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Five years have passed since Michael Pilgrim defeated ruthless Pharaoh Jacko. All goes well in Baytown. Even the Five Cities seem to have lost interest in driving 'primitives' to extinction.But storms gather . . .Michael Pilgrim is lost, hundreds of miles from home. His one ally: a dangerous enemy. Can they survive with half Scotland baying at their heels?Seth Pilgrim is lost, a slave and an outcast. His sole reason to live is revenge. Then chance encounters challenge him to live better in a world of grotesque change.Averil Pilgrim and Helen Devereux are lost, drawn into the deranged politics of the Five Cities.Can they find their way home?PILGRIM LOST is the poetic second book in the epic Pilgrim Trilogy set in a frightening and plausible future. A world of bizarre characters blighted by humanity's folly, where hope never dies.

Explosive psychological novel for fans of Michael Chabon, Mark Haddon, and George Saunders.Marilyn Monroe died just after midnight on August 5th, 1962; former Little League champion Kimitake "Clyde" Koba was born on the same day, at the same time. As Clyde struggles to escape the ghost of his brother and his alcoholic father and stumbles through his first love, he finds strength in the belief that he is the reincarnation of Monroe.Born on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar, teen prodigy Raphael Dweck has been told his whole life that he has a special purpose in God's plan. The only problem is, he can't shake off his doubts, his urges, or the trail of trouble and ruin that follow in his wake.A decade later, Raphael and 'Marilyn' find each other wandering the plastic-bright streets of Hollywood and set out to make a documentary about the transmigration of souls. But when the roleplaying goes too far, they find themselves past the point of no return in their quest to prove who and what they are to their families, God, the world, and themselves.Israel and Japan collide in the City of Angels in this explosive psychological novel about faith, idol worship, and the search for identity by the author of Jerusalem Ablaze, Stories of Love and Other Obsessions.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE POLARI FIRST BOOK PRIZE 2017In Jerusalem's Old City a young priest and a dominatrix converse in the dying light; on Oregon's windswept coast a fragile woman discovers a body washed up on the beach after a storm; and in Postwar Japan a young protege watches his master's corpse burn, with bitter thoughts blazing in his mind.Jerusalem Ablaze: Stories of Love and Other Obsessions collects thirteen eclectic works of dark fiction, taking the reader from Los Angeles to the eastern townships of Quebec, and from Tokyo to Jerusalem.Ortega-Medina's characters are flawed, broken individuals, trying their best to make sense of their lives as they struggle with sexuality, death, obsession, and religion. Sometimes bleak, occasionally violent, and often possessed of a dark humour, this major debut explores the imperfections of life and the unpredictability of death.