Strangers on the Shore

In Strangers on the Shore , Michael Smith - author of cult classic The Giro Playboy - journeys through the uncanny psychic landscape of St Leonard's in an astonishing work of autofiction that explores the experience of becoming a father and the strange grief of leaving your youth behind. The flâneuring Michael at the centre of the book has checked out, started a family and moved to the coast 'where all alcoholics go to die': he has both given up and started anew. Obsessed with Aleister Crowley a