‘The Constellations of Memory reckons with the empty spaces and imprecise flickers of deteriorating memory. Written in Chile in 2019, Fernandez’s work binds together her mother’s fading memories, her country’s reckoning with redacted memories, and the ancient glimmers of stars from a time and place light years away.’

‘At the book’s end, Johnson-Schlee imagines a world where we could ‘take threads and draw lines between every interaction, every instant of collective joy, every borrowed utensil and every shared loaf’. Living Rooms, itself, performs this work: scrutinising our homes, looking closely at their fibres, and opening them out through their connections with the world.’

‘In pre-empting our ‘lost pasts’ Rees’s stories cling tightly to the present: with its bin days and its marshes and its pylons. We are, as Rees makes clear, irrevocably tangled in this world.’

‘Dale’s genius, here, is in the cruelties, joys, transactions of ordinary life. She writes about the forms which must be filled in, the foods which must be digested, the people who must be taken care of, in order to survive another day. A worthy, and highly recommended, re-issue from a voice deserving of a new audience.’

“Instead, Bendek has written a story which opens out into ongoingness. Victoria’s story is one among many, in many languages, and many bodies, and these other ‘[h]istories peer out, just as valid as the official one.’”