Books published by Peninsula Press Ltd

A brilliant novella from a legendary figure in American fiction

An essay on work, desire, and fear of being replaced

In this radical and elegiac essay, Sam Johnson-Schlee invites readers to consider the dreams and fantasies we have about our homes, and their underlying reality.

From the author of Weird Fucks, a witty, bleak, and outrageous account of American girlhood.

Moments of clarity are rare and fleeting; how can we become comfortable outside of them, in the more general condition of uncertainty within which we make our lives? On Not Knowing forays into this rich, ambivalent space andcelebrates the defencelessness of not knowing yet - possibly of not knowing ever. Ultimately, this book shows how resisting the temptation of knowingness and embracing the position of not knowing becomes a form of love.

A 36 year old that looks like Eleven from Stranger Things works in a run-down hotel on an Isle of Wight battered by austerity. Polar bears emerge from t-shirts. Reebok Classics come to life. Blending fiction and critical writing and anarchic joy, this is a rakish, boundary erasing work that collides literary aesthetics with working class cultures and attitudes. Interrogating autobiographical material, it extends the avant-garde tradition to make it an ally for queer migrant experience, questions dreams of national belonging, while celebrating the radical potential of resistance, ingenuity, and friendship.

A New York Times Top Historical Fiction Pick of 2020An inventive and genre-bending new novel from a master of the form, exploring race, the legacy of past exploitation and present-day authorship. Who should be remembered, and who should tell their story? .

Sterling Karat Gold is Kafka's The Trial written for the era of gaslighting - a surreal inquiry into the real effects of state violence on gender-nonconforming, working-class and black bodies.

In an era where identity politics is being weaponised against the very people it has sought to make visible, how can we reclaim complexity? An essay on art, identity and fascism.

An essay about politics, humility, and loss

Author of debut novel "Sympathy" considers the gendered reception of this novel amongst other factors in this exploration of the limited way the world attends to art by young women. A suitable counterpart to "We Should All Be Feminists".

From the author of Close to the Knives, a series of fictional monologues that create a visceral and carnivalesque mosaic of life at the fringes of late-80s America. The Waterfront Journals is a collection of monologues, each ventriloquising one of the many people whom Wojnarowicz met on his travels throughout America while he was sleeping rough. We meet these down and outs in unassuming locations - in truck stops, bus stations and parks - and taken together their voices form a poignant chorus that distils the desires, dreams and dangers of those people whose lives confined are to the margins.

A personal essay on Barrack Obama, Keanu Reeves and mixed-race experience in our increasingly divided world.