Ritual, 1969

This darkly gothic collection of stories explores the unsettling borderland between reality and the supernatural. Ranging from early twentieth-century France to 1960s South Wales and contemporary Europe, Jo Mazelis’ singular vision and poetic language creates characters caught up in events and feelings they do not fully understand or control, giving the book its uncanny focus. Not all is as it seems in a world where first impressions may only conceal disguises and false trails - and there's no going back.

About the Author

Jo Mazelis is a writer and photographer. Her first collection of stories Diving Girls, 2003 (Parthian) was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Best First Book and Wales Book of the Year and her second collection Circle Games, 2005, longlisted for the Wales Book of the year. Her first novel, Significance, a cosmopolitan feminist noir thriller set in northern France was a winner of the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize in 2015. Jo Mazelis’ stories have won prizes in the Rhys Davies, Penfro and Allen Raine competitions, have been published in many anthologies and magazines, and read on Radio 4.

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