
The Foreshore Interview: N.C. Fortune
N.C. Fortune lives in the Cotswolds. He is a poet and former musician, playing the drums in bands. His first
February 12, 2025
Foreshore Publishing has acquired Springtime in the Bones (Primavera nos ossos) by Állex Leilla, a controversial, poignant novel, originally written and published in Brazil and translated by Amanda Sarasien.
Foreshore Publishing will publish the novel in paperback in September 2025.
Springtime in the Bones is a poignant tale of unfulfilled love and vengeance. It follows Luísa, a successful partner at a leading advertising agency in Salvador, whose heart still belongs to her first love, Michel. Despite their five-year marriage and her lingering obsession, Michel has openly embraced his attraction to men, leaving Luísa caught between love and heartache. As the narrative unfolds,
By 2150, Earth is a toxic wasteland. The last exhausted, lonely, human has died. Far above the Earth, on an abandoned space station, an artificial intelligence originally designed to take humanity to the stars, sends a desperate plea for help to a world which they had been unable to reach. Forty light years away, ‘they’ respond and travel back to humanity’s beginnings to try to help lead them away from their dark ending. Over thousands of years, determined to offer the gifts that could save humanity, they become more and more involved at what they know to be key points in Earth’s evolving history, until they recognise a terrible truth: their own survival is at stake.A journey through the centuries on the way to a threatened planet, Emily Chance’s astonishing visionary creation both reflects and redefines the history of our own world.
A story of ordinary lives against a backdrop of cosmic stakes, exploring themes of connection, belonging, and self-discovery.Dollop, a homesick young man, keeps a diary of his life in The Terrarium, a vast space city, as part of a groundbreaking extraterrestrial project. Living in a hostel with two peers, Backlog and Methane, and the enigmatic older man Octave, he feels uncertain about his future and lacks ambition. But after slowly building up his confidence, a shocking truth emerges that compels Dollop to reassess his identity.
N.C. Fortune lives in the Cotswolds. He is a poet and former musician, playing the drums in bands. His first
A story of ordinary lives against a backdrop of cosmic stakes, Duncan Fraser’s captivating and unique speculative fiction debut Terrarium
A journey through the centuries on the way to a threatened planet, Emily Chance’s astonishing visionary science fiction novel Hermes
Interview: Simon Lamoon on classical music and the dark side of artificial intelligence and social media in his debut novel,
N.C. Fortune lives in the Cotswolds. He is a poet and former musician, playing the drums in bands. His first
A story of ordinary lives against a backdrop of cosmic stakes, Duncan Fraser’s captivating and unique speculative fiction debut Terrarium
A journey through the centuries on the way to a threatened planet, Emily Chance’s astonishing visionary science fiction novel Hermes
Interview: Simon Lamoon on classical music and the dark side of artificial intelligence and social media in his debut novel,