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  • Published: 11 February 2025
  • ISBN: 9781787304444
  • Imprint: Harvill Secker
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $34.99

No & Other Love Stories





The perfect anti-Valentine: a deliciously dark collection of love stories, from a prizewinning LGBTQI+ writer who has been compared to Angela Carter.

A deliciously dark collection of love stories to sink your teeth into, from the prizewinning author of NOW SHE IS WITCH

Can 'no' be a declaration of love? What happens when love is savage, dangerous and all-consuming? In this gorgeous and unsettling collection, women navigate the complexities and cruelties of desire across time and place, from a medieval convent to a Victorian parlour to a 1990s high school.

* An expectant mother feeds raw meat to the wasp's nest in her shed.
* A pair of sapphic lovers use ghost possession to fleece money from lecherous men.
* One woman in wartime London discovers that she loves her husband much more as a ghost.
* A teenage girl becomes infatuated with a bloodthirsty succubus.

Intensely atmospheric, surprising and darkly funny, this collection is a richly flavoured feast from a brilliant writer in full command of the form.

'Absolutely obsessed. Savage, strange and spicy' Lucy Rose, author of Lamb

'Gleefully depraved, gloriously queer and thrillingly bold' Leon Craig, author of Parallel Hells

'A dark delight, steeped in blood red honey' Heather Parry, author of Orpheus Builds A Girl

'A gothic homage to the visceral, haunting, unnerving nature of human connection' Alice Slater, author of Death of a Bookseller

'No one writes about the horrific and the erotic, and the tangled up intersections of both, like Kirsty Logan' Anna Bogutskaya, author of Feeding The Monster

'Darkly graceful, innovative, sexy and funny. Kirsty Logan is a jewel' Camilla Grudova, author of The Doll's Alphabet

'Crackling with smarts, marvellously formally varied, deliciously strange' Laird Hunt, author of Zorrie

KIRSTY LOGAN WAS SELECTED AS ONE OF BRITAIN'S TEN MOST OUTSTANDING LGBTQ WRITERS by Val McDermid for the International Literature Showcase in 2019

  • Published: 11 February 2025
  • ISBN: 9781787304444
  • Imprint: Harvill Secker
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $34.99

About the author

Kirsty Logan

Kirsty Logan is a professional daydreamer. Her first story collection, The Rental Heart and Other Fairytales, won the Scott Prize, the Polari First Book Prize and the Saboteur Award. Her first novel, The Gracekeepers, won a Lambda Literary Award and was selected for the Radio 2 Book Club and the Waterstones Book Club. A Portable Shelter won the Gavin Wallace Fellowship and Things We Say in the Dark, a collection of feminist horror stories, was optioned for TV. Her short fiction and poetry have been translated into Japanese, Spanish, Italian and Chinese, adapted for stage, recorded for radio and exhibited in galleries. She lives in Glasgow with her family.

@kirstylogan
www.kirstylogan.com

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Praise for No & Other Love Stories

Mesmerising and evocative’

Observer, on NOW SHE IS WITCH

One of our national writing treasures… deeply atmospheric... will hold you tight and not let go’

Stylist, on NOW SHE IS WITCH

Shimmers with menace . . . Fans of Angela Carter and Shirley Jackson take note

 i Newspaper, on THINGS WE SAY IN THE DARK

Powerful, imaginative, compelling - myth-making at its best

Val McDermid, on NOW SHE IS WITCH

An impassioned reclaiming of female desire...absorbingly atmospheric

Daily Mail, on NOW SHE IS WITCH

Spooky, timeless, feminist, inventive, unsettling

Viv Groksop, on NOW SHE IS WITCH

Finely crafted feminist short stories, each one gripping and unnerving in equal measure… you won’t put it down

Sunday Telegraph, on THINGS WE SAY IN THE DARK

Absolutely obsessed. Savage, strange and spicy... a fearsome and tart collection of short stories that will devour you whole

Lucy Rose, author of Lamb

In her inimitable style, Kirsty Logan powerfully explores both the power of refusal and the wild, sharp, unruly edges of women's desire... a dark delight, steeped in blood red honey

Heather Parry, author of Orpheus Builds A Girl

Exploring the dark underbelly of love in all its guises, Kirsty Logan’s words writhe on the page, a gothic homage to the visceral, haunting, unnerving nature of human connection. An unsettling collection from one of the sharpest, strangest short story writers working today

Alice Slater, author of Death of a Bookseller

No one writes about the horrific and the erotic, and the tangled up intersections of both, like Kirsty Logan. This book will make you sweat

Anna Bogutskaya, author of Feeding The Monster
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