Fiction. James's debut novel is a dystopian meditation on identity, fiction, Cartesian duality, and stolen jewels. A hallucination of decline and disintegration, this darkly comic novel unpicks the seams of manic realism.

Author Hometown: LONDON UK



About the author: Heidi James's is the author of the novel CARBON (Blatt Books, 2009) and the novella The Mesmerist's Daughter (Apis Books, 2007). She has collaborated with artists including Delaine LeBas, Marisa Carnesky and Tara Darby. Her essays and short stories have appeared in various publications and anthologies including Dazed and Confused, Next Level, Flux, Brand, Another Magazine, The Independent, Undercurrent, 3:AM London, New York, Paris, Dreams That Money Can Buy, Full Moon Empty Sports Bag, and Pulp.net. She is a PhD candidate in London and is the publisher of Social Disease Books.