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A new English translation by Christina Les of Kathrin Schmidt’s prize winning novel Du Stirbst Nicht is due to be published early in 2021. Helene Wesendahl wakes from a post-aneuryism coma paralysed, speechless and devoid of memory. With each re-learned movement, remembered word and returned fragment of forgotten biography, a life comes to light that she scarcely […]
Poetry by Jean Stevens Words a lifetime’s freight of wordsslippery wordswords across deep valleysdevoting a life to wordswords of helplost wordsmagical wordsthe air full of wordswords inside a child’s headanchoring wordsalive with wordsa serpent’s wordsfinished with wordsall human wordsblack-lettered wordsgrappling with wordsall those words that might have been The poems in Jean Stevens’ latest collection […]
Suki Illuminated is the first in our Illustrated Books series. The book contains photographs by Bel the photographer of Suki the life-model. The book was produced to accompany the Suki Project exhibition as part of the Three Peaks Arts trail in 2019. Bel and Suki are fictional characters created by Sue Vickerman. Two parts of […]
The poems in Jean Stevens’ latest collection are reflections on our relationship with the earth. They express delight in nature but also lament its loss in the uncertain times in which we live. There is a longing for more connection: that night in my cage of sleep I dreamt of hares in the wild; and a […]
True Life Nude is the third part of Suki the life-model’s autobiographical trilogy. It was published in January 2020. A Small Life and Two Small Lives are the first two parts of Suki’s life-story. At the opening of this final part of the trilogy Suki has escaped to Berlin to try and pick up the […]
Naked Eye is delighted to announce that it has obtained the translation rights from the German publishing house Kiepenheuer und Witsch to Kathrin Schmidt’s prize-winning novel Du Stirbst Nicht (You’re not going to die). Du Stirbst Nicht won the German Book Prize in 2009 and has since been translated into thirteen other languages, but never […]
Naked Eye is pleased to publish David Pendleton’s book Kick-off; The start of spectator sports as the first in its Potted Theses series. “It is to be hoped that David Pendleton’s wonderfully readable and entertaining vision of a past which remains central to the way we still perceive ourselves, will become a staple of sporting […]
Naked Eye is pleased to publish Jean’s latest collection of poems Driving in the Dark in February 2018. The poems in Jean Stevens’ latest collection range through everything from a pub on the North York Moors on a black cloaked night, an encounter with a stranger in the dead hours in Soho and jackdaws who […]
Do Christmas and all the build-up to it affect you emotionally, whether you were brought up in a Christian background or not? As Sue writes, “Advent was at one time a dour season of prayer, fasting and penitence. For me a distinct melancholy hangs over our grey rainy islands during December’s darkening days. Some people […]
We publish concise layperson-friendly versions of PhD and other research theses to bring to a wider audience the ideas and wisdom of people whose master oeuvre may otherwise languish in eternal obscurity in an academic library. The requirements of academic rigour can make theses tedious to wade through, weighed down as they are by unwieldy […]
True Life Nude is the third part of Suki the life-model’s autobiographical trilogy. It was […]
Naked Eye is delighted to announce that it has obtained the translation rights from the […]
Naked Eye is pleased to publish David Pendleton’s book Kick-off; The start of spectator sports […]
Naked Eye will soon be publishing a range of art books and exhibition catalogues featuring […]
‘True Life Nude’, Part III of Suki’s trilogy, is in production and will be published […]
Naked Eye has published a Kindle edition of Sue Vickerman’s second poetry collection, The social […]
Naked Eye has published a Kindle version of Sue Vickerman’s first poetry collection Shag (originally […]
True Life Nude, Part III of Suki’s autobiographical trilogy, is now available to read online […]
Two Small Lives, Part II of Suki’s autobiographical trilogy, can be read online here. It […]
A Small Life, Part I of Suki’s autobiographical trilogy, is available online. You can read […]
