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‘We are taught by what we find … And what we find, we have to give away.’Broken Consort is a chronicle of close attention (to books, films, plays, paintings, music, notebooks and car-boot sales) which will confound anyone who thinks rigour and generosity are contradictory. It includes an account of the evolution of the author’s prize-winning novel Murmur, an essay on Daniel Defoe’s Journal of the Plague Year, and practical reflections on the business of writing.‘“At the heart of writing is curiosity,” writes Will Eaves in his essay on “Making Books”. Curiosity may fuel every writers heart, but very often it’s coffee that powers the writer’s mind. When all the coffee runs out, we will be even more grateful for Will Eaves and his essays – each one a shot of artisistic adrenalin and a euphoric psychostimulant.’– Nancy Campbell, author of The Library of Ice

The memoir delves into the artistic journey of Will Eaves as he reflects on the creation of eight distinct piano pieces. Through a blend of personal narrative and musical exploration, Eaves examines the interplay between creativity and the human experience, offering insights into the emotional and intellectual processes that shape his work. This intimate account reveals the significance of music in Eaves' life, making it a compelling read for both music lovers and those interested in the creative process.

On a warm summer's evening in 1999, an earthquake strikes the heart of London. The epicentre of the tremor is a theatre, where a lavish production of The Tempest has just opened. In the cast are friends and enemies, among them a preening star, a drunken failure, and Martha, a young actress. In the audience sits her clever sister, Alice." "As the shockwaves subside, the veil between the real and the imaginary is lifted, and magical forces of envy, ambition, madness, and romance invade the world: Alice and Martha vie for love and precedence on stage; a mesmerist indulges his worthless son; and Leslie Barrington, a washed-up Caliban, dreams of literary revenge. Behind the scenes, a family tragedy awaits discovery. The players are, one by one, unmasked." "Nothing To Be Afraid Of is a lament for hope abandoned and innocence betrayed, but it is also an extravagant comic pageant of Shakespearean energy and compassion: an incidental theatrical history, across the twentieth century, of the art of pretence; of patience, trust, and loyalty; of folly in youth and old age."--BOOK JACKET

Family: sometimes heaven, sometimes hell, never what it seems

The Absent Therapist is a book of soundings, a jostle of voices that variously argue, remember, explain, justify, speculate and meander . . . Sons and lovers, wanderers, wonderers, stayers, leavers, readers and believers: ‘The biggest surprise of all is frequently that things and people really are as they seem.’

Murmur evokes the extraordinary life of Alan Turing, the beauty and sorrows of love, and the nature of consciousness. Winner of the Wellcome Prize and shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize

"In 1983, an ordinary teenager called Daniel Rathbone fell in love, spurned a friend, and stumbled on the ability to see in the dark." "Years later, on his twenty-fifth birthday, Daniel is bequeathed a second no less unusual gift - a Victorian writing box, or 'slope', the legacy of his father and the repository both of youthful ambition and of a dimly perceived guilt. The box is opened, but its contents resist interpretation." "When a visit from the once-spurned friend, Carey Schumacher, coincides with the death of a contemporary, Daniel's peculiar endowments are enlisted to make lasting sense of lost time and place." "From Bath to Brixton, from the 1960s to the 90s, The Oversight follows a trail of thwarted and victorious affections. It is an intently comic tale of vision and delusion; of family, friendship and desertion; and of the divisively cruel need to belong. A multi-layered debut of distinction."--BOOK JACKET

Subtitled 'a memoir by other means', the new book by Will Eaves - whose previous book, The Absent Therapist, was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize - lassoes consciousness, memory, desire, literature, illness, and brings them back home in double file, as prose and poetry.

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