Jim Ottewill Out of Space 17 July 2022 Author Jim Ottewill's new book is a fantastic exploration of clubs, their associated cultures and the sanctuary they still give to generations of the nation's youth in good times and bad.
Candice Brathwaite I Am Not Your Baby Mother 1 October 2020 This must-read unpacks life as a black mother in modern-day Britain. I inhaled it like turkey at Christmas.
Naomi Klein On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal 1 February 2020 The environmental case is overwhelming, but the transformative potential is also clear.
Isabel Waidner We Are Made Of Diamond Stuff 31 January 2020 A radical and innovative novel tackling queer identity, immigration, class and nationalism in modern Britain.
Blindboy Boatclub Boulevard Wren and Other Stories 1 December 2019 Irish writer, comedian and podcaster Blindboy Boatclub's second collection of short stories, Boulevard Wren and Other Stories, is a riotous…
Helen Mort Black Car Burning 1 December 2019 Helen Mort is best known as an acclaimed poet, who had won the Foyles Young Poet of the Year Award five times by the age of 18. Climbers…
Amy Rose Capetta & Cori McCarthy Once and Future 1 November 2019 Treat Your Shelfs October book was a queer-packed space opera and a retelling of the Arthurian legend. Once and Future is set between…
Tim Etchells Endland 1 November 2019 Endland is the latest release from Sheffield-based publisher And Other Stories. Tim Etchells is better known as the artistic director of…
Chuck Palahniuk Adjustment Day 19 September 2019 Chuck Palahniuk ramraided the late-90s lit scene with an uncompromising mix of Swiftian satire, Burroughsian surrealism and enough…
Willy Vlautin Don't Skip Out On Me 13 August 2019 Best known for fronting alternative country rockers Richmond Fontaine, Willy Vlautin has also penned a handful of essential novels…
Oscar Zeta Acosta The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo 4 June 2019 Best known as mescaline-fried attorney Dr Gonzo from Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Oscar 'Zeta' Acosta raged his way…
Amy Dempsey Surrealism 28 May 2019 A movement founded in 1924 by Andre Breton, the Surrealists strived to replace rational logic with a more visionary form of expression.…
John Gray Seven Types of Atheism 1 May 2019 Anyone who has followed the work of John Gray over the past two decades could be forgiven for believing him to be endowed with the gift of…
ANGRY WHITE PEOPLE: COMING FACE-TO-FACE WITH THE BRITISH FAR RIGHT 21 January 2016 I call this genre of book “slum lit”. Just as in the 19th century, when novelists chose to shock their readers by depicting slum life and… I call this genre of book “slum lit”. Just as in the 19th century, when novelists chose to shock their readers by depicting slum life and th