Phantom Limb

‘Captivating… A striking, grand vision’ ― Buzz Magazine‘With shades of John Byrne and Alasdair Gray, Phantom Limb is to be treasured.A wonderfully strange, full-of-heart debut’ ― Camilla Grudova, Granta Best of Young British Novelist 2023 ‘A thrillingly unfettered debut… Phantom Limb is its own kind of miraculous relic: disturbing and mesmerising, the work of a writer possessed of a rare power and vision’ ― Daily Telegraph ‘At once playful and deeply moving, ancient and shockingly new, Phantom Limb is a tremendous read: full of wisdom, madness, kindness and action. You won’t read anything quite like it’ ― Aidan Cottrell-Boyce, author of The End of Nightwork ‘I hear a voice, singing in the wilderness - its sound is strange and it is beautiful. Chris Kohler’s Phantom Limb is the Scottish novel I have been waiting on for so long’ ― Alan Warner, author of Nothing Left to Fear From Hell ‘Wonderfully farcical and apocalyptic… A novel of considerable charm and energy, summoning a mad world that resembles our own’ ― Guardian ‘Chris Kohler’s prose is gorgeous throughout… This excellent debut is well worth the journey’ ― Literary Review ‘Phantom Limb is a chaotic, poignant, grotty, frightening, gleeful cacophony of a book’ ― Lisa McInerney, author of The Rules of Revelation

Chris Kohler is from Glasgow, Scotland. His short stories have been published in 3AM, Egress, The Stinging Fly, The Moth, Gutter, Dark Mountain and Minor Literatures. He was shortlisted for the VS Pritchett Short Story Prize 2023. Phantom Limb is his debut novel.