, or generational. More than that, however, the stories herein demonstrate a linguistic self-confidence and a commitment to specifically modern Malaysian themes.

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Labyrinths was a short-lived British journal of literary postmodernism which appeared on the world wide web – and as quickly disappeared – in the early years of the twenty-first century. While its contents were lively and accessible, in its organisation it seemed to aim for an almost dadaistic randomness and inexplicability. In the first four of its eight issues, for example, ironic stories about world-historical figures such as Trotsky and Hitler appeared alongside a tale about the administration of lighthouses and marginalia to an unknown book. Odd poetry jostled with academic articles and reviews (some of them sober and genuine, others satirical spoofs). The individual numbers of the periodical were of wildly varying length. Its last four issues were each given over to a single author, one of them being a collection of verse, another an entire novel. The magazine also circulated in print form, published by Zoilus Press, but it had no subscribers and was not for sale. Instead, it was capriciously sent or given unbidden to individuals in a manner that ensured that no one other than the publisher possessed all the numbers. No request from any library wishing to acquire the printed journal was ever honoured. This volume reprints the entire run of Labyrinths for the first time and now makes it available in permanent form to a wider audience.

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