Seasons in China
Books from the road east.
A memoir in motion. Late nights in glass towers, karaoke with billionaires, a career that came to mean nothing and a failure that came to mean everything — a love affair with the breathless supercities of the emerging future and the tangled byways of the whispering past.
Seasons in China, Volume I. Signed, numbered, with an original sketch in every copy.
Seasons in China, Volume II. Signed, numbered, with an original sketch in every copy.
Volume I · Kindle edition, with a selection of the plates.
Volume II · Kindle edition, with a selection of the plates.
Volume III · Written as it happens, on Substack.
The Stray Magic Library
An illustrated memoir of lost cats, cities and small miracles.
Softer, but never lighter. A story of the creatures who arrive unannounced and quietly rearrange a life — a black cat in Shanghai, the warm corners of a cold city, the wordless counsel of animals. A reflection on belonging and how we find it in the meaning we give to the passing days. Inspired by actual events.
Book I · Kindle, with free extracts on Substack.
Book II · Kindle, with free extracts on Substack.
Book III · Kindle, with free extracts on Substack.
Book IV · Kindle, with free extracts on Substack.
The Shadowside Chronicles
Dark fiction from the city's other face.
The room where the lamps gutter. Illustrated novellas and dark fiction drawn from the underside of the city — the haunted, the half-remembered, the figures that ride the lines unrecorded on the subway maps. A story from the liminal places, where the forest meets the sea and the real meets the imagined.
Book I · Kindle, with free extracts on Substack.
Book II · Kindle, with free extracts on Substack.
Book III · Kindle, with free extracts on Substack.
Book IV · Kindle, with free extracts on Substack.
The Night Road Papers
Surreal novellas and night writing from the small hours.
Papers written by lamplight, in the hours between the last train and the first flight. Surreal novellas, journals, essays and the apocrypha of older worlds — books that arrive only when they are ready, and only to a reader still awake to receive them.
The Harvest Library
Invited works and guest authors, gathered into the archive.
The library's open door. Invited works, collaborations and selected editions from the writers who gathered each other on their travels. A harvest brought in from other fields and kept, like all else here, by the warm amber library light.
The Print Room
Plates and giclée editions, drawn from the writing.
Where the writing turns to image. Collection I is Pink Floyd Backs; Collection II is Erothanatos; Collection III is Childhood’s End; Collection IV is Seasons in China. Hand-signed prints in editions of 250, each made to order by Finlay Cowan.