A note on postage: Combining orders makes the price more palatable for customers overseas. If you would like more than one book, drop me a line at jamie@broodcomb.co.uk and I’ll calculate a total cost.
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O. Jamie Walsh, The Martyrs, Hardback 234 pp., £22.50 – 2026 – SOLD OUT – Paperback coming in 2027
“In my role as omissioner, I receive summonses from all over the settlements. My function is to offer an ear, a valve for the bleeding of grief or worry or simply unspent chat, and to do this well I must adapt myself to those who live in different settlements. Anyone can call me. It costs nothing, and I offer no advice: all an omissioner does is listen, finding worth in words that would otherwise remain unspoken or forgotten.”
The Martyrs is a return to the “eerie mental eavesdropping” of The Settlements and The Revenants, and although not in any way a sequel, the book listens to the voices of the peninsula, following meandering tales according to a dream logic—
Every copy of The Martyrs in hardback will come with a copy of Gloom Circus, a text that has shadowed the world of the settlements since the start. This will not be available in any other stand-alone form.
The Martyrs is limited to 200 copies—
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O. Jamie Walsh, The Revenants, Paperback 228 pp., £12 – 2022
“In the settlement of Death, the corpse isn’t buried for some time as the body artist needs to mould it for the mourning display […] Rarely acknowledged is how closely a coffin maker must follow the work of the embalming artist. Once the presentable corpse is fixed, the body cannot be returned to the usual mind-me-tits pose of a regular burial (not that anyone in Death would desire anything so missionary), and so the coffin is never the traditional shape.
One recent funeral was remarkable. Eavan Dermoût in death eschewed the traditional horror motif and elected for a perfect foetal shape for her last journey. They’d to break her bones to get her in position, but in the end she rested upright like a wheel, naked and hairless. Behind her the coffin was almost circular, like a coracle with a pot lid—.”
The Revenants is a return to the “eerie mental eavesdropping” of The Settlements, and although not in any way a sequel, this endlessly inventive new book listens to the voices of the peninsula, following meandering tales according to a dream logic—
UK £12 + Free postage and packing
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Europe £12 + £14.25 postage and packing
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USA, Canada and RoW £12 + £23.85 postage and packing
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O. Jamie Walsh, The Settlements, French Flaps 252 pp., £12 – 2018
Set in a community where people live according to their creative drives, this “endlessly surprising novel” embodies the philosophy that life is not a narrative with a beginning, a middle and an end. Challenging, experimental, yet also human, funny and deeply moving, The Settlements is about finding worth in stories and lives cast off or considered of no use; a book about the possibility and randomness of human growth; and ultimately a (curious) love story for those who are misfits beyond the age when it is cool to be so—
“In my role as omissioner, I receive summonses from all over the settlements. My function is to offer an ear, a valve for the bleeding of grief or worry or simply unspent chat, and to do this well I must adapt myself to those who live in different settlements. Anyone can call me. It costs nothing, and I offer no advice: all an omissioner does is listen, finding worth in words that would otherwise remain unspoken or forgotten.”
UK £12 + Free postage and packing
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Europe £12 + £14.25 postage and packing
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USA, Canada and RoW £12 + £23.85 postage and packing