Discover the dazzling new queer literary horror novel about chosen family and the risks it takes to become the person you want to be.
'The glittery punk offspring of Katherine Dunn's Geek Love and Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus.' Chelsea G. Summers, author of A Certain Hunger
A travelling funfair of seductive troublemakers arrive in a repressed Scottish town. What could possibly go wrong?
It's the summer of '97 and the Scottish town of Pitlaw is itching for change.
Enter the Freakslaw - a travelling funfair populated by deviant queers, a contortionist witch, the most powerful fortune teller, and other architects of mayhem. It doesn't take long for the Freakslaw folk to infiltrate Pitlaw's grey world, where...
Jane Flett is a Scottish writer based in Berlin. She is the author of Freakslaw (2024). Her fiction has been commissioned for BBC Radio 4, featured in Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading and performed at the Edinburgh International Book Festival.
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