Capture Spiral by Jez Conolly PREORDER

In Capture Spiral: An Escape from Memory, Jez Conolly revisits the haunted textures of a 1970s childhood on the Lincolnshire coast, where faded seaside amusements and family silences conceal deeper undercurrents of curiosity, dread, and wonder. Written with precision, wit, and a lyrical eye for the uncanny, this memoir intertwines personal history with cultural memory, uncovering the makeshift surreal hiding in the mundane. A beautifully unsettling portrait of place, time, and the strange persistence of the past.

"Jez Conolly's "storied" interior odyssey charts his experiences of the prosaic and incongruous from childhood through puberty, fighting for an inner escape from the strangulating conformity of Cleethorpes. A mixtape of memories past, from two tortoises named Toby to the rotating clown heads of Wonderland. Capture Spiral is a user's guide for a night gallery of childhood-origin neuroses, and a celebration of the "great escape" we call imagination."

Stephen Volk, author of Ghostwatch.

Paperback, 204pp.

CONTENTS

Entrance
Cleethorpes: Recollection and Curiosity (1965-1973)

Chapter One
Playing Dead: The Rebellion of Withholding (1973)

Chapter Two
Wishbones and Watching: The Upside of Being Very Poorly (1973)

Chapter Three
‘One Day, Emily Found A Thing’: Oliver Postgate and The Eco-Ephemera of ‘Sunday Constitutionals’ (1974)

Chapter Four
Flask Tea and Lay-Bys: Family Picnicking by the Side of the Road (1974)

Chapter Five
Fingers and Masks: The Joke Shop Rite of Passage (1974)

Chapter Six
Grand Guignol: Scarborough, Taxidermy and the Gifford Book (1975)

Chapter Seven
Laughter and Birdsong: The Tax Inspector from Nuremberg (1975)

Chapter Eight
Spearmint and Starlight: The Universe in Uncle Harry’s Shed (1975)

Chapter Nine
O Wonderland!: The Nightmare of ‘Fun’ (1976)

Chapter Ten
Out of the Black Pool: The Pleasure of Effigies (1977)

Chapter Eleven
Hercules Unchained: The Tragedy of the Zoo (1978)

Exit
Some Thing to Do: An Escape Through Body Horror (1978-1983)

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