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Welcome to Overland! Where the California sun shines down on synthetic grass and plastic oranges bedeck the trees all year round. Steam billows gently from the chimney tops and the blue tarpaulin lake is open for fishing...

Hollywood set-designer George Godfrey has been called on to do his patriotic duty and he doesn't believe in half-measures. If he is going to hide an American aircraft plant from the threat of Japanese aerial spies he has an almighty job on his hands. He will need an army of props and actors to make the Lockheed factory vanish behind the semblance of a suburban town. Every day, his "Residents" climb through a trapdoor in the factory roof to shift model cars, shop for imaginary groceries and rotate fake sheep in felt-green meadows.

Overland is a beacon for the young women labouring below it: Queenie, dreaming of movie stardom while welding sheet metal; Kay, who must seek refuge from the order to intern "All Persons of Japanese Ancestry". Meanwhile, George's right-hand Resident, Jimmy, knows that High Command aren't at all happy with the camouflage project...

With George so bewitched by his own illusion, might it risk confusing everybody - not just the enemy?

Overland is a book like no other -- to be read in landscape format. Based on true events, it is a novel where characters' dreams and desires come down to earth with more than a bump, confronting the hardships of life during wartime. As surreal and playful as it is affecting and unsettling, no-one other than Graham Rawle could have created it.



A surreal and fantastical world hovers above California in 1942- Graham Rawle's funny and tender new novel is like nothing you've ever seen, read or imagined before. After all, everyone deserves their own little piece of heaven...

About the Author
Graham Rawle is a writer, artist and designer. His popular series 'Lost Consonants' ran in the Weekend Guardian for 15 years. His collaged novel, Woman's World, created entirely from fragments of found text clipped from vintage women's magazines was described by The Times as "a work of genius". His interpretation ofThe Wizard of Oz was named 2009 Book of the Year at the British Book Design Awards, and his novel The Card, was shortlisted for the 2013 Writers' Guild Best Book Award. Rawle lives in London and teaches at the University of Brighton. He is Visiting Professor of Illustration at Falmouth University and Norwich University of the Arts where in 2012 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate for services to design.

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Rawle cut his teeth as an artist and designer and this sparky, inventive novel betrays his pedigree ... So appealing. Having arranged his stage-flats and his harum-scarum performers, Rawles manages to make them all feel of value. -- Xan Brooks * The Guardian *
One of the most innovative artist-writers we have -- Stuart Kelly * Scotland on Sunday *
Rawle has a vivid visual imagination -- Dominic Maxwell * The Times *
This is a beautiful book, not just in terms of its design, but in its moral integrity. A lesser writer would have made it all satire, and yet here there is much humanity and empathy. It takes Graham Rawle several years to compose his books; they are wholly worth the wait -- Stuart Kelly * Times Literary Supplement *
Graham Rawle, the talented writer-artist, is back with another innovative work that fearlessly experiments with form and style. Written in a landscape format, the book takes place in two worlds-the Over and the Under. This surreal and fantastical world hovers above California in 1942. Overland is intricate, playful and vigorous-an experience to relish. -- Rabeea Saleem * BookRiot *
Overland is marvellous, and in common with all of Rawle's work, you may put it down, but it'll never let you go ... Highly recommended reading-and re-reading! -- Lee Randall



Book Information
ISBN 9781784741488
Author Graham Rawle
Format Paperback
Page Count 384
Imprint Chatto & Windus
Publisher Vintage Publishing
Weight(grams) 550g
Dimensions(mm) 222mm * 150mm * 22mm

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