Coelacanth Publications

Strangers in a Zine! A fanzine about Patricia Highsmith

Strangers in a Zine! A fanzine about Patrica Highsmith is a new zine by Phoebe Blatton and film-maker Ed Webb-Ingall. It features a host of artists' new covers for Highsmith books + articles and ephemera. £2 p+p inc.

Diana Roberts: Paintings 1969 -74

12pp, 6 colour plates, A5 card pamphlet. With an essay by Phoebe Blatton. £7 p+p inc.

 

At the height of her career, Brigid Brophy (1929-1995) was heralded as "one of the oddest, most brilliant, and most enduring of [the] 1960s symptoms". In The King of a Rainy Country, her semi-autobiographical novel of 1956, Brophy explores the romantic and social malfunctions of an ambiguous young couple, Susan and Neale, as they travel across Europe in search of Cynthia, an ever-present spectre from Susan's schooldays. This modern rendering of Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro is as poignant as it is farcical, and exemplifies the range of sophisticated ideas that Brophy examined throughout her life, from pornography, to rationalism, to the sliding scale of sexuality and gender.

A short extract from the novel appears in the first issue of The Coelacanth Journal. The book will be published soon.