'There is nothing so shocking, so beastly, or hateful to the imagination than to encounter another's happiness, particularly when it is a happiness that you yourself cannot partake in.' Spanning some 3,000 years and narrated by multiple voices, Forever Human follows a triangle of characters whose worlds are inextricably linked: Cassius, who remembers his past lives; Henri, who forgets; and Memphis, who may just have a greater awareness of the overarching plan of history than either of them. As Cassius toils on a formula for saving humanity from itself, the sinister Memphis shadows him and...
'There is nothing so shocking, so beastly, or hateful to the imagination than to encounter another's happiness, particularly when it is a happiness th...
"So many snatches come back to him, little moments which are big moments in hindsight. At eight, a TV program - Hiroshima blast: men, women, children, their shadows caught and appliqued to walls. At twenty-five, the collapsing accordion of detonated buildings. And at thirty-two, sitting at a barbecue, Kerrie kneels beside him." Rex has always fostered a bleak view of humans. He suspects the world would be better off without our species. So when a virus, designed to make pests develop an insatiable appetite for their own kind, affects humans instead, it is as though Rex's wish has come...
"So many snatches come back to him, little moments which are big moments in hindsight. At eight, a TV program - Hiroshima blast: men, women, children,...
A collection of Conyers' early poems and drawings, dating from his high-school years to his early twenties. Observing his own inner workings and life around him in Melbourne, Australia, during the nineties and early noughties, he has managed to produce a marriage of the written and visual that is refreshingly offbeat. Covering a plethora of styles and subject matter, Conyers touches on the whimsical, funny, morbid, lyrical and inventive ... in short, all the inspiration and annoyance of the mood swings of youth.
A collection of Conyers' early poems and drawings, dating from his high-school years to his early twenties. Observing his own inner workings and life ...