Tatterdemalion

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Pub Date 04 May 2017 | Archive Date 31 Jul 2017

Description

In a ruined world, what survives are the tales we tell.

Tatterdemalion is a uniquely original post-apocalyptic novel rooted in fantasy and folklore. It begins when Poppy, who speaks the languages of wild things, travels east to the mountains with the wheeled and elephantine beast, Lyoobov. He’s seeking answers to the mysteries of his birth, and the origins of a fallen world.

Up in the glacial peaks, among a strange, mountainous people, a Juniper Tree takes Poppy deep into her roots and shows him the true stories of the people who made his world, people he thought were only myths. Their tales span centuries, from three hundred years in the future all the way back to our present day. It is through this feral but redemptive folklore that Poppy begins to understand the story of his own past and his place in the present.

Tatterdemalion is a brilliant collaboration between the visual artist Rima Staines and the author Sylvia Linsteadt, and it features 14 original colour illustrations which inspired the story.

In a ruined world, what survives are the tales we tell.

Tatterdemalion is a uniquely original post-apocalyptic novel rooted in fantasy and folklore. It begins when Poppy, who speaks the languages of...


Advance Praise

'Exquisite: Angela Carter gone feral with Ursula Le Guin. It is like a folk tale, but seen in its tattered shreds, glimpsed, but then utterly realised in language. It makes me glow; it makes my fur rise.' - Jay Griffiths. 

'Exquisite: Angela Carter gone feral with Ursula Le Guin. It is like a folk tale, but seen in its tattered shreds, glimpsed, but then utterly realised in language. It makes me glow; it makes my fur...


Marketing Plan

A unique voice and original concept.

Contains 14 original colour illustrations which inspired the book.

Market interest in nature, ecology and fantasy.

Part of Unbound’s 2017 Spring Fiction promotion For fans of Angela Carter, Ursula Le Guin and Jay Griffiths. 

A unique voice and original concept.

Contains 14 original colour illustrations which inspired the book.

Market interest in nature, ecology and fantasy.

Part of Unbound’s 2017 Spring Fiction promotion...


Available Editions

EDITION Hardcover
ISBN 9781783523290
PRICE £20.00 (GBP)
PAGES 224

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