Lobster

Aboard the Titanic, Lobster watches Angelina devour his father, before being plucked out of the aquarium himself. Just as he is put in the boiling pot, the ship hits the iceberg and the pot is thrown to the floor. Lobster survives, with some changes: he finds himself sexually attracted not only to a human, but to the very human who ate his father. He gives her one life-changing orgasm before their tragic separation, following an ugly incident in one of the lifeboats. "A fable of crustacean love. Our hero is a lobster aboard the Titanic. From his tank, he watches his father being eaten by a pretty girl. Then the boat founders and Lobster escapes. Aboard the sinking ship, Angelina, the girl who ate his dad, knows a brief but shattering moment of physical love with Lobster. Then they are separated. They pine for each other. Angelina tries having sex with another lobster, with disastrous results. Death smells of bay leaves." -- Sam Leith in The Daily Telegraph "In terms of abusing the natural world, Lobster by Guillaume Lecasble is in a league of its own. The surrealist tale of a lobster on board the Titanic which finds itself helplessly attracted to a human female, the book hinges on the life-changing orgasm the fishy amorist gives Angelina as the boat sinks in the icy water." -- Tom Fleming in The Literary Review

A brand-new collection from the award-winning poet, the companion piece to the Sunday Times bestselling Slug ' Funny, so smart and refreshingly honest ' SARAH MILLICAN ' Hollie McNish's words always sweep me away ' GIOVANNA FLETCHER 'Bold, hilarious and tender' SALENA GODDEN This book is written out of both hate and love for the world As people, we are capable of both love and hate; amazement and disgust; fun and misery. So why do we live in a world that is constantly telling us to hate, both ourselves and others? We are told to be repulsed by our own bodies, bodies that let us laugh and sweat and eat toast; to be ashamed of pleasure; to be embarrassed by fun. In this collection, Hollie McNish brings her inimitable style to the question of what have been taught to hate, and if we might learn to love again. ' Never have we needed her more ' STYLIST ' I've loved her work for years ' JO BRAND ' She writes with honesty, conviction, humour and love' KAE TEMPEST

A brand-new collection from the award-winning poet, the companion piece to the Sunday Times bestselling Slug ' Funny, so smart and refreshingly honest ' SARAH MILLICAN ' Hollie McNish's words always sweep me away ' GIOVANNA FLETCHER 'Bold, hilarious and tender' SALENA GODDEN This book is written out of both hate and love for the world As people, we are capable of both love and hate; amazement and disgust; fun and misery. So why do we live in a world that is constantly telling us to hate, both ourselves and others? We are told to be repulsed by our own bodies, bodies that let us laugh and sweat and eat toast; to be ashamed of pleasure; to be embarrassed by fun. In this collection, Hollie McNish brings her inimitable style to the question of what have been taught to hate, and if we might learn to love again. ' Never have we needed her more ' STYLIST ' I've loved her work for years ' JO BRAND ' She writes with honesty, conviction, humour and love' KAE TEMPEST

A brand-new collection from the award-winning poet, the companion piece to the Sunday Times bestselling Slug ' Funny, so smart and refreshingly honest ' SARAH MILLICAN ' Hollie McNish's words always sweep me away ' GIOVANNA FLETCHER This book is written out of both hate and love for the world As people, we are capable of both love and hate; amazement and disgust; fun and misery. So why do we live in a world that is constantly telling us to hate, both ourselves and others? We are told to be repulsed by our own bodies, bodies that let us laugh and sweat and eat toast; to be ashamed of pleasure; to be embarrassed by fun. In this collection, Hollie McNish brings her inimitable style to the question of what have been taught to hate, and if we might learn to love again. ' Never have we needed her more ' STYLIST ' I've loved her work for years ' JO BRAND ' She writes with honesty, conviction, humour and love ' KAE TEMPEST

A brand-new collection from the award-winning poet, the companion piece to the Sunday Times bestselling Slug ' Funny, so smart and refreshingly honest ' SARAH MILLICAN ' Hollie McNish's words always sweep me away ' GIOVANNA FLETCHER This book is written out of both hate and love for the world As people, we are capable of both love and hate; amazement and disgust; fun and misery. So why do we live in a world that is constantly telling us to hate, both ourselves and others? We are told to be repulsed by our own bodies, bodies that let us laugh and sweat and eat toast; to be ashamed of pleasure; to be embarrassed by fun. In this collection, Hollie McNish brings her inimitable style to the question of what have been taught to hate, and if we might learn to love again. ' Never have we needed her more ' STYLIST ' I've loved her work for years ' JO BRAND ' She writes with honesty, conviction, humour and love ' KAE TEMPEST