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Goose Flesh
by Matthew Loukes
Goose Flesh, the second Slim Gunter novel, is a story of
a dead man and his grieving mother. Barnaby “Goose”
Chase died in a crummy bedsit, apparently of
drink-related injuries. His mother Prudence isn’t
convinced by the coroner’s bland verdict and turns to
London investigator Slim Gunter. Slim, aided by his
live-out girlfriend Lady, academic Barclay Lloyd and big
Eddie Scarborough, scours some of the dirtier pavements
in London, looking for answers. The places to look
include grim pubs, park benches and some of the darker
passages of the Bible. Slim’s efforts are hampered by an
anonymous assailant, an ill-tempered policemen, a go-go
dancer and a religious zealot, all of whom have
something to hide. As the secrets start to emerge Slim’s
own dubious past re-appears, threatening to ruin him for
ever.
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Estrella Damn
by Matthew Loukes
"Slim Gunter tries to help people. People like Estrella
Woolf. They have too much money, too few scruples and
attract trouble like a night-bus.
When Slim investigates the theft of a Tibetan artefact
he doesn't expect to get more out of it than enough
money to pay the rent and settle the tab in the off
licence.
What he actually gets is a case involving strong drugs,
rats in hats, bad policemen, Maltese crooks,
pornography, a trip to the seaside, and murder.
Big Eddie Scarborough, academic Barclay Lloyd and Slim's
sweetheart Lady join forces to find out what is really
going on. But nobody's telling the truth and everyone
has something to hide, including Slim."
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Marine Boy
by Howard Cunnell
A novel in the tradition of S. E. Hinton's The Outsiders
and Kem Nunn's Tapping the Source. Summer in the
sun-washed beachlands of the south coast of England.
Sixteen-year-old Kim wants nothing more than to be tough
like his wild and fearless brother Scott, the leader of
a gang of skinheads fighting for control of the local
drug trade. Kim’s tough young girlfriend Dawn is also a
skinhead, whose father is the reclusive biker and drug
dealer Dug. Kim is captured in a midnight raid on Dug's
seaside hideout. What happens next will change the lives
of Kim and Scott forever.
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Marine Boy: Outsider fiction/beach life/sunlight on the
water/teenage boy gangs and
tough boot girls/sun-washed Levi's/the taste of salt on
brown skin/the sun in your
eyes/Trojan records/Hate and War/out
there/tattoos/love/Homeward
'Writing as beautiful as it is fierce'
Jane Yeh – author of Marabou
'Scott told me once, they all tell you to think, the
boss or your teachers, but just wait until what you
think is different from them. Then you'll find out they
didn't mean it. We were standing on wet sand just before
dark as the tide went out and we couldn't hear the hum
of the town for the rushing sound of the sea. What I'm
looking for is out there, he said, nodding his head
toward the darkening water. Me too, I said.'
Howard Cunnell's prose is so infused with aqua light
that it dazzles like a photon parcel. I was blown away
by Marine Boy with its meticulous observation of clothes
details, beach colours, gang warfare and a lyricism that
pilots the book into a dissolve with skinhead reality.
Jeremy Reed
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Scratched in the stars, sprawled on the sand
by Andrew Franks
Franks collects together over a quarter of a century of
his poems, sketches and lyrics. Bittersweet echoes from
the dole queue, bedsits and beaches of the Sussex coast.
Remembrances of old Soho bars, cold city side streets,
stolen kisses and dark dreams. And finally from Sydney's
Northern Beaches where the passing of time is still
measured in the sand, one sweet grain at a time...
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The Society of the Spectacle
by Guy Debord
With an new introduction by Martin Jenkins
“One should bear in mind when reading this book that it
was written with the deliberate intention of doing harm
to spectacular society.”
Guy Debord
With the global economy undergoing its most severe
crisis since the Great Depression Soul Bay Press is
pleased to be able to make available again Guy Debord’s
The Society of the Spectacle - a seminal work for
understanding the dead hand of political economy...and
fighting against it.
Originally published in France in 1967 The Society of
the Spectacle is a brilliantly lucid analysis of the
forms of social control and domination under modern
capitalism. Since its publication it has had an enormous
underground influence both on active revolutionaries and
on radical cultural and political theory.
Prescient in its condemnation of the image as the tool
used by Capital to alienate us from the relity of our
everyday lives, The Society of the Spectacle is more
relevant than ever in the era of virtual and information
technologies.
The new introduction by Martin Jenkins extends the
analysis of The Society of the Spectacle to the current
situation and underlines the continuing vitality of this
work to all who would contest the domination of our
lives by an economy clearly out of control.
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