Category Archives: Books
Three Prose Works
A selection of vital and biographically charged pre-World War One fiction from the great Else Lasker-Schüler
Three Prose Works
A selection of vital and biographically charged pre-World War One fiction from the great Else Lasker-Schüler
22 books for 2022
We’ve got bad gays, can-can dancers and pataphysicians, we’ve got a Black Pope, an Expressionist Joan of Arc and the Last Emperor of Mexico. Won’t you join us?
22 books for 2022
We’ve got bad gays, can-can dancers and pataphysicians, we’ve got a Black Pope, an Expressionist Joan of Arc and the Last Emperor of Mexico. Won’t you join us?
Secret Satan, 2021 part 2
Dreaming rebels, dames and showgirls, emphatic queers and seekers of the Elysian Fields
Secret Satan, 2021 part 2
Dreaming rebels, dames and showgirls, emphatic queers and seekers of the Elysian Fields
Secret Satan, 2021 part 1
From Romanian avant-garde Elvis to all the Swedish anarchist Sufi Post-Impressionsists you can imagine
Secret Satan, 2021 part 1
From Romanian avant-garde Elvis to all the Swedish anarchist Sufi Post-Impressionsists you can imagine
Introducing Papa Hamlet
My latest translation for Rixdorf Editions, in case you’ve been wondering why things have been quiet around here …
Introducing Papa Hamlet
My latest translation for Rixdorf Editions, in case you’ve been wondering why things have been quiet around here …
Summer* reading list
A selection of beach reads – only some of them ironically so!
21 books for 2021
A selection of works with which to while away your second or third lockdown.
Secret Satan, 2020
Books to remember from a year you probably want to forget
20 books for 2020
In which we visit Rogomelec and Sealand, the castle of truth and a fern-loved gully
20 books for 2020
In which we visit Rogomelec and Sealand, the castle of truth and a fern-loved gully
Secret Satan, 2019 translation edition
“We are both monarch and victim in a gothic simulation illuminated by sombre flashes of sardonic rhetoric.” Which is nice.
Secret Satan, 2019 translation edition
“We are both monarch and victim in a gothic simulation illuminated by sombre flashes of sardonic rhetoric.” Which is nice.
Secret Satan, 2019
From clean-lined architects to Dirty Helen Cromwell the potty-mouthed barkeep – let us join hands and make contact with the fabulous.
Secret Satan, 2019
From clean-lined architects to Dirty Helen Cromwell the potty-mouthed barkeep – let us join hands and make contact with the fabulous.
The Son of Lîlame
The latest Rixdorf Editions title is out, but you can’t buy it. Ever. But you can get it for free!
The Son of Lîlame
The latest Rixdorf Editions title is out, but you can’t buy it. Ever. But you can get it for free!
19 books for 2019
Who needs this many books? You do. YOU need this many books.
Secret Satan, 2018
Your essential Christmas book list – it’s naughty, it’s nice. Mostly naughty if we’re honest.
Secret Satan, 2018
Your essential Christmas book list – it’s naughty, it’s nice. Mostly naughty if we’re honest.
Adrift
Ironfoot Jack, Umm Kulthum, Jack Parsons, Harry Crosby… it’s a Strange Flowers Film Festival!
Beyond the veil
‘Take this white rose – it will redden when I return and then you will be my bride.’ Two excerpts from Death and companion piece Prose Poems, by German author Anna Croissant-Rust
Beyond the veil
‘Take this white rose – it will redden when I return and then you will be my bride.’ Two excerpts from Death and companion piece Prose Poems, by German author Anna Croissant-Rust
18 books for 2018
Three Marcels, two Nutters and a Sissi: imaginary lives and lives beyond imagining.
18 books for 2018
Three Marcels, two Nutters and a Sissi: imaginary lives and lives beyond imagining.
Light in the darkness
Decad of Intelligence, a newly rediscovered work by Ithell Colquhoun
Strange Flowers 