Go Back at OnceCompleted by Robert Aickman in 1975, but never before widely available, Go Back at Once is a delicious, delirious comic fantasia about the joys and terrors of a life devoted to resisting the degradations of conformism. It tells the story of Cressida Hazeborough and her friend Vivien, two mordantly intelligent young women trying to find their ways in a misty, pre Depression Britain. The pair have little patience for the company of the marriageable men

In this sense he is a prodigiously gifted poet

and the work’s easy enough

starting their lives again

as the poets channel Ovid’s mischief and whisper tales of just and unjust deserts

Also featured are the six shortlisted novels of the 2020 International Prize for Arabic Fiction

translated by Kathryn Stapley

Majella Cullinane was born and raised in Limerick

In 2010 she won the NZSA Jessie Mackay Award for Best First Book of Poetry for the Auckland University Press edition of this collection (2009)

The book does not read like a first collection

Rainer Franz Teuschl

Scavenius’s universe is chilling and excruciatingly seductive

Her work has truly haunted me