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The Night Alphabet
the electrifying debut novel from the award-winning poet
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A Guardian Book of the Year 2024 'A glorious jewel of a novel' — Sophie Ward 'Exhilarating, profoundly beautiful and exquisitely written' — Salena Godden 'A mesmerising debut from one of the most talented literary stylists writing today' — The Bookseller 'Hugely imaginative' — Marie Claire...
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The Night Alphabet
Composed of interconnecting stories, The Night Alphabet is a mesmerising debut from one of the most talented literary stylists writing today.
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A Guardian Book of the Year 2024
'A glorious jewel of a novel' — Sophie Ward
'Exhilarating, profoundly beautiful and exquisitely written' — Salena Godden
'A mesmerising debut from one of the most talented literary stylists writing today' — The Bookseller
'Hugely imaginative' — Marie Claire (Best New Books, 2024)
'It's hard to think of many books more restlessly inventive' — Guardian (Book of the Day)
Hackney, 2233: A woman walks into a tattoo parlour. Jones' body is covered in tattoos, but she wants to add one final inking to her gallery — a thin line of ink that connects the haunting images of her body art together, creating a unique and mysterious map.
As the two tattoo artists set to work, Jones tells them the story behind each tattoo. As Jones is no ordinary woman, these are no ordinary stories: each one represents a doorway to a life Jones fell into, a 'remembering'.
Set across geographies and time-spans, The Night Alphabet is a deep and bold investigation into violence, resilience, and women's stories.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781529430974
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 10 April 2025
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: riverrun
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 30.0mm
Width: 128.0mm
Height: 196.0mm
Weight: 300g
Pages: 432
About the Author
Joelle Taylor is a queer, working class author of six plays and four collections of poetry, most recently C+nto & Othered Poems, winner of the 2022 T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry. A former UK poetry slam champion, Joelle founded the national youth slam championships, SLAMbassadors. Joelle has lead workshops and residences in schools, prisons, youth centres, refugee groups and many other settings for organisations including the Poetry Society, the British Council, the Arvon Foundation and English PEN. She has received a Changemaker Award from the Southbank Centre, a fellowship of the RSA, is co-curator and host of Out-Spoken Live (a live poetry and music night currently resident at the Southbank Centre) and is the commissioning editor at Out-Spoken Press. She was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2022.
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