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The Memory Library

$24.99

Latest release under our new Espresso imprint

Antonia Pont

 

Retro-tainment, existential eavesdropping, or the future of self-help?

After an unspecified disaster, the future is quiet and analogue. Behind a doorway in the old town, a private library service flourishes. Signed up by the inscrutable Charlie, patrons subscribe to a membership they don’t fully understand. Whether heartbreak, a rainstorm, or habitual brittleness leads you to The Memory Library, your contributions can be accommodated.

With illustrations by Richard Holt.


Paperback, 103 pages, $24.99 + postage

  • available soon as eBook 

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Reviews

‘This is a strange book. At first I was not at all sure what was going on, but I was intrigued by this ingenious idea and kept reading.’

From Anne Skea’s review of The Memory Library, Newtown Review of Books


Praise

‘An ageless, fable-like work of glinting unfamiliarity and mystery. The Memory Library is a glass-like novella humming with internal significance.’

Jessica Au, Cold Enough For Snow

‘A dissociative, contrapuntal sci-fi that’s also a paean to human connection. A novella by turns grounding and soaring that drew me back, after the final page, like a rich and changing memory.’

Briohny Doyle, Why We Are Here

 


About the Author

ANTONIA PONT is a widely published author of fiction, essays, poetry and theory. She lives in Naarm (Melbourne), where she teaches and mentors writers, artists, yogis and humans. She is herself mentored by two cats, who both have Spanish names, for no particular reason. You can find more of her work at www.antoniapont.com.

 

 

 

 

 

Distribution inquiries:

Our titles are distributed by NewSouth Books through Alliance Distribution Services:
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Email: adscs@alliancedist.com.au
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Additional information

Extent:

105pp

Format:

Paperback

ISBN:

978-0-6483988-6-8

Publication Date:

April 2024

Size:

203mm H x 103mm W

Imprint

Espresso

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