Shingles
Julia Kotziamani
‘‘Shingles’ is a book about Hastings, the town itself is the central character. A series of short stories and vignettes, this collection invites readers into the strange, cursed heart of Hastings: a seaside town that refuses to let go.
Slipping between the personal and the institutional, these stories guide us through the town’s psychogeography. Loves are won and lost, parasitic illnesses become curses, tribunals unravel into Gothic performance, dead girls wander back streets, and pebbled beaches whisper their own desires.
Part memoir, part speculative fiction, and part love letter to a difficult town, Shingles charts survival under precarity, poverty, and abuse. Blending Gothic horror, folklore, and autotheory, Julia Kotziamani transforms childhood beaches, hospitals, family courts, and boarded-up pubs into haunted stages where memory collides with myth. It explores the pull of a place you cannot leave, and what it means to live as a woman in a small town.’
Pages: 116
Published by: B.A.R.C books
Design: Amy Mock
Cover Design: Charlie Noon
Proofread: Phil Tolmie
Pages: 116
Published by: B.A.R.C books
Design: Amy Mock
Cover Design: Charlie Noon
Proofread: Phil Tolmie