Am I in the Right Place - my story collection 06 May 2021

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‘A funny, sad, sharp and beautifully disarming collection of stories: a place where the world of the quotidian with its train commutes, work lanyards and office emails, becomes dreamlike, absorbing and wonderfully strange.’– Wendy Erskine, author of Sweet Home 

‘Ben Pester’s vertiginous and stunningly weird stories are acts of inversion: office life is rendered terrifying and strange, while elements of cosmic horror – alien lifeforms, menacing and hungry holes – possess an eerie banality. Engaging with these enigmatic variations is less like reading and more like plunging; a funny and disturbing experience that I won’t soon forget.’– Chris Power, author of Mothers 

‘What a wonderfully twisted collection of stories this is – full of subversive portraits of familial love, memory and grief. There is a temporal weirdness running through these stories that creates something unexpected in each of them, and an ironic playfulness to the sentences that has caused me to fold over so many of the pages, wanting to read them again.’– Ross Raisin, author of A Natural 

‘Ben Pester's debut collection is brilliant and strange. It sneaks around the border of horror, like an anxiety dream but in the best way. I loved it.’– Evie Wyld, author of The Bass Rock

Granta online - I have two stories on here. Rachel Reaches Out and All Silky and Wonderful. Read them both.

Five Dials - My story Mother’s Day card from a wooden object is in issue 52 of this lovely magazine. Download this issue.

Hotel - My story If yes, appears in the cavernous Hotel Archive. Read my story and then get lost in the multiple hotel rooms.