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| Everyday |
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Everyday takes the reader for a dawdle into the moribund heart of London. This collection of stories – featuring pigeons, putrefying exotic dancers, lost loves, boredom, cliché, lacklustre derives, banality, sexual violence, the male gaze, a murderous acquisition of a tortuously blank book and the sad demise of the number 38 bus – reinvents reality, a reality that is at once sordid, hilarious and tender.
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Category: Short story collection
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Author: Lee Rourke
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Publisher: Social Disease
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| Book code: BTD009 |
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| Price: GBP £ 9.99 |
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| Balzac of the Badlands |
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Balzac of the Badlands is a neo-noir novel at its neo-ist, with deviant longings and dirty landscapes. It is crime as pastime. Balzac, Homo Sapiens Sapiens Jones, The Mermaid, Kurdish militants, Irish gangs, and English firms - what do they have to do with a missing woman? Set in North London, the novel explores friendship and loss, and the shifting planes of past, present, and future. It looks into how each of us manipulate time and space through memory and art, and asks the question - are we all in possession of unearthly powers?
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Author: Steve Finbow
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Publisher: Future Fiction London
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| Book code: BTD031 |
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| Price: GBP £ 12.00 |
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| Protest! |
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Protest! is a limited edition, HARDBACK, fiction anthology, consisting of three long short stories from three writers you might have heard of from the literary underground – STEVE FINBOW, JOSEPH RIDGWELL and MELISSA MANN. This is writing aimed at infecting your brain and immunizing you against the dull and the ho-hum of mainstream literature. It's a protest against logic, the stupid, the unthinking, the herd; against genre, turgid prose and the "how-to" "dot-to-dot" guides of creative writing courses.
In Protest! you'll find cases of psychopathology, doses of feminism and cases of beer. The book is written from a working class perspective, from the writers’ roots and from their boots. It is them urging the reader not to accept that's all there is. Think! Think! Think! Protest! Protest! Protest!
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Author: Steve Finbow, Joseph Ridgwell and Melissa Mann
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Publisher: Beat the Dust Press
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| Book code: BTD029 |
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| Price: GBP £ 12.00 |
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| Mineshaft #24: The Brutalists edition |
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The Brutalists return with their second collection of poems written exclusively for the new issue of US magazine, Mineshaft. Now in its tenth year, Mineshaft is an independently published underground art magazine that showcases art, comics and literature from some of the world's greatest artists. This issue also features work by Robert Crumb, Charles Bukowski, Spain Rodriguez, Sophie Crumb and many others.
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Category: Literary magazine
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Author: Tony O’Neill, Adelle Stripe and Ben Myers
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Publisher: Mineshaft
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| Book code: BTD028 |
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| Price: GBP £ 4.95 |
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| The Loose Canon |
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Issue one of this new lit mag on the block, The Loose Canon features "fiction that flies under the radar" from thirteen underground writers, including Dan Fante, Mark SaFranko, Tony O'Neill, Heidi James, Rob Woodard, Joseph Ridgwell and Melissa Mann. The title of the mag reflects the editors' stance against the idea of a literary canon, as defined by academia and the literary establishment. Their intent for this lit mag is clear: "to provide a free, unfettered forum where vision and passion trumps critical theory, where guts and gusto outweighs craft and teach-ability, and where grit and honesty... dumps on antiquated tradition."
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Category: Literary magazine
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Author: Various including Dan Fante, Mark SaFranko and Tony O’Neill
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Publisher: Siren Song Publishing
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| Book code: BTD030 |
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| Price: GBP £ 6.50 |
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| Cigarettes in Bed |
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Cigarettes In Bed is the second collection of poetry by British writer, Adelle Stripe and was recently awarded 3:AM Magazine's Poetry Book of the Year Award 2009. This reflective, drowsy and lyrical collection is the final full stop to Stripe’s urban works which began with her debut collection Some Things Are Better Left Unsaid, published by Blackheath in 2008.
Cigarettes In Bed is an exploration of geography, history and people. It comes as a highly limited chapbook complete with individually ‘hand burned’ holes in the cover. No two editions are the same, making it instantly collectible.
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Category: Poetry collection
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Author: Adelle Stripe
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Publisher: Blackheath Books
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| Book code: BTD033 |
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| Price: GBP £ 5.00 |
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| Frostbitten |
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The epic rites workers in blood chapbook series showcases work by artists whose medium is blood. Frostbitten by Mark Walton is the first entry in the series. Mark does not merely write with blood, he wields his pen like a scalpel - marbling away fat and dead tissue with economy and precision. Frostbitten is not merely a collection of poetry, it's the literary equivalent of open heart surgery.
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Category: Poetry collection
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Author: Mark Walton
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Publisher: epic rites press
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| Book code: BTD024 |
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| baby, i'm ready to go |
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baby, i’m ready to go is a break-the-rules collection of poems that’s not afraid to mess with convention. It’s a poetry book that mixes the radical with the traditional - the anarchy of dialect and free verse, with the conformity of rhyme and traditional poetic forms. baby, i’m ready to go takes us to the extremes of the M1, from the two-up-two-downs of the writer’s native Yorkshire, to the urban Masai Mara of inner-city London via a town called Me, population one. A knowing, edgy collection, baby, i’m ready to go shows us the wonderful and funny in the weird, banal and ugly. It reminds us of the cruelty and sadness that is life and other people.
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Category: Poetry collection
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Author: Melissa Mann
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Publisher: Grievous Jones Press
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| Book code: BTD027 |
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| Price: GBP £ 7.00 |
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| Brutalism 1: Nowhere Fast |
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This hard-hitting and emotive chapbook contains poems by Ben Myers, Tony O'Neill and Adelle Stripe. Each writing about the respective Northern towns of their adolescence, Nowhere Fast marks the public debut of The Brutalist poets. Inspired as much by the music of punk and reggae, comics and kitchen sink cinema, these are bare-knuckle poems of violence, paranoia, cheap sex, eccentric characters and a desire to escape. The collection is illustrated throughout by artist, Lisa Cradduck.
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Category: Poetry collection
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Author: The Brutalists – Ben Myers, Tony O’Neill, Adelle Stripe
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Publisher: Captains of Industry Press
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| Book code: BTD032 |
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| Loners |
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Murderers and serial killers, jilted lovers and outcasts, broken men and lost women.... Loners. Cutting across genres for more than 20 years, cult American writer Mark SaFranko has excelled in charting the life of the outsider. This collection includes eight of SaFranko's short stories, all shot through with his trademark - and eye-opening - realism.
Mark SaFranko's tales of loners will appeal to fans of Dan Fante and the first-person realism of SaFranko’s Max Zajack novels (Hating Olivia and Lounge Lizard). Some of the stories will shock (‘Just Next Door’), some will thrill (‘Alley Night’), some will provoke thought (‘Life Change’) but all have the page-turning energy of writers such as Joe R. Lansdale (Mucho Mojo).
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Category: Short story collection
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Author: Mark SaFranko
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Publisher: Murder Slim Press
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| Book code: BTD022 |
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| Load the Guns |
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The confederate companion to Ridgwell’s first chapbook of poetry, the highly acclaimed ‘Where are the Rebels?’ is out now. In ‘Load the Guns’, Ridgwell drags the reader down into the underbelly of society to reveal the cracked modern world in all its ruined beauty. This chapbook is required reading for lovers of underground and anti-mainstream poetry, as well as isolationists, offbeats, non-conformists, night-crawlers, dandies, hippies, boozers, junkies, hobos, sweethearts, young lovers, grievous angels, and misfit outsiders all over the world.
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Author: Joseph Ridgwell
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Publisher: Blackheath Books
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| Book code: BTD025 |
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| Boys' Night Out in the Afternoon |
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Through much of Boys' Night Out in the Afternoon Tim Wells displays the candour and swagger of a barroom raconteur, with his ear for dialogue, the knack of a great punch line and a sure knowledge of what underlies his material. His lines though consistently stretch out beyond the anecdotal, betraying his true craft and vision as a poet.
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Author: Tim Wells
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Publisher: Donut Press
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| Book code: BTD001 |
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| Kissed by a Fat Waitress |
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Dan Fante’s new collection of poems begins with a quote from Victor Hugo’s Hunchback of Notre Dame “(Love)… is never stronger then when it is completely unreasonable.” And so the tone is set for an honest and intense collection of over 80 poems, illustrated throughout by Allen Berlinski. Try getting this book anywhere else a) in the UK right now and b) at this price. I don't think so!
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Author: Dan Fante
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Publisher: Sun Dog Press
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| Book code: BTD016 |
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| Where are the rebels? |
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Seemingly from out of nowhere emerges a startling collection of poems from a writer prepared to leave no stone unturned in the pursuit of truth, beauty and brutality. Ridgwell’s poems will drag you down the dark alleys of the literary underground with a compelling combination of ferocity, melancholy and sad hung over blues refrains.
’Where are the rebels?’ is a ground-breaking and thought provoking collection, a must have for any adventurous and esoteric reader, and the literary equivalent of a fully-automated and loaded AK47!
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Author: Joseph Ridgwell
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Publisher: Blackheath Books
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| Book code: BTD017 |
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| VS. |
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With this prolific poet, you never know what’s going to happen next. Oprava’s themes may be familiar – love, desire and disappointment; childhood and the domestic life; time’s depredations and missed opportunities; death – but his treatments of them are quirky, startling or downright surrealist. His sophisticated command of language is matched by an instinct for rhyme, rhythm and word play. There is genuine innovation in this book, which can be said of very few poetry collections. His is a confident, critical American voice, which even in its bleaker observations beguiles the reader with its lightning wit and wry humour.
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Author: David Oprava
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Publisher: erbacce-press
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| Book code: BTD018 |
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| Price: GBP £ 7.00 |
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| Disorientations: Art on the Margins of the “Contemporary” |
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The latest book by cult author Travis Jeppesen proposes that rarest of things: a poetics of art criticism. Mirroring the author’s years spent in Central and Eastern Europe, Jeppesen’s writings on artists and scenes situated outside the radar of the larger art world, bring together a motley crew of outsiders whose work is destined to push the margins to the center. Encompassing a selection of reviews, essays, riffs and rants on the state of the visual arts, Disorientations is a joltingly unconventional – and confrontational – addition to the literature of art criticism. Disorientations is destined to be the talk of the art world for years to come. It will also be the talk of the bookshop world too cos this price tag is exclusive to Beat the Dust Bookshop. You won't find it anywhere cheaper.
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Category: Essay collection
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Author: Travis Jeppesen
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Publisher: Social Disease
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| Book code: BTD020 |
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| Price: GBP £ 10.99 |
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| Mineshaft #23 |
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The latest issue of Mineshaft features a fantastic and intricate front cover by Jay Lynch, back cover by Robert Crumb and inside special R. Crumb pink centerfold sketchbook drawings. There is also new work by Kim Deitch – ‘The Amazing, Enlightening and Absolutely True Adventures of Kathryn Whaley’, ‘GROB SCHWANK’ by Ed Piskor & Sarah Sveda, Sophie Crumb, Pat Moriarity, Bill Griffith, ‘Rock City Terminally Ill’ by Harvey Pekar & Tara Seibel, ‘Letters to Sexology Magazine’ by Bruce Simon, Frank Stack's ‘Dirty Diana’, ‘Washington Beach’ by Aaron Lange, Mike Roden’s ‘This is Door-Eye’, Noah Van Sciver says ‘Hello’, letters from around the globe & MORE.
"Uptown, downtown, all through the underground, Mineshaft takes you where the action is!" and the next issue out in May is no exception. It features a very special collaboration with The Brutalists – Tony O’Neill, Ben Myers and Adelle Stripe – and London-based artist Lisa Cradduck called ‘Cheap Thrills.’
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Category: Literary magazine
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Author: Various including Robert Crumb, Sophie Crumb, Kim Deitch, Bill Griffith.
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Publisher: Mineshaft magazine
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| Book code: BTD021 |
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| Price: GBP £ 4.95 |
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| Hating Olivia: A Love Story |
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Hating Olivia is the story of Max Zajack. Max's life is in a rut, filled with cheap rooms, dead-end jobs and sexual and suicidal fantasies... until he meets the alluring and mysterious Olivia Aphrodite. But Olivia has a dark side... one exacerbated by the need to make ends meet.
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Category: Novel
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Author: Mark SaFranko
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Publisher: Murder Slim Press
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| Book code: BTD002 |
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| Lounge Lizard |
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Lounge Lizard, the much-anticipated sequel to Hating Olivia, has the humour of Bukowski (Women) with the unflinching honesty of Celine (Journey To The End of the Night). Ronald Reagan has just been elected president and Max Zajack can't make it out the door. Trying to recover from Olivia, Max hasn't had sex in years, suffers from writer's block and is mired in debt.
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Author: Mark SaFranko
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Publisher: Murder Slim Press
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| Book code: BTD003 |
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| Down Where the Hummingbird Goes to Die |
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“Justin’s work is straight ahead, no bullshit and no apologies… He elevates the ordinary to the level of the extra ordinary and then brings it home again as something simple enough for the reader to appreciate and experience. These poems are the musings of a man busting the nine to five of his own crazy life somewhere in Des Moines, Iowa.” – S. A. Griffin, American poet and actor.
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Author: Justin Hyde
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Publisher: Tainted Coffee Press
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| Book code: BTD004 |
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Jeff Lint was author of some of the strangest and most inventive satirical SF of the twentieth century. He transcended genre in classics such as Jelly Result and The Stupid Conversation, becoming a cult figure and pariah. Like his contemporary Philip K. Dick, he was blithely ahead of his time. Aylett follows Lint through his Beat days; his immersion in pulp SF, psychedelia and resentment; his disastrous scripts for Star Trek and Patton; the controversies of The Caterer comic and the scariest kids' cartoon ever aired; and his belated Hollywood success in the 1990s.
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Author: Steve Aylett
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Publisher: Snowbooks
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| Book code: BTD005 |
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| The Red Men |
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Nelson used to be a radical journalist, but now he works for Monad, one of the world's leading corporations. Monad make the Dr Easys, the androids which patrol London's streets: assisting police, easing tensions, calming the populace. But Monad also makes the Red Men - tireless, intelligent, creative and entirely virtual corporate workers - and it's looking to expand the programme. So Nelson is put in charge of Redtown: a virtual city, inhabited by copies of real people going about their daily business, in which new policies, diseases and disasters can be studied in perfect simulation. The Red Men is at heart a novel about a character wrestling with his conscience, set against a pervasive and Orwellian vision of contemporary society: surveillance, automation, biotechnology, and their implications for our humanity.
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Author: Matthew De Abaitua
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Publisher: Snowbooks
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| Book code: BTD006 |
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| Seizure Wet Dreams |
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In this collection of short stories and poems, you will meet a host of bizarre, fringe characters: Frank the Dog Walker, a junkie trying to score on New Year's Day in a deserted city; the maniacal Dr Ira; the failed writer Joe who is about to learn how to live without a vital part of his anatomy; The Chemist who is cooking up a potent strain of heroin extracted from the brains of screaming patients and Tony O'Neill himself.
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Author: Tony O'Neill
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Publisher: Social Disease
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| Book code: BTD007 |
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| Price: GBP £ 6.99 |
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| London Pub Reviews |
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London Pub Reviews is a truly unique collection of stories, all set within actual London pubs and which end in some form of disaster. Informative, enlightening and somewhat surreal, the stories follow one man's love of ale and the bizarre experiences he encounters as he enjoys a pint or two around London.
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Author: Paul Ewen
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Publisher: Shoes With Rockets
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| Book code: BTD010 |
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| The Swank Bisexual Wine Bar of Modernity |
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In The Swank Bisexual Wine Bar of Modernity meta-fabulist extraordinaire, H P Tinker writes the world in sixteen stories: the Morrissey Exhibition arrives in Your Town; due to the greatest hits of Tina Turner, a woman's feelings are never truly considered; Jean Vigo contemplates the meaning of time in a hotel lobby; Paul Gauguin considers himself moderately in love with Jacqueline Du Pre...
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Author: H P Tinker
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Publisher: Social Disease
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| Book code: BTD011 |
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| Some Things Are Better Left Unsaid |
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…and some things are better written down. Brutalist Adelle Stripe's debut poetry collection is a poignant chapbook that announces an individual new voice in modern poetry. Influences and inspiration for this collection are drawn from the changing face and increased gentrification of London's East End, out to the rural fields and hills of contemporary Britain and back to the personal space of rented rooms in the city. Some Things Are Better Left Unsaid is a unique work; it is part confession, part protest – and is a self assured debut from a country girl (she is the daughter of a dairy farmer) finding her balance in the heart of the East End.
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Author: Adelle Stripe
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Publisher: Blackheath Books
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| Book code: BTD012 |
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| The Book of Fuck |
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Written by the author in real time, The Book of Fuck is a short, sharp, pun-addled pulp fiction pastiche where the absurd underworld of music - and reality itself - is exaggerated to new dimensions. Following the frantic movements of a rock fan on the trail of America's public enemy number one, The Book of Fuck is a buckled break-neck rant let loose at punk rock speed. Literature doesn’t come much blacker than this.
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Author: Ben Myers
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Publisher: Wrecking Ball Press
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| Book code: BTD013 |
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| Two Tall Tales and One Short Story |
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A collection of stories by three of the UK's brightest new writing talents: The Mesmerist's Daughter by Heidi James, Smokin' the Queen by Kay Sexton, and In the Clear by Lucy Fry. In The Mesmerist's Daughter, a fairytale minus the fairies, tells the story of an imaginative young girl, Nicola, who thinks her mother is a wolf.
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Author: Heidi James, Kay Sexton, Lucy Fry
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| Book code: BTD014 |
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| 3:AM: London, New York, Paris |
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3:AM: London, New York, Paris is a collection of stories: A pseudo-religious epiphany in South London. A transmogrification in Hackney. Wasted sons of politicians and minor royalty agonise over Ibiza while in South Kensington. Infidelity and invitations to Le Carré adaptations on Tottenham Court Road. The hookers of Les Halles. Buying ketamin from Colombians in Vauxhall at 4am. Avian adventures on the Essex Road. Men's magazines and those transvestite nightclub leaflets in Harlem. A literary tour of Bloomsbury becomes a diplomatic incident. A callow youth is ignored by an Indian girl for his lack of knowledge of Dave Eggers. A jazz player's existential moment in Soho. Featuring Chris Cleave, Matthew De Abaitua, Niven Govinden, Laura Hird, Travis Jeppesen, Toby Litt, Mark SaFranko, Nicholas Royle and Matt Thorne, 3:AM London, Paris, New York is a tri-city boarding pass to decadence, delusion and deceit.
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Author: Various including Mark SaFranko,Toby Litt, Laura Hird and Nicholas Royle. Edited by Andrew Stevens.
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Publisher: Social Disease
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| Book code: BTD015 |
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| Price: GBP £ 9.99 |
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