Cover for THE CORSET & THE JELLYFISH by Nick Bantock, the author of the worldwide sensation GRIFFIN & SABINE
Over on his Facebook page, Nick Bantock, creator of the best-selling Griffin & Sabine, revealed the cover to his forthcoming THE CORSET & THE JELLYFISH.
THE CORSET & THE JELLYFISH is currently available for pre-order from Tachyon or wherever finer books are sold.
[Bantock] is a highly imaginative and ebulliently romantic illustrator and storyteller.
—Booklist
THE CORSET & THE JELLYFISH
by
Nick Bantock
ISBN: 978-1-61696-407-8 (print); 978-1-61696-408-5 (digital)
Published: November 2023
The internationally bestselling author of Griffin & Sabine returns with his newest literary mystery—a charming assemblage of his own illustrated stories. Each of the invitingly strange tales is paired with its own glyphic creature (perhaps created by Sabine herself?). Each accompanying story, the origin of which is unknown, totals exactly one-hundred words. These delightful “drabbles,” enjoyable in any sequence, allow the reader to bask in them—or even to solve the conundrum they imply.
Little is known of the fascinating manuscript that Nick Bancock has come to possess. It was discovered in an attic in North London, stuffed into a battered cardboard box, and unceremoniously delivered directly to Nick’s doorstep. Inside the package lay one hundred evocatively absurd stories, one hundred humorous drawings of strangely familiar, quirkish glyphs, plus a cryptically poetic note signed only as “HH.” (Possibly the well-known, eccentric billionaire, Hamilton Hasp?)
In these stories-each consisting of precisely 100 words-strange creatures slip through alleyways, and eerie streets swallow people whole. Taken altogether, they may constitute a puzzle that no one has been able to solve thus far. Could there be one missing story?
For those perceptive readers with a curious mind, the celebrated author of Griffin & Sabine cordially invites you to find your own path through his beguiling conundrum of drabbles—or even to contribute one of your very own.