No & Other Love Stories

Kirsty Logan

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Hardback

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English

Harvill
11 February 2025

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Romance; Short stories; Feminism & feminist theory; Romance

The perfect anti-Valentine- a deliciously dark collection of love stories, from a prizewinning LGBTQI+ writer who has been compared to Angela Carter.

A deliciously dark collection of love stories to sink your teeth into, from the prizewinning author of NOW SHE IS WITCH

Can 'no' be a declaration of love? What happens when love is savage, dangerous and all-consuming? In this gorgeous and unsettling collection, women navigate the complexities and cruelties of desire across time and place, from a medieval convent to a Victorian parlour to a 1990s high school.
* An expectant mother feeds raw meat to the wasp's nest in her shed.
* A pair of sapphic lovers use ghost possession to fleece money from lecherous men.
* One woman in wartime London discovers that she loves her husband much more as a ghost.
* A teenage girl becomes infatuated with a bloodthirsty succubus.

Intensely atmospheric, surprising and darkly funny, this collection is a richly flavoured feast from a brilliant writer in full command of the form.

'Absolutely obsessed. Savage, strange and spicy' Lucy Rose, author of Lamb

'A dark delight, steeped in blood red honey' Heather Parry, author of Orpheus Builds A Girl

'A gothic homage to the visceral, haunting, unnerving nature of human connection' Alice Slater, author of Death of a Bookseller

'No one writes about the horrific and the erotic, and the tangled up intersections of both, like Kirsty Logan' Anna Bogutskaya, author of Feeding The Monster

'Darkly graceful, innovative, sexy and funny. Kirsty Logan is a jewel' Camilla Grudova, author of The Doll's Alphabet

KIRSTY LOGAN WAS SELECTED AS ONE OF BRITAIN'S TEN MOST OUTSTANDING LGBTQ WRITERS by Val McDermid for the International Literature Showcase in 2019

By: Kirsty Logan
Imprint: Harvill
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 241mm, Width: 160mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 391g
ISBN: 9781787304444
ISBN 10: 1787304442
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 11 February 2025
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Kirsty Logan is an author of novels, short stories, chapbooks and collaborative projects with musicians and illustrators. Her books have won the Lambda, Polari, Saboteur, Scott and Gavin Wallace awards. She lives in Glasgow with her family, where she is working on film and TV projects. @kirstylogan www.kirstylogan.com

Reviews for No & Other Love Stories

Mesmerising and evocative’ * Observer, on NOW SHE IS WITCH * One of our national writing treasures… deeply atmospheric... will hold you tight and not let go’ * Stylist, on NOW SHE IS WITCH * Powerful, imaginative, compelling - myth-making at its best * Val McDermid, on NOW SHE IS WITCH * An impassioned reclaiming of female desire...absorbingly atmospheric * Daily Mail, on NOW SHE IS WITCH * Spooky, timeless, feminist, inventive, unsettling * Viv Groksop, on NOW SHE IS WITCH *