Unusual Concentrations

CRIME, COFFEE AND CARELESS TALK. A novella by award-winning novelist and graphic-novelist Simon Spurrier.

Jay Berry is a pathetic man. He spends his days in the anodyne cafeterias of London, living vicariously through those around him, letting his pitiful attention skip like a pebble on a pond. But an overheard conversation and a grisly event - death-by-latte - embroil him in a caffeinated conspiracy his dismal imagination can barely comprehend.

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Unusual Concentrations is a bleakly funny novella about loneliness, imagination and the curious horrors of coffee shop culture.

Following the success of his novels "Contract" and "A Serpent Uncoiled", this 40,000-word blast of abusrdist realism marks Spurrier's first foray into digital publishing.

Audience
adult
Length
short · 130 pages

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