Books published by CB Editions

Narrated in a series of brief vignettes, The Illiterate is Kristof 's memoir of her childhood, her escape from Hungary in 1956 with her husband and small child, her early years working in factories in Switzerland, and the writing of her first novel, The Notebook.

Coping with the fallout of her relationships with a twin sister, an ex-girlfriend and a boyfriend, Siobhan is forced to acknowledge her own violent logic of self-preservation.

Fourth and final volume in a series documenting Anglo-Finnish relations and acclaimed by the TLS as 'a fascinating prism through which to view modern Finland'.

Flickerbook is the classic autobiography of the writer Leila Berg (1917-2012), who grew up in a Jewish immigrant neighbourhood in Salford, Greater Manchester. It recreates childhood pleasures and fears, relationships with family and lovers, and growing political engagement. It ends with the first air-raid siren in London September 1939.

Memories of growing up in an ordinary but loving family in Lancashire in the 1940s and early 50s, brought to the page with an almost pre-verbal immediacy.

Drawing deeply on O'Brien's experience of cancer and of childhood abuse, and of collaboration with a war reporter, the four essays in A Story that Happens offer hard-won insights into what stories are for and the reasons why, 'afraid and hopeful', we begin to tell them.

The preoccupations of Brilliant Corners include the tangible damage inflicted by empires, plunder of the global money markets, disfigured lives, and the bitter salves of Western privilege. Engaging with writers and artists in the European canon, the poems take necessary risks in their scrupulous approach to different experiences.

An urgent and insightful response to Covid and the public events of 2020, written in instalments between March and August 2020 in the poem-journal form of Autumn Journal, Louis MacNeice's widely-admired personal response to the rise of Fascism in the late 1930s

Published to mark the 300th anniversary of first publication of Robinson Crusoe, Good Morning Mr Crusoe argues that the legacy of Defoe's novel is racism and misogyny embedded in the fabric of British society.

City Works Dept. has work to to: repairs, maintenance, above all the paying of attention to a stratum of British society whose people and occupations have suffered from long neglect. Philip Hancock's poems do the job with patience, empathy and unshowy skill.

In his first collection of poetry after a career as a novelist spanning five decades, Paul Bailey offers in Inheritance an intimate reckoning. The poems mine memories of childhood, illness and lost loves with unflinching honesty, a generous humour born of self-knowledge, and great depth of feeling.

In text and colour photographs, Blush investigates the history of blushing in society and literature from the late 18th century to the present.

In Scarsdale Dan OBrien applies to his own early life the same honesty and insight that were evident in his prize-winning War Reporter. Growing up in a family scarred by past trauma, he makes a bid for freedom in love with myself and this young strays life only to be pulled back into the orbit of the place he had sought to escape. ...

Broken Consort is a chronicle of close attention (to books, films, plays, paintings and life itself) by Will Eaves, author of Murmur (winner of the 2019 Wellcome Prize)

First poetry collection for 8 years from a long-admired poet who has twice been shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize

In June 1819 Henri Beyle (aka Stendhal) is rejected by the woman he loves. Beyle finds himself stranded in an afterlife populated by tourists, shoplifters and characters in novels he hasn't yet written. Footnoting a host of other writers, An Overcoat is an obsessional play upon the life and work of one of the founders of the modern novel.

A memoir in the form of a series of sharply etched vignettes that shift astonishingly in time and mood, and range in place from Africa and the US to the streets of London. It demonstrates that no moment is isolated, and that privilege, conflict, race and gender are inherent in all our encounters, from the banal to the extreme

Part memoir, part fiction, Robinson explores the disfiguring influence of Defoe's Robinson Crusoe on English culture. The latter-day Robinsons of Kafka, Celine, Patrick Keiller and others are surveyed, and Robinson himself has his say as a fictional character.