Fiction
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
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…
The Slide Area
Gavin Lambert
Most of all there is enormous skill: the author has the playwright's flair for taut, meaningful dialogue; the novelist's feeling for mood, t…
Inside Daisy Clover
Gavin Lambert
Decades before it was fashionable, Gavin Lambert expertly wove characters of every sexual stripe into his lustrous tapestries of Southern California l…
Lust
Elfriede Jelinek
Sport, capitalism, male penetrative sexuality, bourgeois consumerism, the family – are pilloried in between the ceaseless rapes, buggeries and other a…
Wonderful, Wonderful Times
Elfriede Jelinek
A dozen years after the collapse of the Third Reich, four adolescents commit a gratuitously violent assault and robbery in a Viennese park. So begins…
Count Julian
Juan Goytisolo
This wicked, passionate and extremely funny book can be read as Goytisolo's farewell to the priests, generals and sanctimonious moralizers who ru…
Tea in the Harem
Mehdi Charef
Charef describes everyday hurts and bruises as if they were distinctive characteristics of the human condition. This unadorned voice goes straight to…