The Secret Life of Houses

Literature & Fiction

Bradfield, Scott

Short Stories & Anthologies

Unwin Hyman

What's Wrong With America

A pointedly funny satire of modern America chronicles the picaresque adventures of Emma O'Hallan after she shoots her boring husband in the head and goes off to encounter a land of serial killers, cult leaders, dysfunctional families, and contented consumers

United States

St Martins Pr

On Animal Planet, animals possess the ability to talk as well as any human. They rebel against their human keepers, breaking out of zoos and leaving homes to live as independent beings. For most animals, however, freedom means working a steady job (usually for human bosses) and enjoying the comforts and complacencies of human life. Into this mix flies Charlie the Crow, rabble-rouser and avian revolutionary, whose mission it is to wean animals from the bottle of contemporary culture. But the animals find that freedom depends on who's defining it, and Charlie becomes a media celebrity - appearing on talk shows to promote books, movies, and other endorsement opportunities. As the revolution is co-opted by savvy profiteers, like the marketing maven Bunny Fairchild, Charlie goes underground, traveling with his reluctant pal Buster the Penguin (who longs for his domestic life back in Antarctica), pursued by an assortment of animal activists, CIA and military operatives, reporters, movie moguls, publishers, and others. Everyone wants a piece of Charlie's radical action...even if they have to kill him to get it.

Animal Planet

Humor & Satire

Picador USA

Aims to provide a hilarious look into Californian life. Emma O'Hanovan murders her husband Marvin and buries him in the back garden. However, her neighbour ends up buried alongside Marvin when Emma thinks she may suspect something. Meanwhile, Emma's life becomes increasingly chaotic.

In these provocative, inventive fictions, we encounter a man who dreams of himself as an Arctic wolf, a creature that slowly makes its way into the waking world; a hostile housewife who cultivates out-of-body experiences and imagines how her existence might serve as the basis for a movie starring Jessica Lange; and an autistic child for whom the world and words are the same thing, equally solid and equally malleable. Bradfield's stories are psychologically compelling and hilarious, particularly when he mixes the supernatural with the mundane. Each one of these twenty-one stories demonstrates his singularly rich language and imagination.

Greetings from Earth: New and Collected Stories

Eight-year-old Phillip Davis describes his life with his mother, Margaret, living as transients, and using stolen credit cards to finance their day-to-day existence

The History of Luminous Motion

Revised edition, with a new afterword, of the 1995 comic novel about a planet that suffers from crappy jobs, poor pay, invisible benefits, and an international culture industry that treats rebellion as a high marketing concept.

Contemporary

Picador

Bradfield, Scott, History of Luminous Motion, The

British & Irish

KNOPF

Presents a collection of short stories that explore the dark fantasies and disturbing dreams that haunt the subconscious minds of ordinary people

Dream Of The Wolf

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Books by Bradfield, Scott

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The Secret Life of Houses

What's Wrong With America

Animal Planet

What's Wrong With America

Greetings from Earth: New and Collected Stories

The History of Luminous Motion

Animal Planet

What's Wrong With America

The History of Luminous Motion

Dream Of The Wolf