A event on Friday 21st November. The event starts at 19:00.
Join us at East Bristol Books to celebrate Nell Osborne’s first novel: *Ghost Driver*, published by Moist. Expect readings from the book by the author and other surprises.
Malory walks home after an ordinarily gruelling night out, having escaped the company of her associates. Something ripples in the darkness. The shape of a figure. So begins a chain of events with the texture of dream plasma. A story of persecution mania. Professional ignominy. A sudden disappearance. The terror of seeing oneself too clearly...
Part horror story, part tragicomic nightmare, Ghost Driver is a slim shudder of a novel about a woman who has taken every wrong turn available to her.
‘Nell Osborne is a genius. Ghost Drive is brilliant and hilarious and dark and true. I loved it.’ – Sarah Bernstein
‘Ghost Driver devises a new genre of administrative horror: by turns addictively morbid, comic and discomfortingly familiar. Malory’s inner and outer worlds, like the novel’s prose, feel agonisingly poised on a knife edge – gothic in the cruellest, off-kilter sense. I am obsessed.’ – Daisy Lafarge
Nell Osborne is a poet, novelist and researcher of feminism and experimental writing. She’s interested in difficult, opaque, ugly, absurd, hostile, and unlikeable writings.
From 2018-20, Nell co-ran the Manchester-based experimental feminist reading series, No Matter, commissioning new work from writers including Anne Boyer, Simone White, and Lisa Robertson.
In 2024, she published a poetry pamphlet, *Thank You For Everything*, with Monitor Books. Of this, Luke Roberts said: ‘Nell Osborne makes wisdom blush and wit look like slapstick, and it all seems possible, scuffed and crude and stinging’.
Nell’s academic research has focused on writers such as Ann Quin, Kathy Acker and Anna Kavan. She also co-edited the cult zine series Academics Against Networking. Recently, she co-edited Gestures: a body of work, an interdisciplinary anthology on gesture and feminist practice, published with MUP. She’s currently working on a non-fiction book about shyness, secrecy and art-making.
Entry requirements: no age restrictions (under 18s to be accompanied by an adult over 21yrs, 1:1 ratio)
Malory walks home after an ordinarily gruelling night out, having escaped the company of her associates. Something ripples in the darkness. The shape of a figure. So begins a chain of events with the texture of dream plasma. A story of persecution mania. Professional ignominy. A sudden disappearance. The terror of seeing oneself too clearly...
Part horror story, part tragicomic nightmare, Ghost Driver is a slim shudder of a novel about a woman who has taken every wrong turn available to her.
‘Nell Osborne is a genius. Ghost Drive is brilliant and hilarious and dark and true. I loved it.’ – Sarah Bernstein
‘Ghost Driver devises a new genre of administrative horror: by turns addictively morbid, comic and discomfortingly familiar. Malory’s inner and outer worlds, like the novel’s prose, feel agonisingly poised on a knife edge – gothic in the cruellest, off-kilter sense. I am obsessed.’ – Daisy Lafarge
Nell Osborne is a poet, novelist and researcher of feminism and experimental writing. She’s interested in difficult, opaque, ugly, absurd, hostile, and unlikeable writings.
From 2018-20, Nell co-ran the Manchester-based experimental feminist reading series, No Matter, commissioning new work from writers including Anne Boyer, Simone White, and Lisa Robertson.
In 2024, she published a poetry pamphlet, *Thank You For Everything*, with Monitor Books. Of this, Luke Roberts said: ‘Nell Osborne makes wisdom blush and wit look like slapstick, and it all seems possible, scuffed and crude and stinging’.
Nell’s academic research has focused on writers such as Ann Quin, Kathy Acker and Anna Kavan. She also co-edited the cult zine series Academics Against Networking. Recently, she co-edited Gestures: a body of work, an interdisciplinary anthology on gesture and feminist practice, published with MUP. She’s currently working on a non-fiction book about shyness, secrecy and art-making.
Entry requirements: no age restrictions (under 18s to be accompanied by an adult over 21yrs, 1:1 ratio)