Brian Catling Books in Order

Twenty prose conundrums attempt to define an invisible sculpture that continually changes shape. Brian Catling uses descriptions of its contours, material, and volume to explore how words might give substance to an object existing only through its index.

Brian Catling and Iain Sinclair reconstruct an exhibition and performance at Swedenborg House through essays and archival material. Their exploration of Emanuel Swedenborg's legacy follows religious ritual, hidden histories, and the uncertain boundary between visionary insight and madness.

A renegade English soldier enters a sentient African forest rumored to contain Eden, pursued by a marksman sent to stop him. Around their journey, colonial ambitions, historical figures, and impossible beings encounter a wilderness that bends time and erases memory.

Angels who failed to guard the Tree of Knowledge awaken in Europe as workers vanish into the Vorrh. Ishmael leads a search into the forest, while an abandoned child's unexplained powers signal further conflict between human ambitions and ancient forces.

As war threatens Europe and Africa, Cyrena Lohr receives a powerful object that offers visions of another world. The Vorrh's resistance to invasion reaches its climax, drawing humans and supernatural beings into betrayals and battles with humanity's fate at stake.

A solitary caretaker in Liège tends a strange girl whose teeth he fashions from ice. An encounter with a sinister stranger and the arrival of a black cat disturb his routine, leading to a journey shadowed by violent coincidences.

After a catastrophic flood reshapes a seaside resort, Bertie and Cara navigate a marriage marked by cruelty and sentimentality. Around them, human-animal servants called the Lowly expose the surviving population's efforts to bury the past and restore normality.

A mischievous monk's ghost haunts the English village of Pulborough between the world wars. Inn manager Maud Garner summons celebrated investigator Walter Prince, but his arrival turns an unsettling haunting into a chain of bizarre and comic complications.

Mercenaries escort a new divine oracle toward a monastery beneath a towering structure believed to be Babel. Their perilous journey unfolds amid conflict between the living and the dead, while monks, rebels, and ambitious authorities confront visions and hidden sacred powers.