As announced in The Bookseller, in what will be the publisher’s first-ever single-author volume, Scratch Books will publish Claire Carroll’s debut short story collection, The Unreliable Nature Writer.

The collection, which comprises 18 stories with themes of late capitalism, climate anxiety and personal loss, includes brand-new stories alongside previously published works such as The White Review Short Story Prize-shortlisted My Brain is Boiling with Ideas, in which a woman begins an affair with an android. Claire’s short fiction and poetry have previously been published by journals including The London Magazine, Gutter, perverse, Lunate, The Oxonian Review, and Short Fiction. You can read the full Bookseller announcement here.

Publisher Tom Conaghan said of Claire’s work: “her beautiful, passionate and exhilarating acknowledgement of human relations under the strain of both intimate and global anxieties.”

Claire said: “I’m excited to be collaborating with Scratch to bring my collection into the world. I wrote this book during the strange intensity of 2020, so it’s surreal and exhilarating to know that it has found a home with such a dynamic publisher.”

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