Sail Away Land
by Ben Pester
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Pub Date 4 Jun 2026 | Archive Date Not set
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Description
Sail Away Land is the space where we might go when we're no longer alive (sometimes only temporarily). In this uncommon and disarming collection, the characters go 'there' with or without knowing it. Maybe they have been living there all along without noticing - just like they hadn't really noticed that everyone is carrying a shiny black suitcase.
These stories are about normal things - losing the people we're closest to, forgiving them, finding love and managing to hold onto it - but also about going to parties through a door in the back of a colleague's head, housebreaking in search of a sister's ghost, and asking the strangers in the kitchen to resurrect you at midnight.
Brilliant and strange, the stories in Sail Away Land are full of temporal weirdness, life and non-being, imagination and wit, all while being effortlessly, seductively readable and incredibly moving.
Advance Praise
‘I hugely enjoyed Sail Away Land. Bizarre and disquieting... Very few, if any contemporary writers, capture the drudgery of life in capitalist society, the scourge of deferred gratification, in quite the way that Ben Pester does, the feeling of being constantly trapped inside an anxiety dream’
Sara Baume
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9781803514291 |
| PRICE | £14.99 (GBP) |
| PAGES | 208 |