Weird Girls - Böcker

Welcome to the circus - strange, dirty and shameless, this is the greatest show on Earth.Sophie Fevvers is a seductress, a braggart and an ariel performer in Colonel Kearney's circus. She is also part woman, part swan.Jack Walser, an American journalist, is on a quest to discover the truth behind her identity. Dazzled by his love for her, and desperate for the scoop of a lifetime, Walser has no choice but to join the circus on its magical tour through turn-of-the-nineteenth-century London, St Petersburg and Siberia.**One of the BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World**READER LOVE - JOIN THE CIRCUS:'My God. What a breathtaking journey.''It plays itself out like a fabulous carnival.''Now I'm done, and I don't know what to do with myself''[B]eautifully written and surprisingly life-affirming, while also being strange, sly, and sexed-up''Angela Carter's world is, as always, a dirty, earthy, erotic, yet soaringly ethereal place to spend one's time'The Vintage Classics Weird Girls series: Dive into the depraved, delectable depths of weird fiction with nine books by nine pioneering female authors. Bold, disruptive, chilling and enchanting, these tales of the weird are strange enough to get lost in.

In this darkly addictive, devious novel, love is pain.Rin is flying back from her honeymoon. She's madly in love with her husband. The future looks rosy.Then he disappears to the bathroom and Rin imagines that he has gone to seduce the flight attendant. As her thoughts spiral out of control, the phrase 'madly in love' takes on a more sinister meaning.Prizewinning author Hitomi Kanehara follows Rin's life backwards from this moment, as a picture of the dark core and violent past of this disturbed young woman gradually comes into focus.The Vintage Classics Weird Girls series: Dive into the depraved, delectable depths of weird fiction with nine books by nine pioneering female authors. Bold, disruptive, chilling and enchanting, these tales of the weird are strange enough to get lost in.

In this radically reimagined vampire myth, the night hides many things...Louisiana, 1850. A young girl escapes slavery and is taken in by two mysterious women.Rumoured to be witches, the pair travel only at night, dress in men's clothing and seem to know others' innermost thoughts. But the girl sees the promise of true freedom in their dark glittering eyes: the promise to 'share the blood' and live forever. They name her Gilda.Over the next two hundred years, Gilda moves through unseen spaces: through antebellum brothels, hair salons and jazz clubs, searching for a way to exist in the world. But can Gilda truly outrun the darkness of history and face a future where the lives of everyone she loves are at stake?'A groundbreaking work of Afrofuturism before the term was even coined' Guardian'A lush, exciting, inspiring read' Sarah WatersThe Vintage Classics Weird Girls series: Dive into the depraved, delectable depths of weird fiction with nine books by nine pioneering female authors. Bold, disruptive, chilling and enchanting, these tales of the weird are strange enough to get lost in.

'A ghostly love story and a lovely ghost story' - TatlerWhen Elspeth Noblin dies she leaves her beautiful flat overlooking Highgate Cemetery to her twin nieces, Julia and Valentina. But until the solicitor's letter falls through the door of their suburban American home, neither twin knew their aunt existed.As Julia and Valentina begin to unravel their aunt's the secrets, aided by her msysterious lover, it becomes clear that she might not be quite ready to leave the flat, even after death.The Vintage Classics Weird Girls series: Dive into the depraved, delectable depths of weird fiction with nine books by nine pioneering female authors. Bold, disruptive, chilling and enchanting, these tales of the weird are strange enough to get lost in.

In this dazzling debut story collection from celebrated Indonesian writer Intan Paramaditha, fairytale, taboo, lust and death all come together in a heady, intoxicating mix.A black velvet butterfly darts out of a cave. Menstrual blood pools in the backseat of a car. Rats pour forth from an open doorway.These stories set in the Indonesian everyday – in corporate boardrooms, in shanty towns – reveal a soupy otherworld stewing just beneath the surface. Melding horror and myth, this is subversive feminist fiction at its finest, where men and women alike are arbiters of fear, and where revenge is sometimes sweetest when delivered from the grave.The Vintage Classics Weird Girls series: Dive into the depraved, delectable depths of weird fiction with nine books by nine pioneering female authors. Bold, disruptive, chilling and enchanting, these tales of the weird are strange enough to get lost in.

Her name was Magda. Nobody will ever know who killed her. It wasn't me. Here is her dead body.While on her daily walk with her dog in the woods near her home, Vesta comes across a chilling handwritten note.Shaky even on her best days, Vesta is also alone, and new to the area, having moved here after the death of her husband. Her brooding about the note grows quickly into a full-blown obsession: who was Magda and how did she meet her fate?From the Booker-shortlisted author of Eileen comes this razor-sharp, chilling and darkly hilarious novel about the stories we tell ourselves and how we strive to obscure the truth.The Vintage Classics Weird Girls series: Dive into the depraved, delectable depths of weird fiction with nine books by nine pioneering female authors. Bold, disruptive, chilling and enchanting, these tales of the weird are strange enough to get lost in.PRAISE FOR DEATH IN HER HANDS:'This is a story about what might happen when a woman takes charge' The Times'Routinely hailed as one of the most exciting young American authors working today' Guardian'A new kind of murder mystery' New Yorker'A fine line between shocking realism and the absurd' New Statesman'A brilliant off-kilter detective story' Evening Standard'A beautiful novel' Sunday Times'Dark, devious' Observer

Three strange, tortuous stories from the shadow queen of contemporary Japanese fiction. A lonely teenage girl falls in love with her foster-brother as she watches him leap from a high diving board into a pool - sparking an unspoken infatuation that draws out darker possibilities.A young woman records the daily moods of her pregnant sister in a diary, but rather than a story of growth the diary reveals a more sinister tale of greed and repulsion.Driven by nostalgia, a woman visits her old college dormitory on the outskirts of Tokyo. There she finds an isolated world shadowed by decay, haunted by absent students and the unsettling figure of the looming caretaker.The Vintage Classics Weird Girls series: Dive into the depraved, delectable depths of weird fiction with nine books by nine pioneering female authors. Bold, disruptive, chilling and enchanting, these tales of the weird are strange enough to get lost in.

The original feminist horror story, about a woman driven to the brink - and beyond.In the throes of a ‘temporary nervous depression’ following childbirth, a woman is brought by her physician husband to recuperate in an isolated New England mansion.There she is barred from her work of writing and encouraged to simply get better. Sequestered in the old nursery at the top of the house, with barred windows and a bed nailed to the floor, she has little to do but examine the strange wallpaper that surrounds her – and appears to shift before her very eyes.Here accompanied by Gilman’s key wider stories, The Yellow Wall-Paper endures as a groundbreaking, deeply disturbing classic of feminist horror.'A great work of literature, the product of a questing, burning intellect' Maggie O’FarrellThe Vintage Classics Weird Girls series: Dive into the depraved, delectable depths of weird fiction with nine books by nine pioneering female authors. Bold, disruptive, chilling and enchanting, these tales of the weird are strange enough to get lost in.

A rediscovered gothic classic with a groundbreaking, gender-nonconforming protagonist at its heart.‘I do not sin,’ he smiled. ‘I am Sin’In a quiet medieval city, alone in his shadowy chambers, Dirk Renswoude worships the devil. Then the wind brings the young scholar Theirry to his door. Could this beautiful man share his dark obsession? Under a hushed midnight sky, the pair swear themselves to the black arts, and to one another.Yet Dirk shies away at the slightest touch. He will not discuss his past. As the duo hex their way across moonlit woodlands and learned cities, it becomes clear that Dirk will stop at nothing to live the life he desires, while concealing one precious secret.'A subtle and complex thriller…Just don’t give away its secret' Washington PostREADER LOVE - JOIN THE DARK SIDE:'Beware. This is dark gothic fiction at its best.''A thick and oozing tale of every possible sin and horror...perfect for spooky season''That twist!''For fans of historical fiction, or horror, or fantasy, this novel should prove absolutely scrumptious.''A super fun Gothic extravaganza.''Demons! Spells! Satanic rituals! Love triangles! Ghosts and witches! Medieval opulence! Gruesome violence! THE ANTICHRIST! ...Flat-out, straight-up awesome.'The Vintage Classics Weird Girls series: Dive into the depraved, delectable depths of weird fiction with nine books by nine pioneering female authors. Bold, disruptive, chilling and enchanting, these tales of the weird are strange enough to get lost in.