The Red Book

The Red Book is a fierce, incandescent volume of conflict and passion: how love and war bend the self, and what survives the fire.

The Red Book moves in heat and fracture. This is the colour of battle and of blood-risen yearning: scenes of conflict (internal and external), the private combustions that become public consequence, and the small cruelties that teach as much as they wound. The sea here is red at the edges, as a consequence of living, and the book asks what we are willing to risk,...