Books Editorial
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Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work
Nick Srnicek & Alex Williams - The Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci once said that capitalist power was dependent on what he termed hegemony – the engineering of consent accord...
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One Blade Of Grass
Ant Macari - In 2015, two artists were commissioned to mark some of the iconic views of Teesdale: views which had inspired artists in the past or which had been chosen by memb...
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Beryl Bainbridge: biography
Brendan King - “I didn’t want it like this. I just wanted to be with him. I just wanted to love and be loved in return.” This lament, culled from a letter sent by Beryl Bainbr...
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The New Yorker Book of the 60s
Various authors - Since 1925 The New Yorker has documented the ebb and flow of one of the greatest cities on earth (as well as looking at what’s going on in the wider world), ...
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Shtum: The Stutter Poems
David Bateman - David Bateman had a severe stutter as a child and teenager, and although he had successful speech therapy in 1980, still stutters slightly. He is well position...
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Shock and Awe
Simon Reynolds - Simon Reynolds won plaudits aplenty for Rip it Up and Start Again, which examined post-punk from 1978-1984, but here he’s lengthening his pop telescope to tak...
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My Life as a Beach Boy
Mike Love - “We aren’t the fucking Rolling Stones!” Mike Love, singer with The Beach Boys yelled at business partner, and chat show host, David Frost back in the 1970s. Maybe....
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He Runs (Part One)
Owen Seth, self published - Set in a not so distant dystopian future, Owen Seth's short novel follows the journey of the nameless protagonist, Man. A complex (and not wholly l...
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The Red Virgin and the Vision of Utopia
Mary M. Talbot and Bryan Talbot - If you like your history (revolutionary, feminist and deeply dangerous) delivered in dazzling visual form – or to put it another way, if you ...
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The Mare
Mary Gaitskill - Ginger is a 47-year-old white woman living with Paul in a well to do, semi-rural area in upstate New York. She is troubled by her childlessness and so joins t...
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A Notable Woman
Jean Lucey Pratt - “I mean to go on writing this for years and years, and it’ll be awfully amusing to read over later.” That’s 15-year-old Jean Lucey Pratt writing the first w...
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Number 11
Jonathan Coe - Jonathan Coe’s 1994 novel, What A Carve Up, was a delirious evisceration of Thatcherism, and Number 11 is something of a sequel; not in that it’s a direct follo...
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Crossed +100
Alan Moore & Gabriel Andrade - This edition collects the first six issues of the spin-off series from the comic by Garth Ennis about a plague that turns sufferers into sort of...
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