Everyday

by Lee Rourke

Everyday takes the reader for a dawdle into the moribund heart of London. This extraordinary collection of stories - featuring pigeons, putrefying exotic dancers, lost loves, boredom, cliché, lacklustre dérives, banality, sexual violence, the male gaze, a murderous acquisition of a tortuously blank book, and the sad demise of the number 38 bus - reinvents reality, that is at once sordid, hilarious and tender.

Publisher: Social Disease

Lee Rourke

Lee Rourke, the author of last year's excellent The Canal, is a writer concerned with big ideas and philosophies. Having made his name as a short story writer and a literary critic of repute, he has now released his debut novel, The Canal, which is on the surface a novel about a man sitting, watching the life of a canal expand before him while he wants for inspiration. As you dwelve deeper, you see it's about the intersection of boredom and violence. We called it 'a debut novel filled with humour, pathos and a stunningly odd relationship nurtured on a bench...'

Lee Rourke is the author of the critically acclaimed debut novel The Canal (winner of The Guardian’s ‘Not The Booker Prize’ 2010) and the short story collection Everyday. A work of non-fiction A Brief History of Fables: From Aesop to Flash Fiction is forthcoming in September 2011. He lives in London.

Lee Rourke