Night Brother

Rosie Garland is a novelist, poet, performer and singer with post-punk band The March Violets. An eclectic writer, she started out in spoken word, going on to garner praise as a performance poet. Her award-winning short stories, poems and essays have been widely anthologised, and her sixth poetry collection, As In Judy, is out now with Flapjack Press. She is the author of Vixen, a Green Carnation Prize nominee. Her debut novel, The Palace of Curiosities, won Book of the Year in the Co-op Respect Awards 2013 and was nominated for both The Desmond Elliott and the Polari First Book Prize. She lives in Manchester and is currently developing a new musical project, Time-Travelling Suffragettes.

Praise for The Night Brother:‘Rosie Garland writes in a tumble of poetry, desire and passion, as intriguing and delicious as the story she tells’ Stella Duffy‘A rich and ambitious tale … Garland's prose is a delight: playful and exuberant’ THE TIMES‘Echoes of Angela Carter’s more fantastical fiction reverberate through this exuberant tale of a hermaphrodite Jekyll and Hyde figure …enjoyably energetic’ SUNDAY TIMESPraise for The Palace of Curiosities:‘Garland’s lush prose is always a pleasure’ GUARDIAN‘A jewel-box of a novel … Garland is a real literary talent: definitely an author to watch’ Sarah Waters‘An alternately brutal and beautiful story about love and belonging in a vividly conveyed underworld, rich in carny phantasmagoria and lyrical romance’ METRO‘Bewitching’ GOOD HOUSEKEEPING‘Reminds me of Angela Carter’ Jenni Murray