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Author_Ben Pester
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Product details
- ISBN 9781803514291
- Dimensions: 135 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 04 Jun 2026
- Publisher: Granta Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Sail Away Land is the space where we might go when we're no longer alive (sometimes only temporarily). In this uncommon and disarming collection, the characters go 'there' with or without knowing it. Maybe they have been living there all along without noticing - just like they hadn't really noticed that everyone is carrying a shiny black suitcase.
These stories are about normal things - losing the people we're closest to, forgiving them, finding love and managing to hold onto it - but also about going to parties through a door in the back of a colleague's head, housebreaking in search of a sister's ghost, and asking the strangers in the kitchen to resurrect you at midnight.
Like brilliant and strange anxiety dreams in prose, the stories in Sail Away Land are full of temporal weirdness, life and non-being, psychological acuity, imagination and wit, all while being effortlessly, seductively readable and incredibly moving.
Ben Pester is the author of the short story collection Am I in the Right Place? and the novel The Expansion Project. He lives in London.
