Category Archives: Books
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
Secret Satan book list
More books than you can deal with, frankly.
Beware the polished little man
“He was absolutely unbearable. Perhaps this was precisely what attracted us.”
Beware the polished little man
“He was absolutely unbearable. Perhaps this was precisely what attracted us.”
Venus in espadrilles
Cocktails, cannibalism and co-dependency: a relationship masterclass hosted by Willie Seabrook and Marjorie Worthington
Venus in espadrilles
Cocktails, cannibalism and co-dependency: a relationship masterclass hosted by Willie Seabrook and Marjorie Worthington
Introducing Rixdorf Editions
Hidden cultural history, forgotten innovators and compellingly wayward souls – it’s SO Strange Flowers
Introducing Rixdorf Editions
Hidden cultural history, forgotten innovators and compellingly wayward souls – it’s SO Strange Flowers
Thedore Wratislaw: Fragments of a Life
D.J. Sheppard’s highly recommended biography of the elusive 1890s poet
Thedore Wratislaw: Fragments of a Life
D.J. Sheppard’s highly recommended biography of the elusive 1890s poet
The Surreal Century of Leonora Carrington
The belatedly recognised artist and writer, born 100 years ago today
The Surreal Century of Leonora Carrington
The belatedly recognised artist and writer, born 100 years ago today
The Pepys of sleep
Michel Leiris’s 1961 dream diary, Nights as Day, Days as Night
17-plus books for 2017
Dead poets, nude dancers, good bohemians, mystical Symbolists, jaded aristocrats, queer courtiers and blind men at play in a realm of dreams and voodoo
17-plus books for 2017
Dead poets, nude dancers, good bohemians, mystical Symbolists, jaded aristocrats, queer courtiers and blind men at play in a realm of dreams and voodoo
Late entries
A few book titles from late 2016 you may have missed…
Walking in a Weimar wonderland
Walking in Berlin, Franz Hessel’s classic non-fiction account of the city in the Weimar era, finally available in English
Walking in a Weimar wonderland
Walking in Berlin, Franz Hessel’s classic non-fiction account of the city in the Weimar era, finally available in English
A dandy in aspic
Monsieur de Bougrelon covers the waterfront in Jean Lorrain’s singular, intoxicating novella
A dandy in aspic
Monsieur de Bougrelon covers the waterfront in Jean Lorrain’s singular, intoxicating novella
