Books by Anna Kavan

The world is threatened by encroaching ice, creeping down day by day from the polar ice caps. The imminent catastrophe has thrown the world's governments into chaos, and no one knows whether the disaster has an environmental or nuclear cause, or how soon the end will come. One ma...n pursues his sylph-like, silver-haired ex-fiancee ('the girl') as she flees from country to country, away from her husband; away from the malevolent 'warden' of one of the proto-territories that have sprung up as traditional societies crumble; away from him.
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This collection of Anna Kavan's short fiction and journalism marks fifty years since her death in 1968. From moving portraits of clinical depression to phantasmagoric visions of sci-fi wonder the writings collected in Machines in the Head offer an accessible introduction to, and ...a timely survey of, Kavan's diverse writing talents for her fans.
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Originally published: London: Owen, 1970.

The Parson was not published in Kavan's lifetime, but found after her death in manuscript form and published in 1995. This is its first publication in paperback. The Parson is an upright army officer so nick-named for his apparent prudishness. On leave in his native homeland, he ...meets a rich and beguiling beauty. The days that he spends with her, riding in and exploring the wild moorland, have their own enchantment. But she grows restless in this desolate land. Although in love with him, she discourages any intimacy. Until, that is, she persuades him to take her to a sinister castle situated on a treacherous headland. This is a tale of divided selves locked in an unequal embrace. Passion is revealed as a play of the senses as well as a destructive force.
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Anna Kavan's classic vision of a climate crisis in a new and improved edition of the Cased Classics series, which now features trompe-l'oeil die-cut dust jackets, over contemporary art by British artist Naomi Frears.