Tom Newton

In Voyages to Nowhere, Tom Newton makes boundless imaginative leaps across mid-twentieth century European history. The two novellas, each set in a unique psychogeographical landscape, share a shattered dystopian vision, wherein time and space are dazzlingly transposed."Revolution in Dreamtime"Paris entre deux guerres-two artists on the periphery of the Surrealist movement share an atelier-the cerebral Alphonse, forced to become a police informant by a corrupt detective, and his friend Sophia. After a strange occult soir e she sets out to discover the mysteries of the Central Station-a place where the dreams of culture are woven. But is her journey just madness and hallucination? Two doctors try to find out, with disastrous consequences."Warfilm"In the summer of 1940, Franz Leis is ordered to drive from Berlin to Paris. He is a technician working on an epic film directed by Adolf Hitler, which will later be known as The Second World War. Instead of Paris, he finds himself in an unknown place. He encounters a magnetic young woman, a nameless prisoner unbound by space and time, partisan freedom fighters, British intelligence officers, and more. And what is the mysterious object that he must smuggle away?An earlier edition of Warfilm was published by Bloomsbury, London in 2015

Winner of Dactyl Foundation Literary Award 2019 "A unique and eccentric talent" -Dactyl ReviewReweirding the world.... This collection of twenty-four short stories explores unknown but vaguely familiar worlds. Charting the frontier between the real and the illusory, Seven Cries of Delight celebrates offbeat independent human curiosity, the unorthodox spirit of Renaissance enquiry into the nature of things, and its exposition in fiction unfettered by either convention or doctrine.A man spends years planning to eat his shoes, another defines his relationships with people as musical intervals. Effect precedes cause. There is a conscious and malevolent reflection in a mirror, and a writer who is forced to use italics in exchange for help in overcoming writer's block. King Arthur and his companions are sleeping in a cave below a septic tank. Someone possibly confesses to murder, or maybe not.The subject matter varies widely but what the stories have in common is their perception from unexpected angles-their serious absurdism."Radically disorientating, witty and discerning, Tom Newton's new collection of stories plays with space, time and the interstices of consciousness, and in turn provokes, disconcerts and always entertains." -Salley Vickers, author of The Other Side of You and Miss Garnet's Angel"Tom Newton's pen probes the nature of consciousness... Is it a dream or palpable reality?... Totally engrossing " -John Ashton, The Psychedelic Furs, Satellite Paradiso, musician and producerPseudepigrapha: "In this slim volume, on which he spent years of meticulous labor, Tom Newton has created not a mere imitation nor illusory replica but an actual verbatim original work of the 2019 classic Seven Cries of Delight." -Jorge Luis Borges "Ironing board, plucked chicken, seven cries, a peach. Eat this book." -Salvador Dali