A collection of essays on forgotten British writers of the 30s and 40s, American Beat writers and poets, and modern artists

An hilarious collection of poems, essays and cartoons satirising the denizens of present day Liverpool and the wider UK

A young graduate engineer leaves 1920s England to work at ICI's soda ash plant at Lake Magadi, Kenya. He learns about the... More > character and conflicts of the native Masai, the Indian immigrant workers and the white managerial classes. In his spare time he meets the established white settlers including the eccentric Lord Delamere. < Less

This translation of Mac Orlan's classic Masochists in America is the first to appear in English by the distinguished... More > translator Alexis Lykiard whose English version of Maldoror by Lautréamont is considered the best available. < Less

A second volume of essays by Jim Burns dealing with American writers active between 1930 and 1960. Odets, Kerouac, Burroughs, Broyard, Clellan Holmes

A selection from issues 1 - 26 (1995 - 2008)of the NW England based magazine The Penniless Press edited by Alan Dent. Poems... More > by Fred Voss, Mike Barlow, Gael Turnbull, Alexis Lykiard;criticism and biography by Jim Burns, John Lucas, Joseph Pridmore, Stories by Ken Clay, S.Kadison; Politics and Philosophy by Paul Vinit,Robert Senior and much more. < Less

Short stories about life on a Manchester council estate during the second world war.

Stories of working class life in Prestwich, Manchester during world war two

S. Kadison has been a teacher for over twenty years and draws on this experience in several stories. Born in Germany,... More > Kadison came to England as an infant and was raised in a small village in Kent. Moving to Bristol as a science student and then later holding jobs in the north-east, the Midlands, Yorkshire and Manchester, Kadison’s writing is informed by the cultural uniformity discovered within this variety. This is the author’s first collection of stories. < Less

A young graduate engineer leaves 1920s England to work at ICI's soda ash plant at Lake Magadi, Kenya. He learns about the... More > character and conflicts of the native Masai, the Indian immigrant workers and the white managerial classes. In his spare time he meets the established white settlers including the eccentric Lord Delamere. < Less