Released 31st July, 2024 // 36 pages // 978-1-916938-34-2 // RRP £8.99
 
A woman sits alone in an office waiting room. She inhales, deeply. She can smell… herself.
 
So begins a surrealist odyssey that takes in blue mountains and giant duvets, prosthetic limbs and oranges, cannibalism and active wear, before ending in a gym.
 
Swords is a narrative about the absurdity of rationality, the attempt to impose order on chaos, the gradual decay of selfhood in a world without MEANING.
 
But, mostly, it is the story of a gradual stumble into emotional connection and the joys and terrors that can bring.
 
PRAISE for Swords:
Swords is a weird and wonderful page turner of a story. It is graphic and dreamlike, yet also grounded in the world we live in. The characters are irresistible. Funny, compelling and oddly tender.
   — Ian Seed
 
ABOUTJames Roome:
James Roome is a musician, poet and teacher from Manchester, UK.