Cities of the Drift - The Lighthouse at the End of the World

A neo-Dickensian interdimensional occult adventure, smartly paced and compellingly written. I couldn’t put it down!
-Alex de Campi, Eisner award-nominated writer of Bad Girls

A vivid and boisterous portal fantasy with a bold, playful voice. I loved the inventive and daringly weird world, mixing dangerous London gangs with 17th century slang and pagan folklore with body horror that made me squirm- but never losing sight of the personal story at its core about found family and lost fathers. More, please!
-GV Anderson, World Fantasy award-winning author

THE LIGHTHOUSE AT THE END OF THE WORLD is a charming portal-esque fantasy with gritty wit, taking its readers on a twisty adventure that is both mythic and mystic, at times violent, with dashes of whimsy, exploring familial trauma, wayfinding and learning to navigate the world, reclaiming control of a life that has always been dictated by others, finding courage, and discovering the power and strength of found families.
-Ai Jiang

Inventive, immersive worldbuilding-Caitlin Rozakis, bestselling author of Dreadful

The Lighthouse at the End of the World is gloriously unhinged in all the best ways, with Oyster McLellen as the kind of scrappy, street-smart protagonist you can’t help but root for, even as he cons his way across realities. If you’ve ever wanted China MiÈville and Scott Lynch to get into a bar fight over a manuscript, this is the book that crawls out of the wreckage.
-Helen Marshall, award-winning author of The Lady, The Tiger and the Girl Who Loved Death

A quirky riot of a debut that will leave you in stitches. Suggars’s delightful voice brings to life Dickensian characters in a magical London. Stunning and startling in equal measure.
-T. L. Huchu, Nommo award-winning author of The Library of the Dead

Do you like steam-punk beetles? Old gods? And scamming tourists? You can find it all in a single hallucinogenic book. This debut has cemented Suggars as an author to watch out for.
-Greer Stothers, author of Apparently, Sir Cameron Needs to Die

Fantastical other realities, great characters - a glorious world to dive into.
-Marie O’Regan, ed. of In These Hallowed Halls, These Dreaming Spires, author of Celeste and The Last Ghost and Other Stories.

The creativity and imagination on display is breathtaking. The language employed by the characters is unique and complex, while the story immerses you in murky microcosms that will leave you astounded.
-Charlotte Bond, author of The Watcher in the Woods

A collision of the razor-sharp, grounded and urban, with the hugely imaginative and fantastical. A fish out of water genre tale with flashes of Burroughs, Ballard and Barker. You’ll never look at a beetle the same way again.
-Paul Kane - award-winning, #1 bestselling author of Sherlock Holmes and the Servants of Hell and The Storm.

Philip A. Suggars’ work has appeared in Strange Horizons, The Guardian and Interzone. He has won the Ilkley short story prize, been long-listed for the BSFA short story award and been included in The Best of British Science Fiction. When not writing words, he records music as one half of the post-punk electronica outfit, we are concrete. Born in South London, he currently lives on the south coast with his family.

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