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| Everyday (Paperback - New) |
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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 |
| USD $ 16.50 |
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| A Gate At The Stairs (Hardback – Second-hand) |
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In her dazzling new novel – her first in over a decade – Lorrie Moore turns her eye on the anxiety and disconnection of post-9/11 America. With her Government quietly gearing up for war in the Middle East, 20-year old Tassie Keltjin, a ‘half-Jewish’ farmer’s daughter from the plains of the Midwest, has come to the university town of Troy – a girl escaping her provincial house to encounter the complex world of culture and politics.
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Category: Novel
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Author: Lorrie Moore
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Publisher: Faber & Faber
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| Book code: BTD071 |
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| Price: GBP £ 6.00 |
| USD $ 10.00 |
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| Dazed & Aroused (Paperback – Second-hand) |
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For six hectic months, season to season in the High Fashion calendar, twenty-something male model Alex hurtles between London, Paris and Milan, absorbed in the ruthless world of the catwalk. As his stock as a model soars, Alex is increasingly drawn into a world of predatory sex, drug-induced infatuation and a growing bewilderment with the alluring, seductive shallowness of all he sees around him.
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Category: Novel
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Author: Gavin James Bower
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Publisher: Quartet Books
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| Book code: BTD072 |
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| Price: GBP £ 3.00 |
| USD $ 5.00 |
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| Love Remains (Paperback – Second-hand) |
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Nick loves Chloe. Chloe loves Nick. Their relationship is passionate, addictive and all-consuming, threatened by nothing more sinister than occasional temptations and a handful of untold truths. Or so they think...
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Category: Novel
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Author: Glen Duncan
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Publisher: Granta
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| Book code: BTD034 |
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| Price: GBP £ 2.50 |
| USD $ 4.00 |
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| Protest! (Hardback - New) |
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Protest! is a limited edition 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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Category: Short story collection
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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 |
| USD $ 20.00 |
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| The Bird Room (Paperback – Second-hand) |
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When Will meets Alice he can’t believe his luck. She’s smart, sexy and, much to Will’s surprise, she is in love with him. Alice brings meaning to his urban existence and his boring job. But the course of modern love never did run smooth and soon devotion leads Will to something darker...
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Category: Novel
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Author: Chris Killen
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Publisher: Canongate
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| Book code: BTD036 |
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| Price: GBP £ 2.50 |
| USD $ 4.00 |
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| Balzac of the Badlands (Paperback - New) |
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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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Category: Novel
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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 |
| USD $ 20.00 |
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| Dogwalker (Hardback – Second-hand) |
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An outstanding debut from a young American writer and protege of Dave Eggers and Zadie Smith, who will appeal to many readers of both. Dogwalker evokes a world of misfits, of bizarre circumstance and horrific outcomes. With his gift for deadpan dialogue and outrageous incident, and a knack for revealing innocence in the midst of profound depravity, Arthur Bradford offers up a blazingly funny, wholly original, and unexpectedly compassionate vision.
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Category: Short story collection
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Author: Arthur Bradford
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Publisher: Penguin Books
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| Book code: BTD059 |
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| Price: GBP £ 5.00 |
| USD $ 8.00 |
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| Then We Came To The End (Paperback – Second-hand) |
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They spend their days – and too many of their nights – at work. Away from friends and family, they share a stretch of stained carpet with a group of strangers they call colleagues. Then We Came To The End is about sitting all morning next to someone you cross the road to avoid at lunch. It’s the story of your life, and mine.
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Category: Novel
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Author: Joshua Ferris
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Publisher: Penguin Books
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| Book code: BTD045 |
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| Price: GBP £ 2.50 |
| USD $ 4.00 |
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| 1974 (Paperback – Second-hand) |
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It’s winter, 1974, Yorkshire. Christmas bombs and Lord Lucan on the run, Leeds United and the Bay City Rollers, The Exorcist and It Ain’t Half Hot Mum. Eddie Dunford’s got the job he wanted. Crime correspondent for the Evening Post. He didn’t know it was going to be a season in hell.
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Category: Novel
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Author: David Peace
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Publisher: Serpent's Tail
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| Book code: BTD048 |
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| Price: GBP £ 2.50 |
| USD $ 4.00 |
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| 1977 (Paperback – Second-hand) |
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The half-way decent copper, Bob Fraser and the burnt-out hack, Jack Whitehead – 1977’s heroes – would be considered villains in most people’s books. Fraser and Whitehead have one thing in common though – they’re both desperate men dangerously in love with Chapeltown prostitutes.
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Category: Novel
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Author: David Peace
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Publisher: Serpent's Tail
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| Book code: BTD049 |
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| Price: GBP £ 2.50 |
| USD $ 4.00 |
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| 1980 (Paperback – Second-hand) |
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The third novel in David Peace’s Red Riding Quartet sees Yorkshire terrorised by the Ripper while the corrupt police familiar from 1974 and 1977 continue to prosper.
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Category: Novel
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Author: David Peace
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Publisher: Serpent's Tail
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| Book code: BTD050 |
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| Price: GBP £ 2.50 |
| USD $ 4.00 |
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| 1983 (Paperback – Second-hand) |
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With 1983 David Peace completes his Red Riding Quartet, an astonishing sustained epic. Three intertwining storylines see the Quartet’s central themes of corruption and the perversion of justice come to a head. 1983 is a fitting conclusion to one of the finest series in contemporary British writing.
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Category: Novel
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Author: David Peace
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Publisher: Serpent's Tail
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| Book code: BTD051 |
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| Price: GBP £ 2.50 |
| USD $ 4.00 |
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| Mineshaft #24: The Brutalists Edition (Paperback - New) |
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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 |
| USD $ 6.95 |
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| The Loose Canon (Paperback - New) |
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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 |
| USD $ 10.00 |
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| Look We Have Coming To Dover! (Paperback – Second-hand) |
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Taking in its sights Matthew Arnold’s ‘land of dreams’, the collection explores the idealism and reality of a multi-cultural Britain with wit, intelligence and a sense of mischief. Look We Have Coming To Dover! is by turns realist and romantic. These charged poems never shy from confrontation, but remain, always touched by a humorous zeal and an appetite for living.
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Category: Poetry collection
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Author: Daljit Nagra
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Publisher: Faber & Faber
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| Book code: BTD060 |
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| Price: GBP £ 2.00 |
| USD $ 3.50 |
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| Frostbitten (Paperback - New) |
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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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| Price: GBP £ 6.50 |
| USD $ 10.00 |
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| baby, i'm ready to go (Paperback - New) |
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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 |
| USD $ 10.00 |
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| Brutalism 1: Nowhere Fast (Paperback - New) |
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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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| Price: GBP £ 5.00 |
| USD $ 8.50 |
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| Cigarettes in Bed (Paperback - New) |
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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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| Loners (Paperback - New) |
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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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| Price: GBP £ 9.95 |
| USD $ 16.50 |
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| Load the Guns (Paperback - New) |
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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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Category: Poetry collection
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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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| Price: GBP £ 5.00 |
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| Boys' Night Out in the Afternoon (Paperback - New) |
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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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Category: Poetry collection
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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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| Price: GBP £ 10.00 |
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| Kissed by a Fat Waitress (Paperback - New) |
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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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Category: Poetry collection
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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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| Price: GBP £ 10.00 |
| USD $ 14.95 |
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| Hating Olivia: A Love Story (Paperback - New) |
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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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| Price: GBP £ 9.95 |
| USD $ 16.50 |
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| Hunger (Paperback - Second-hand) |
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First published in 1890, Knut Hamsun's Hunger has come to be regarded as one of the major modernist novels, anticipating and influencing much fiction that was to follow. As with Joyce's Ulysses, the story itself is simple but the writing is multi-layered, challenging and linguistically stunning.
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Category: Novel
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Author: Knut Hamsun
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Publisher: Rebel Inc
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| Book code: BTD074 |
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| Price: GBP £ 3.00 |
| USD $ 5.00 |
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| Lounge Lizard (Paperback - New) |
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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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Category: Novel
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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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| Price: GBP £ 9.95 |
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| The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet (Paperback – New - Advance Reader’s Copy) |
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David Mitchell’s latest is a bold and epic story centred on a man-made island in Nagasaki harbour known as Dejima. The Japanese Empire’s sole window onto the Western world, Dejima is a walled enclave of devious merchants, deceitful interpreters, and costly courtesans. In the summer of 1799 a devout young clerk, Jacob De Zoet, disembarks at Dejima in the hope of making his fortune and then winning his wealthy fiancée back in Holland.
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Category: Novel
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Author: David Mitchell
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Publisher: Random House
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| Book code: BTD067 |
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| Price: GBP £ 5.00 |
| USD $ 8.00 |
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| Down Where the Hummingbird Goes to Die (Paperback - New) |
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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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Category: Poetry collection
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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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| Price: GBP £ 5.00 |
| USD $ 6.00 |
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| High-Rise (Paperback - Second-hand) |
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Within the congealing walls of an elegant forty-storey tower block, the affluent tenants are hell-bent on an orgy of destruction. Cocktail parties degenerate into marauding attacks on 'enemy' floors and the once-luxurious amenities become an arena for technoligical mayhem...
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Category: Novel
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Author: J G Ballard
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Publisher: Flamingo Modern Classics
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| Book code: BTD073 |
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| Price: GBP £ 2.50 |
| USD $ 4.00 |
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| How Late It Was, How Late (Paperback – Second-hand) |
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From the moment Sammy wakes slumped in a park corner, stiff and sore after a two-day drinking binge and wearing another man's shoes, James Kelman's Booker Prize-winning novel How Late it Was, How Late loosens a torrent of furious stream-of-consciousness prose that never lets up. Beaten savagely by Glasgow police, the shoplifting ex-con Sammy is hauled off to jail, where he wakes to a world gone black. For the rest of the novel he stumbles around the rainy streets of Glasgow, brandishing a sawed-off mop handle and trying in vain to make sense of the nightmare his life has become.
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Category: Novel
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Author: James Kelman
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Publisher: Vintage
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| Book code: BTD044 |
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| Lint (Paperback - New) |
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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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Category: Novel
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Author: Steve Aylett
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Publisher: Snowbooks
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| Book code: BTD005 |
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| Price: GBP £ 7.99 |
| USD $ 13.00 |
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| Mineshaft #23 (Paperback - New) |
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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 |
| USD $ 6.95 |
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| The Motel Life (Paperback – Second-hand) |
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Narrated by Frank Flannigan, The Motel Life tells the story of how he and his brother Jerry Lee take to the road when bad luck catches up with them.
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Category: Novel
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Author: Willy Vlautin
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Publisher: Faber & Faber
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| Book code: BTD040 |
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| Price: GBP £ 2.50 |
| USD $ 4.00 |
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| Come Before Christ And Murder Love (Paperback – Second-hand) |
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Kevin Callan is running away, but the past keeps catching up with him. That's the price he has to pay for using the occult to get his sexual kicks. Callan has a thousand different identities, and as they fall apart, the areas of Greenwich and Spitalfields merge to become Greenfields. Come Before Christ And Murder Love is a tale of mental disorder, magick, London, food, thought control and human sacrifice.
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Category: Novel
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Author: Stewart Home
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Publisher: Harper Collins
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| Book code: BTD058 |
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| Price: GBP £ 2.00 |
| USD $ 3.50 |
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| Tokyo Year Zero (Paperback – Second-hand) |
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August 1946. One year on from surrender and Tokyo lies broken and bleeding at the feet of its American victors. The police are in chaos, and different factions are fighting for control of the city’s black markets.
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Category: Novel
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Author: David Peace
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Publisher: Serpent's Tail
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| Book code: BTD052 |
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| Price: GBP £ 2.50 |
| USD $ 4.00 |
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| The Red Men (Paperback - New) |
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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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Category: Novel
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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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| Price: GBP £ 7.99 |
| USD $ 13.00 |
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| Where are the rebels? (Paperback - New) |
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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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Category: Poetry collection
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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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| Price: GBP £ 5.00 |
| USD $ 8.50 |
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| Lush Life (Paperback – Second-hand) |
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Lush Life is the tale of two Lower East Sides: One a high-priced bohemia, the other a home to hardship, its residents pushed to the edges of their time-honoured turf. When a cocky young hipster is shot to death by a street kid from the “other” Lower East Side, the crime ripples through every stratum of the city.
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Category: Novel
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Author: Richard Price
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Publisher: Picador
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| Book code: BTD056 |
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| Price: GBP £ 2.50 |
| USD $ 4.00 |
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| Seizure Wet Dreams (Paperback - New) |
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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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Category: Short story and poetry collection
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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 |
| USD $ 11.50 |
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| The Thing In The Gap-Stone Stile (Paperback – Second-hand) |
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The Thing in the Gap-Stone Stile, Alice Oswald’s first collection of poems, announced the arrival of a distinctive new voice. Shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize, the book introduced readers to her meditative, intensely musical style, and her breath-taking gift for visionary writing.
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Category: Poetry collection
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Author: Alice Oswald
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Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
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| Book code: BTD061 |
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| Price: GBP £ 3.00 |
| USD $ 5.00 |
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| VS. (Paperback - New) |
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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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Category: Poetry collection
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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 |
| USD $ 13.00 |
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| Menage (Paperback – Second-hand) |
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Is the menage a trois a way to live, or just a dream, impossible in reality? In 1993, Dot, Saul and Owen lived together on the fringes of the Hoxton art scene, shoplifting, dole scrounging, doing drugs and swapping clothes and beds. Their year as a menage, however, led to a suicide attempt, to art stardom, and to one of the three vanishing from the world.
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Category: Novel
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Author: Ewan Morrison
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Publisher: Vintage
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| Book code: BTD055 |
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| Price: GBP £ 2.50 |
| USD $ 4.00 |
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| Hard Rain Falling (Paperback – Second-hand) |
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Don Carpenter's Hard Rain Falling is a tough as nails account of being down and out, but not quite down for good; a Dostoevskian tale of crime, punishment, and the pursuit of an ever-elusive redemption. The novel follows the adventures of Jack Leavitt, an orphan and teenager living off his wits in the fleabag hotels and seedy pool halls of Portland, Oregon. Don Carpenter was a writer of searing honesty and deep compassion. This reprint of his most famous novel reintroduces one of post-war American literature's most distinctive and gripping voices.
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Category: Novel
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Author: Don Carpenter
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Publisher: New York Review Of Books Classics
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| Book code: BTD062 |
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| Price: GBP £ 3.50 |
| USD $ 6.00 |
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| The Believers (Paperback – Second-hand) |
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When Audrey makes a devastating discovery about her husband, New York radical lawyer Joel Litvinoff, she is forced to re-examine everything she thought she knew about their forty-year marriage. Joel’s children will soon have to come to terms with this unsettling secret themselves, but for the meantime, they are trying to cope with their own dilemmas.
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Category: Novel
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Author: Zoe Heller
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Publisher: Penguin Books
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| Book code: BTD064 |
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| Price: GBP £ 2.50 |
| USD $ 4.00 |
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| Disorientations: Art on the Margins of the “Contemporary” (Paperback - New) |
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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 |
| USD $ 18.00 |
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| The Lazarus Project (Paperback – Second-hand) |
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On 2 March 1908, Lazerus Averbuch, a young Russian Jewish immigrant to Chicago, tried to deliver a letter to the City’s Chief of Police. He was shot dead.
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Category: Novel
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Author: Aleksander Hemon
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Publisher: Picador
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| Book code: BTD046 |
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| Price: GBP £ 2.50 |
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| London Pub Reviews (Paperback - New) |
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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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Category: Short story collection
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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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| Price: GBP £ 7.99 |
| USD $ 13.00 |
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| Northline (Paperback – Second-hand) |
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At twenty-two, Allison Johnson is a lost young woman in need of a new start. Down among the lowlifes in Las Vegas, clinging to drink and to Jimmy, the abusive boyfriend whose child she is expecting, she has hit rock bottom. So when the opportunity arises to escape, Allison knows she must take it.
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Category: Novel
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Author: Willy Vlautin
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Publisher: Faber & Faber
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| Book code: BTD041 |
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| Price: GBP £ 2.50 |
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| The Swank Bisexual Wine Bar of Modernity (Paperback - New) |
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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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Category: Short story collection
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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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| Price: GBP £ 6.99 |
| USD $ 11.50 |
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| Some Things Are Better Left Unsaid (Paperback - New) |
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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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Category: Poetry collection
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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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| Price: GBP £ 5.00 |
| USD $ 8.50 |
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| King Death (Paperback – Second-hand) |
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Kumiko saw it first. A heart – a human heart – glimpsed from a moving train. Someone must have thrown it out from a carriage up front. Kumiko is determined to find out who – and why.
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Category: Novel
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Author: Toby Litt
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Publisher: Penguin Books
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| Book code: BTD068 |
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| Price: GBP £ 3.50 |
| USD $ 6.00 |
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| The Book of Fuck (Paperback - New) |
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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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Category: Novel
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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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| Price: GBP £ 10.95 |
| USD $ 18.00 |
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| Tainted Love (Paperback – Second-hand) |
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Partially based on diaries kept by Home’s mother, this kaleidoscopic view of 60s counterculture shows how the optimism of swinging London imploded into nihilism and drug addiction. Arriving in the Smoke at the age of sixteen in 1960, narrator Jilly O'Sullivan lands gainful employment as a high class hostess. Fresh out of school, Jilly joins the exclusive scene that was swinging before the rest of London. By the time of the hippie explosion she's not only mixing with slumlords, gangsters and black power activists, but narcophilic 'faces' like Alexander Trocchi, Brian Jones, Michael Reeves and John Lennon. Jilly's story allergorises the fatal trajectory of London's flower children, who were reluctant to let go of hedonism even when the party was well and truly over.
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Category: Novel
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Author: Stewart Home
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Publisher: Virgin Books
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| Book code: BTD066 |
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| Price: GBP £ 2.50 |
| USD $ 4.00 |
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| Two Tall Tales & One Short Story (Paperback - New) |
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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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Category: Short story collection
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Author: Heidi James, Kay Sexton, Lucy Fry
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Publisher: Apis Books
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| Book code: BTD014 |
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| Price: GBP £ 7.99 |
| USD $ 13.00 |
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| 3:AM: London, New York, Paris (Paperback - New) |
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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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Category: Short story collection
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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 |
| USD $ 16.50 |
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| Distance (Paperback – Second-hand) |
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Tom and Meg fall in love in New York City and spend a passionate week together before he returns to his home in Edinburgh, where they plan to reunite in eight weeks. So begins a long-distance relationship filled with phone calls, phone sex, emails, text messages and waiting.
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Category: Novel
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Author: Ewan Morrison
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Publisher: Vintage
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| Book code: BTD054 |
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| Price: GBP £ 2.50 |
| USD $ 4.00 |
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