ISBN: 978-1-916041-10-3 Perfect bound paperback with French flaps 100 pages. 216 x 138mm

Ten over-lit comic tales of perverted domestic bliss from the shores of a post-apocalyptic seaside resort. Somewhere between Blackpool and Atlantic City. 

Life, memory and social habits have all changed, inverted and become confused since the sea washed away most of what existed before in The Great Arising.

The tales of Bertie and Cara’s married life rise and fall between cruelty, sentimentality and a nobility of squalor.

The Lowly of the title is the collective name given to a variety of creatures that have been bred from human and animal genes, as slaves to the surviving populace attempting to make the world ‘normal’ again and deny all the inconvenient histories of the past.

‘Brian Catling is simply a genius. His writing is so extraordinary it hurts. It makes me realise how little imagination I have.’ - Terry Gilliam

‘Very weird, very wonderful – the blind prophet gives warning, opens our eyes and offers a counter spell.’ - Marina Warner