"The biggest slice of collaborative magical fiction since the bible."
When Bernadette breaks into her ex-boyfriend's house to steal his laptop, little does she realise the enormity of what she has let herself in for. Join Bernadette as she is unwittingly drawn into a bizarre yet uplifting circus of sex, drugs, music, witchcraft, anarchy and apples.
Liber Malorum is an extraordinary serpent of a journey that weaves into the kaotic underbelly of civilisation. It spins through the myths and legends of an eclectic mix of 23 authors into a dangerous anti-authoritarian tapestry of
spell-binding proportions.
This is a call-out for the tearing down of fences, beliefs and boundaries. It is an intriguing seed of disobedience planted into the fertile soil of the strangest world: our own.
A juicy, delicious apple of a book.
"Harry Potter - if Irvine Welsh had written it!!" - Katherine Lambert
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By Koogie Smith
Oct 15, 2009
"Just brilliant!" This book is just brilliant. The stories of 23 magical authors have been woven together by Sean Scullion to create multi-faceted viewpoints of anti-authoritarianism, different myths surrounding the apple and, as the description on the back says, the kaotic underbelly of our civilisation. There are stories and poems about orchards, norse gods, wild dancing at midnight in the woods, chaos magic, conspiracies, Greek goddesses, elves and sacred groves, the tree of life, queer rebellion in police cells, benandanti, tricksters and freaks, festivals, the Isle of Apples, pirates (aaaarrrrr), faerie hugging, revenge and revelation, WWII prison escapes, Avalon, cyber worlds, sex magic and of course apples apples apples! Readers are introduced to fool sorcery, and the book explores the spaces where magic and disobedience spring from; the mythical edges where belief systems coalesce and dissolve and transformation takes place. One of few books to dare to bring... More > together politics and spirituality, Liber Malorum brings together different levels and atmospheres of writing. From the quirky to the pragmatic, from the mystical to the everyday, the writing is marked by its incredible range and breadth. This makes the book inclusive and intelligent. This will prove to be an important piece of work, a butterfly wingbeat at the heart of the logos.< Less
