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Jim Ottewill Out of Space

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.

Helen Mort Black Car Burning

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…

Tim Etchells Endland

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

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

Best known for fronting alternative country rockers Richmond Fontaine, Willy Vlautin has also penned a handful of essential novels…

Amy Dempsey Surrealism

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

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

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