Barely Imagined Beginning

The Book of Barely Imagined Beings will be published in the UK by Granta this Thursday, 4 October. The first newspaper review, by Stuart Kelly, appeared in The Scotsman yesterday.

From now until publication in the US by Chicago University Press next March I will, circumstances permitting,  post each week on themes and ideas relating to each chapter, from A to Z. This week: the introduction.

The photograph shows the place where I dozed off and dreamed the book (page x).