Biography & Memoir
Barefoot Runner
Paul Rambali
Beautifully written, elegiac biography of the first black African to win an Olympic gold medal.
Boy A
Jonathan Trigell
Creepy and involving… From the beginning, Trigell weaves a sense of drama and a disturbing feeling of inevitability
The Devil's Home On Leave
Derek Raymond
The second novel in Derek Raymond's Factory detective crime series.
A State of Denmark
Derek Raymond
?Raymond?s novel is rooted firmly in the dystopian vision of Orwell and Huxley, sharing their air of horrifying hopelessness? Sunday Times ?A State of…
He Died with His Eyes Open
Derek Raymond
The first novel in Derek Raymond's Factory detective crime series
Nightmare in the Street
Derek Raymond
?A unique crime writer whose fictional world was brutal, realistic and harrowing in the extreme? Maxim Jakubowski, Guardian
Bodies of Work
Kathy Acker
?Scarified sensibility, subversive intellect, and predatory wit make her a writer like no other? New York Times "Kathy Acker's trancelike wr…
Haunted Weather
David Toop
?Haunted Weather is not just a deeply thoughtful and richly populated survey of modern experimental music, it?s a meditation on hearing itself? Guardi…
Murder In Memoriam
Didier Daeninckx
?Murder in Memoriam is the kind of book that begins to restore one?s confidence in the detective story. Not only has Daeninckx produced a particularly…
Antwerp
Nicholas Royle
?A gory but erotic thriller? This is a chilling and exhilarating read? Observer ?Beautifully written? a mesmerising blend of surrealism, satire and th…
The Buenos Aires Quintet
Manuel Vázquez Montalbán
Montalban is a writer who is caustic about the powerful and tender towards the oppressed
Marks of Identity
Juan Goytisolo
A masterpiece which should whet the appetites of British readers for the rest of the trilogy
Ghost of Chance
William S. Burroughs
?The man?s got something to say, so shut up and listen? Time Out ?Whether scorning the cult of the prophets or considering the nature of truth, his wr…
The Big Blowdown
George Pelecanos
?Pelecanos has enormous strengths as a crime writer. He can?t write a dull sentence, his dialogue has great rhythm, his action scenes are ferociously…
The Crust On Its Uppers
Derek Raymond
?Tremendous black comedy of Chelsea gangland, written and set in the early Sixties, on the cusp of swinging London? Face ?Peopled by a fast-talking sh…
The Sweet Forever
George Pelecanos
The real deal; a dirty, human slice of raw American life… Pelecanos has joined James Lee Burke and Lawrence Block at the high table of contemporary…