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FICTION - SHORT STORIES Anywhere Out of the World Bilton’s unique style of writing intrigues the reader, capturing their imagination by skilfully drawing them in, opening up trapdoors and secret passages between the everyday and the fantastical, and leading them into a labyrinth, deeper and deeper into the unknown.

These stories are linked by a world of nocturnal cities, hapless slapstick and misadventures, lost souls and lost travellers. His debut collection of short stories will sure to linger with you long after the final page is turned.
Read More FICTION - SHORT STORIES Anywhere Out of the World Bilton’s unique style of writing intrigues the reader, capturing their imagination by skilfully drawing them in, opening up trapdoors and secret passages between the everyday and the fantastical, and leading them into a labyrinth, deeper and deeper into the unknown.

These stories are linked by a world of nocturnal cities, hapless slapstick and misadventures, lost souls and lost travellers. His debut collection of short stories will sure to linger with you long after the final page is turned.
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FICTION The Known and Unknown Sea This haunting and comic fable from the critically acclaimed author of The Sleepwalkers’ Ball is a beautiful and heartbreaking journey through memory, loss and imagination.

Dreamlike and immersive, it’s a pantomime nightmare, surreal, terrifying and hillarious, full of masks and metamorphoses. It’s a world seen through the eyes of children, magical, kaleidoscopic and incomprehensible.
Read More FICTION The Known and Unknown Sea This haunting and comic fable from the critically acclaimed author of The Sleepwalkers’ Ball is a beautiful and heartbreaking journey through memory, loss and imagination.

Dreamlike and immersive, it’s a pantomime nightmare, surreal, terrifying and hillarious, full of masks and metamorphoses. It’s a world seen through the eyes of children, magical, kaleidoscopic and incomprehensible.
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FICTION The Sleepwalkers' Ball This is Alan Bilton's debut novel. Set sometime around now, and yet also any time, this is a beautifully surreal romantic comedy wrapped around the forms of the silent film and the Gothic city ghost tour.

A cross between Kafka and Mary Poppins, The Sleepwalkers' Ball is filmic, funny and lyrical in turns. Always moving, it follows two lives: a man and a woman, and their many attempts to hook up together.
Read More FICTION The Sleepwalkers' Ball This is Alan Bilton's debut novel. Set sometime around now, and yet also any time, this is a beautifully surreal romantic comedy wrapped around the forms of the silent film and the Gothic city ghost tour.

A cross between Kafka and Mary Poppins, The Sleepwalkers' Ball is filmic, funny and lyrical in turns. Always moving, it follows two lives: a man and a woman, and their many attempts to hook up together.
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NON-FICTION, MUSIC, STAGE & SCREEN, FILM Silent Film Comedy Alan Bilton’s recent book Silent Film Comedy and American Culture examines how film comedy emerged at a time of social and moral transition in the United States, and established itself both as escapist entertainment but also as an expression of the American collective unconscious.

Bilton analyses the work of several important comedians of the silent era, relating their biographies and work to the American culture of the period. In this way he weaves a narrative of the times, the myths, the norms, and symbols of the American psyche.
Read More NON-FICTION, MUSIC, STAGE & SCREEN, FILM Silent Film Comedy Alan Bilton’s recent book Silent Film Comedy and American Culture examines how film comedy emerged at a time of social and moral transition in the United States, and established itself both as escapist entertainment but also as an expression of the American collective unconscious.

Bilton analyses the work of several important comedians of the silent era, relating their biographies and work to the American culture of the period. In this way he weaves a narrative of the times, the myths, the norms, and symbols of the American psyche.
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