The Age of Calamities

<p><b>'An astounding debut, so full of wonder, outrage, invention, fireworks, sheer brilliance' </b> Edward Carey, author of <i>Little</i></p><p><b>'Subversive, hilarious and shockingly original' </b>Rosanna Pike, author of <i>A Little Trickerie</i></b></p><p><b>'A true, unique talent' </b>Kat Dunn, author of <i>Hungerstone</i></p><p><b><i>Step into the past. Rush headlong at the future. The Age of Calamities is here.</b></i></p><p>Henry VIII wants Anne Boleyn dead, but there's just one small problem: she's alive again by morning, sipping tea at the breakfast table. In the gilded hush of the Winter Palace, the Romanov sisters slip through time and waltz aboard a spaceship bound for the stars. A woman on the run strikes a sinister bargain with the ghost of Joan of Arc, but can she reclaim her body before sunrise?</p><p>With flickers of horror and dark humour, <i>The Age of Calamities</i> catapults us through sentient houses, looping timelines and haunted histories. Fiercely inventive and wickedly playful, these stories mark the arrival of a bold new voice in fiction-inviting the reader to confront the past, the present and themselves, all at once.</p>PRAISE FOR THE AGE OF CALAMITIES:</p><p>'Surreal, funny and endlessly thought-provoking' <i>Dazed</i></p><p>'An addictive blend of imagination and wit' Katherine J. Chen, author of <i>Joan</i></p><p>'Full of imaginative daring and electrifying humour' Naomi Booth, author of <i>Animals at Night</i></p><p>'The past comes to unexpected, vivid life in these speculative short stories' <i>Publishers Weekly</i></p><p>'Wonderful writing that had me in its grasp to the very last sentence' Nydia Hetherington, author of <i>Sycorax</i></p><p>'Stunning in its power, purpose and ambition' Maggie Su, author of <i>Blob: A Love Story</i></p><p>'Dazzlingly inventive' Kelly Link, author of <i>White Cat, Black Dog</i></p><p>'Wild, incantatory, upending' Claire Oshetsky, author of <i>Evil Genius</i></p><p>'I loved Ahmad's perilously playful journeys to other timescapes' Leon Craig, author of <i>Parallel Hells</i></p>