Airless SpacesShulamith Firestones visionary first book The Dialectic of Sex dared to look at how feminism could shape the future. Finding herself drifting into a new airless space after her experience of New York City radical feminist groups, Firestone wrote her first work of fiction. Airless Spaces portrays the psychic suffering, bureaucratized poverty and small crises of everyday life. In a series of vignettes about institutions and identity, Airless Spaces

Catherine is certainly one of them: a  powerful female voice seeking her place within her family

Suki Hollywood

Honor Gavin has created an ingenious narrative of one Midlands family that is also a startling

Into this world steps Feng Meng’ao

Together these works encapsulate the Tamil story of exile and displacement

When Mr Brookes accepts a booking at the Brighton Grand

and enchanted

” — Peter Florence

Anne Vegter

The stories in this anthology are not centered around a theme

streetwise

though the nature of innocence is thoroughly deconstructed