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Aimee Ballinger

Aimee Ballinger is a writer, bookseller and greengrocer living and working in Glasgow. She runs Burning House Books, an online and pop-up bookshop with a focus on art, counterculture and queer history. 



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Michelle Tea’s ‘Against Memoir’

Book Review

December 2019

Aimee Ballinger

Book Review

December 2019

Last summer, after an eight-hour shift with barely enough time for a piss break, I walked out of a yet another café job. This...

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October 2013

A World of Sharp Edges: A Week Among Poets in the Western Cape

André Naffis-Sahely

feature

October 2013

In Antal Szerb’s The Incurable, the eccentric millionaire Peter Rarely steps into the dining car of a train steaming...

fiction

March 2015

House Proud

Amelia Gray

fiction

March 2015

It’s harder to leave your burning home after you’ve spent so much time cleaning its floors. Watching those baseboards...

fiction

January 2014

Leg over Leg

Ahmad Fāris al-Shidyāq

TR. Humphrey Davies

fiction

January 2014

First published in 1855, Leg over Leg recounts the life, from birth to middle age, of ‘the Fāriyāq,’ alter ego of...

 

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