Books published by CB Editions

A series of short pieces on the relationship between reader and writer.

Including critical analyses, an extensive interview with McBride and previously unseen early drafts, About a Girl is a comprehensive account of an unprecedented literary phenomenon that enlarges our understanding of both McBride's novel and the contemporary literary scene.

Beverley Bie Brahic's previous collection was shortlisted for the Forward Prize, and she is the prize-winning translator of books by Apollinaire and Francis Ponge.

Part anthology, part history, Not So Barren or Uncultivated brings to life these forgotten journeys and gives a picture of Finland at a time when it was little known to the outside world. It also presents the familiar figure of the Englishman Abroad in very unfamiliar terms. Lurcock's book is informative, affectionate, and full of surprising and entertaining episodes.'This fascinating survey of the British in Finland' - Paul Binding, Times Literary Supplement

The Absent Therapist is a book of soundings, a jostle of voices that variously argue, remember, explain, justify, speculate and meander ... Sons and lovers, wanderers, wonderers, stayers, leavers, readers and believers. These are gripping narratives, with intriguing shifts of register, but they are also technically experimental and daring. Each .