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In search of this lost time, she uncovers the memory of an encounter with aliens and, worse, an event from her childhood in Ireland which she finally redeems in the underworld of an IRA-infested pub…\r\n\r\nHer husband Alistair has his own nightmare: preparations for the visit of an African bishop and his entourage for a Christian conference, whose left-wing agenda is threatened by the attendance of a famous and mysterious nun…\r\n\r\nWhilst Heather’s sighting comes as a revelation that leads her, like a Grail knight’s quest, through strange ordeals, from membership of a menacing cult to an alternate reality; from a mental hospital to, finally, an encounter with her own hidden depths.\r\n\r\nA companion volume to the author’s critically lauded <em>Daimonic Reality</em>, a classic non-fiction study of otherworld journeys, <em>The Good People</em> is a modern fairy tale that dramatises with pace and wit the interpenetration of revelation and delusion, the natural and the supernatural, worldliness and sanctity - intimating that all our humdrum lives are shadowed by the alien dimension of myth.\r\n\r\nAbout the author:\r\n\r\nPatrick Harpur is the author of <em>Mercurius; or, the Marriage of Heaven and Earth</em>, a study of alchemy; <em>The Philosophers\' Secret Fire: A History of the Imagination</em> outlining an esoteric Western way of seeing the world which has been largely forgotten; and the rather ambitiously titled <em>A Complete Guide to the Soul</em>. He has also published three novels: <em>The Serpent’s Circle</em>, <em>The Rapture</em> and, most recently, a highly-autobiographical black comedy called <em>The Savoy Truffle</em>.','The Good People','By Patrick Harpur, HB & PB editions, 256pp, Cover by Leon Sadler, £25.00 / £12.99\r\n\r\n\r\n','inherit','closed','closed','','5810-revision-v1','','','2016-12-05 15:47:20','2016-12-05 15:47:20','',5810,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/news/5810-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(5829,2,'2017-01-09 12:44:47','2017-01-09 12:44:47','<a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/gef/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5798\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-5798\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Gef-cover-mock-up-and-title.jpg\" alt=\"gef-cover-mock-up-and-title\" width=\"474\" height=\"747\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/gef/\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">CLICK HERE TO PRE-ORDER FROM OUR WEBSHOP</span></a>\r\n\r\n(Shipping Spring)\r\n\r\nBy Christopher Josiffe\r\nHB Special and Standard PB editions\r\n£25.00 / £15.99\r\n\r\nBlack and white  illustrations throughout\r\nISBN 978-1-907222-48-1\r\n210 x 148mm, 456pp\r\n\r\n<em>\"I am the fifth dimension! I am the eighth wonder of the world!\"</em>\r\n\r\nDuring the mid-1930s, British and overseas newspapers were full of incredible stories about Gef, a ‘talking mongoose’ or ‘man-weasel’ who had allegedly appeared in the home of the Irvings, a farming family in a remote district of the Isle of Man.\r\n\r\nThe creature was said to have the ability to talk in several languages, to sing, to steal objects from nearby farms and to eavesdrop on local people, such that they became uneasy at the farmer’s seeming ability to be able to tell them their most private goings-on.\r\n\r\nDespite written reports, magazine articles and books, several photographs, fur samples and paw prints, voluminous correspondence and signed witness statements, there is still no consensus as to what was really happening to the Irving family.\r\n\r\nHoax? Mental illness? A poltergeist? The possession of an animal by an evil spirit? Now you can read all the evidence and decide for yourself.\r\n\r\nSeven years’ research and interviews, photographs (many previously unseen), interviews with surviving witnesses, visits to the site – all are presented here in this new book, the first examination of the case for 70 years.\r\n\r\n<em>\"If you knew what I know, you\'d know a hell of a lot!\"</em>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/gef/\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">CLICK HERE TO PRE-ORDER FROM OUR WEBSHOP</span></a>\r\n\r\n<strong>About the author:</strong>\r\n\r\nChristopher Josiffe is a regular contributor to <em>Fortean Times</em> and has also been published in <em>Faunus</em>, <em>Abraxas </em>and <em>The Pomegranate.</em> He has presented lectures at (amongst others) the Ghost Club, the Society for Psychical Research, Senate House (University of London), Alchemical Landscape II (University of Cambridge), the London Fortean Society, and the Fortean Times Unconvention.','Gef! 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Each striking image tells its own vivid tale of belief and ceremonial practice.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Accompanying the photographs are informative texts from Sara Hannant and Museum director Simon Costin, as well as an illuminating introduction by the leading historian of British witchcraft and magic, Ronald Hutton.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sara’s pictures are rites of evocation... a radically new and exciting approach to the work of representing the past to the present.  ~ Ronald Hutton</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Available in three editions - <del>Hardback Special Edition</del>, Standard Hardback (limited to 500 copies, includes postcards) and Paperback.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>“A feast for the eyes and mind of anyone fascinated by mankind’s long history of ritual and superstition, and how our relationship with and belief in occult practices has evolved over time”</em>   <strong class=\"\">Arnolfini Bookshop</strong></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>“A beautiful new book… satisfyingly square-shaped, full-color, and impeccably designed, making it a rather totemic object unto itself”</em>  <strong class=\"\">Phantasmaphile</strong></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>“Of Shadows is intriguing. The positioning of the subjects doesn’t detract from their mysterious nature and yet conveys a great deal of objective information.  The captions are very informative and help to add to the experience of viewing these unique pieces.”</em>\r\n<strong class=\"\">Lens Culture</strong></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>“Revealing many fascinating aspects of folklore and tradition, and what Sara calls ‘the power of ritual to connect with the changing seasons\'”</em>  <strong class=\"\">The Countryman</strong></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/news/of-shadows/attachment/of-shadows-hb/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5677\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-5677\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/of-shadows-hb.jpg\" alt=\"of-shadows-hb\" width=\"529\" height=\"534\" /></a></p>\r\n&nbsp;','Of Shadows: One Hundred Objects from The Museum of Witchcraft and Magic','225 x 225 mm, 240pp\r\nOver 120 images in colour & BW.\r\nAvailable in pb, limited hb and Special editions.\r\n','inherit','closed','closed','','5663-revision-v1','','','2017-01-23 15:17:23','2017-01-23 15:17:23','',5663,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/news/5663-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(5832,2,'2017-01-23 16:41:03','2017-01-23 16:41:03','<a href=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/news/sap-mit-press/attachment/mitp/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5834\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-5834 aligncenter\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/MITp.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"383\" height=\"97\" /></a>\r\nStrange Attractor Press are pleased to announce that as of 1 March 2017, all of our titles will be distributed worldwide by MIT Press. We\'re hugely excited and honoured to join such a prestigious roster of publishers and titles and to be given this fantastic opportunity to continue our explorations of unpopular culture globally.\r\n\r\nIt was a bold step for Turnaround Publisher Services to take us on for distribution back in 2005 at such an early stage in our development,  and we’ve benefitted immensely from their support. It’s safe to say that without them, we wouldn’t be in the position that we are today. Our heartfelt thanks are due to everyone at the company who has worked with us over the years, providing the stable foundation upon which our often singular range of titles has evolved.\r\n\r\n<strong>Booksellers in the UK and in the rest of Europe can order our titles via</strong>\r\n<a href=\"http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/\">John Wiley &amp; Sons Ltd</a>\r\nEuropean Distribution Centre\r\nNew Era Estate\r\nOldlands Way\r\nBognor Regis\r\nWest Sussex\r\nPO22 9NQ UK\r\nTelephone: 44.1243.779777\r\n\r\n<strong>Booksellers in the USA and the rest of the world can order via</strong>\r\n<a href=\"https://mitpress.mit.edu/services/how-to-order\">The MIT Press</a>\r\nc/o Triliteral\r\n100 Maple Ridge Drive\r\nCumberland, RI 02864\r\n\r\nThanks to everyone for your support over the past 13 years, and here’s to a strange and luminous future.\r\n\r\nMark Pilkington and Jamie Sutcliffe\r\nStrange Attractor Press','SAP & MIT Press','As of 1 March 2017, all SAP titles will be distributed worldwide by MIT Press. 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We\'re hugely excited and honoured to join such a prestigious roster of publishers and titles and to be given this a fantastic opportunity to continue our explorations of unpopular culture globally.\r\n\r\nIt was a bold step for Turnaround Publisher Services to take us on for distribution back in 2005, at such an early stage in our development , and we’ve benefitted immensely from their support. It’s safe to say that without them, we wouldn’t be in the position that we are today. Our heartfelt thanks are due to everyone at the company who has worked with us over the years, providing the stable foundation upon which our often singular range of titles has evolved.\r\n\r\n<strong>Booksellers in the UK and in the rest of Europe can order our titles via</strong>\r\n<a href=\"http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/\">John Wiley &amp; Sons Ltd</a>\r\nEuropean Distribution Centre\r\nNew Era Estate\r\nOldlands Way\r\nBognor Regis\r\nWest Sussex\r\nPO22 9NQ UK\r\nTelephone: 44.1243.779777\r\n\r\n<strong>Booksellers in the USA and the rest of the world can order via</strong>\r\n<a href=\"https://mitpress.mit.edu/services/how-to-order\">The MIT Press</a>\r\nc/o Triliteral\r\n100 Maple Ridge Drive\r\nCumberland, RI 02864\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nMark Pilkington and Jamie Sutcliffe\r\n\r\nStrange Attractor Press','SAP & MIT Press','','inherit','closed','closed','','5832-revision-v1','','','2017-01-23 15:51:09','2017-01-23 15:51:09','',5832,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/news/5832-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(5836,2,'2017-01-23 15:52:17','2017-01-23 15:52:17','<a href=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/?attachment_id=5834\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5834\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-5834 aligncenter\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/MITp.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"383\" height=\"97\" /></a>\r\nStrange Attractor Press are pleased to announce that as of 1 March 2017, all of our titles will be distributed worldwide by MIT Press. We\'re hugely excited and honoured to join such a prestigious roster of publishers and titles and to be given this a fantastic opportunity to continue our explorations of unpopular culture globally.\r\n\r\nIt was a bold step for Turnaround Publisher Services to take us on for distribution back in 2005, at such an early stage in our development , and we’ve benefitted immensely from their support. It’s safe to say that without them, we wouldn’t be in the position that we are today. Our heartfelt thanks are due to everyone at the company who has worked with us over the years, providing the stable foundation upon which our often singular range of titles has evolved.\r\n\r\n<strong>Booksellers in the UK and in the rest of Europe can order our titles via</strong>\r\n<a href=\"http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/\">John Wiley &amp; Sons Ltd</a>\r\nEuropean Distribution Centre\r\nNew Era Estate\r\nOldlands Way\r\nBognor Regis\r\nWest Sussex\r\nPO22 9NQ UK\r\nTelephone: 44.1243.779777\r\n\r\n<strong>Booksellers in the USA and the rest of the world can order via</strong>\r\n<a href=\"https://mitpress.mit.edu/services/how-to-order\">The MIT Press</a>\r\nc/o Triliteral\r\n100 Maple Ridge Drive\r\nCumberland, RI 02864\r\n\r\nThanks to everyone for your support over the past 13 years,\r\nMark Pilkington and Jamie Sutcliffe\r\nStrange Attractor Press','SAP & MIT Press','','inherit','closed','closed','','5832-revision-v1','','','2017-01-23 15:52:17','2017-01-23 15:52:17','',5832,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/news/5832-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(5837,2,'2017-01-23 16:00:29','2017-01-23 16:00:29','<a href=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/?attachment_id=5834\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5834\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-5834 aligncenter\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/MITp.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"383\" height=\"97\" /></a>\r\nStrange Attractor Press are pleased to announce that as of 1 March 2017, all of our titles will be distributed worldwide by MIT Press. We\'re hugely excited and honoured to join such a prestigious roster of publishers and titles and to be given this a fantastic opportunity to continue our explorations of unpopular culture globally.\r\n\r\nIt was a bold step for Turnaround Publisher Services to take us on for distribution back in 2005, at such an early stage in our development , and we’ve benefitted immensely from their support. It’s safe to say that without them, we wouldn’t be in the position that we are today. Our heartfelt thanks are due to everyone at the company who has worked with us over the years, providing the stable foundation upon which our often singular range of titles has evolved.\r\n\r\n<strong>Booksellers in the UK and in the rest of Europe can order our titles via</strong>\r\n<a href=\"http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/\">John Wiley &amp; Sons Ltd</a>\r\nEuropean Distribution Centre\r\nNew Era Estate\r\nOldlands Way\r\nBognor Regis\r\nWest Sussex\r\nPO22 9NQ UK\r\nTelephone: 44.1243.779777\r\n\r\n<strong>Booksellers in the USA and the rest of the world can order via</strong>\r\n<a href=\"https://mitpress.mit.edu/services/how-to-order\">The MIT Press</a>\r\nc/o Triliteral\r\n100 Maple Ridge Drive\r\nCumberland, RI 02864\r\n\r\nThanks to everyone for your support over the past 13 years, and here’s to a strange and luminous future.\r\n\r\nMark Pilkington and Jamie Sutcliffe\r\nStrange Attractor Press','SAP & MIT Press','','inherit','closed','closed','','5832-revision-v1','','','2017-01-23 16:00:29','2017-01-23 16:00:29','',5832,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/news/5832-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(5838,2,'2017-01-23 16:40:50','2017-01-23 16:40:50','','exhibition_popup','','inherit','closed','closed','','exhibition_popup','','','2017-01-23 16:40:50','2017-01-23 16:40:50','',5832,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/exhibition_popup.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(5839,2,'2017-01-23 16:41:03','2017-01-23 16:41:03','<a href=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/?attachment_id=5834\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5834\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-5834 aligncenter\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/MITp.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"383\" height=\"97\" /></a>\r\nStrange Attractor Press are pleased to announce that as of 1 March 2017, all of our titles will be distributed worldwide by MIT Press. We\'re hugely excited and honoured to join such a prestigious roster of publishers and titles and to be given this a fantastic opportunity to continue our explorations of unpopular culture globally.\r\n\r\nIt was a bold step for Turnaround Publisher Services to take us on for distribution back in 2005, at such an early stage in our development , and we’ve benefitted immensely from their support. It’s safe to say that without them, we wouldn’t be in the position that we are today. Our heartfelt thanks are due to everyone at the company who has worked with us over the years, providing the stable foundation upon which our often singular range of titles has evolved.\r\n\r\n<strong>Booksellers in the UK and in the rest of Europe can order our titles via</strong>\r\n<a href=\"http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/\">John Wiley &amp; Sons Ltd</a>\r\nEuropean Distribution Centre\r\nNew Era Estate\r\nOldlands Way\r\nBognor Regis\r\nWest Sussex\r\nPO22 9NQ UK\r\nTelephone: 44.1243.779777\r\n\r\n<strong>Booksellers in the USA and the rest of the world can order via</strong>\r\n<a href=\"https://mitpress.mit.edu/services/how-to-order\">The MIT Press</a>\r\nc/o Triliteral\r\n100 Maple Ridge Drive\r\nCumberland, RI 02864\r\n\r\nThanks to everyone for your support over the past 13 years, and here’s to a strange and luminous future.\r\n\r\nMark Pilkington and Jamie Sutcliffe\r\nStrange Attractor Press','SAP & MIT Press','As of 1 March 2017, all SAP titles will be distributed worldwide by MIT Press. 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We\'re hugely excited and honoured to join such a prestigious roster of publishers and titles and to be given this a fantastic opportunity to continue our explorations of unpopular culture globally.\r\n\r\nIt was a bold step for Turnaround Publisher Services to take us on for distribution back in 2005, at such an early stage in our development , and we’ve benefitted immensely from their support. It’s safe to say that without them, we wouldn’t be in the position that we are today. Our heartfelt thanks are due to everyone at the company who has worked with us over the years, providing the stable foundation upon which our often singular range of titles has evolved.\r\n\r\n<strong>Booksellers in the UK and in the rest of Europe can order our titles via</strong>\r\n<a href=\"http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/\">John Wiley &amp; Sons Ltd</a>\r\nEuropean Distribution Centre\r\nNew Era Estate\r\nOldlands Way\r\nBognor Regis\r\nWest Sussex\r\nPO22 9NQ UK\r\nTelephone: 44.1243.779777\r\n\r\n<strong>Booksellers in the USA and the rest of the world can order via</strong>\r\n<a href=\"https://mitpress.mit.edu/services/how-to-order\">The MIT Press</a>\r\nc/o Triliteral\r\n100 Maple Ridge Drive\r\nCumberland, RI 02864\r\n\r\nThanks to everyone for your support over the past 13 years, and here’s to a strange and luminous future.\r\n\r\nMark Pilkington and Jamie Sutcliffe\r\nStrange Attractor Press','SAP & MIT Press','As of 1 March 2017, all SAP titles will be distributed worldwide by MIT Press. 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We\'re hugely excited and honoured to join such a prestigious roster of publishers and titles and to be given this fantastic opportunity to continue our explorations of unpopular culture globally.\r\n\r\nIt was a bold step for Turnaround Publisher Services to take us on for distribution back in 2005 at such an early stage in our development,  and we’ve benefitted immensely from their support. It’s safe to say that without them, we wouldn’t be in the position that we are today. Our heartfelt thanks are due to everyone at the company who has worked with us over the years, providing the stable foundation upon which our often singular range of titles has evolved.\r\n\r\n<strong>Booksellers in the UK and in the rest of Europe can order our titles via</strong>\r\n<a href=\"http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/\">John Wiley &amp; Sons Ltd</a>\r\nEuropean Distribution Centre\r\nNew Era Estate\r\nOldlands Way\r\nBognor Regis\r\nWest Sussex\r\nPO22 9NQ UK\r\nTelephone: 44.1243.779777\r\n\r\n<strong>Booksellers in the USA and the rest of the world can order via</strong>\r\n<a href=\"https://mitpress.mit.edu/services/how-to-order\">The MIT Press</a>\r\nc/o Triliteral\r\n100 Maple Ridge Drive\r\nCumberland, RI 02864\r\n\r\nThanks to everyone for your support over the past 13 years, and here’s to a strange and luminous future.\r\n\r\nMark Pilkington and Jamie Sutcliffe\r\nStrange Attractor Press','SAP & MIT Press','As of 1 March 2017, all SAP titles will be distributed worldwide by MIT Press. ','inherit','closed','closed','','5832-revision-v1','','','2017-01-23 16:43:12','2017-01-23 16:43:12','',5832,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/news/5832-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(5842,2,'2017-01-25 11:29:31','2017-01-25 11:29:31','Strange Attractor Press are over the rainbow to present...\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/skipping-to-armageddon/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5657\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5657\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/STA-WEB.gif\" alt=\"STA-WEB\" width=\"585\" height=\"800\" /></a>\r\n<h2><strong>Skipping To Armageddon:</strong></h2>\r\n<h2><strong>Photographs of Current 93 and Friends </strong></h2>\r\n<h3><strong>by Ruth Bayer</strong></h3>\r\n<strong>With an introduction by Michel Faber, and a Foreword by David Tibet</strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/skipping-to-armageddon/\">AVAILABLE TO ORDER HERE </a></span></strong>\r\n\r\nHardback\r\n192pp, 220x170mm\r\n120+ images in colour and B/W\r\nAvailable from mid-August in two editions, only from Strange Attractor Press\r\n\r\n* £25.00 standard hardback edition\r\n\r\n<del>* £35.00 collectors’ signed edition of 50, with photographic print signed by Ruth and David </del><strong>SOLD OUT</strong>\r\n\r\n\"Like much of the music made by the artists who entrusted her to reflect their mercurial spirits, Bayer\'s pictures are magic\"\r\nFrom the introduction by Michel Faber\r\n\r\nBringing together, for the first time, the music photography of Ruth Bayer, who has documented key players in the English musical post-punk underground since the mid 1980s.\r\n\r\nWith unprecedented access and intimacy, Ruth has photographed luminaries and legends including Marc Almond, Little Annie, John Balance, Peter Christopherson, Cyclobe, Shirley Collins, Baby Dee, Norbert Kox, Tony (TS) McPhee, Steven Stapleton, David Tibet, Tiny Tim and many others, in a career spanning three decades.\r\n\r\nA unique collection, featuring over one hundred timeless and iconic images of some of the most influential, eccentric and sometimes controversial musicians of their times.\r\n\r\nABOUT THE AUTHOR:\r\nRuth Bayer is an Austrian photographer, based in London, whose work has been exhibited at galleries all over the world. Her photographs have appeared in numerous music and style magazines over the past two decades and most recently in the book \'The Play Goes On: The Rituals of the Rainbow Bridge\".','Skipping To Armageddon','192pp, 220x170mm\r\n120+ images in colour and B/W\r\n£25','inherit','closed','closed','','5656-revision-v1','','','2017-01-25 11:29:31','2017-01-25 11:29:31','',5656,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/news/5656-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(5843,2,'2017-02-13 15:48:05','2017-02-13 15:48:05','We\'re thrilled to be hosting a stall at the forthcoming <a href=\"https://safeasmilkfestival.com/sam17\">Safe as Milk</a> festival, taking place 21-23 April at Prestatyn, Wales. There\'s an incredible musical line up, and we also expect to be contributing to the programme of talks over the weekend. See you there!\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://safeasmilkfestival.com/sam17\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5844\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5844\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/f3c3a576-bb5b-44d5-aa8b-3119fe253dc6-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"595\" /></a>','SAP at Safe As Milk','We\'ll be selling books and more at the Safe as Milk festival this April','draft','closed','closed','','sap-safe-milk','','','2017-03-30 13:52:29','2017-03-30 13:52:29','',0,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/?p=5843',0,'post','',0),(5844,2,'2017-02-13 15:45:52','2017-02-13 15:45:52','','f3c3a576-bb5b-44d5-aa8b-3119fe253dc6-1','','inherit','closed','closed','','f3c3a576-bb5b-44d5-aa8b-3119fe253dc6-1','','','2017-02-13 15:45:52','2017-02-13 15:45:52','',5843,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/f3c3a576-bb5b-44d5-aa8b-3119fe253dc6-1.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(5845,2,'2017-02-13 15:48:05','2017-02-13 15:48:05','We\'re thrilled to be hosting a stall at the forthcoming <a href=\"https://safeasmilkfestival.com/sam17\">Safe as Milk</a> festival, taking place 21-23 April at Prestatyn, Wales. There\'s an incredible musical line up, and we also expect to be contributing to the programme of talks over the weekend. See you there!\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://safeasmilkfestival.com/sam17\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5844\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5844\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/f3c3a576-bb5b-44d5-aa8b-3119fe253dc6-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"595\" /></a>','SAP at Safe As Milk','','inherit','closed','closed','','5843-revision-v1','','','2017-02-13 15:48:05','2017-02-13 15:48:05','',5843,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/news/5843-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(5846,2,'2017-02-13 15:50:00','2017-02-13 15:50:00','We\'re thrilled to be hosting a stall at the forthcoming <a href=\"https://safeasmilkfestival.com/sam17\">Safe as Milk</a> festival, taking place 21-23 April at Prestatyn, Wales. There\'s an incredible musical line up, and we also expect to be contributing to the programme of talks over the weekend. See you there!\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://safeasmilkfestival.com/sam17\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5844\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5844\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/f3c3a576-bb5b-44d5-aa8b-3119fe253dc6-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"595\" /></a>','SAP at Safe As Milk','We\'ll be selling books and more at the Safe as Milk festival this April','inherit','closed','closed','','5843-revision-v1','','','2017-02-13 15:50:00','2017-02-13 15:50:00','',5843,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/news/5843-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(5848,2,'2017-02-23 11:24:51','2017-02-23 11:24:51','<a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/gossamer-days/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5685\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-5685\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/gossamer-announcement.png\" alt=\"gossamer-announcement\" width=\"487\" height=\"696\" /></a>\r\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Gossamer Days</strong></h2>\r\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong>Spiders, Humans and Their Threads</strong></em></h2>\r\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>by Eleanor Morgan</strong></h3>\r\n<a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/gossamer-days/\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Available now</span></a>\r\n\r\nA5, 184pp\r\nHeavily illustrated in BW &amp; Colour\r\n£25/£14.99\r\n\r\nAvailable in two editions:\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li>Special Edition Hardback, 250 copies,  with a signed and numbered artist\'s print (£25.00)</li>\r\n 	<li>Standard Paperback Edition</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<img class=\"wp-image-5772 aligncenter\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/book1_567.jpg\" alt=\"book1_567\" width=\"478\" height=\"364\" />\r\n\r\n\"We don’t just think; we think like humans. We don’t just make; we make like people. There are photographs, sketches and images of artworks throughout, making this fascinating book a very beautiful one too.\" Emma Warren, <a href=\"http://www.caughtbytheriver.net/2016/09/08/eleanor-morgan-arachnids-gossamer-days-spiders-humans-and-their-threads/\">Caught by The River</a>\r\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 2\">\r\n<div class=\"section\">\r\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\r\n<div class=\"column\">\r\n\r\n\"Among the best nature writing you will find anywhere... This is a delightful book to hold and to read, an excellent addition to the library of anyone interested in the stranger corners of biology or human culture.\"\r\nIan Simmons, <em>Fortean Times</em>.\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\nWhat happens when one making animal meets another? Gossamer Days explores the strange web of spider-human relationships.\r\n\r\nFrom gun sights to sticky tunics via acoustic lures, royal underwear and the mystery of the disappearing spider goats, Eleanor Morgan’s intriguing and original book examines the strange, centuries long entanglement between humans and spiders.\r\n\r\nArtist and writer Eleanor Morgan has spent a decade working with spiders and their silk. Her explorations have led her in search of one of the world’s largest web weaving spiders, to the rooftops of Oxford University and to a garage in Sussex.\r\n\r\nHer weaving and drawing with spider silk drew her to research the lost history of Europe’s attempt to create a spider silk weaving industry and to the ancient and ongoing sacred use of spider webs in the South Pacific. Legends of schoolgirls tempting spiders with their singing inspired her own attempt to serenade a spider.\r\n\r\nIn this personal, lively and far ranging book, Eleanor Morgan transforms the way we think about spiders and the wonders of their webs.\r\n\r\nAbout the author:\r\nEleanor Morgan is a London-based artist, lecturer and writer specialising in the making processes of humans and other animals. She holds a PhD from the Slade School of Fine Art and has exhibited nationally and internationally at galleries and museums.','Gossamer Days','A5, 184pp\r\nHeavily illustrated in BW & Colour\r\n£25/£14.99\r\n','inherit','closed','closed','','5684-revision-v1','','','2017-02-23 11:24:51','2017-02-23 11:24:51','',5684,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/news/5684-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(6065,2,'2018-01-04 08:14:17','2018-01-04 08:14:17','<em>We welcome proposals and manuscript submissions but please read these guidelines before contacting us:</em>\r\n\r\n<strong>What you should know about us:</strong>\r\n\r\n- Before sending us your proposal or manuscript, if you are not familiar with our existing titles, please take a few minutes to <a href=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/shoppe/\">browse our existing list</a> and consider how your work might, or might not, sit alongside our already published books.\r\n\r\n- We don’t deal with agents. If you are an author, please contact us directly. Publishing your book will be a collaborative process - we want to work with you, and not an intermediary.\r\n\r\n- We are predominantly a non-fiction publisher, our key interests being previously neglected or rejected areas of research and investigation. Ideally your research will be breaking new ground, or presenting new perspectives on a story that has been told previously. We look for books that present their author’s depth of research through engaging and accessible writing. We are not an academic publishing house, though we are <a href=\"https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/catalogs\">distributed via MIT Press</a>, but we do expect your research to be credible, backed up by evidence and fully referenced.\r\n\r\n- While we are not really a fiction publisher, we have published a handful of novels and short fiction anthologies and shall continue to do so. Broadly speaking we are interested in fiction that sits uneasily alongside other strange tales of science fiction, fantasy or the supernatural.\r\n\r\n- Please do not send us your poetry. We are not a poetry press, though we have published poetry as part of archival collections.\r\n\r\n<strong>What to send us</strong>\r\n\r\n- First of all, please send us a brief summary, about 800 words long, of what you have written, or intend to write. A separate breakdown of chapters is useful if you have one. We can then decide whether we want to see your completed manuscript, or discuss a commission with you. Finished manuscripts will be read by us and our readers for assessment.\r\n\r\n<strong>What else you should know before approaching us</strong>\r\n\r\n- Please do not expect an advance. We do, however, offer authors a very generous share of profits. We will also produce your book to the highest standards possible, and it will be distributed worldwide via <a href=\"https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/catalogs\">MIT Press</a>. We are a small independent press and unfortunately are unable to pay authors in advance, except in very rare instances, for example if we know for certain that we can presell a specific number of copies of a title.\r\n\r\n- We usually publish in paperback, though we sometimes also produce short hardback runs, either independently or as part of the edition.\r\n\r\n- Once your book is written and all other materials - such as illustrations - are in place, it will take six months to a year for a book to be published, though the process can sometimes be shorter, or longer, determined by our own production schedule and distributor\'s catalogue schedule.\r\n\r\n<em>While the above may sound daunting, please don’t be put off - we want to hear from you. </em>\r\n\r\n<em>Join us!</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','Submission Guidelines','','inherit','closed','closed','','6061-revision-v1','','','2018-01-04 08:14:17','2018-01-04 08:14:17','',6061,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/news/6061-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(6066,2,'2018-01-04 08:19:47','2018-01-04 08:19:47','<h2>Snail Mail</h2>\r\nBM SAP, WC1N 3XX, London, UK\r\n<h2>Email</h2>\r\n<strong>Hello:</strong>\r\nFor general contact and enquiries please email <b>contactee[at]strangeattractor.co.uk</b>\r\n\r\n<strong>Online orders:</strong>\r\nFor enquiries about orders and deliveries please email <strong>support[at]state51.com</strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>Work experience:\r\n</strong>We welcome work experience visitors and interns, but please <em><a href=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/about-3/\">read this before contacting us</a>.</em><strong>\r\n</strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>Proposals: </strong>\r\nFor book or journal article proposals use <b>proposals[at]strangeattractor.co.uk\r\n</b><em>Please read <a href=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/news/submission-guidelines/\">these guidelines</a> before sending us your submission.</em>','Contact','','inherit','closed','closed','','5388-revision-v1','','','2018-01-04 08:19:47','2018-01-04 08:19:47','',5388,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/news/5388-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(6067,2,'2018-01-10 15:07:52','2018-01-10 15:07:52','Strange Attractor Press is an independent publishing house, founded in 2003, based in London, UK and run by Mark Pilkington and Jamie Sutcliffe.\r\n\r\nWe edit, publish and produce all of our titles in-house, aided by freelance editors, designers, illustrators and proof readers, commissioned on a project-by-project basis.\r\n\r\n<strong>Proposals</strong>\r\nMost of our titles emerge out of discussions with authors and we only rarely take on new projects on spec. Please read these <a href=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/news/submission-guidelines/\"><em>submission guidelines</em></a> before sending us a proposal.\r\n\r\n<strong>Working with SAP\r\n</strong>We are currently a two-person team and are not likely to expand in the near future, but if you would like to talk to us about working on a freelance basis, do please get in touch.\r\n\r\nWork Experience\r\nWe receive a large number of requests for work experience placements, and we welcome students and other visitors who want to see how we work. However, please bear the following in mind before writing to us:\r\n- unfortunately we we are not in a position to be able to pay work experience visitors or interns.  <strong>\r\n</strong>- please familiarise yourself with our titles and our approach before contacting us. If our books don\'t sound interesting to you, then we would suggest that you won\'t benefit from work experience with us. We would like you to have read at least one of our titles before getting in touch.<strong>\r\n</strong>- we welcome assistance from graduate or post-graduate students, but would recommend that you familiarise yourself with commercial design and layout software such as Abode Indesign and Photoshop if you want to work alongside us.\r\n- we are a small independent press and can\'t offer you any assistance in finding work in the commercial publishing arena. However, because we are small and independent, we manage all aspects of book publishing ourselves (though we work alongside MIT Press and State51 for distribution and publicity) so we can provide a good opportunity to learn the processes and practices involved.\r\n<strong>\r\nORDERING OUR BOOKS\r\n\r\nStrange Attractor Press titles are available directly from our <a href=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/shoppe/\">Shoppe</a>, or from all interesting bookshops worldwide.</strong>\r\n\r\nGlobal distribution is through The MIT Press, Cambridge <span style=\"color: #000000;\">Massachusetts, USA and London, UK.</span>\r\n\r\n<strong>Booksellers in the UK and in the rest of Europe can order our titles via</strong>\r\n\r\nJohn Wiley &amp; Sons Ltd\r\nEuropean Distribution Centre\r\nNew Era Estate\r\nOldlands Way, Bognor Regis\r\nPO22 9NQ\r\nUK\r\n\r\nOrder our titles for your bookshop:<strong>\r\n</strong><a href=\"https://bookseller.wiley.com/CGI-BIN/lansaweb?procfun+bookseller+bksfn07\">Login or set up an account here\r\n</a>UK orders:+44 1243 843291\r\nOverseas orders: +44 1243 843294\r\nEmail: <a href=\"mailto:Customer@wiley.com\">Customer@wiley.com</a>\r\n\r\n<strong>Booksellers in the USA and the Rest of the World can order via</strong>\r\n<a href=\"https://mitpress.mit.edu/services/how-to-order\">The MIT Press</a>\r\nc/o Triliteral\r\n100 Maple Ridge Drive\r\nCumberland, RI 02864\r\n\r\n∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞\r\n\r\n<strong>A brief history of Strange Attractor Press</strong>\r\n\r\nIn <strong>2001 </strong>Mark Pilkington and John Lundberg instigated a series of events at London\'s <a href=\"http://www.thehorsehospital.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Horse Hospital</a> that ran for two years under the title \'Strange Attractor\' (<em>see images of our early events below</em>). Since then Mark has continued to organise sporadic Strange Attractor events and to work on larger collaborative projects.\r\n\r\nIn <strong>2003</strong>, along with designer Ali Hutchinson, Mark edited and published <em>Strange Attractor Journal One</em>, an anthology (now out-of-print) of writing on neglected and esoteric cultural, historical and anthropological themes in keeping with the original events, that marked the first appearance of Strange Attractor Press.\r\n\r\nIn <strong>2010 </strong>Strange Attractor Press became a limited company and in <strong>2014</strong> Jamie Sutcliffe joined us as an editor and publisher. In <strong>2017 </strong>SAP titles were picked up for global distribution by the MIT Press.\r\n\r\nOver a decade since its inception, with numerous exhibitions and books in its past, and in its future, Strange Attractor Press continues its mission to celebrate unpopular culture. Join us.\r\n\r\n∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞\r\n\r\n<strong>A long history of Strange Attractor</strong>\r\n<strong>by Ken Hollings </strong>\r\n(published in <a href=\"http://www.thewire.co.uk/\"><em>The Wire</em></a> magazine #<a href=\"http://www.thewire.co.uk/issues/275/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-2695 alignright\" title=\"The Wire #275 January 2007\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/The-Wire-275-January-2007-244x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"244\" height=\"300\" /></a>, January 2007)\r\n\r\n<em>Ken Hollings rides the world’s subcultural currents mapped by London’s Strange Attractor.</em>\r\n\r\nStrange Attractor is well named. There’s really no escaping it. Starting out as a series of live events, it has slowly transmuted into an annual publication, set up an online clearing house for the weird and the wonderful and recently made its first move towards establishing itself as a publishing house. “Strange Attractor celebrates unpopular culture,” runs its mission statement. “We declare war on mediocrity and a pox on the foot soldiers of stupidity. Join us.” Who could possibly resist such a challenge? Sooner or later you have to get involved. (In the interests of full transparency: the writer of this article has taken part in a number of Strange Attractor evenings and is a regular contributor to Strange Attractor Journal.)\r\n\r\nWith orders for the Strange Attractor publications coming in from all over the world, and mainstream media like The Independent On Sunday praising it for producing “one of the most weirdly beautiful, beautifully weird magazines of the past hundred-odd years” a bigger problem presents itself. How do you celebrate unpopular culture without losing its unpopularity?\r\n\r\n“There’s certainly no business plan,” admits Strange Attractor Journal’s publisher and chief editor, Mark Pilkington. “We’re really making it all up as we go along. I hope thatStrange Attractor’s approach to culture is simultaneously that of the archaeologist, the ethnographer, the anthropologist, the occultist, the showman and the curator.”\r\n\r\nIt’s a heady mix. The first two issues, both book-sized anthologies running to more than 200 and 400 pages apiece, have presented material ranged across such elusive topics as mind control experiments, mould art, hair sculpture, cargo cults, neglected gods and forgotten waxworks. Such a list limits more than it clarifies, however. Strange Attractor Journal is concerned less with the unexplained than with the unexpected. You never know what it will cover next.\r\n\r\n“I think Strange Attractor is refreshing to people in that it manages to straddle several cultural channels while still following its own agenda,” Pilkington admits, “and it’s one not driven by the same obvious memes. But at the same time it’s important that it doesn’t become obscurantist for its own sake—some things are lost for a reason, others will only resurface when the time is right.”\r\n\r\nStrange Attractor’s wayward eclecticism dates back to a series of monthly events begun in the summer of 2001 by Pilkington in collaboration with artist John Lundberg and continuing over the next two years. Staged at London’s Horse Hospital venue, they gave an early indication of the loose network of experimental enterprises that was starting to come into existence, linking outsider artists with cultural anthropologists, textual hackers and practising occultists.\r\n\r\n<img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2699\" title=\"SA2\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/SA2-300x235.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"235\" />\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/SA3.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2702\" title=\"SA3\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/SA3-300x290.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"290\" /></a>\r\n\r\n“We’d mix talks, films, music, presentations, each night being themed around a different topic,” Pilkington recalls. “I rather pretentiously called them ‘information happenings’. Subjects ranged from conspiracy theory to theremins, Esperanto to magick, hoaxes, illusions and psychic deceptions: basically anything that interested us and could draw people that we liked or wanted to meet into one place.” Highlights included a live and bloody demonstration of psychic surgery, sci-fi movie themes played on vintage electronic instruments and a live Lovecraft-influenced Chaos Magick ritual with a soundtrack performed “by a band who couldn’t see what was going on.”\r\n\r\nAfter Lundberg enrolled at the National Film and Television School, Pilkington went solo but eventually grew tired of doing regular live events, deciding instead to do something that would last longer: hence the Journal.\r\n\r\nThe notion of outliving the moment, of being around for more than just a quick cultural fix, is very much a part of SAJ’s overall look and feel. The first thing you notice is that the front and back cover of each issue is devoid of text or title, which only appears on the book’s spine. If you want to know who the contributors are, you’ll have to look inside.\r\n\r\n“For me, it was about giving as much space as possible to striking images and therefore making them stand out on the bookshelf,” Pilkington explains. “I imagined people being aware that something was wrong with the cover but perhaps not being able to put their finger on it.”\r\n\r\nThe absence of cover copy also binds together the Journal’s various contributors in the anonymity of a collective endeavour. “We’re lucky enough to live in an age where we can clearly trace the influences of the past on our present,” Pilkington continues, “and it’s not always today’s most celebrated ideas, musicians and writers who will be remembered. This notion of timelessness is very important to what SAJ is and does. I’d like the books to be as irrelevant to a reader 100 years in the future as it would be to someone 100 years in the past. It’s a re-manipulation of the notion of built-in obsolescence.”\r\n\r\nThe Journal’s pages teem with old woodcuts, antiquated typefaces and intricate layouts, giving the impression of having been produced in some parallel past: one that runs counter to established tenets of historical development. Having previously worked as a journalist for periodicals as varied as Fortean Times, Bizarre and The Guardian, Mark Pilkington remains keenly aware of what’s going on around him.\r\n\r\n“There’s a particularly vibrant, very loose cultural network in London at the moment,” he remarks, “one that incorporates music and sound, ideas and information, visual arts and almost anything else you’d care to imagine. It’s inevitable that these people, places and events all bounce off and influence each other in a kind of subcultural Brownian motion.”\r\n\r\nAs well as working closely with designer Alison Hutchinson, readying volume three for publication, Pilkington has also been getting Strange Attractor Press up and running. Its first book to date, The Field Guide: The Art, History And Philosophy Of Crop Circle Making by Rob Irving and John Lundberg, is a particularly cerebral blend of art theory, paranormal phenomena, hoaxes and speculations, ruggedly bound and designed to fit snugly inside your knapsack while out exploring the British countryside. Conventional wisdom says it shouldn’t work, but Strange Attractor’s own particular blend of parlour magic proves that it does.\r\n\r\n“I sometimes see myself as a medium,” Mark reveals, “a channel for all the material that has formed Strange Attractor. I’ve been incredibly lucky with the amazing contributions the Journal has attracted so far.”\r\n\r\nThere’s no escaping it. Strange Attractor really is well named.','About','','inherit','closed','closed','','2624-revision-v1','','','2018-01-10 15:07:52','2018-01-10 15:07:52','',2624,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/news/2624-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(6068,2,'2018-01-23 14:20:50','2018-01-23 14:20:50','<strong><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/all-in-the-downs/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6092\"><img class=\"alignright wp-image-6092\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/allinthedownscover-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"336\" height=\"478\" /></a><a href=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/shoppe/all-in-the-downs/attachment/allinthedownscover/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5998\">\r\n</a>Reflections on Life, Landscape and Song</strong>\r\nBy Shirley Collins\r\n\r\n<i>I</i><i style=\"color: #000000;\">ntroduction by Stewart Lee\r\n</i><strong> PB / Limited HB\r\n196mm x 132mm\r\n280pp, 58 images in colour &amp; B/W\r\n£15.99 (PB) /\r\nHB IS NOW SOLD OUT\r\n</strong><strong> ISBN: 9781907222412</strong>\r\n\r\n<em>(Cover photo by SF Said)</em>\r\n<div>\r\n\r\n<strong>Available in paperback and a special hardback edition including an insert signed by Shirley Collins</strong><strong> (limited to 500 copies - SOLD OUT).  </strong>\r\n\r\n<em> </em><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/all-in-the-downs/\"><strong>Order the paperback here</strong></a><strong><a href=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/shoppe/all-in-the-downs/attachment/r1-kd_w8_400x400/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6317\"><img class=\"wp-image-6317 alignleft\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/r1-kD_W8_400x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"123\" height=\"123\" /></a></strong>\r\n<h2><strong>Winner of the 5th Penderyn Music Book Prize!</strong></h2>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>\"Spirited... elegant... highly enjoyable... Shirley Collins’s descriptions of her beloved Sussex, along with the richness of her culture, make an elegant case for reclaiming a variant of English history.\" </em>The Guardian\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\r\n<div class=\"section\">\r\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\r\n<div class=\"column\">\r\n\r\n<em>\"In these pages Shirley Collins completes her comeback, reclaiming her rightful place in the English folk revival from those who placed obstacles in her way.\"</em>\r\nBilly Bragg in The New Statesman\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n<div>\r\n\r\n<em>\"Luminous... All in the Downs traces the rhythm of a life with the old songs and music. Deeply moving... [it] allows us to read Collins in the landscape and the landscape in her.\" </em>The Wire\r\n<em>\r\n\"Another strong female voice to add to the chorus of music history, going against the grain, so tunefully ...it’s a book that makes you want to hear those old ballads about love and loss, full of hunger and heat.\" </em>Mail on Sunday\r\n\r\n<em>“All In The Downs </em>dissolves time, darting between distant memory and history and the events of her recent renaissance, dissolving the years between incidents, bringing ghosts, both metaphorical and literal, striding over the downs into life before us.”\r\nFrom the introduction by Stewart Lee\r\n\r\nA legendary singer, folklorist, and music historian, Shirley Collins has been an integral figure in the English folk music scene for more than sixty years. In her new memoir, <i>All in the Downs</i>, Collins tells the story of that lifelong relationship with English folksong—a dedication to artistic integrity that has guided her through the triumphs and tragedies of her life.\r\n\r\n<img class=\"alignright wp-image-6096\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/IMG_7901-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"344\" height=\"344\" /><i>All in the Downs</i> combines elements of memoir—from her working-class origins in wartime Hastings to the bright lights of the 1950s folk revival in London—alongside reflections on the role traditional music and the English landscape have played in shaping her vision. From formative field recordings made with Alan Lomax in the United States to the “crowning glories” recorded with her sister Dolly on the Sussex Downs, she writes of the obstacles that led to her withdrawal from the spotlight and the redemption of a new artistic flourishing that continues today with her unexpected return to recording in 2016.\r\n\r\nThrough it all, Shirley Collins has been guided and supported by three vital and inseparable loves: traditional English song, the people and landscape of her native Sussex, and an unwavering sense of artistic integrity. <i>All in the Downs</i> pays tribute to these passions, and in doing so, illustrates a way of life as old as England, that has all but vanished from this land.\r\n\r\n<strong>About the Author</strong>\r\nShirley Collins MBE  is a renowned folk singer who has recorded over 20 albums, and the author of <em>America Over the Water</em> (2004). She is the president of the English Folk Dance and Song Society in London. Her critically lauded album <i>Lodestar</i>, released in 2016, marked a triumphant return to performance after thirty eight years. 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(Limited to 500 copies).  </strong>\r\n<p class=\"gmail-p2\">A legendary singer, folklorist, and music historian, Shirley Collins has been an integral part of the folk-music revival for more than sixty years. In her new memoir, <i>All in the Downs</i>, Collins tells the story of that lifelong relationship with English folksong—a dedication to artistic integrity that has guided her through the triumphs and tragedies of her life.\r\n\r\n<i>All in the Downs</i> combines elements of memoir—from her working-class origins in wartime Hastings to the bright lights of the 1950s folk revival in London—alongside reflections on the role traditional music and the English landscape have played in shaping her vision. From formative field recordings made with Alan Lomax in the United States to the “crowning glories” recorded with her sister Dolly on the Sussex Downs, she writes of the obstacles that led to her withdrawal from the spotlight and the redemption of a new artistic flourishing that continues today with her unexpected return to recording in 2016.\r\n\r\nThrough it all, Shirley Collins has been guided and supported by three vital and inseparable loves: traditional English song, the people and landscape of her native Sussex, and an unwavering sense of artistic integrity. <i>All in the Downs</i> pays tribute to these passions, and in doing so, illustrates a way of life as old as England, that has all but vanished from this land.\r\n\r\n<strong>About the Author</strong>\r\nShirley Collins MBE  is a renowned folk singer. She is the president of the English Folk Dance and Song Society in London. Her critically lauded album <i>Lodestar</i>, released in 2016, marked a triumphant return to performance after a thirty-year absence and she was recently the subject of a feature documentary film, <em>The Ballad of Shirley Collins</em>.</p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/pagans-progress/\">BUY IT HERE</a>','All in the Downs','Reflections on Life, Landscape and Song\r\nShirley Collins\r\nPB / Limited HB\r\n','inherit','closed','closed','','6068-revision-v1','','','2018-01-23 14:01:29','2018-01-23 14:01:29','',6068,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/news/6068-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(6071,2,'2018-01-23 14:14:30','2018-01-23 14:14:30','<a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/all-in-the-downs/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5998\"><img class=\"alignright wp-image-6069\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/9781907222412.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"309\" height=\"403\" /></a>\r\n<strong>Reflections on Life, Landscape and Song</strong>\r\n<a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/we-cant-stop-thinking-about-the-0/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5945\">\r\n</a><strong>Shirley Collins\r\n</strong><i>I</i><i style=\"color: #000000;\">ntroduction by Stewart Lee\r\n</i><strong>\r\nPB / Limited HB\r\n196mm x 132mm\r\n256pp, 40 images in colour &amp; B/W\r\n£15.99 / £25\r\n</strong><strong> ISBN: 9781907222412</strong>\r\n<div>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/all-in-the-downs/\">Pre-Order Here</a>\r\n\r\n<strong>Available in paperback and a special hardback edition including an insert signed by Shirley Collins. 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From formative field recordings made with Alan Lomax in the United States to the “crowning glories” recorded with her sister Dolly on the Sussex Downs, she writes of the obstacles that led to her withdrawal from the spotlight and the redemption of a new artistic flourishing that continues today with her unexpected return to recording in 2016.\r\n\r\nThrough it all, Shirley Collins has been guided and supported by three vital and inseparable loves: traditional English song, the people and landscape of her native Sussex, and an unwavering sense of artistic integrity. <i>All in the Downs</i> pays tribute to these passions, and in doing so, illustrates a way of life as old as England, that has all but vanished from this land.\r\n\r\n<strong>About the Author</strong>\r\nShirley Collins MBE  is a renowned folk singer who has recorded over 20 albums, and the author of <em>America Over the Water</em> (2004). She is the president of the English Folk Dance and Song Society in London. Her critically lauded album <i>Lodestar</i>, released in 2016, marked a triumphant return to performance after over thirty years. 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From formative field recordings made with Alan Lomax in the United States to the “crowning glories” recorded with her sister Dolly on the Sussex Downs, she writes of the obstacles that led to her withdrawal from the spotlight and the redemption of a new artistic flourishing that continues today with her unexpected return to recording in 2016.\r\n\r\nThrough it all, Shirley Collins has been guided and supported by three vital and inseparable loves: traditional English song, the people and landscape of her native Sussex, and an unwavering sense of artistic integrity. <i>All in the Downs</i> pays tribute to these passions, and in doing so, illustrates a way of life as old as England, that has all but vanished from this land.\r\n\r\n<strong>About the Author</strong>\r\nShirley Collins MBE  is a renowned folk singer who has recorded over 20 albums, and the author of <em>America Over the Water</em> (2004). She is the president of the English Folk Dance and Song Society in London. Her critically lauded album <i>Lodestar</i>, released in 2016, marked a triumphant return to performance after over thirty years. 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(Limited to 500 copies).  </strong>\r\n<p class=\"gmail-p2\">A legendary singer, folklorist, and music historian, Shirley Collins has been an integral part of the folk-music revival for more than sixty years. In her new memoir, <i>All in the Downs</i>, Collins tells the story of that lifelong relationship with English folksong—a dedication to artistic integrity that has guided her through the triumphs and tragedies of her life.</p>\r\n<i>All in the Downs</i> combines elements of memoir—from her working-class origins in wartime Hastings to the bright lights of the 1950s folk revival in London—alongside reflections on the role traditional music and the English landscape have played in shaping her vision. From formative field recordings made with Alan Lomax in the United States to the “crowning glories” recorded with her sister Dolly on the Sussex Downs, she writes of the obstacles that led to her withdrawal from the spotlight and the redemption of a new artistic flourishing that continues today with her unexpected return to recording in 2016.\r\n\r\nThrough it all, Shirley Collins has been guided and supported by three vital and inseparable loves: traditional English song, the people and landscape of her native Sussex, and an unwavering sense of artistic integrity. <i>All in the Downs</i> pays tribute to these passions, and in doing so, illustrates a way of life as old as England, that has all but vanished from this land.\r\n\r\n<strong>About the Author</strong>\r\nShirley Collins MBE  is a renowned folk singer who has recorded over 20 albums, and the author of <em>America Over the Water</em> (2004). She is the president of the English Folk Dance and Song Society in London. Her critically lauded album <i>Lodestar</i>, released in 2016, marked a triumphant return to performance after over thirty years. 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(Limited to 500 copies).  </strong>\r\n<p class=\"gmail-p2\">A legendary singer, folklorist, and music historian, Shirley Collins has been an integral part of the folk-music revival for more than sixty years. In her new memoir, <i>All in the Downs</i>, Collins tells the story of that lifelong relationship with English folksong—a dedication to artistic integrity that has guided her through the triumphs and tragedies of her life.</p>\r\n<i>All in the Downs</i> combines elements of memoir—from her working-class origins in wartime Hastings to the bright lights of the 1950s folk revival in London—alongside reflections on the role traditional music and the English landscape have played in shaping her vision. From formative field recordings made with Alan Lomax in the United States to the “crowning glories” recorded with her sister Dolly on the Sussex Downs, she writes of the obstacles that led to her withdrawal from the spotlight and the redemption of a new artistic flourishing that continues today with her unexpected return to recording in 2016.\r\n\r\nThrough it all, Shirley Collins has been guided and supported by three vital and inseparable loves: traditional English song, the people and landscape of her native Sussex, and an unwavering sense of artistic integrity. <i>All in the Downs</i> pays tribute to these passions, and in doing so, illustrates a way of life as old as England, that has all but vanished from this land.\r\n\r\n<strong>About the Author</strong>\r\nShirley Collins MBE  is a renowned folk singer who has recorded over 20 albums, and the author of <em>America Over the Water</em> (2004). She is the president of the English Folk Dance and Song Society in London. Her critically lauded album <i>Lodestar</i>, released in 2016, marked a triumphant return to performance after over thirty years. 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(Limited to 500 copies).  </strong>\r\n<p class=\"gmail-p2\">A legendary singer, folklorist, and music historian, Shirley Collins has been an integral part of the folk-music revival for more than sixty years. In her new memoir, <i>All in the Downs</i>, Collins tells the story of that lifelong relationship with English folksong—a dedication to artistic integrity that has guided her through the triumphs and tragedies of her life.</p>\r\n<i>All in the Downs</i> combines elements of memoir—from her working-class origins in wartime Hastings to the bright lights of the 1950s folk revival in London—alongside reflections on the role traditional music and the English landscape have played in shaping her vision. From formative field recordings made with Alan Lomax in the United States to the “crowning glories” recorded with her sister Dolly on the Sussex Downs, she writes of the obstacles that led to her withdrawal from the spotlight and the redemption of a new artistic flourishing that continues today with her unexpected return to recording in 2016.\r\n\r\nThrough it all, Shirley Collins has been guided and supported by three vital and inseparable loves: traditional English song, the people and landscape of her native Sussex, and an unwavering sense of artistic integrity. <i>All in the Downs</i> pays tribute to these passions, and in doing so, illustrates a way of life as old as England, that has all but vanished from this land.\r\n\r\n<strong>About the Author</strong>\r\nShirley Collins MBE  is a renowned folk singer who has recorded over 20 albums, and the author of <em>America Over the Water</em> (2004). She is the president of the English Folk Dance and Song Society in London. Her critically lauded album <i>Lodestar</i>, released in 2016, marked a triumphant return to performance after over thirty years. Shirley was recently the subject of a feature documentary film, <em>The Ballad of Shirley Collins</em>.\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/all-in-the-downs/\">Pre-Order Here</a>','All in the Downs','Reflections on Life, Landscape and Song\r\nShirley Collins\r\nPB / Limited HB\r\n','inherit','closed','closed','','6068-revision-v1','','','2018-01-23 14:19:11','2018-01-23 14:19:11','',6068,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/news/6068-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(6076,2,'2018-01-23 14:20:33','2018-01-23 14:20:33','<strong><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/all-in-the-downs/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5998\"><img class=\"wp-image-6069 alignright\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/9781907222412.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"309\" height=\"403\" /></a>Reflections on Life, Landscape and Song</strong>\r\nBy Shirley Collins\r\n\r\n<i>I</i><i style=\"color: #000000;\">ntroduction by Stewart Lee\r\n</i><strong> PB / Limited HB\r\n196mm x 132mm\r\n256pp, 40 images in colour &amp; B/W\r\n£15.99 / £25\r\n</strong><strong> ISBN: 9781907222412</strong>\r\n<div>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/all-in-the-downs/\">Pre-Order Here</a>\r\n\r\n<strong>Available in paperback and a special hardback edition including an insert signed by Shirley Collins. (Limited to 500 copies).  </strong>\r\n<p class=\"gmail-p2\">A legendary singer, folklorist, and music historian, Shirley Collins has been an integral part of the folk-music revival for more than sixty years. In her new memoir, <i>All in the Downs</i>, Collins tells the story of that lifelong relationship with English folksong—a dedication to artistic integrity that has guided her through the triumphs and tragedies of her life.</p>\r\n<i>All in the Downs</i> combines elements of memoir—from her working-class origins in wartime Hastings to the bright lights of the 1950s folk revival in London—alongside reflections on the role traditional music and the English landscape have played in shaping her vision. From formative field recordings made with Alan Lomax in the United States to the “crowning glories” recorded with her sister Dolly on the Sussex Downs, she writes of the obstacles that led to her withdrawal from the spotlight and the redemption of a new artistic flourishing that continues today with her unexpected return to recording in 2016.\r\n\r\nThrough it all, Shirley Collins has been guided and supported by three vital and inseparable loves: traditional English song, the people and landscape of her native Sussex, and an unwavering sense of artistic integrity. <i>All in the Downs</i> pays tribute to these passions, and in doing so, illustrates a way of life as old as England, that has all but vanished from this land.\r\n\r\n<strong>About the Author</strong>\r\nShirley Collins MBE  is a renowned folk singer who has recorded over 20 albums, and the author of <em>America Over the Water</em> (2004). She is the president of the English Folk Dance and Song Society in London. Her critically lauded album <i>Lodestar</i>, released in 2016, marked a triumphant return to performance after over thirty years. Shirley was recently the subject of a feature documentary film, <em>The Ballad of Shirley Collins</em>.\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/all-in-the-downs/\">Pre-Order Here</a>','All in the Downs','Reflections on Life, Landscape and Song\r\nShirley Collins\r\nPB / Limited HB\r\n','inherit','closed','closed','','6068-revision-v1','','','2018-01-23 14:20:33','2018-01-23 14:20:33','',6068,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/news/6068-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(6077,2,'2018-01-23 14:21:33','2018-01-23 14:21:33','<strong><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/all-in-the-downs/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5998\"><img class=\"wp-image-6069 alignright\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/9781907222412.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"309\" height=\"403\" /></a>Reflections on Life, Landscape and Song</strong>\r\nBy Shirley Collins\r\n\r\n<i>I</i><i style=\"color: #000000;\">ntroduction by Stewart Lee\r\n</i><strong> PB / Limited HB\r\n196mm x 132mm\r\n256pp, 40 images in colour &amp; B/W\r\n£15.99 / £25\r\n</strong><strong> ISBN: 9781907222412\r\n</strong><em>\r\nAvailable from 5 April\r\n</em><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/all-in-the-downs/\">Pre-Order Here</a>\r\n<div>\r\n\r\n<strong>Available in paperback and a special hardback edition including an insert signed by Shirley Collins. (Limited to 500 copies).  </strong>\r\n<p class=\"gmail-p2\">A legendary singer, folklorist, and music historian, Shirley Collins has been an integral part of the folk-music revival for more than sixty years. In her new memoir, <i>All in the Downs</i>, Collins tells the story of that lifelong relationship with English folksong—a dedication to artistic integrity that has guided her through the triumphs and tragedies of her life.</p>\r\n<i>All in the Downs</i> combines elements of memoir—from her working-class origins in wartime Hastings to the bright lights of the 1950s folk revival in London—alongside reflections on the role traditional music and the English landscape have played in shaping her vision. From formative field recordings made with Alan Lomax in the United States to the “crowning glories” recorded with her sister Dolly on the Sussex Downs, she writes of the obstacles that led to her withdrawal from the spotlight and the redemption of a new artistic flourishing that continues today with her unexpected return to recording in 2016.\r\n\r\nThrough it all, Shirley Collins has been guided and supported by three vital and inseparable loves: traditional English song, the people and landscape of her native Sussex, and an unwavering sense of artistic integrity. <i>All in the Downs</i> pays tribute to these passions, and in doing so, illustrates a way of life as old as England, that has all but vanished from this land.\r\n\r\n<strong>About the Author</strong>\r\nShirley Collins MBE  is a renowned folk singer who has recorded over 20 albums, and the author of <em>America Over the Water</em> (2004). She is the president of the English Folk Dance and Song Society in London. Her critically lauded album <i>Lodestar</i>, released in 2016, marked a triumphant return to performance after over thirty years. Shirley was recently the subject of a feature documentary film, <em>The Ballad of Shirley Collins</em>.\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/all-in-the-downs/\">Pre-Order Here</a>','All in the Downs','Reflections on Life, Landscape and Song\r\nShirley Collins\r\nPB / Limited HB\r\n','inherit','closed','closed','','6068-revision-v1','','','2018-01-23 14:21:33','2018-01-23 14:21:33','',6068,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/news/6068-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(6078,2,'2019-04-08 09:12:10','2019-04-08 09:12:10','<strong><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/all-in-the-downs/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6092\"><img class=\"alignright wp-image-6092\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/allinthedownscover-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"336\" height=\"478\" /></a><a href=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/shoppe/all-in-the-downs/attachment/allinthedownscover/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5998\">\n</a>Reflections on Life, Landscape and Song</strong>\nBy Shirley Collins\n\n<i>I</i><i style=\"color: #000000;\">ntroduction by Stewart Lee\n</i><strong> PB / Limited HB\n196mm x 132mm\n280pp, 58 images in colour &amp; B/W\n£15.99 (PB) /\nHB IS NOW SOLD OUT\n</strong><strong> ISBN: 9781907222412</strong>\n\n<em>(Cover photo by SF Said)</em>\n<div>\n\n<strong>Available in paperback and a special hardback edition including an insert signed by Shirley Collins</strong><strong> (limited to 500 copies - SOLD OUT).  </strong>\n\n<em> </em><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/all-in-the-downs/\"><strong>Order the paperback here</strong></a><strong><a href=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/shoppe/all-in-the-downs/attachment/r1-kd_w8_400x400/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6317\"><img class=\"wp-image-6317 alignleft\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/r1-kD_W8_400x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"123\" height=\"123\" /></a></strong>\n<h2><strong>Winner of the 5th Penderyn Music Book Prize!</strong></h2>\n&nbsp;\n\n<em>\"Spirited... elegant... highly enjoyable... Shirley Collins’s descriptions of her beloved Sussex, along with the richness of her culture, make an elegant case for reclaiming a variant of English history.\" </em>The Guardian\n\n</div>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n\n<em>\"In these pages Shirley Collins completes her comeback, reclaiming her rightful place in the English folk revival from those who placed obstacles in her way.\"</em>\nBilly Bragg in The New Statesman\n\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>\n<div>\n\n<em>\"Luminous... All in the Downs traces the rhythm of a life with the old songs and music. Deeply moving... [it] allows us to read Collins in the landscape and the landscape in her.\" </em>The Wire\n<em>\n\"Another strong female voice to add to the chorus of music history, going against the grain, so tunefully ...it’s a book that makes you want to hear those old ballads about love and loss, full of hunger and heat.\" </em>Mail on Sunday\n\n<em>“All In The Downs </em>dissolves time, darting between distant memory and history and the events of her recent renaissance, dissolving the years between incidents, bringing ghosts, both metaphorical and literal, striding over the downs into life before us.”\nFrom the introduction by Stewart Lee\n\nA legendary singer, folklorist, and music historian, Shirley Collins has been an integral figure in the English folk music scene for more than sixty years. In her new memoir, <i>All in the Downs</i>, Collins tells the story of that lifelong relationship with English folksong—a dedication to artistic integrity that has guided her through the triumphs and tragedies of her life.\n\n<img class=\"alignright wp-image-6096\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/IMG_7901-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"344\" height=\"344\" /><i>All in the Downs</i> combines elements of memoir—from her working-class origins in wartime Hastings to the bright lights of the 1950s folk revival in London—alongside reflections on the role traditional music and the English landscape have played in shaping her vision. From formative field recordings made with Alan Lomax in the United States to the “crowning glories” recorded with her sister Dolly on the Sussex Downs, she writes of the obstacles that led to her withdrawal from the spotlight and the redemption of a new artistic flourishing that continues today with her unexpected return to recording in 2016.\n\nThrough it all, Shirley Collins has been guided and supported by three vital and inseparable loves: traditional English song, the people and landscape of her native Sussex, and an unwavering sense of artistic integrity. <i>All in the Downs</i> pays tribute to these passions, and in doing so, illustrates a way of life as old as England, that has all but vanished from this land.\n\n<strong>About the Author</strong>\nShirley Collins MBE  is a renowned folk singer who has recorded over 20 albums, and the author of <em>America Over the Water</em> (2004). She is the president of the English Folk Dance and Song Society in London. Her critically lauded album <i>Lodestar</i>, released in 2016, marked a triumphant return to performance after thirty eight years. 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In her new memoir, <i>All in the Downs</i>, Collins tells the story of that lifelong relationship with English folksong—a dedication to artistic integrity that has guided her through the triumphs and tragedies of her life.</p>\r\n<i>All in the Downs</i> combines elements of memoir—from her working-class origins in wartime Hastings to the bright lights of the 1950s folk revival in London—alongside reflections on the role traditional music and the English landscape have played in shaping her vision. From formative field recordings made with Alan Lomax in the United States to the “crowning glories” recorded with her sister Dolly on the Sussex Downs, she writes of the obstacles that led to her withdrawal from the spotlight and the redemption of a new artistic flourishing that continues today with her unexpected return to recording in 2016.\r\n\r\nThrough it all, Shirley Collins has been guided and supported by three vital and inseparable loves: traditional English song, the people and landscape of her native Sussex, and an unwavering sense of artistic integrity. <i>All in the Downs</i> pays tribute to these passions, and in doing so, illustrates a way of life as old as England, that has all but vanished from this land.\r\n\r\n<strong>About the Author</strong>\r\nShirley Collins MBE  is a renowned folk singer who has recorded over 20 albums, and the author of <em>America Over the Water</em> (2004). She is the president of the English Folk Dance and Song Society in London. Her critically lauded album <i>Lodestar</i>, released in 2016, marked a triumphant return to performance after over thirty years. Shirley was recently the subject of a feature documentary film, <em>The Ballad of Shirley Collins</em>.\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/all-in-the-downs/\">Pre-Order Here</a>','All in the Downs','Reflections on Life, Landscape and Song\r\nShirley Collins\r\nPB / Limited HB\r\n','inherit','closed','closed','','6068-revision-v1','','','2018-01-23 14:25:50','2018-01-23 14:25:50','',6068,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/news/6068-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(6080,2,'2018-01-23 14:26:54','2018-01-23 14:26:54','<strong><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/all-in-the-downs/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5998\"><img class=\"wp-image-6069 alignright\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/9781907222412.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"309\" height=\"403\" /></a>Reflections on Life, Landscape and Song</strong>\r\nBy Shirley Collins\r\n\r\n<i>I</i><i style=\"color: #000000;\">ntroduction by Stewart Lee\r\n</i><strong> PB / Limited HB\r\n196mm x 132mm\r\n256pp, 40 images in colour &amp; B/W\r\n£15.99 / £25\r\n</strong><strong> ISBN: 9781907222412\r\n</strong><em>\r\nAvailable from 5 April\r\n</em><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/all-in-the-downs/\">Pre-Order Here</a>\r\n<div>\r\n\r\n<strong>Available in paperback and a special hardback edition including an insert signed by Shirley Collins</strong><strong> (limited to 500 copies).  </strong>\r\n<p class=\"gmail-p2\">A legendary singer, folklorist, and music historian, Shirley Collins has been an integral part of the folk-music revival for more than sixty years. In her new memoir, <i>All in the Downs</i>, Collins tells the story of that lifelong relationship with English folksong—a dedication to artistic integrity that has guided her through the triumphs and tragedies of her life.</p>\r\n<i>All in the Downs</i> combines elements of memoir—from her working-class origins in wartime Hastings to the bright lights of the 1950s folk revival in London—alongside reflections on the role traditional music and the English landscape have played in shaping her vision. From formative field recordings made with Alan Lomax in the United States to the “crowning glories” recorded with her sister Dolly on the Sussex Downs, she writes of the obstacles that led to her withdrawal from the spotlight and the redemption of a new artistic flourishing that continues today with her unexpected return to recording in 2016.\r\n\r\nThrough it all, Shirley Collins has been guided and supported by three vital and inseparable loves: traditional English song, the people and landscape of her native Sussex, and an unwavering sense of artistic integrity. <i>All in the Downs</i> pays tribute to these passions, and in doing so, illustrates a way of life as old as England, that has all but vanished from this land.\r\n\r\n<strong>About the Author</strong>\r\nShirley Collins MBE  is a renowned folk singer who has recorded over 20 albums, and the author of <em>America Over the Water</em> (2004). She is the president of the English Folk Dance and Song Society in London. Her critically lauded album <i>Lodestar</i>, released in 2016, marked a triumphant return to performance after thirty eight years. Shirley was recently the subject of a feature documentary film, <em>The Ballad of Shirley Collins</em>.\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/all-in-the-downs/\">Pre-Order Here</a>','All in the Downs','Reflections on Life, Landscape and Song\r\nShirley Collins\r\nPB / Limited HB\r\n','inherit','closed','closed','','6068-revision-v1','','','2018-01-23 14:26:54','2018-01-23 14:26:54','',6068,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/news/6068-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(6081,2,'2018-01-25 16:23:29','2018-01-25 16:23:29','<strong><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/all-in-the-downs/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5998\"><img class=\"wp-image-6069 alignright\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/9781907222412.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"309\" height=\"403\" /></a>Reflections on Life, Landscape and Song</strong>\r\nBy Shirley Collins\r\n\r\n<i>I</i><i style=\"color: #000000;\">ntroduction by Stewart Lee\r\n</i><strong> PB / Limited HB\r\n196mm x 132mm\r\n256pp, 40 images in colour &amp; B/W\r\n£15.99 / £25\r\n</strong><strong> ISBN: 9781907222412\r\n</strong><em>\r\nAvailable from 5 April\r\n</em><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/all-in-the-downs/\">Pre-Order Here</a>\r\n<div>\r\n\r\n<strong>Available in paperback and a special hardback edition including an insert signed by Shirley Collins</strong><strong> (limited to 500 copies).  </strong>\r\n<p class=\"gmail-p2\">A legendary singer, folklorist, and music historian, Shirley Collins has been an integral figure in the folk music scene for more than sixty years. In her new memoir, <i>All in the Downs</i>, Collins tells the story of that lifelong relationship with English folksong—a dedication to artistic integrity that has guided her through the triumphs and tragedies of her life.</p>\r\n<i>All in the Downs</i> combines elements of memoir—from her working-class origins in wartime Hastings to the bright lights of the 1950s folk revival in London—alongside reflections on the role traditional music and the English landscape have played in shaping her vision. From formative field recordings made with Alan Lomax in the United States to the “crowning glories” recorded with her sister Dolly on the Sussex Downs, she writes of the obstacles that led to her withdrawal from the spotlight and the redemption of a new artistic flourishing that continues today with her unexpected return to recording in 2016.\r\n\r\nThrough it all, Shirley Collins has been guided and supported by three vital and inseparable loves: traditional English song, the people and landscape of her native Sussex, and an unwavering sense of artistic integrity. <i>All in the Downs</i> pays tribute to these passions, and in doing so, illustrates a way of life as old as England, that has all but vanished from this land.\r\n\r\n<strong>About the Author</strong>\r\nShirley Collins MBE  is a renowned folk singer who has recorded over 20 albums, and the author of <em>America Over the Water</em> (2004). She is the president of the English Folk Dance and Song Society in London. Her critically lauded album <i>Lodestar</i>, released in 2016, marked a triumphant return to performance after thirty eight years. Shirley was recently the subject of a feature documentary film, <em>The Ballad of Shirley Collins</em>.\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/all-in-the-downs/\">Pre-Order Here</a>','All in the Downs','Reflections on Life, Landscape and Song\r\nShirley Collins\r\nPB / Limited HB\r\n','inherit','closed','closed','','6068-revision-v1','','','2018-01-25 16:23:29','2018-01-25 16:23:29','',6068,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/news/6068-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(6082,2,'2018-01-25 16:23:57','2018-01-25 16:23:57','<strong><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/all-in-the-downs/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5998\"><img class=\"wp-image-6069 alignright\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/9781907222412.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"309\" height=\"403\" /></a>Reflections on Life, Landscape and Song</strong>\r\nBy Shirley Collins\r\n\r\n<i>I</i><i style=\"color: #000000;\">ntroduction by Stewart Lee\r\n</i><strong> PB / Limited HB\r\n196mm x 132mm\r\n256pp, 40 images in colour &amp; B/W\r\n£15.99 / £25\r\n</strong><strong> ISBN: 9781907222412\r\n</strong><em>\r\nAvailable from 5 April\r\n</em><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/all-in-the-downs/\">Pre-Order Here</a>\r\n<div>\r\n\r\n<strong>Available in paperback and a special hardback edition including an insert signed by Shirley Collins</strong><strong> (limited to 500 copies).  </strong>\r\n<p class=\"gmail-p2\">A legendary singer, folklorist, and music historian, Shirley Collins has been an integral figure in the English folk music scene for more than sixty years. In her new memoir, <i>All in the Downs</i>, Collins tells the story of that lifelong relationship with English folksong—a dedication to artistic integrity that has guided her through the triumphs and tragedies of her life.</p>\r\n<i>All in the Downs</i> combines elements of memoir—from her working-class origins in wartime Hastings to the bright lights of the 1950s folk revival in London—alongside reflections on the role traditional music and the English landscape have played in shaping her vision. From formative field recordings made with Alan Lomax in the United States to the “crowning glories” recorded with her sister Dolly on the Sussex Downs, she writes of the obstacles that led to her withdrawal from the spotlight and the redemption of a new artistic flourishing that continues today with her unexpected return to recording in 2016.\r\n\r\nThrough it all, Shirley Collins has been guided and supported by three vital and inseparable loves: traditional English song, the people and landscape of her native Sussex, and an unwavering sense of artistic integrity. <i>All in the Downs</i> pays tribute to these passions, and in doing so, illustrates a way of life as old as England, that has all but vanished from this land.\r\n\r\n<strong>About the Author</strong>\r\nShirley Collins MBE  is a renowned folk singer who has recorded over 20 albums, and the author of <em>America Over the Water</em> (2004). She is the president of the English Folk Dance and Song Society in London. Her critically lauded album <i>Lodestar</i>, released in 2016, marked a triumphant return to performance after thirty eight years. Shirley was recently the subject of a feature documentary film, <em>The Ballad of Shirley Collins</em>.\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/all-in-the-downs/\">Pre-Order Here</a>','All in the Downs','Reflections on Life, Landscape and Song\r\nShirley Collins\r\nPB / Limited HB\r\n','inherit','closed','closed','','6068-revision-v1','','','2018-01-25 16:23:57','2018-01-25 16:23:57','',6068,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/news/6068-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(6083,2,'2018-02-19 13:04:22','2018-02-19 13:04:22','<a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/undead-uprising/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5807\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-5807\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Undead-Cover.jpg\" alt=\"undead-cover\" width=\"511\" height=\"850\" /></a>\n\n<a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/undead-uprising/\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">BUY IT HERE!</span></a>\n\nUndead Uprising\nBy John Cussans\n400pp approx\nAvailable in HB and PB editions\nIllustrated b/w\n£25.00 / £20.00\n\n<em>A complex, highly intertextual book... </em>Undead Uprising<em> is exhaustively researched and covers a huge amount of ground, vastly more than can be conveyed here.\n</em><a href=\"https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/never-let-die-zombie/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Times Literary Supplement</a>\n\nIn 1929 the explorer William Seabrook published The Magic Island, a questionable travelogue that portrayed the Caribbean state of Haiti as a menacing hinterland of ecstatic ritual, voodoo possession, zombie labourers and meddling spirits.\n\nDespite the sensational nature of Seabrook’s book, the image of Haiti as a mysterious domain stricken by dark forces has come to characterise western pop-cultural impressions of the country ever since, from Graham Greene’s novelistic evocation of state-terrorism The Comedians, to the lurid depictions of ‘voodoo nations’ in Ian Fleming’s Live and Let Die and Wes Craven’s The Serpent and the Rainbow.\n\nPursuing the figure of the zombie from folk bogey to cinematic icon, artist and writer John Cussans asks how myth and reality and have come to find themselves so entangled in Haitian history, and how voodoo beliefs have informed both Haitian politics and the superstitious diplomacy of foreign nations.\n\nCussans’ book is a richly researched and original exploration of the mythical life of Haiti, tracing its stories through mesmerism, Surrealism, imaginative literature and the nightmare images of Hollywood. At once a thorough survey of colonial racism and a philosophical provocation, Undead Uprising traces the feedback loops that occur between fantasy and reality, and asks how myth has worked both for and against this fascinating country in its quest for independence.\n\n<a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/undead-uprising/\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">BUY IT HERE!</span></a>\n\nAbout the author:\n\nDr John Cussans is an artist, writer and researcher with an academic background in graphic design, illustration and art theory. Since 2009 he has been involved with the Ghetto Biennale in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, often working with the Haitian video collective Tele Geto. He currently teaches at the Ruskin School of Art.','Undead Uprising: Haiti, Horror and the Zombie Complex','By John Cussans, HB and PB editions, 400pp approx, Illustrated b/w, £25.00 / £20.00','inherit','closed','closed','','5805-autosave-v1','','','2018-02-19 13:04:22','2018-02-19 13:04:22','',5805,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/news/5805-autosave-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(6084,2,'2018-02-19 13:04:55','2018-02-19 13:04:55','<a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/undead-uprising/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5807\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-5807\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Undead-Cover.jpg\" alt=\"undead-cover\" width=\"511\" height=\"850\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/undead-uprising/\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">BUY IT HERE!</span></a>\r\n\r\nUndead Uprising\r\nBy John Cussans\r\n400pp approx\r\nAvailable in HB and PB editions\r\nIllustrated b/w\r\n£25.00 / £20.00\r\n\r\n<em>A complex, highly intertextual book... [which] draws equally from the wells of critical theory, Haitian history and mass-market entertainment... </em>Undead Uprising<em> is exhaustively researched and covers a huge amount of ground, vastly more than can be conveyed here.\r\n</em><a href=\"https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/never-let-die-zombie/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Times Literary Supplement</a>\r\n\r\nIn 1929 the explorer William Seabrook published The Magic Island, a questionable travelogue that portrayed the Caribbean state of Haiti as a menacing hinterland of ecstatic ritual, voodoo possession, zombie labourers and meddling spirits.\r\n\r\nDespite the sensational nature of Seabrook’s book, the image of Haiti as a mysterious domain stricken by dark forces has come to characterise western pop-cultural impressions of the country ever since, from Graham Greene’s novelistic evocation of state-terrorism The Comedians, to the lurid depictions of ‘voodoo nations’ in Ian Fleming’s Live and Let Die and Wes Craven’s The Serpent and the Rainbow.\r\n\r\nPursuing the figure of the zombie from folk bogey to cinematic icon, artist and writer John Cussans asks how myth and reality and have come to find themselves so entangled in Haitian history, and how voodoo beliefs have informed both Haitian politics and the superstitious diplomacy of foreign nations.\r\n\r\nCussans’ book is a richly researched and original exploration of the mythical life of Haiti, tracing its stories through mesmerism, Surrealism, imaginative literature and the nightmare images of Hollywood. At once a thorough survey of colonial racism and a philosophical provocation, Undead Uprising traces the feedback loops that occur between fantasy and reality, and asks how myth has worked both for and against this fascinating country in its quest for independence.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/undead-uprising/\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">BUY IT HERE!</span></a>\r\n\r\nAbout the author:\r\n\r\nDr John Cussans is an artist, writer and researcher with an academic background in graphic design, illustration and art theory. Since 2009 he has been involved with the Ghetto Biennale in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, often working with the Haitian video collective Tele Geto. He currently teaches at the Ruskin School of Art.','Undead Uprising: Haiti, Horror and the Zombie Complex','By John Cussans, HB and PB editions, 400pp approx, Illustrated b/w, £25.00 / £20.00','inherit','closed','closed','','5805-revision-v1','','','2018-02-19 13:04:55','2018-02-19 13:04:55','',5805,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/news/5805-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(6085,2,'2018-02-22 12:46:01','2018-02-22 12:46:01','<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/the-23-stab-wounds-of-julius-cae/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6030\"><img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6030\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/23SW-web.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"414\" height=\"433\" /></a><b><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Artworks by Ian Johnstone</span></b></h2>\r\n<b><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\r\nWith a</span> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">text by Geoff Cox and</span></b><strong> an afterword by Serena Korda.</strong><b>\r\n</b>\r\n\r\n<b><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Music Cassette by Daniel O\'Sullivan.</span>\r\n</b>\r\n<h5><em>Archival quality, large format, collectors\' hardback</em>\r\n<em> 240mm x 240mm, 72pp.</em>\r\n<em> Full colour throughout.</em>\r\n<em>£40.00 + p&amp;P*\r\n</em><em>300 copies only.</em></h5>\r\n<h5><em>(*23% of profits from sales of this book will be donated to the Terrence Higgins Trust)</em></h5>\r\n<strong>Available by 15 April 2018, only from Strange Attractor Press.\r\n(apologies for the delay in publication!)</strong>\r\n\r\nA series of 23 drawings by Ian Johnstone, in red ball point pen on melamine, originally exhibited at London\'s Horse Hospital in November 2010. The drawings celebrate individual blood consciousness, the in-between and the constant state of becoming.\r\n\r\n• Includes a 40 minute cassette of music composed for the original exhibition at the Horse Hospital by Daniel O\'Sullivan (Ulver, Mothlite, Grumbling Fur).\r\n\r\n\"This is a rare document of blood voiced signatures; weeping guilt details of all our conspiracies. Snatch it up. Let the words’ knifings and the split Biro capillaries own you. But never lend it out, or pocket it close to your heart, it’s too unforgiving.\"\r\n<strong>Brian Catling</strong>, author of <em>The Vorrh</em>\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/the-23-stab-wounds-of-julius-cae/\">PRE-ORDER HERE</a></strong>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/the-23-stab-wounds-of-julius-cae/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6040\"><img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6040\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Webwound2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"410\" height=\"280\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<em>They appear on blocks of unguessable purpose: pin-veined rough-cut blocks of whitewood.\r\nDisplayed in the clutch of the screw’s harsh thrift.\r\nThe cloth is pulled away.\r\n</em><em>The 23 wounds.</em>\r\n<em>Sphagia.</em>\r\n<em>Extispicy.\r\n</em><em>Blood spidered and baked on fissured rocks.\r\nLassos and bones and a tracework of bones.\r\nFlesh bared and pared and spindled open through a million pin pricks.\r\nTiny and vertiginous, their lines cluster and tear themselves into liquid fold and tiny blots.\r\n</em><em>The eye swoops like a raptor, bedazzled.\r\nSwims unfocused by infinitesimal mysteries.\r\nTricked, beguiled, left rotting.\r\n</em><em>Impossible amulets.</em>\r\n\r\n<em>23  broken hawk beaks</em>\r\n<em>23 rotted talons with their fringe of ant trail</em>\r\n<em>23 fragments of a skull</em>\r\n<em>23 curses hung round the neck of a scavenger wolf</em>\r\n<em>23 bell shards tolled for the ghost of a headless ram</em>\r\n<em>23 mourning scarves of ink-clotted lace</em>\r\n<em>23 eggshells sticky with seed</em>\r\n\r\n<em>Interred in the shadow of the tower of silence, beneath bird wing storm and acid hail, the fruiting body hardens.</em>\r\n\r\n<em>Takes shape.</em>\r\n\r\n<strong>PLUS</strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>Musick For Ark Todd</strong>\r\nBy Daniel O\'Sullivan\r\n\r\nA: <em>The Levitating Moon Piece\r\n</em>B: <em>Black Egg / Orpheus</em>\r\n\r\n\"I wrote several pieces of music for Ian’s ‘Ark Todd’ static levitation performance over the years. Each setting provoked a different approach. The collaboration with Ulver at the Norwegian Opera house in Oslo was well documented but this particular version, composed for the exhibition of his Stab Wounds at the Horse Hospital gallery in Bloomsbury, has been resting dormant until now.\r\n\r\nThe second piece was a commission for The Place theatre, also in Bloomsbury. An unfinished piece of choreography with dancer and vocalist Francois Testory. Like all of Ian’s work, this was a singular vision probing the human condition and meticulously scratching for truth under every surface.\"\r\n\r\n<strong>About Ian Johnstone\r\n</strong>\'Ian was artist of unimaginable talent and vision, articulated in his singular and exquisite aesthetic which was manifest in all he touched... he was charismatically irreverent, compelling to watch and to listen to and bottomlessly soulful.\' <strong>The Horse Hospital</strong><strong>\r\n</strong>\r\n<div>\r\n\r\nAs well as his own incredible work in sculpture, drawing, painting and performance, Ian collaborated on designs, costumes and performances with  musicians including Coil, Daniel O\'Sullivan, James B Hollands, Mothlite Francois Testory and Ulver.\r\n\r\nIan was a long time friend of Strange Attractor and we were working with him on this book when he died unexpectedly in 2015.\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<strong><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/the-23-stab-wounds-of-julius-cae/\">PRE-ORDER HERE</a></strong>','The 23 Stab Wounds of Julius Caesar','Artworks by Ian Johnstone. 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In her new memoir, <i>All in the Downs</i>, Collins tells the story of that lifelong relationship with English folksong—a dedication to artistic integrity that has guided her through the triumphs and tragedies of her life.</p>\r\n<i>All in the Downs</i> combines elements of memoir—from her working-class origins in wartime Hastings to the bright lights of the 1950s folk revival in London—alongside reflections on the role traditional music and the English landscape have played in shaping her vision. From formative field recordings made with Alan Lomax in the United States to the “crowning glories” recorded with her sister Dolly on the Sussex Downs, she writes of the obstacles that led to her withdrawal from the spotlight and the redemption of a new artistic flourishing that continues today with her unexpected return to recording in 2016.\r\n\r\nThrough it all, Shirley Collins has been guided and supported by three vital and inseparable loves: traditional English song, the people and landscape of her native Sussex, and an unwavering sense of artistic integrity. <i>All in the Downs</i> pays tribute to these passions, and in doing so, illustrates a way of life as old as England, that has all but vanished from this land.\r\n\r\n<strong>About the Author</strong>\r\nShirley Collins MBE  is a renowned folk singer who has recorded over 20 albums, and the author of <em>America Over the Water</em> (2004). She is the president of the English Folk Dance and Song Society in London. Her critically lauded album <i>Lodestar</i>, released in 2016, marked a triumphant return to performance after thirty eight years. Shirley was recently the subject of a feature documentary film, <em>The Ballad of Shirley Collins</em>.\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/all-in-the-downs/\">Pre-Order Here</a>','All in the Downs','Reflections on Life, Landscape and Song\r\nShirley Collins\r\nPB / Limited HB\r\n','inherit','closed','closed','','6068-revision-v1','','','2018-02-26 16:28:37','2018-02-26 16:28:37','',6068,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/news/6068-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(6088,2,'2018-02-27 16:07:12','2018-02-27 16:07:12','<strong><a href=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/shoppe/all-in-the-downs/attachment/allinthedownscover/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5998\"><img class=\"alignright wp-image-6086 \" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/allinthedownscover.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"305\" height=\"459\" /></a>Reflections on Life, Landscape and Song</strong>\r\nBy Shirley Collins\r\n\r\n<i>I</i><i style=\"color: #000000;\">ntroduction by Stewart Lee\r\n</i><strong> PB / Limited HB\r\n196mm x 132mm\r\n256pp, 58 images in colour &amp; B/W\r\n£15.99 / £25\r\n</strong><strong> ISBN: 9781907222412\r\n</strong><em>\r\nAvailable from 5 April\r\n</em><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/all-in-the-downs/\">Pre-Order Here</a>\r\n<div>\r\n\r\n<strong>Available in paperback and a special hardback edition including an insert signed by Shirley Collins</strong><strong> (limited to 500 copies).  </strong>\r\n<p class=\"gmail-p2\"></p>\r\n<em>“All In The Downs </em>dissolves time, darting between distant memory and history and the events of her recent renaissance, dissolving the years between incidents, bringing ghosts, both metaphorical and literal, striding over the downs into life before us.”\r\nFrom the introduction by Stewart Lee\r\n\r\nA legendary singer, folklorist, and music historian, Shirley Collins has been an integral figure in the English folk music scene for more than sixty years. In her new memoir, <i>All in the Downs</i>, Collins tells the story of that lifelong relationship with English folksong—a dedication to artistic integrity that has guided her through the triumphs and tragedies of her life.\r\n\r\n<i>All in the Downs</i> combines elements of memoir—from her working-class origins in wartime Hastings to the bright lights of the 1950s folk revival in London—alongside reflections on the role traditional music and the English landscape have played in shaping her vision. From formative field recordings made with Alan Lomax in the United States to the “crowning glories” recorded with her sister Dolly on the Sussex Downs, she writes of the obstacles that led to her withdrawal from the spotlight and the redemption of a new artistic flourishing that continues today with her unexpected return to recording in 2016.\r\n\r\nThrough it all, Shirley Collins has been guided and supported by three vital and inseparable loves: traditional English song, the people and landscape of her native Sussex, and an unwavering sense of artistic integrity. <i>All in the Downs</i> pays tribute to these passions, and in doing so, illustrates a way of life as old as England, that has all but vanished from this land.\r\n\r\n<strong>About the Author</strong>\r\nShirley Collins MBE  is a renowned folk singer who has recorded over 20 albums, and the author of <em>America Over the Water</em> (2004). She is the president of the English Folk Dance and Song Society in London. Her critically lauded album <i>Lodestar</i>, released in 2016, marked a triumphant return to performance after thirty eight years. Shirley was recently the subject of a feature documentary film, <em>The Ballad of Shirley Collins</em>.\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/all-in-the-downs/\">Pre-Order Here</a>','All in the Downs','Reflections on Life, Landscape and Song\r\nShirley Collins\r\nPB / Limited HB\r\n','inherit','closed','closed','','6068-revision-v1','','','2018-02-27 16:07:12','2018-02-27 16:07:12','',6068,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/news/6068-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(6089,2,'2018-03-13 10:08:53','2018-03-13 10:08:53','<a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/of-kings-and-things/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6014\"><img class=\"wp-image-6014 size-medium alignright\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/9781907222573-300x426.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"426\" /></a><strong>Strange Tales and Decadent Poems</strong>\r\n<strong>by Count Eric Stanislaus Stenbock</strong>\r\n\r\nEdited and introduced by David Tibet; with an afterword by Tim d\'Arch Smith and a comprehensive bibliography by David Tibet, Ray Russell and Mark Valentine.\r\n\r\nIllustrated with exceedingly rare archive material.\r\n\r\nHB/PB\r\n256pp (approx), 210 x 148\r\nISBN: 9781907222573\r\n£40.00/£15.99\r\n\r\n<strong>Available mid-April 2018</strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/of-kings-and-things/\">PRE-ORDER IT HERE</a></strong>\r\n\r\nAvailable for pre-order in two editions:\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><strong>Signed (by David Tibet), hardback special edition:\r\n</strong>including book plate and a limited edition \'Studies of Death\' tote bag featuring Stenbock\'s original cover illustration.  Limited to 500 copies only - £40.00</li>\r\n 	<li><strong>High quality paperback\r\n</strong>- £15.99</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nDescribed by W. B. Yeats as a “scholar, connoisseur, drunkard, poet, pervert, most charming of men,” Count Stanislaus Eric Stenbock (1860–1895) is surely the greatest exemplar of the Decadent movement of the late nineteenth century.\r\n\r\nA friend of Aubrey Beardsley, patron of the extraordinary pre-Raphaelite artist Simeon Solomon, and contemporary of Oscar Wilde, Stenbock died at the age of thirty-six as a result of his addiction to opium and his alcoholism, having published just three slim volumes of suicidal poetry and one collection of morbid short stories.\r\n\r\nStenbock was a homosexual convert to Roman Catholicism and owner of a serpent, a toad, and a dachshund called Trixie. It was said that toward the end of his life he was accompanied everywhere by a life-size wooden doll that he believed to be his son. His poems and stories are replete with queer, supernatural, mystical, and Satanic themes; original editions of his books are highly sought by collectors of recherché literature.\r\n\r\nEdited and introduced by David Tibet; with an afterword by Tim d\'Arch Smith and a comprehensive bibliography by David Tibet, Ray Russell and Mark Valentine, <em>Of Kings and Things</em> is the first introduction to Stenbock’s writing for the general reader.\r\n\r\nThis volume offers fifteen stories, including all of those in his fabled collections <em>Studies of Death</em> and <em>Child of the Soul</em>,  over thirty poems and two essays by this complex, intriguing figure.\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/of-kings-and-things/\">PRE-ORDER IT HERE</a></strong></li>\r\n</ul>','Of Kings and Things','Of Kings and Things: Strange Tales and Decadent Poems\r\nby Count Eric Stanislaus Stenbock\r\nEdited by David Tibet','inherit','closed','closed','','6012-revision-v1','','','2018-03-13 10:08:53','2018-03-13 10:08:53','',6012,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/news/6012-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(6090,2,'2018-03-20 12:43:00','2018-03-20 12:43:00','<a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/tales-from-the-embassy/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5922\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-5922 alignright\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Tales-from-the-Embassy-Soft-Cover-13_06_17-1-300x411.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"411\" /></a><em>Communiqués From The Guild of Transcultural Studies 1976 - 1991\r\n</em>\r\n\r\n<em>\"If you want a glimpse into one version of alternative London in the 1970s and 80s, here it is... amusing and enchanting in equal measures; a kind of Thousand and One Nights for the counterculture.\"\r\n</em>Rupert Loydell, <a href=\"http://internationaltimes.it/living-the-dream/\">International Times</a>\r\n\r\n<em>\"A remarkable account... an absolute delight...each [communique´] a vignette of an eccentric and wonderful world.”</em> <a href=\"http://hqinfo.blogspot.co.uk\">The Generalist</a>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/tales-from-the-embassy/\"><strong>ORDER HERE</strong></a></span>\r\n\r\n<strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Dave Tomlin\r\nPaperback\r\n210 x 148\r\n£15.99\r\nISBN: 9781907222566</span></strong>\r\n<p class=\"p1\"><b> </b></p>\r\n<em>‘The ideas we discussed in the sixties were not just ideals: many people actually put them into practice. These tales are the best account I’ve ever read of trying to live that life. Written with a wonderfully light touch and yet often dealing with seriously challenging issues, this is a book that probes deep but will also make you laugh out loud.’</em>\r\nBarry Miles\r\n\r\n<em>‘Dave Tomlin’s collection of tales gives a vivid picture of the counter-culture of those years at its most engaging. I personally found the tales funny, and often touching.’  </em>Diana Athill\r\n\r\n<i>‘A modern classic’\r\n</i>Brian Patten\r\n\r\nOne night in 1976, a group of squatters entered the Cambodian Embassy in London, an opulent building that had remained empty for two years following the bloody revolution of the Khmer Rouge. For the next<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">  </span>fifteen years, this peculiar residence would play host to the Guild of Transcultural Studies, an open platform for creative monomaniacs, radical metaphysicians, poets, prophets and exiles.\r\n<p class=\"p1\">Dave Tomlin, founder of the Guild, member of the experimental music ensemble Third Ear Band, and contributor to the legendary underground newspaper <i>International Times</i>, traces a playful, semi-fictionalised, and highly readable path through this long occupation, illustrating the unfettered nature of its many occupants while providing a vivid portrayal of a more leisured age in which eccentricity could<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">  </span>flourish more readily.</p>\r\n<p class=\"p1\">These humorous, perceptive, and deftly crafted vignettes boast a thinly disguised cast of provocateurs, including John Michell, earth mysteries sage and fortean, Nicholas Carr-Saunders, author of <i>Alternative London</i>, beat poets Harry Fainlight and George Andrews, playwright of <i>The Warp</i> Neil Oram, countercultural photographer and journalist John “Hoppy” Hopkins, and Sir Mark Palmer, aristocrat-turned-gypsy-traveller and male\r\nmodel impresario.</p>\r\n<em>Through 220 short narratives, Dave Tomlin sketches many of the wild characters and memorable incidents of these years 1976 to 1991 (with vivid flashbacks to West Africa and the London Free School in Notting Hill in the 1960s). By setting up a ‘Guild of Transcultural Studies’ Dave and his fellow squatters invented an effective aura of respectability that was an object lesson in instant tradition, and enabled them to play host to musicians from Morocco to Pakistan, poets, prophets, exiles and refugees from many countries round the world from Chile to China. The descriptions of periodic encounters with various arms of the diplomatic service, both home-grown and oriental, are often hilarious. Above all, the Embassy provided space for creative monomaniacs and radical metaphysicians to act out their visions. A vivid portrait of a more leisured age which allowed eccentricity to flourish.</em>\r\nPaul Sieveking\r\n<strong>About the Author\r\n</strong>\r\n<div id=\"page\">\r\n<div class=\"limiter clear-block\">\r\n<div id=\"main\" class=\"clear-block\">\r\n<div id=\"content\" class=\"clear-block\">\r\n<div id=\"title\" class=\"panel-wrap panel-leftthreecolflex \">\r\n<div class=\"panel-main-wrap bricks-wrap\">\r\n<div class=\"panel-wrap-inner\">\r\n<div class=\"panel-one-col row main-row5 clearfix\">\r\n<div class=\"panel-inner\">\r\n<div class=\"panel-pane pane-mitpress-biogratitle\">\r\n<div class=\"pane-content\">\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Artist, writer and musician Dave Tomlin was a founder-member of the seminal free-form folk group Third Ear Band. 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Written with a wonderfully light touch and yet often dealing with seriously challenging issues, this is a book that probes deep but will also make you laugh out loud.’</em>\r\nBarry Miles\r\n\r\n<em>‘Dave Tomlin’s collection of tales gives a vivid picture of the counter-culture of those years at its most engaging. I personally found the tales funny, and often touching.’  </em>Diana Athill\r\n\r\n<i>‘A modern classic’\r\n</i>Brian Patten\r\n\r\nOne night in 1976, a group of squatters entered the Cambodian Embassy in London, an opulent building that had remained empty for two years following the bloody revolution of the Khmer Rouge. 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By setting up a ‘Guild of Transcultural Studies’ Dave and his fellow squatters invented an effective aura of respectability that was an object lesson in instant tradition, and enabled them to play host to musicians from Morocco to Pakistan, poets, prophets, exiles and refugees from many countries round the world from Chile to China. The descriptions of periodic encounters with various arms of the diplomatic service, both home-grown and oriental, are often hilarious. Above all, the Embassy provided space for creative monomaniacs and radical metaphysicians to act out their visions. 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In her new memoir, <i>All in the Downs</i>, Collins tells the story of that lifelong relationship with English folksong—a dedication to artistic integrity that has guided her through the triumphs and tragedies of her life.\r\n\r\n<i>All in the Downs</i> combines elements of memoir—from her working-class origins in wartime Hastings to the bright lights of the 1950s folk revival in London—alongside reflections on the role traditional music and the English landscape have played in shaping her vision. From formative field recordings made with Alan Lomax in the United States to the “crowning glories” recorded with her sister Dolly on the Sussex Downs, she writes of the obstacles that led to her withdrawal from the spotlight and the redemption of a new artistic flourishing that continues today with her unexpected return to recording in 2016.\r\n\r\nThrough it all, Shirley Collins has been guided and supported by three vital and inseparable loves: traditional English song, the people and landscape of her native Sussex, and an unwavering sense of artistic integrity. <i>All in the Downs</i> pays tribute to these passions, and in doing so, illustrates a way of life as old as England, that has all but vanished from this land.\r\n\r\n<strong>About the Author</strong>\r\nShirley Collins MBE  is a renowned folk singer who has recorded over 20 albums, and the author of <em>America Over the Water</em> (2004). She is the president of the English Folk Dance and Song Society in London. Her critically lauded album <i>Lodestar</i>, released in 2016, marked a triumphant return to performance after thirty eight years. Shirley was recently the subject of a feature documentary film, <em>The Ballad of Shirley Collins</em>.\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/all-in-the-downs/\">Pre-Order Here</a>','All in the Downs','Reflections on Life, Landscape and Song\r\nShirley Collins\r\nPB / Limited HB\r\n','inherit','closed','closed','','6068-revision-v1','','','2018-03-28 10:12:21','2018-03-28 10:12:21','',6068,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/news/6068-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(6094,2,'2018-04-04 10:34:10','2018-04-04 10:34:10','<a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/of-kings-and-things/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6014\"><img class=\"wp-image-6014 size-medium alignright\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/9781907222573-300x426.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"426\" /></a><strong>Strange Tales and Decadent Poems</strong>\r\n<strong>by Count Stanislaus Eric Stenbock</strong>\r\n\r\nEdited and introduced by David Tibet; with an afterword by Tim d\'Arch Smith and a comprehensive bibliography by David Tibet, Ray Russell and Mark Valentine.\r\n\r\nIllustrated with exceedingly rare archive material.\r\n\r\nHB/PB\r\n256pp (approx), 210 x 148\r\nISBN: 9781907222573\r\n£40.00/£15.99\r\n\r\n<strong>Available mid-April 2018</strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/of-kings-and-things/\">PRE-ORDER IT HERE</a></strong>\r\n\r\nAvailable for pre-order in two editions:\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><strong>Signed (by David Tibet), hardback special edition:\r\n</strong>including book plate and a limited edition \'Studies of Death\' tote bag featuring Stenbock\'s original cover illustration.  Limited to 500 copies only - £40.00</li>\r\n 	<li><strong>High quality paperback\r\n</strong>- £15.99</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nDescribed by W. B. Yeats as a “scholar, connoisseur, drunkard, poet, pervert, most charming of men,” Count Stanislaus Eric Stenbock (1860–1895) is surely the greatest exemplar of the Decadent movement of the late nineteenth century.\r\n\r\nA friend of Aubrey Beardsley, patron of the extraordinary pre-Raphaelite artist Simeon Solomon, and contemporary of Oscar Wilde, Stenbock died at the age of thirty-six as a result of his addiction to opium and his alcoholism, having published just three slim volumes of suicidal poetry and one collection of morbid short stories.\r\n\r\nStenbock was a homosexual convert to Roman Catholicism and owner of a serpent, a toad, and a dachshund called Trixie. It was said that toward the end of his life he was accompanied everywhere by a life-size wooden doll that he believed to be his son. His poems and stories are replete with queer, supernatural, mystical, and Satanic themes; original editions of his books are highly sought by collectors of recherché literature.\r\n\r\nEdited and introduced by David Tibet; with an afterword by Tim d\'Arch Smith and a comprehensive bibliography by David Tibet, Ray Russell and Mark Valentine, <em>Of Kings and Things</em> is the first introduction to Stenbock’s writing for the general reader.\r\n\r\nThis volume offers fifteen stories, including all of those in his fabled collections <em>Studies of Death</em> and <em>Child of the Soul</em>,  over thirty poems and two essays by this complex, intriguing figure.\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/of-kings-and-things/\">PRE-ORDER IT HERE</a></strong></li>\r\n</ul>','Of Kings and Things','Of Kings and Things: Strange Tales and Decadent Poems\r\nby Count Eric Stanislaus Stenbock\r\nEdited by David Tibet','inherit','closed','closed','','6012-revision-v1','','','2018-04-04 10:34:10','2018-04-04 10:34:10','',6012,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/news/6012-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(6095,2,'2018-04-05 10:21:38','2018-04-05 10:21:38','','IMG_7901','','inherit','closed','closed','','img_7901','','','2018-04-05 10:21:38','2018-04-05 10:21:38','',6068,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/IMG_7901.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(6096,2,'2018-04-05 10:21:53','2018-04-05 10:21:53','','IMG_7901','','inherit','closed','closed','','img_7901-2','','','2018-04-05 10:21:53','2018-04-05 10:21:53','',6068,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/IMG_7901-1.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(6097,2,'2018-04-05 10:22:42','2018-04-05 10:22:42','<strong><a href=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/shoppe/all-in-the-downs/attachment/allinthedownscover-2/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6092\"><img class=\"alignright wp-image-6092\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/allinthedownscover-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"336\" height=\"478\" /></a><a href=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/shoppe/all-in-the-downs/attachment/allinthedownscover/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5998\">\r\n</a>Reflections on Life, Landscape and Song</strong>\r\nBy Shirley Collins\r\n\r\n<i>I</i><i style=\"color: #000000;\">ntroduction by Stewart Lee\r\n</i><strong> PB / Limited HB\r\n196mm x 132mm\r\n256pp, 58 images in colour &amp; B/W\r\n£15.99 / £25\r\n</strong><strong> ISBN: 9781907222412\r\n</strong><em>\r\nAvailable from 5 April\r\n</em><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/all-in-the-downs/\">Pre-Order Here</a>\r\n<div>\r\n\r\n<strong>Available in paperback and a special hardback edition including an insert signed by Shirley Collins</strong><strong> (limited to 500 copies).  </strong>\r\n\r\n<em>“All In The Downs </em>dissolves time, darting between distant memory and history and the events of her recent renaissance, dissolving the years between incidents, bringing ghosts, both metaphorical and literal, striding over the downs into life before us.”\r\nFrom the introduction by Stewart Lee\r\n\r\nA legendary singer, folklorist, and music historian, Shirley Collins has been an integral figure in the English folk music scene for more than sixty years. In her new memoir, <i>All in the Downs</i>, Collins tells the story of that lifelong relationship with English folksong—a dedication to artistic integrity that has guided her through the triumphs and tragedies of her life.\r\n\r\n<img class=\"alignright  wp-image-6096\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/IMG_7901-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"344\" height=\"344\" /><i>All in the Downs</i> combines elements of memoir—from her working-class origins in wartime Hastings to the bright lights of the 1950s folk revival in London—alongside reflections on the role traditional music and the English landscape have played in shaping her vision. From formative field recordings made with Alan Lomax in the United States to the “crowning glories” recorded with her sister Dolly on the Sussex Downs, she writes of the obstacles that led to her withdrawal from the spotlight and the redemption of a new artistic flourishing that continues today with her unexpected return to recording in 2016.\r\n\r\nThrough it all, Shirley Collins has been guided and supported by three vital and inseparable loves: traditional English song, the people and landscape of her native Sussex, and an unwavering sense of artistic integrity. <i>All in the Downs</i> pays tribute to these passions, and in doing so, illustrates a way of life as old as England, that has all but vanished from this land.\r\n\r\n<strong>About the Author</strong>\r\nShirley Collins MBE  is a renowned folk singer who has recorded over 20 albums, and the author of <em>America Over the Water</em> (2004). She is the president of the English Folk Dance and Song Society in London. Her critically lauded album <i>Lodestar</i>, released in 2016, marked a triumphant return to performance after thirty eight years. Shirley was recently the subject of a feature documentary film, <em>The Ballad of Shirley Collins</em>.\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/all-in-the-downs/\">Pre-Order Here</a>','All in the Downs','Reflections on Life, Landscape and Song\r\nShirley Collins\r\nPB / Limited HB\r\n','inherit','closed','closed','','6068-revision-v1','','','2018-04-05 10:22:42','2018-04-05 10:22:42','',6068,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/news/6068-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(6098,2,'2018-04-05 10:23:09','2018-04-05 10:23:09','<strong><a href=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/shoppe/all-in-the-downs/attachment/allinthedownscover-2/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6092\"><img class=\"alignright wp-image-6092\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/allinthedownscover-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"336\" height=\"478\" /></a><a href=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/shoppe/all-in-the-downs/attachment/allinthedownscover/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5998\">\r\n</a>Reflections on Life, Landscape and Song</strong>\r\nBy Shirley Collins\r\n\r\n<i>I</i><i style=\"color: #000000;\">ntroduction by Stewart Lee\r\n</i><strong> PB / Limited HB\r\n196mm x 132mm\r\n256pp, 58 images in colour &amp; B/W\r\n£15.99 / £25\r\n</strong><strong> ISBN: 9781907222412\r\n</strong><em>\r\nAvailable from 5 April\r\n</em><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/all-in-the-downs/\">Order Here</a>\r\n<div>\r\n\r\n<strong>Available in paperback and a special hardback edition including an insert signed by Shirley Collins</strong><strong> (limited to 500 copies).  </strong>\r\n\r\n<em>“All In The Downs </em>dissolves time, darting between distant memory and history and the events of her recent renaissance, dissolving the years between incidents, bringing ghosts, both metaphorical and literal, striding over the downs into life before us.”\r\nFrom the introduction by Stewart Lee\r\n\r\nA legendary singer, folklorist, and music historian, Shirley Collins has been an integral figure in the English folk music scene for more than sixty years. In her new memoir, <i>All in the Downs</i>, Collins tells the story of that lifelong relationship with English folksong—a dedication to artistic integrity that has guided her through the triumphs and tragedies of her life.\r\n\r\n<img class=\"alignright wp-image-6096\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/IMG_7901-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"344\" height=\"344\" /><i>All in the Downs</i> combines elements of memoir—from her working-class origins in wartime Hastings to the bright lights of the 1950s folk revival in London—alongside reflections on the role traditional music and the English landscape have played in shaping her vision. From formative field recordings made with Alan Lomax in the United States to the “crowning glories” recorded with her sister Dolly on the Sussex Downs, she writes of the obstacles that led to her withdrawal from the spotlight and the redemption of a new artistic flourishing that continues today with her unexpected return to recording in 2016.\r\n\r\nThrough it all, Shirley Collins has been guided and supported by three vital and inseparable loves: traditional English song, the people and landscape of her native Sussex, and an unwavering sense of artistic integrity. <i>All in the Downs</i> pays tribute to these passions, and in doing so, illustrates a way of life as old as England, that has all but vanished from this land.\r\n\r\n<strong>About the Author</strong>\r\nShirley Collins MBE  is a renowned folk singer who has recorded over 20 albums, and the author of <em>America Over the Water</em> (2004). She is the president of the English Folk Dance and Song Society in London. Her critically lauded album <i>Lodestar</i>, released in 2016, marked a triumphant return to performance after thirty eight years. Shirley was recently the subject of a feature documentary film, <em>The Ballad of Shirley Collins</em>.\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/all-in-the-downs/\">Order Here</a>','All in the Downs','Reflections on Life, Landscape and Song\r\nShirley Collins\r\nPB / Limited HB\r\n','inherit','closed','closed','','6068-revision-v1','','','2018-04-05 10:23:09','2018-04-05 10:23:09','',6068,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/news/6068-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(6099,2,'2018-04-10 10:36:29','2018-04-10 10:36:29','<a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/somnium-8/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-3911 alignright\" title=\"Somnium-cover\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Somnium-cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"305\" /></a><strong>By Steve Moore</strong>\r\n<strong>296pp, A5 PB, 15.99</strong>\r\n<strong>ISBN: 978-1-907222-51-1\r\nNewly Expanded edition</strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>                       A masterpiece –</em> Alan Moore<em> </em>\r\n<blockquote>A unique work by a unique genius. Moore has an understanding of the occult peculiar to a very few and it always gives me the shivers; the shivers which say ‘authenticity’. Get this book while you’re part of the minority who know about it – <em>Michael Moorcock</em>\r\n\r\nA visionary decrypting of one of fringe-London\'s most potent downriver sites. Steve Moore\'s voyage through plural strands of time echoes the high craft of his namesake, Alan, and the honourable tradition of Michael Moorcock\'s <em>Gloriana</em> – <em>Iain Sinclair</em>\r\n\r\nSOMNIUM is a brilliant fever-dream of a novel, a chambered nautilus of moon-drenched tales within a tale that spiral both inward and outward <em><a href=\"http://www.jacquelinecarey.com/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">– Jacqueline Carey</a></em>\r\n\r\nA tour-de-force of playful majesty and magic, of style and of love – Aug Stone, <a href=\"http://thequietus.com/articles/07629-steve-moore-interview-somnium\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Quietus</a></blockquote>\r\n<strong><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/somnium-8/\">PRE-ORDER IT HERE</a></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>ABOUT THE BOOK</strong>\r\n\r\nWritten in the early years of the twenty-first century, when the author was engaged in dream-explorations and mystical practices centered on the Greek Moon goddess Selene, <i>Somnium</i> is an intensely personal fictional tapestry that weaves together numerous historical and stylistic variations on the enduring myth of Selene and Endymion. Ranging through the sixteenth to twenty-first centuries, it combines medieval, Elizabethan, Gothic, and Decadent elements in a fantastic romance of rare imagination.\r\n\r\nWith its delirious and heartbroken narrative, <i>Somnium</i> is an extraordinary odyssey through love, loss, and lunacy, illuminated by the silvery moonlight of its exquisite language.\r\n\r\nAlan Moore’s afterword details the life of his friend and mentor Steve Moore, and includes the circumstances surrounding the writing of <i>Somnium</i>.\r\n\r\nThis new expanded paperback edition includes <i>Sketches of Shooter’s Hill</i>, a topographical communiqué from the South London hinterlands that formed the liminal setting for Moore’s novel. Originally self-published by the author and distributed only to a handful of friends, this curious travelogue is made available to readers here for the first time.\r\n\r\nWatch Iain Sinclair lead a tour of sites associated with <em>Somnium</em> and its author.\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/rSNdrIF0i2I\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>\r\n\r\n<strong>ABOUT THE AUTHORS</strong>\r\n\r\nUntil his death in 2014, Steve Moore wrote comic-books, novels and non-fiction, including <em>Abslom Daak</em>, <em>Laser-Eraser &amp; Pressbutton</em>, <em>Hercules </em>and <em>The Trigrams of Han</em>. He also had a long-standing editorial connection with <em>Fortean Studies</em> and <em>Fortean Times</em>, to which he was a frequent contributor from its inception. His short story collection, <strong><a href=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/shoppe/tales-of-telguuth/\"><em>Tales of Telguuth</em></a></strong>, was published by SAP in 2016.\r\n\r\nAlan Moore is the internationally famous author of such graphic classics as <em>Lost Girls</em>, <em>Promethea</em>, <em>From Hell</em> and <em>The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen </em>and the novels<em> Voice of the Fire </em>and <em>Jerusalem</em>. Alan’s biography of Steve Moore, <em>Unearthing</em>, is available as an audio-recording and book from Lex Records, illustrated by noted photographer Mitch Jenkins.\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/somnium-8/\">PRE-ORDER IT HERE</a></strong>','Somnium (Expanded Edition)','By Steve Moore\r\n296pp, PB, £15.99\r\nISBN: 978-1-907222-51-1','inherit','closed','closed','','3910-revision-v1','','','2018-04-10 10:36:29','2018-04-10 10:36:29','',3910,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/news/3910-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(6238,2,'2019-02-22 09:58:39','2019-02-22 09:58:39','<a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/somnium-8/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-3911 alignright\" title=\"Somnium-cover\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Somnium-cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"305\" /></a><strong>By Steve Moore</strong>\r\n<strong>296pp, A5 PB, 15.99</strong>\r\n<strong>ISBN: 978-1-907222-51-1\r\nNewly Expanded edition</strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>                       A masterpiece –</em> Alan Moore<em> </em>\r\n<blockquote>A unique work by a unique genius. Moore has an understanding of the occult peculiar to a very few and it always gives me the shivers; the shivers which say ‘authenticity’. Get this book while you’re part of the minority who know about it – <em>Michael Moorcock</em>\r\n\r\nA visionary decrypting of one of fringe-London\'s most potent downriver sites. Steve Moore\'s voyage through plural strands of time echoes the high craft of his namesake, Alan, and the honourable tradition of Michael Moorcock\'s <em>Gloriana</em> – <em>Iain Sinclair</em>\r\n\r\nSOMNIUM is a brilliant fever-dream of a novel, a chambered nautilus of moon-drenched tales within a tale that spiral both inward and outward <em><a href=\"http://www.jacquelinecarey.com/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">– Jacqueline Carey</a></em>\r\n\r\nA tour-de-force of playful majesty and magic, of style and of love – Aug Stone, <a href=\"http://thequietus.com/articles/07629-steve-moore-interview-somnium\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Quietus</a></blockquote>\r\n<strong><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/somnium-8/\">ORDER HERE</a></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>ABOUT THE BOOK</strong>\r\n\r\nWritten in the early years of the twenty-first century, when the author was engaged in dream-explorations and mystical practices centered on the Greek Moon goddess Selene, <i>Somnium</i> is an intensely personal fictional tapestry that weaves together numerous historical and stylistic variations on the enduring myth of Selene and Endymion. Ranging through the sixteenth to twenty-first centuries, it combines medieval, Elizabethan, Gothic, and Decadent elements in a fantastic romance of rare imagination.\r\n\r\nWith its delirious and heartbroken narrative, <i>Somnium</i> is an extraordinary odyssey through love, loss, and lunacy, illuminated by the silvery moonlight of its exquisite language.\r\n\r\nAlan Moore’s afterword details the life of his friend and mentor Steve Moore, and includes the circumstances surrounding the writing of <i>Somnium</i>.\r\n\r\nThis new expanded paperback edition includes <i>Sketches of Shooter’s Hill</i>, a topographical communiqué from the South London hinterlands that formed the liminal setting for Moore’s novel. Originally self-published by the author and distributed only to a handful of friends, this curious travelogue is made available to readers here for the first time.\r\n\r\n<strong>Iain Sinclair leads a tour of sites associated with <em>Somnium</em> and its author:</strong>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/rSNdrIF0i2I\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>\r\n\r\n<strong>ABOUT THE AUTHORS</strong>\r\n\r\nUntil his death in 2014, Steve Moore wrote comic-books, novels and non-fiction, including <em>Abslom Daak</em>, <em>Laser-Eraser &amp; Pressbutton</em>, <em>Hercules </em>and <em>The Trigrams of Han</em>. He also had a long-standing editorial connection with <em>Fortean Studies</em> and <em>Fortean Times</em>, to which he was a frequent contributor from its inception. His short story collection, <strong><a href=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/shoppe/tales-of-telguuth/\"><em>Tales of Telguuth</em></a></strong>, was published by SAP in 2016.\r\n\r\nAlan Moore is the internationally famous author of such graphic classics as <em>Lost Girls</em>, <em>Promethea</em>, <em>From Hell</em> and <em>The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen </em>and the novels<em> Voice of the Fire </em>and <em>Jerusalem</em>. Alan’s biography of Steve Moore, <em>Unearthing</em>, is available as an audio-recording and book from Lex Records, illustrated by noted photographer Mitch Jenkins.\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/somnium-8/\">ORDER HERE</a></strong>','Somnium (Expanded Edition)','By Steve Moore\r\n296pp, PB, £15.99\r\nISBN: 978-1-907222-51-1','inherit','closed','closed','','3910-revision-v1','','','2019-02-22 09:58:39','2019-02-22 09:58:39','',3910,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/news/3910-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(6100,2,'2018-04-10 10:37:18','2018-04-10 10:37:18','<a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/somnium-8/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-3911 alignright\" title=\"Somnium-cover\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Somnium-cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"305\" /></a><strong>By Steve Moore</strong>\r\n<strong>296pp, A5 PB, 15.99</strong>\r\n<strong>ISBN: 978-1-907222-51-1\r\nNewly Expanded edition</strong>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>                       A masterpiece –</em> Alan Moore<em> </em>\r\n<blockquote>A unique work by a unique genius. Moore has an understanding of the occult peculiar to a very few and it always gives me the shivers; the shivers which say ‘authenticity’. Get this book while you’re part of the minority who know about it – <em>Michael Moorcock</em>\r\n\r\nA visionary decrypting of one of fringe-London\'s most potent downriver sites. Steve Moore\'s voyage through plural strands of time echoes the high craft of his namesake, Alan, and the honourable tradition of Michael Moorcock\'s <em>Gloriana</em> – <em>Iain Sinclair</em>\r\n\r\nSOMNIUM is a brilliant fever-dream of a novel, a chambered nautilus of moon-drenched tales within a tale that spiral both inward and outward <em><a href=\"http://www.jacquelinecarey.com/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">– Jacqueline Carey</a></em>\r\n\r\nA tour-de-force of playful majesty and magic, of style and of love – Aug Stone, <a href=\"http://thequietus.com/articles/07629-steve-moore-interview-somnium\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Quietus</a></blockquote>\r\n<strong><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/somnium-8/\">PRE-ORDER IT HERE</a></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>ABOUT THE BOOK</strong>\r\n\r\nWritten in the early years of the twenty-first century, when the author was engaged in dream-explorations and mystical practices centered on the Greek Moon goddess Selene, <i>Somnium</i> is an intensely personal fictional tapestry that weaves together numerous historical and stylistic variations on the enduring myth of Selene and Endymion. Ranging through the sixteenth to twenty-first centuries, it combines medieval, Elizabethan, Gothic, and Decadent elements in a fantastic romance of rare imagination.\r\n\r\nWith its delirious and heartbroken narrative, <i>Somnium</i> is an extraordinary odyssey through love, loss, and lunacy, illuminated by the silvery moonlight of its exquisite language.\r\n\r\nAlan Moore’s afterword details the life of his friend and mentor Steve Moore, and includes the circumstances surrounding the writing of <i>Somnium</i>.\r\n\r\nThis new expanded paperback edition includes <i>Sketches of Shooter’s Hill</i>, a topographical communiqué from the South London hinterlands that formed the liminal setting for Moore’s novel. Originally self-published by the author and distributed only to a handful of friends, this curious travelogue is made available to readers here for the first time.\r\n\r\n<strong>Iain Sinclair leads a tour of sites associated with <em>Somnium</em> and its author:</strong>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/rSNdrIF0i2I\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>\r\n\r\n<strong>ABOUT THE AUTHORS</strong>\r\n\r\nUntil his death in 2014, Steve Moore wrote comic-books, novels and non-fiction, including <em>Abslom Daak</em>, <em>Laser-Eraser &amp; Pressbutton</em>, <em>Hercules </em>and <em>The Trigrams of Han</em>. He also had a long-standing editorial connection with <em>Fortean Studies</em> and <em>Fortean Times</em>, to which he was a frequent contributor from its inception. His short story collection, <strong><a href=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/shoppe/tales-of-telguuth/\"><em>Tales of Telguuth</em></a></strong>, was published by SAP in 2016.\r\n\r\nAlan Moore is the internationally famous author of such graphic classics as <em>Lost Girls</em>, <em>Promethea</em>, <em>From Hell</em> and <em>The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen </em>and the novels<em> Voice of the Fire </em>and <em>Jerusalem</em>. Alan’s biography of Steve Moore, <em>Unearthing</em>, is available as an audio-recording and book from Lex Records, illustrated by noted photographer Mitch Jenkins.\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/somnium-8/\">PRE-ORDER IT HERE</a></strong>','Somnium (Expanded Edition)','By Steve Moore\r\n296pp, PB, £15.99\r\nISBN: 978-1-907222-51-1','inherit','closed','closed','','3910-revision-v1','','','2018-04-10 10:37:18','2018-04-10 10:37:18','',3910,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/news/3910-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(6101,2,'2018-04-16 13:21:22','2018-04-16 13:21:22','<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/the-23-stab-wounds-of-julius-cae/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6030\"><img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6030\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/23SW-web.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"414\" height=\"433\" /></a><b><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Artworks by Ian Johnstone</span></b></h2>\r\n<b><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\r\nWith a</span> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">text by Geoff Cox and</span></b><strong> an afterword by Serena Korda.</strong><b>\r\n</b>\r\n\r\n<b><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Music Cassette by Daniel O\'Sullivan.</span>\r\n</b>\r\n<h5><em>Archival quality, large format, collectors\' hardback</em>\r\n<em> 240mm x 240mm, 72pp.</em>\r\n<em> Full colour throughout.</em>\r\n<em>£40.00 + p&amp;P*\r\n</em><em>300 copies only.</em></h5>\r\n<h5><em>(*23% of profits from sales of this book will be donated to the Terrence Higgins Trust)</em></h5>\r\n<strong>Available late May 2018, only from Strange Attractor Press.\r\n(apologies for the delay in publication!)</strong>\r\n\r\nA series of 23 drawings by Ian Johnstone, in red ball point pen on melamine, originally exhibited at London\'s Horse Hospital in November 2010. The drawings celebrate individual blood consciousness, the in-between and the constant state of becoming.\r\n\r\n• Includes a 40 minute cassette of music composed for the original exhibition at the Horse Hospital by Daniel O\'Sullivan (Ulver, Mothlite, Grumbling Fur).\r\n\r\n\"This is a rare document of blood voiced signatures; weeping guilt details of all our conspiracies. Snatch it up. Let the words’ knifings and the split Biro capillaries own you. But never lend it out, or pocket it close to your heart, it’s too unforgiving.\"\r\n<strong>Brian Catling</strong>, author of <em>The Vorrh</em>\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/the-23-stab-wounds-of-julius-cae/\">PRE-ORDER HERE</a></strong>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/the-23-stab-wounds-of-julius-cae/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6040\"><img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6040\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Webwound2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"410\" height=\"280\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<em>They appear on blocks of unguessable purpose: pin-veined rough-cut blocks of whitewood.\r\nDisplayed in the clutch of the screw’s harsh thrift.\r\nThe cloth is pulled away.\r\n</em><em>The 23 wounds.</em>\r\n<em>Sphagia.</em>\r\n<em>Extispicy.\r\n</em><em>Blood spidered and baked on fissured rocks.\r\nLassos and bones and a tracework of bones.\r\nFlesh bared and pared and spindled open through a million pin pricks.\r\nTiny and vertiginous, their lines cluster and tear themselves into liquid fold and tiny blots.\r\n</em><em>The eye swoops like a raptor, bedazzled.\r\nSwims unfocused by infinitesimal mysteries.\r\nTricked, beguiled, left rotting.\r\n</em><em>Impossible amulets.</em>\r\n\r\n<em>23  broken hawk beaks</em>\r\n<em>23 rotted talons with their fringe of ant trail</em>\r\n<em>23 fragments of a skull</em>\r\n<em>23 curses hung round the neck of a scavenger wolf</em>\r\n<em>23 bell shards tolled for the ghost of a headless ram</em>\r\n<em>23 mourning scarves of ink-clotted lace</em>\r\n<em>23 eggshells sticky with seed</em>\r\n\r\n<em>Interred in the shadow of the tower of silence, beneath bird wing storm and acid hail, the fruiting body hardens.</em>\r\n\r\n<em>Takes shape.</em>\r\n\r\n<strong>PLUS</strong>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/j5LQEvGYmsk?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>\r\n\r\n<strong>Musick For Ark Todd</strong>\r\nBy Daniel O\'Sullivan\r\n\r\nA: <em>The Levitating Moon Piece\r\n</em>B: <em>Black Egg / Orpheus</em>\r\n\r\n\"I wrote several pieces of music for Ian’s ‘Ark Todd’ static levitation performance over the years. Each setting provoked a different approach. The collaboration with Ulver at the Norwegian Opera house in Oslo was well documented but this particular version, composed for the exhibition of his Stab Wounds at the Horse Hospital gallery in Bloomsbury, has been resting dormant until now.\r\n\r\nThe second piece was a commission for The Place theatre, also in Bloomsbury. An unfinished piece of choreography with dancer and vocalist Francois Testory. Like all of Ian’s work, this was a singular vision probing the human condition and meticulously scratching for truth under every surface.\"\r\n\r\n<strong>About Ian Johnstone\r\n</strong>\'Ian was artist of unimaginable talent and vision, articulated in his singular and exquisite aesthetic which was manifest in all he touched... he was charismatically irreverent, compelling to watch and to listen to and bottomlessly soulful.\' <strong>The Horse Hospital</strong><strong>\r\n</strong>\r\n<div>\r\n\r\nAs well as his own incredible work in sculpture, drawing, painting and performance, Ian collaborated on designs, costumes and performances with  musicians including Coil, Daniel O\'Sullivan, James B Hollands, Mothlite Francois Testory and Ulver.\r\n\r\nIan was a long time friend of Strange Attractor and we were working with him on this book when he died unexpectedly in 2015.\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<strong><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/the-23-stab-wounds-of-julius-cae/\">PRE-ORDER HERE</a></strong>','The 23 Stab Wounds of Julius Caesar','Artworks by Ian Johnstone. With a text by Geoff Cox and an afterword by artist Serena Korda.\r\nComes with a 40 minute music cassette by Daniel O\'Sullivan.','inherit','closed','closed','','6029-revision-v1','','','2018-04-16 13:21:22','2018-04-16 13:21:22','',6029,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/news/6029-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(6102,2,'2018-04-18 17:16:16','2018-04-18 17:16:16','<strong><a href=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/shoppe/all-in-the-downs/attachment/allinthedownscover-2/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6092\"><img class=\"alignright wp-image-6092\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/allinthedownscover-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"336\" height=\"478\" /></a><a href=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/shoppe/all-in-the-downs/attachment/allinthedownscover/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5998\">\r\n</a>Reflections on Life, Landscape and Song</strong>\r\nBy Shirley Collins\r\n\r\n<i>I</i><i style=\"color: #000000;\">ntroduction by Stewart Lee\r\n</i><strong> PB / Limited HB\r\n196mm x 132mm\r\n256pp, 58 images in colour &amp; B/W\r\n£15.99 / £25\r\n</strong><strong> ISBN: 9781907222412\r\n</strong><em>\r\nAvailable from 5 April\r\n</em><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/all-in-the-downs/\">Order Here</a>\r\n<div>\r\n\r\n<strong>Available in paperback and a special hardback edition including an insert signed by Shirley Collins</strong><strong> (limited to 500 copies).  </strong>\r\n\r\n<em>\"Spirited... elegant... highly enjoyable\" </em>The Guardian\r\n\r\n<em>“All In The Downs </em>dissolves time, darting between distant memory and history and the events of her recent renaissance, dissolving the years between incidents, bringing ghosts, both metaphorical and literal, striding over the downs into life before us.”\r\nFrom the introduction by Stewart Lee\r\n\r\nA legendary singer, folklorist, and music historian, Shirley Collins has been an integral figure in the English folk music scene for more than sixty years. In her new memoir, <i>All in the Downs</i>, Collins tells the story of that lifelong relationship with English folksong—a dedication to artistic integrity that has guided her through the triumphs and tragedies of her life.\r\n\r\n<img class=\"alignright wp-image-6096\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/IMG_7901-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"344\" height=\"344\" /><i>All in the Downs</i> combines elements of memoir—from her working-class origins in wartime Hastings to the bright lights of the 1950s folk revival in London—alongside reflections on the role traditional music and the English landscape have played in shaping her vision. From formative field recordings made with Alan Lomax in the United States to the “crowning glories” recorded with her sister Dolly on the Sussex Downs, she writes of the obstacles that led to her withdrawal from the spotlight and the redemption of a new artistic flourishing that continues today with her unexpected return to recording in 2016.\r\n\r\nThrough it all, Shirley Collins has been guided and supported by three vital and inseparable loves: traditional English song, the people and landscape of her native Sussex, and an unwavering sense of artistic integrity. <i>All in the Downs</i> pays tribute to these passions, and in doing so, illustrates a way of life as old as England, that has all but vanished from this land.\r\n\r\n<strong>About the Author</strong>\r\nShirley Collins MBE  is a renowned folk singer who has recorded over 20 albums, and the author of <em>America Over the Water</em> (2004). She is the president of the English Folk Dance and Song Society in London. Her critically lauded album <i>Lodestar</i>, released in 2016, marked a triumphant return to performance after thirty eight years. Shirley was recently the subject of a feature documentary film, <em>The Ballad of Shirley Collins</em>.\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/all-in-the-downs/\">Order Here</a>','All in the Downs','Reflections on Life, Landscape and Song\r\nShirley Collins\r\nPB / Limited HB\r\n','inherit','closed','closed','','6068-revision-v1','','','2018-04-18 17:16:16','2018-04-18 17:16:16','',6068,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/news/6068-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(6103,2,'2018-04-18 17:16:55','2018-04-18 17:16:55','<strong><a href=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/shoppe/all-in-the-downs/attachment/allinthedownscover-2/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6092\"><img class=\"alignright wp-image-6092\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/allinthedownscover-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"336\" height=\"478\" /></a><a href=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/shoppe/all-in-the-downs/attachment/allinthedownscover/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5998\">\r\n</a>Reflections on Life, Landscape and Song</strong>\r\nBy Shirley Collins\r\n\r\n<i>I</i><i style=\"color: #000000;\">ntroduction by Stewart Lee\r\n</i><strong> PB / Limited HB\r\n196mm x 132mm\r\n256pp, 58 images in colour &amp; B/W\r\n£15.99 / £25\r\n</strong><strong> ISBN: 9781907222412\r\n</strong><em>\r\nAvailable from 5 April\r\n</em><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/all-in-the-downs/\">Order Here</a>\r\n<div>\r\n\r\n<strong>Available in paperback and a special hardback edition including an insert signed by Shirley Collins</strong><strong> (limited to 500 copies).  </strong>\r\n\r\n<em>\"Spirited... elegant... highly enjoyable\"\r\n</em>The Guardian\r\n\r\n<em>“All In The Downs </em>dissolves time, darting between distant memory and history and the events of her recent renaissance, dissolving the years between incidents, bringing ghosts, both metaphorical and literal, striding over the downs into life before us.”\r\nFrom the introduction by Stewart Lee\r\n\r\nA legendary singer, folklorist, and music historian, Shirley Collins has been an integral figure in the English folk music scene for more than sixty years. In her new memoir, <i>All in the Downs</i>, Collins tells the story of that lifelong relationship with English folksong—a dedication to artistic integrity that has guided her through the triumphs and tragedies of her life.\r\n\r\n<img class=\"alignright wp-image-6096\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/IMG_7901-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"344\" height=\"344\" /><i>All in the Downs</i> combines elements of memoir—from her working-class origins in wartime Hastings to the bright lights of the 1950s folk revival in London—alongside reflections on the role traditional music and the English landscape have played in shaping her vision. From formative field recordings made with Alan Lomax in the United States to the “crowning glories” recorded with her sister Dolly on the Sussex Downs, she writes of the obstacles that led to her withdrawal from the spotlight and the redemption of a new artistic flourishing that continues today with her unexpected return to recording in 2016.\r\n\r\nThrough it all, Shirley Collins has been guided and supported by three vital and inseparable loves: traditional English song, the people and landscape of her native Sussex, and an unwavering sense of artistic integrity. <i>All in the Downs</i> pays tribute to these passions, and in doing so, illustrates a way of life as old as England, that has all but vanished from this land.\r\n\r\n<strong>About the Author</strong>\r\nShirley Collins MBE  is a renowned folk singer who has recorded over 20 albums, and the author of <em>America Over the Water</em> (2004). She is the president of the English Folk Dance and Song Society in London. Her critically lauded album <i>Lodestar</i>, released in 2016, marked a triumphant return to performance after thirty eight years. Shirley was recently the subject of a feature documentary film, <em>The Ballad of Shirley Collins</em>.\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/all-in-the-downs/\">Order Here</a>','All in the Downs','Reflections on Life, Landscape and Song\r\nShirley Collins\r\nPB / Limited HB\r\n','inherit','closed','closed','','6068-revision-v1','','','2018-04-18 17:16:55','2018-04-18 17:16:55','',6068,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/news/6068-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(6104,2,'2018-04-19 12:01:13','2018-04-19 12:01:13','<strong><a href=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/shoppe/all-in-the-downs/attachment/allinthedownscover-2/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6092\"><img class=\"alignright wp-image-6092\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/allinthedownscover-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"336\" height=\"478\" /></a><a href=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/shoppe/all-in-the-downs/attachment/allinthedownscover/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5998\">\r\n</a>Reflections on Life, Landscape and Song</strong>\r\nBy Shirley Collins\r\n\r\n<i>I</i><i style=\"color: #000000;\">ntroduction by Stewart Lee\r\n</i><strong> PB / Limited HB\r\n196mm x 132mm\r\n256pp, 58 images in colour &amp; B/W\r\n£15.99 / £25\r\n</strong><strong> ISBN: 9781907222412\r\n</strong><em>\r\nAvailable from 5 April\r\n</em><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/all-in-the-downs/\">Order Here</a>\r\n<div>\r\n\r\n<strong>Available in paperback and a special hardback edition including an insert signed by Shirley Collins</strong><strong> (limited to 500 copies).  </strong>\r\n\r\n<em>\"Spirited... elegant... highly enjoyable... Shirley Collins’s descriptions of her beloved Sussex, along with the richness of her culture, make an elegant case for reclaiming a variant of English history.\" </em>The Guardian\r\n\r\n<em>“All In The Downs </em>dissolves time, darting between distant memory and history and the events of her recent renaissance, dissolving the years between incidents, bringing ghosts, both metaphorical and literal, striding over the downs into life before us.”\r\nFrom the introduction by Stewart Lee\r\n\r\nA legendary singer, folklorist, and music historian, Shirley Collins has been an integral figure in the English folk music scene for more than sixty years. In her new memoir, <i>All in the Downs</i>, Collins tells the story of that lifelong relationship with English folksong—a dedication to artistic integrity that has guided her through the triumphs and tragedies of her life.\r\n\r\n<img class=\"alignright wp-image-6096\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/IMG_7901-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"344\" height=\"344\" /><i>All in the Downs</i> combines elements of memoir—from her working-class origins in wartime Hastings to the bright lights of the 1950s folk revival in London—alongside reflections on the role traditional music and the English landscape have played in shaping her vision. From formative field recordings made with Alan Lomax in the United States to the “crowning glories” recorded with her sister Dolly on the Sussex Downs, she writes of the obstacles that led to her withdrawal from the spotlight and the redemption of a new artistic flourishing that continues today with her unexpected return to recording in 2016.\r\n\r\nThrough it all, Shirley Collins has been guided and supported by three vital and inseparable loves: traditional English song, the people and landscape of her native Sussex, and an unwavering sense of artistic integrity. <i>All in the Downs</i> pays tribute to these passions, and in doing so, illustrates a way of life as old as England, that has all but vanished from this land.\r\n\r\n<strong>About the Author</strong>\r\nShirley Collins MBE  is a renowned folk singer who has recorded over 20 albums, and the author of <em>America Over the Water</em> (2004). She is the president of the English Folk Dance and Song Society in London. Her critically lauded album <i>Lodestar</i>, released in 2016, marked a triumphant return to performance after thirty eight years. 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Shirley Collins’s descriptions of her beloved Sussex, along with the richness of her culture, make an elegant case for reclaiming a variant of English history.\" </em>The Guardian\r\n\r\n<em>“All In The Downs </em>dissolves time, darting between distant memory and history and the events of her recent renaissance, dissolving the years between incidents, bringing ghosts, both metaphorical and literal, striding over the downs into life before us.”\r\nFrom the introduction by Stewart Lee\r\n\r\nA legendary singer, folklorist, and music historian, Shirley Collins has been an integral figure in the English folk music scene for more than sixty years. In her new memoir, <i>All in the Downs</i>, Collins tells the story of that lifelong relationship with English folksong—a dedication to artistic integrity that has guided her through the triumphs and tragedies of her life.\r\n\r\n<img class=\"alignright wp-image-6096\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/IMG_7901-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"344\" height=\"344\" /><i>All in the Downs</i> combines elements of memoir—from her working-class origins in wartime Hastings to the bright lights of the 1950s folk revival in London—alongside reflections on the role traditional music and the English landscape have played in shaping her vision. From formative field recordings made with Alan Lomax in the United States to the “crowning glories” recorded with her sister Dolly on the Sussex Downs, she writes of the obstacles that led to her withdrawal from the spotlight and the redemption of a new artistic flourishing that continues today with her unexpected return to recording in 2016.\r\n\r\nThrough it all, Shirley Collins has been guided and supported by three vital and inseparable loves: traditional English song, the people and landscape of her native Sussex, and an unwavering sense of artistic integrity. <i>All in the Downs</i> pays tribute to these passions, and in doing so, illustrates a way of life as old as England, that has all but vanished from this land.\r\n\r\n<strong>About the Author</strong>\r\nShirley Collins MBE  is a renowned folk singer who has recorded over 20 albums, and the author of <em>America Over the Water</em> (2004). She is the president of the English Folk Dance and Song Society in London. Her critically lauded album <i>Lodestar</i>, released in 2016, marked a triumphant return to performance after thirty eight years. Shirley was recently the subject of a feature documentary film, <em>The Ballad of Shirley Collins</em>.\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/all-in-the-downs/\">Order Here</a>','All in the Downs','Reflections on Life, Landscape and Song\r\nShirley Collins\r\nPB / Limited HB\r\n','inherit','closed','closed','','6068-revision-v1','','','2018-04-23 09:00:34','2018-04-23 09:00:34','',6068,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/news/6068-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(6106,2,'2018-04-23 09:01:59','2018-04-23 09:01:59','<strong><a href=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/shoppe/all-in-the-downs/attachment/allinthedownscover-2/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6092\"><img class=\"alignright wp-image-6092\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/allinthedownscover-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"336\" height=\"478\" /></a><a href=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/shoppe/all-in-the-downs/attachment/allinthedownscover/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5998\">\r\n</a>Reflections on Life, Landscape and Song</strong>\r\nBy Shirley Collins\r\n\r\n<i>I</i><i style=\"color: #000000;\">ntroduction by Stewart Lee\r\n</i><strong> PB / Limited HB\r\n196mm x 132mm\r\n256pp, 58 images in colour &amp; B/W\r\n£15.99 (PB) / £25 (HB)\r\n</strong><strong> ISBN: 9781907222412</strong>\r\n\r\n<em>(Cover photo by SF Said)</em><strong>\r\n</strong><em>\r\n</em><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/all-in-the-downs/\">Order Here</a>\r\n<div>\r\n\r\n<strong>Available in <a href=\"https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/all-downs\">paperback</a> and a special hardback edition including an insert signed by Shirley Collins</strong><strong> (limited to 500 copies).  </strong>\r\n\r\n<em>\"Spirited... elegant... highly enjoyable... Shirley Collins’s descriptions of her beloved Sussex, along with the richness of her culture, make an elegant case for reclaiming a variant of English history.\" </em>The Guardian\r\n\r\n<em>“All In The Downs </em>dissolves time, darting between distant memory and history and the events of her recent renaissance, dissolving the years between incidents, bringing ghosts, both metaphorical and literal, striding over the downs into life before us.”\r\nFrom the introduction by Stewart Lee\r\n\r\nA legendary singer, folklorist, and music historian, Shirley Collins has been an integral figure in the English folk music scene for more than sixty years. In her new memoir, <i>All in the Downs</i>, Collins tells the story of that lifelong relationship with English folksong—a dedication to artistic integrity that has guided her through the triumphs and tragedies of her life.\r\n\r\n<img class=\"alignright wp-image-6096\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/IMG_7901-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"344\" height=\"344\" /><i>All in the Downs</i> combines elements of memoir—from her working-class origins in wartime Hastings to the bright lights of the 1950s folk revival in London—alongside reflections on the role traditional music and the English landscape have played in shaping her vision. From formative field recordings made with Alan Lomax in the United States to the “crowning glories” recorded with her sister Dolly on the Sussex Downs, she writes of the obstacles that led to her withdrawal from the spotlight and the redemption of a new artistic flourishing that continues today with her unexpected return to recording in 2016.\r\n\r\nThrough it all, Shirley Collins has been guided and supported by three vital and inseparable loves: traditional English song, the people and landscape of her native Sussex, and an unwavering sense of artistic integrity. <i>All in the Downs</i> pays tribute to these passions, and in doing so, illustrates a way of life as old as England, that has all but vanished from this land.\r\n\r\n<strong>About the Author</strong>\r\nShirley Collins MBE  is a renowned folk singer who has recorded over 20 albums, and the author of <em>America Over the Water</em> (2004). She is the president of the English Folk Dance and Song Society in London. Her critically lauded album <i>Lodestar</i>, released in 2016, marked a triumphant return to performance after thirty eight years. Shirley was recently the subject of a feature documentary film, <em>The Ballad of Shirley Collins</em>.\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/all-in-the-downs/\">Order Here</a>','All in the Downs','Reflections on Life, Landscape and Song\r\nShirley Collins\r\nPB / Limited HB\r\n','inherit','closed','closed','','6068-revision-v1','','','2018-04-23 09:01:59','2018-04-23 09:01:59','',6068,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/news/6068-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(6107,2,'2018-04-25 08:47:17','2018-04-25 08:47:17','<strong><a href=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/shoppe/all-in-the-downs/attachment/allinthedownscover-2/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6092\"><img class=\"alignright wp-image-6092\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/allinthedownscover-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"336\" height=\"478\" /></a><a href=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/shoppe/all-in-the-downs/attachment/allinthedownscover/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5998\">\r\n</a>Reflections on Life, Landscape and Song</strong>\r\nBy Shirley Collins\r\n\r\n<i>I</i><i style=\"color: #000000;\">ntroduction by Stewart Lee\r\n</i><strong> PB / Limited HB\r\n196mm x 132mm\r\n256pp, 58 images in colour &amp; B/W\r\n£15.99 (PB) / £25 (HB)\r\n</strong><strong> ISBN: 9781907222412</strong>\r\n\r\n<em>(Cover photo by SF Said)</em><strong>\r\n</strong><em>\r\n</em><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/all-in-the-downs/\"><strong>Order the hardback  here</strong></a>\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/all-downs\">Or the paperback here</a></strong>\r\n<div>\r\n\r\n<strong>Available in <a href=\"https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/all-downs\">paperback</a> and a special hardback edition including an insert signed by Shirley Collins</strong><strong> (limited to 500 copies).  </strong>\r\n\r\n<em>\"Spirited... elegant... highly enjoyable... Shirley Collins’s descriptions of her beloved Sussex, along with the richness of her culture, make an elegant case for reclaiming a variant of English history.\" </em>The Guardian\r\n\r\n<em>“All In The Downs </em>dissolves time, darting between distant memory and history and the events of her recent renaissance, dissolving the years between incidents, bringing ghosts, both metaphorical and literal, striding over the downs into life before us.”\r\nFrom the introduction by Stewart Lee\r\n\r\nA legendary singer, folklorist, and music historian, Shirley Collins has been an integral figure in the English folk music scene for more than sixty years. In her new memoir, <i>All in the Downs</i>, Collins tells the story of that lifelong relationship with English folksong—a dedication to artistic integrity that has guided her through the triumphs and tragedies of her life.\r\n\r\n<img class=\"alignright wp-image-6096\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/IMG_7901-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"344\" height=\"344\" /><i>All in the Downs</i> combines elements of memoir—from her working-class origins in wartime Hastings to the bright lights of the 1950s folk revival in London—alongside reflections on the role traditional music and the English landscape have played in shaping her vision. From formative field recordings made with Alan Lomax in the United States to the “crowning glories” recorded with her sister Dolly on the Sussex Downs, she writes of the obstacles that led to her withdrawal from the spotlight and the redemption of a new artistic flourishing that continues today with her unexpected return to recording in 2016.\r\n\r\nThrough it all, Shirley Collins has been guided and supported by three vital and inseparable loves: traditional English song, the people and landscape of her native Sussex, and an unwavering sense of artistic integrity. <i>All in the Downs</i> pays tribute to these passions, and in doing so, illustrates a way of life as old as England, that has all but vanished from this land.\r\n\r\n<strong>About the Author</strong>\r\nShirley Collins MBE  is a renowned folk singer who has recorded over 20 albums, and the author of <em>America Over the Water</em> (2004). She is the president of the English Folk Dance and Song Society in London. Her critically lauded album <i>Lodestar</i>, released in 2016, marked a triumphant return to performance after thirty eight years. Shirley was recently the subject of a feature documentary film, <em>The Ballad of Shirley Collins</em>.\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/all-in-the-downs/\">Order Here</a>','All in the Downs','Reflections on Life, Landscape and Song\r\nShirley Collins\r\nPB / Limited HB\r\n','inherit','closed','closed','','6068-revision-v1','','','2018-04-25 08:47:17','2018-04-25 08:47:17','',6068,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/news/6068-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(6108,2,'2018-04-30 09:16:30','2018-04-30 09:16:30','<a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/of-kings-and-things/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6014\"><img class=\"wp-image-6014 size-medium alignright\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/9781907222573-300x426.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"426\" /></a><strong>Strange Tales and Decadent Poems</strong>\r\n<strong>by Count Stanislaus Eric Stenbock</strong>\r\n\r\nEdited and introduced by David Tibet; with an afterword by Tim d\'Arch Smith and a comprehensive bibliography by David Tibet, Ray Russell and Mark Valentine.\r\n\r\nIllustrated with exceedingly rare archive material.\r\n\r\nHB/PB\r\n256pp (approx), 210 x 148\r\nISBN: 9781907222573\r\n£40.00/£15.99\r\n\r\n<strong>Available early June 2018</strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/of-kings-and-things/\">PRE-ORDER IT HERE</a></strong>\r\n\r\nAvailable for pre-order in two editions:\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><strong>Signed (by David Tibet), hardback special edition:\r\n</strong>including book plate and a limited edition \'Studies of Death\' tote bag featuring Stenbock\'s original cover illustration.  Limited to 500 copies only - £40.00</li>\r\n 	<li><strong>High quality paperback\r\n</strong>- £15.99</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nDescribed by W. B. Yeats as a “scholar, connoisseur, drunkard, poet, pervert, most charming of men,” Count Stanislaus Eric Stenbock (1860–1895) is surely the greatest exemplar of the Decadent movement of the late nineteenth century.\r\n\r\nA friend of Aubrey Beardsley, patron of the extraordinary pre-Raphaelite artist Simeon Solomon, and contemporary of Oscar Wilde, Stenbock died at the age of thirty-six as a result of his addiction to opium and his alcoholism, having published just three slim volumes of suicidal poetry and one collection of morbid short stories.\r\n\r\nStenbock was a homosexual convert to Roman Catholicism and owner of a serpent, a toad, and a dachshund called Trixie. It was said that toward the end of his life he was accompanied everywhere by a life-size wooden doll that he believed to be his son. His poems and stories are replete with queer, supernatural, mystical, and Satanic themes; original editions of his books are highly sought by collectors of recherché literature.\r\n\r\nEdited and introduced by David Tibet; with an afterword by Tim d\'Arch Smith and a comprehensive bibliography by David Tibet, Ray Russell and Mark Valentine, <em>Of Kings and Things</em> is the first introduction to Stenbock’s writing for the general reader.\r\n\r\nThis volume offers fifteen stories, including all of those in his fabled collections <em>Studies of Death</em> and <em>Child of the Soul</em>,  over thirty poems and two essays by this complex, intriguing figure.\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/of-kings-and-things/\">PRE-ORDER IT HERE</a></strong></li>\r\n</ul>','Of Kings and Things','Of Kings and Things: Strange Tales and Decadent Poems\r\nby Count Eric Stanislaus Stenbock\r\nEdited by David Tibet','inherit','closed','closed','','6012-revision-v1','','','2018-04-30 09:16:30','2018-04-30 09:16:30','',6012,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/news/6012-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(6109,2,'2018-05-10 14:34:18','2018-05-10 14:34:18','<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/the-23-stab-wounds-of-julius-cae/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6030\"><img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6030\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/23SW-web.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"414\" height=\"433\" /></a><b><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Artworks by Ian Johnstone</span></b></h2>\r\n<b><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\r\nWith a</span> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">text by Geoff Cox and</span></b><strong> an afterword by Serena Korda.</strong><b>\r\n</b>\r\n\r\n<b><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Music Cassette by Daniel O\'Sullivan.</span>\r\n</b>\r\n<h2><em>Archival quality, large format, collectors\' hardback</em>\r\n<em> 240mm x 240mm, 72pp.</em>\r\n<em> Full colour throughout.</em>\r\n<em>£40.00 + p&amp;P*\r\n</em><i>300 copies only.</i>\r\n<i>All copies include two prints of Ian\'s artwork.</i></h2>\r\n<h2><em>(*23% of profits from sales of this book will be donated to the Terrence Higgins Trust)</em></h2>\r\n<strong>Available late May 2018, only from Strange Attractor Press.\r\n(apologies for the delay in publication!)</strong>\r\n\r\nA series of 23 drawings by Ian Johnstone, in red ball point pen on melamine, originally exhibited at London\'s Horse Hospital in November 2010. The drawings celebrate individual blood consciousness, the in-between and the constant state of becoming.\r\n\r\n• Includes a 40 minute cassette of music composed for the original exhibition at the Horse Hospital by Daniel O\'Sullivan (Ulver, Mothlite, Grumbling Fur).\r\n\r\n\"This is a rare document of blood voiced signatures; weeping guilt details of all our conspiracies. Snatch it up. Let the words’ knifings and the split Biro capillaries own you. But never lend it out, or pocket it close to your heart, it’s too unforgiving.\"\r\n<strong>Brian Catling</strong>, author of <em>The Vorrh</em>\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/the-23-stab-wounds-of-julius-cae/\">PRE-ORDER HERE</a></strong>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/the-23-stab-wounds-of-julius-cae/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6040\"><img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6040\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Webwound2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"410\" height=\"280\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<em>They appear on blocks of unguessable purpose: pin-veined rough-cut blocks of whitewood.\r\nDisplayed in the clutch of the screw’s harsh thrift.\r\nThe cloth is pulled away.\r\n</em><em>The 23 wounds.</em>\r\n<em>Sphagia.</em>\r\n<em>Extispicy.\r\n</em><em>Blood spidered and baked on fissured rocks.\r\nLassos and bones and a tracework of bones.\r\nFlesh bared and pared and spindled open through a million pin pricks.\r\nTiny and vertiginous, their lines cluster and tear themselves into liquid fold and tiny blots.\r\n</em><em>The eye swoops like a raptor, bedazzled.\r\nSwims unfocused by infinitesimal mysteries.\r\nTricked, beguiled, left rotting.\r\n</em><em>Impossible amulets.</em>\r\n\r\n<em>23  broken hawk beaks</em>\r\n<em>23 rotted talons with their fringe of ant trail</em>\r\n<em>23 fragments of a skull</em>\r\n<em>23 curses hung round the neck of a scavenger wolf</em>\r\n<em>23 bell shards tolled for the ghost of a headless ram</em>\r\n<em>23 mourning scarves of ink-clotted lace</em>\r\n<em>23 eggshells sticky with seed</em>\r\n\r\n<em>Interred in the shadow of the tower of silence, beneath bird wing storm and acid hail, the fruiting body hardens.</em>\r\n\r\n<em>Takes shape.</em>\r\n\r\n<strong>PLUS</strong>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/j5LQEvGYmsk?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>\r\n\r\n<strong>Musick For Ark Todd</strong>\r\nBy Daniel O\'Sullivan\r\n\r\nA: <em>The Levitating Moon Piece\r\n</em>B: <em>Black Egg / Orpheus</em>\r\n\r\n\"I wrote several pieces of music for Ian’s ‘Ark Todd’ static levitation performance over the years. Each setting provoked a different approach. The collaboration with Ulver at the Norwegian Opera house in Oslo was well documented but this particular version, composed for the exhibition of his Stab Wounds at the Horse Hospital gallery in Bloomsbury, has been resting dormant until now.\r\n\r\nThe second piece was a commission for The Place theatre, also in Bloomsbury. An unfinished piece of choreography with dancer and vocalist Francois Testory. Like all of Ian’s work, this was a singular vision probing the human condition and meticulously scratching for truth under every surface.\"\r\n\r\n<strong>About Ian Johnstone\r\n</strong>\'Ian was artist of unimaginable talent and vision, articulated in his singular and exquisite aesthetic which was manifest in all he touched... he was charismatically irreverent, compelling to watch and to listen to and bottomlessly soulful.\' <strong>The Horse Hospital</strong><strong>\r\n</strong>\r\n<div>\r\n\r\nAs well as his own incredible work in sculpture, drawing, painting and performance, Ian collaborated on designs, costumes and performances with  musicians including Coil, Daniel O\'Sullivan, James B Hollands, Mothlite Francois Testory and Ulver.\r\n\r\nIan was a long time friend of Strange Attractor and we were working with him on this book when he died unexpectedly in 2015.\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<strong><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/the-23-stab-wounds-of-julius-cae/\">PRE-ORDER HERE</a></strong>','The 23 Stab Wounds of Julius Caesar','Artworks by Ian Johnstone. 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INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (6110,2,'2018-05-11 11:49:11','2018-05-11 11:49:11','<strong><a href=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/shoppe/all-in-the-downs/attachment/allinthedownscover-2/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6092\"><img class=\"alignright wp-image-6092\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/allinthedownscover-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"336\" height=\"478\" /></a><a href=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/shoppe/all-in-the-downs/attachment/allinthedownscover/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5998\">\r\n</a>Reflections on Life, Landscape and Song</strong>\r\nBy Shirley Collins\r\n\r\n<i>I</i><i style=\"color: #000000;\">ntroduction by Stewart Lee\r\n</i><strong> PB / Limited HB\r\n196mm x 132mm\r\n256pp, 58 images in colour &amp; B/W\r\n£15.99 (PB) / £25 (HB)\r\n</strong><strong> ISBN: 9781907222412</strong>\r\n\r\n<em>(Cover photo by SF Said)</em><strong>\r\n</strong><em>\r\n</em><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/all-in-the-downs/\"><strong>Order the hardback  here</strong></a>\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/all-downs\">Or the paperback here</a></strong>\r\n<div>\r\n\r\n<strong>Available in <a href=\"https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/all-downs\">paperback</a> and a special hardback edition including an insert signed by Shirley Collins</strong><strong> (limited to 500 copies).  </strong>\r\n\r\n<em>\"Spirited... elegant... highly enjoyable... Shirley Collins’s descriptions of her beloved Sussex, along with the richness of her culture, make an elegant case for reclaiming a variant of English history.\" </em>The Guardian\r\n\r\n<em>\"Luminous... All in the Downs traces the rhythm of a life with the old songs and music. Deeply moving... [it] allows us to read Collins in the landscape and the landscape in her.\"\r\n</em>The Wire\r\n\r\n<em>“All In The Downs </em>dissolves time, darting between distant memory and history and the events of her recent renaissance, dissolving the years between incidents, bringing ghosts, both metaphorical and literal, striding over the downs into life before us.”\r\nFrom the introduction by Stewart Lee\r\n\r\nA legendary singer, folklorist, and music historian, Shirley Collins has been an integral figure in the English folk music scene for more than sixty years. In her new memoir, <i>All in the Downs</i>, Collins tells the story of that lifelong relationship with English folksong—a dedication to artistic integrity that has guided her through the triumphs and tragedies of her life.\r\n\r\n<img class=\"alignright wp-image-6096\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/IMG_7901-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"344\" height=\"344\" /><i>All in the Downs</i> combines elements of memoir—from her working-class origins in wartime Hastings to the bright lights of the 1950s folk revival in London—alongside reflections on the role traditional music and the English landscape have played in shaping her vision. From formative field recordings made with Alan Lomax in the United States to the “crowning glories” recorded with her sister Dolly on the Sussex Downs, she writes of the obstacles that led to her withdrawal from the spotlight and the redemption of a new artistic flourishing that continues today with her unexpected return to recording in 2016.\r\n\r\nThrough it all, Shirley Collins has been guided and supported by three vital and inseparable loves: traditional English song, the people and landscape of her native Sussex, and an unwavering sense of artistic integrity. <i>All in the Downs</i> pays tribute to these passions, and in doing so, illustrates a way of life as old as England, that has all but vanished from this land.\r\n\r\n<strong>About the Author</strong>\r\nShirley Collins MBE  is a renowned folk singer who has recorded over 20 albums, and the author of <em>America Over the Water</em> (2004). She is the president of the English Folk Dance and Song Society in London. Her critically lauded album <i>Lodestar</i>, released in 2016, marked a triumphant return to performance after thirty eight years. Shirley was recently the subject of a feature documentary film, <em>The Ballad of Shirley Collins</em>.\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/all-in-the-downs/\">Order Here</a>','All in the Downs','Reflections on Life, Landscape and Song\r\nShirley Collins\r\nPB / Limited HB\r\n','inherit','closed','closed','','6068-revision-v1','','','2018-05-11 11:49:11','2018-05-11 11:49:11','',6068,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/news/6068-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(6111,2,'2018-05-16 10:32:37','2018-05-16 10:32:37','<strong><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/high-static-dead-lines/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6112\"><img class=\"wp-image-6112 alignright\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/High-Static-Dead-Lines-MIT-Cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"328\" height=\"465\" /></a></strong><strong>High Static, Dead Lines\r\n</strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><em>Sonic Spectres and the Object Hereafter</em>\r\n</strong></span>By Kristen Gallerneaux\r\n\r\n<i style=\"color: #000000;\">Foreword</i><i style=\"color: #000000;\"> by Dave Tompkins\r\n</i><strong> Paperback\r\n130mm x 205mm\r\n320pp, fully illustrated in black and white\r\n</strong><strong>£16.99\r\n</strong><strong> ISBN: 9781907222665</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/high-static-dead-lines/\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">ORDER HERE</span></a>\r\n\r\n<b>A literary mix tape that explores the entwined boundaries between sound, material culture, landscape and esoteric belief.</b>\r\n\r\nHigh Static, Dead Lines<em> is one of the most imaginative books to contend with sound in recent memory. Its labyrinthine explorations creatively mirror the strange and often baffling phenomena they describe. </em><a href=\"http://4columns.org/dayal-geeta/high-static-dead-lines\">Geeta Dayal</a>\r\n\r\nTrees rigged up to the wireless radio heavens. A fax machine used to decode the language of hurricanes. A broadcast ghost that hijacked a television station to terrorize a city. A failed computer factory in the desert with a slap-back echo resounding into ruin.\r\n\r\nIn <i>High Static, Dead Lines</i>, media historian and artist Kristen Gallerneaux weaves a literary mix tape that explores the entwined boundaries between sound, material culture, landscape, and esoteric belief. Essays and fictocritical interludes are arranged to evoke a network of ley lines for the “sonic spectre” to travel through—a hypothetical presence that manifests itself as an invisible layer of noise alongside the conventional histories of technological artifacts.\r\n\r\nThe objects and stories within span from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day, touching upon military, communications, and cultural history. A connective thread is the recurring presence of sound—audible, self-generative, and remembered—charting the contentious sonic histories of paranormal culture.\r\n\r\n<b>About the Author</b>\r\n\r\nKristen Gallerneaux is a writer, folklorist, and artist. She has published on topics as diverse as mathematics in midcentury design, the visual history of telepathy research, the world\'s first mouse pad, and car audio bass battles in Miami. 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A fax machine used to decode the language of hurricanes. A broadcast ghost that hijacked a television station to terrorize a city. A failed computer factory in the desert with a slap-back echo resounding into ruin.\r\n\r\nIn <i>High Static, Dead Lines</i>, media historian and artist Kristen Gallerneaux weaves a literary mix tape that explores the entwined boundaries between sound, material culture, landscape, and esoteric belief. Essays and fictocritical interludes are arranged to evoke a network of ley lines for the “sonic spectre” to travel through—a hypothetical presence that manifests itself as an invisible layer of noise alongside the conventional histories of technological artifacts.\r\n\r\nThe objects and stories within span from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day, touching upon military, communications, and cultural history. A connective thread is the recurring presence of sound—audible, self-generative, and remembered—charting the contentious sonic histories of paranormal culture.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<b>About the Author</b>\r\n\r\nKristen Gallerneaux is a writer, folklorist, and artist. She has published on topics as diverse as mathematics in midcentury design, the visual history of telepathy research, the world\'s first mouse pad, and car audio bass battles in Miami. 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A connective thread is the recurring presence of sound—audible, self-generative, and remembered—charting the contentious sonic histories of paranormal culture.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<b>About the Author</b>\r\n\r\nKristen Gallerneaux is a writer, folklorist, and artist. She has published on topics as diverse as mathematics in midcentury design, the visual history of telepathy research, the world\'s first mouse pad, and car audio bass battles in Miami. 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A fax machine used to decode the language of hurricanes. A broadcast ghost that hijacked a television station to terrorize a city. A failed computer factory in the desert with a slap-back echo resounding into ruin.\r\n\r\nIn <i>High Static, Dead Lines</i>, media historian and artist Kristen Gallerneaux weaves a literary mix tape that explores the entwined boundaries between sound, material culture, landscape, and esoteric belief. Essays and fictocritical interludes are arranged to evoke a network of ley lines for the “sonic spectre” to travel through—a hypothetical presence that manifests itself as an invisible layer of noise alongside the conventional histories of technological artifacts.\r\n\r\nThe objects and stories within span from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day, touching upon military, communications, and cultural history. A connective thread is the recurring presence of sound—audible, self-generative, and remembered—charting the contentious sonic histories of paranormal culture.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<b>About the Author</b>\r\n\r\nKristen Gallerneaux is a writer, folklorist, and artist. She has published on topics as diverse as mathematics in midcentury design, the visual history of telepathy research, the world\'s first mouse pad, and car audio bass battles in Miami. She is also Curator of Communications and Information Technology at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan, where she continues to build upon one of the largest historic technology collections in North America.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','High Static, Dead Lines','','inherit','closed','closed','','6111-revision-v1','','','2018-05-16 10:20:49','2018-05-16 10:20:49','',6111,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/news/6111-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(6116,2,'2018-05-16 10:21:40','2018-05-16 10:21:40','<strong><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/high-static-dead-lines/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6112\"><img class=\"wp-image-6112 alignright\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/High-Static-Dead-Lines-MIT-Cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"215\" height=\"305\" /></a></strong><strong>High Static, Dead Lines\r\n</strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><em>Sonic Spectres and the Object Hereafter</em>\r\n</strong></span>By Kristen Gallerneaux\r\n\r\n<i style=\"color: #000000;\">Foreword</i><i style=\"color: #000000;\"> by Dave Tompkins\r\n</i><strong> Paperback\r\n130mm x 205mm\r\n320pp, fully illustrated in black and white\r\n</strong><strong>£16.99\r\n</strong><strong> ISBN: 9781907222665</strong>\r\n\r\nShipping 12/06/2018\r\n<a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/high-static-dead-lines/\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">PRE-ORDER HERE</span></a>\r\n\r\n<b>A literary mix tape that explores the entwined boundaries between sound, material culture, landscape and esoteric belief.</b>\r\n\r\nTrees rigged up to the wireless radio heavens. A fax machine used to decode the language of hurricanes. A broadcast ghost that hijacked a television station to terrorize a city. A failed computer factory in the desert with a slap-back echo resounding into ruin.\r\n\r\nIn <i>High Static, Dead Lines</i>, media historian and artist Kristen Gallerneaux weaves a literary mix tape that explores the entwined boundaries between sound, material culture, landscape, and esoteric belief. Essays and fictocritical interludes are arranged to evoke a network of ley lines for the “sonic spectre” to travel through—a hypothetical presence that manifests itself as an invisible layer of noise alongside the conventional histories of technological artifacts.\r\n\r\nThe objects and stories within span from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day, touching upon military, communications, and cultural history. A connective thread is the recurring presence of sound—audible, self-generative, and remembered—charting the contentious sonic histories of paranormal culture.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<b>About the Author</b>\r\n\r\nKristen Gallerneaux is a writer, folklorist, and artist. She has published on topics as diverse as mathematics in midcentury design, the visual history of telepathy research, the world\'s first mouse pad, and car audio bass battles in Miami. She is also Curator of Communications and Information Technology at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan, where she continues to build upon one of the largest historic technology collections in North America.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','High Static, Dead Lines','','inherit','closed','closed','','6111-revision-v1','','','2018-05-16 10:21:40','2018-05-16 10:21:40','',6111,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/news/6111-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(6117,2,'2018-05-16 10:22:35','2018-05-16 10:22:35','<strong><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/high-static-dead-lines/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6112\"><img class=\"wp-image-6112 alignright\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/High-Static-Dead-Lines-MIT-Cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"328\" height=\"465\" /></a></strong><strong>High Static, Dead Lines\r\n</strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><em>Sonic Spectres and the Object Hereafter</em>\r\n</strong></span>By Kristen Gallerneaux\r\n\r\n<i style=\"color: #000000;\">Foreword</i><i style=\"color: #000000;\"> by Dave Tompkins\r\n</i><strong> Paperback\r\n130mm x 205mm\r\n320pp, fully illustrated in black and white\r\n</strong><strong>£16.99\r\n</strong><strong> ISBN: 9781907222665</strong>\r\n\r\nShipping 12/06/2018\r\n<a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/high-static-dead-lines/\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">PRE-ORDER HERE</span></a>\r\n\r\n<b>A literary mix tape that explores the entwined boundaries between sound, material culture, landscape and esoteric belief.</b>\r\n\r\nTrees rigged up to the wireless radio heavens. 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A fax machine used to decode the language of hurricanes. A broadcast ghost that hijacked a television station to terrorize a city. A failed computer factory in the desert with a slap-back echo resounding into ruin.\r\n\r\nIn <i>High Static, Dead Lines</i>, media historian and artist Kristen Gallerneaux weaves a literary mix tape that explores the entwined boundaries between sound, material culture, landscape, and esoteric belief. Essays and fictocritical interludes are arranged to evoke a network of ley lines for the “sonic spectre” to travel through—a hypothetical presence that manifests itself as an invisible layer of noise alongside the conventional histories of technological artifacts.\r\n\r\nThe objects and stories within span from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day, touching upon military, communications, and cultural history. A connective thread is the recurring presence of sound—audible, self-generative, and remembered—charting the contentious sonic histories of paranormal culture.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<b>About the Author</b>\r\n\r\nKristen Gallerneaux is a writer, folklorist, and artist. She has published on topics as diverse as mathematics in midcentury design, the visual history of telepathy research, the world\'s first mouse pad, and car audio bass battles in Miami. 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A connective thread is the recurring presence of sound—audible, self-generative, and remembered—charting the contentious sonic histories of paranormal culture.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<b>About the Author</b>\r\n\r\nKristen Gallerneaux is a writer, folklorist, and artist. She has published on topics as diverse as mathematics in midcentury design, the visual history of telepathy research, the world\'s first mouse pad, and car audio bass battles in Miami. 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The drawings celebrate individual blood consciousness, the in-between and the constant state of becoming.\r\n\r\n• Includes a 40 minute cassette of music composed for the original exhibition at the Horse Hospital by Daniel O\'Sullivan (Ulver, Mothlite, Grumbling Fur).\r\n\r\n\"This is a rare document of blood voiced signatures; weeping guilt details of all our conspiracies. Snatch it up. Let the words’ knifings and the split Biro capillaries own you. But never lend it out, or pocket it close to your heart, it’s too unforgiving.\"\r\n<strong>Brian Catling</strong>, author of <em>The Vorrh</em>\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/the-23-stab-wounds-of-julius-cae/\">ORDER HERE</a></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>PLUS</strong>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/j5LQEvGYmsk?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>\r\n\r\n<strong>Musick For Ark Todd</strong>\r\nBy Daniel O\'Sullivan\r\n\r\nA: <em>The Levitating Moon Piece\r\n</em>B: <em>Black Egg / Orpheus</em>\r\n\r\n\"I wrote several pieces of music for Ian’s ‘Ark Todd’ static levitation performance over the years. Each setting provoked a different approach. The collaboration with Ulver at the Norwegian Opera house in Oslo was well documented but this particular version, composed for the exhibition of his Stab Wounds at the Horse Hospital gallery in Bloomsbury, has been resting dormant until now.\r\n\r\nThe second piece was a commission for The Place theatre, also in Bloomsbury. An unfinished piece of choreography with dancer and vocalist Francois Testory. Like all of Ian’s work, this was a singular vision probing the human condition and meticulously scratching for truth under every surface.\"\r\n\r\n<strong>About Ian Johnstone\r\n</strong>\'Ian was artist of unimaginable talent and vision, articulated in his singular and exquisite aesthetic which was manifest in all he touched... he was charismatically irreverent, compelling to watch and to listen to and bottomlessly soulful.\' <strong>The Horse Hospital</strong><strong>\r\n</strong>\r\n<div>\r\n\r\nAs well as his own incredible work in sculpture, drawing, painting and performance, Ian collaborated on designs, costumes and performances with  musicians including Coil, Daniel O\'Sullivan, James B Hollands, Mothlite Francois Testory and Ulver.\r\n\r\nIan was a long time friend of Strange Attractor and we were working with him on this book when he died unexpectedly in 2015.\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<strong><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/the-23-stab-wounds-of-julius-cae/\">ORDER HERE</a></strong>','The 23 Stab Wounds of Julius Caesar','Artworks by Ian Johnstone. With a text by Geoff Cox and an afterword by artist Serena Korda.\r\nComes with a 40 minute music cassette by Daniel O\'Sullivan.','inherit','closed','closed','','6029-revision-v1','','','2018-05-17 12:00:18','2018-05-17 12:00:18','',6029,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/news/6029-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(6126,2,'2018-05-17 11:39:54','2018-05-17 11:39:54','<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/the-23-stab-wounds-of-julius-cae/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6030\"><img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6030\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/23SW-web.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"414\" height=\"433\" /></a><b><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Artworks by Ian Johnstone</span></b></h2>\r\n<b><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\r\nWith a</span> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">text by Geoff Cox and</span></b><strong> an afterword by Serena Korda.</strong><b>\r\n</b>\r\n\r\n<b><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Music Cassette by Daniel O\'Sullivan.</span>\r\n</b>\r\n<h2><em>Archival quality, large format, collectors\' hardback</em>\r\n<em> 240mm x 240mm, 72pp.</em>\r\n<em> Full colour throughout.</em>\r\n<em>£40.00 + p&amp;P*\r\n</em><i>300 copies only.</i>\r\n<i>All copies include two prints of Ian\'s artwork.</i></h2>\r\n<h2><em>(*23% of profits from sales of this book will be donated to the Terrence Higgins Trust)</em></h2>\r\n<strong><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/the-23-stab-wounds-of-julius-cae/\">ORDER HERE</a></strong>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/shoppe/23-stab-wounds-julius-caesar/attachment/23packweb/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6125\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6125 aligncenter\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/23packweb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" /></a>\r\n\r\n23 drawings by Ian Johnstone, in red ball point pen on melamine, originally exhibited at London\'s Horse Hospital in November 2010. The drawings celebrate individual blood consciousness, the in-between and the constant state of becoming.\r\n\r\n• Includes a 40 minute cassette of music composed for the original exhibition at the Horse Hospital by Daniel O\'Sullivan (Ulver, Mothlite, Grumbling Fur).\r\n\r\n\"This is a rare document of blood voiced signatures; weeping guilt details of all our conspiracies. Snatch it up. Let the words’ knifings and the split Biro capillaries own you. But never lend it out, or pocket it close to your heart, it’s too unforgiving.\"\r\n<strong>Brian Catling</strong>, author of <em>The Vorrh</em>\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/the-23-stab-wounds-of-julius-cae/\">ORDER HERE</a></strong>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/the-23-stab-wounds-of-julius-cae/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6040\"><img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6040\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Webwound2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"410\" height=\"280\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<em>They appear on blocks of unguessable purpose: pin-veined rough-cut blocks of whitewood.\r\nDisplayed in the clutch of the screw’s harsh thrift.\r\nThe cloth is pulled away.\r\n</em><em>The 23 wounds.</em>\r\n<em>Sphagia.</em>\r\n<em>Extispicy.\r\n</em><em>Blood spidered and baked on fissured rocks.\r\nLassos and bones and a tracework of bones.\r\nFlesh bared and pared and spindled open through a million pin pricks.\r\nTiny and vertiginous, their lines cluster and tear themselves into liquid fold and tiny blots.\r\n</em><em>The eye swoops like a raptor, bedazzled.\r\nSwims unfocused by infinitesimal mysteries.\r\nTricked, beguiled, left rotting.\r\n</em><em>Impossible amulets.</em>\r\n\r\n<em>23  broken hawk beaks</em>\r\n<em>23 rotted talons with their fringe of ant trail</em>\r\n<em>23 fragments of a skull</em>\r\n<em>23 curses hung round the neck of a scavenger wolf</em>\r\n<em>23 bell shards tolled for the ghost of a headless ram</em>\r\n<em>23 mourning scarves of ink-clotted lace</em>\r\n<em>23 eggshells sticky with seed</em>\r\n\r\n<em>Interred in the shadow of the tower of silence, beneath bird wing storm and acid hail, the fruiting body hardens.</em>\r\n\r\n<em>Takes shape.</em>\r\n\r\n<strong>PLUS</strong>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/j5LQEvGYmsk?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>\r\n\r\n<strong>Musick For Ark Todd</strong>\r\nBy Daniel O\'Sullivan\r\n\r\nA: <em>The Levitating Moon Piece\r\n</em>B: <em>Black Egg / Orpheus</em>\r\n\r\n\"I wrote several pieces of music for Ian’s ‘Ark Todd’ static levitation performance over the years. Each setting provoked a different approach. The collaboration with Ulver at the Norwegian Opera house in Oslo was well documented but this particular version, composed for the exhibition of his Stab Wounds at the Horse Hospital gallery in Bloomsbury, has been resting dormant until now.\r\n\r\nThe second piece was a commission for The Place theatre, also in Bloomsbury. An unfinished piece of choreography with dancer and vocalist Francois Testory. Like all of Ian’s work, this was a singular vision probing the human condition and meticulously scratching for truth under every surface.\"\r\n\r\n<strong>About Ian Johnstone\r\n</strong>\'Ian was artist of unimaginable talent and vision, articulated in his singular and exquisite aesthetic which was manifest in all he touched... he was charismatically irreverent, compelling to watch and to listen to and bottomlessly soulful.\' <strong>The Horse Hospital</strong><strong>\r\n</strong>\r\n<div>\r\n\r\nAs well as his own incredible work in sculpture, drawing, painting and performance, Ian collaborated on designs, costumes and performances with  musicians including Coil, Daniel O\'Sullivan, James B Hollands, Mothlite Francois Testory and Ulver.\r\n\r\nIan was a long time friend of Strange Attractor and we were working with him on this book when he died unexpectedly in 2015.\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<strong><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/the-23-stab-wounds-of-julius-cae/\">ORDER HERE</a></strong>','The 23 Stab Wounds of Julius Caesar','Artworks by Ian Johnstone. With a text by Geoff Cox and an afterword by artist Serena Korda.\r\nComes with a 40 minute music cassette by Daniel O\'Sullivan.','inherit','closed','closed','','6029-revision-v1','','','2018-05-17 11:39:54','2018-05-17 11:39:54','',6029,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/news/6029-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(6127,2,'2018-05-17 11:58:19','2018-05-17 11:58:19','<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/the-23-stab-wounds-of-julius-cae/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6030\"><img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6030\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/23SW-web.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"414\" height=\"433\" /></a><b><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Artworks by Ian Johnstone</span></b></h2>\r\n<b><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\r\nWith a</span> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">text by Geoff Cox and</span></b><strong> an afterword by Serena Korda.</strong><b>\r\n</b>\r\n\r\n<b><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Music Cassette by Daniel O\'Sullivan.</span>\r\n</b>\r\n\r\n<em>Archival quality, large format, collectors\' hardback</em>\r\n<em> 240mm x 240mm, 72pp.</em>\r\n<em> Full colour throughout.</em>\r\n<em>£40.00 + p&amp;P*\r\n</em><i>300 copies only.</i>\r\n<i>All copies include two prints of Ian\'s artwork.</i>\r\n\r\n<em>(*23% of profits from sales of this book will be donated to the Terrence Higgins Trust)</em>\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/the-23-stab-wounds-of-julius-cae/\">ORDER HERE</a></strong>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/shoppe/23-stab-wounds-julius-caesar/attachment/23packweb/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6125\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6125 aligncenter\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/23packweb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" /></a>\r\n\r\n23 drawings by Ian Johnstone, in red ball point pen on melamine, originally exhibited at London\'s Horse Hospital in November 2010. The drawings celebrate individual blood consciousness, the in-between and the constant state of becoming.\r\n\r\n• Includes a 40 minute cassette of music composed for the original exhibition at the Horse Hospital by Daniel O\'Sullivan (Ulver, Mothlite, Grumbling Fur).\r\n\r\n\"This is a rare document of blood voiced signatures; weeping guilt details of all our conspiracies. Snatch it up. Let the words’ knifings and the split Biro capillaries own you. But never lend it out, or pocket it close to your heart, it’s too unforgiving.\"\r\n<strong>Brian Catling</strong>, author of <em>The Vorrh</em>\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/the-23-stab-wounds-of-julius-cae/\">ORDER HERE</a></strong>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/the-23-stab-wounds-of-julius-cae/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6040\"><img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6040\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Webwound2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"410\" height=\"280\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<em>They appear on blocks of unguessable purpose: pin-veined rough-cut blocks of whitewood.\r\nDisplayed in the clutch of the screw’s harsh thrift.\r\nThe cloth is pulled away.\r\n</em><em>The 23 wounds.</em>\r\n<em>Sphagia.</em>\r\n<em>Extispicy.\r\n</em><em>Blood spidered and baked on fissured rocks.\r\nLassos and bones and a tracework of bones.\r\nFlesh bared and pared and spindled open through a million pin pricks.\r\nTiny and vertiginous, their lines cluster and tear themselves into liquid fold and tiny blots.\r\n</em><em>The eye swoops like a raptor, bedazzled.\r\nSwims unfocused by infinitesimal mysteries.\r\nTricked, beguiled, left rotting.\r\n</em><em>Impossible amulets.</em>\r\n\r\n<em>23  broken hawk beaks</em>\r\n<em>23 rotted talons with their fringe of ant trail</em>\r\n<em>23 fragments of a skull</em>\r\n<em>23 curses hung round the neck of a scavenger wolf</em>\r\n<em>23 bell shards tolled for the ghost of a headless ram</em>\r\n<em>23 mourning scarves of ink-clotted lace</em>\r\n<em>23 eggshells sticky with seed</em>\r\n\r\n<em>Interred in the shadow of the tower of silence, beneath bird wing storm and acid hail, the fruiting body hardens.</em>\r\n\r\n<em>Takes shape.</em>\r\n\r\n<strong>PLUS</strong>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/j5LQEvGYmsk?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>\r\n\r\n<strong>Musick For Ark Todd</strong>\r\nBy Daniel O\'Sullivan\r\n\r\nA: <em>The Levitating Moon Piece\r\n</em>B: <em>Black Egg / Orpheus</em>\r\n\r\n\"I wrote several pieces of music for Ian’s ‘Ark Todd’ static levitation performance over the years. Each setting provoked a different approach. The collaboration with Ulver at the Norwegian Opera house in Oslo was well documented but this particular version, composed for the exhibition of his Stab Wounds at the Horse Hospital gallery in Bloomsbury, has been resting dormant until now.\r\n\r\nThe second piece was a commission for The Place theatre, also in Bloomsbury. An unfinished piece of choreography with dancer and vocalist Francois Testory. Like all of Ian’s work, this was a singular vision probing the human condition and meticulously scratching for truth under every surface.\"\r\n\r\n<strong>About Ian Johnstone\r\n</strong>\'Ian was artist of unimaginable talent and vision, articulated in his singular and exquisite aesthetic which was manifest in all he touched... he was charismatically irreverent, compelling to watch and to listen to and bottomlessly soulful.\' <strong>The Horse Hospital</strong><strong>\r\n</strong>\r\n<div>\r\n\r\nAs well as his own incredible work in sculpture, drawing, painting and performance, Ian collaborated on designs, costumes and performances with  musicians including Coil, Daniel O\'Sullivan, James B Hollands, Mothlite Francois Testory and Ulver.\r\n\r\nIan was a long time friend of Strange Attractor and we were working with him on this book when he died unexpectedly in 2015.\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<strong><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/the-23-stab-wounds-of-julius-cae/\">ORDER HERE</a></strong>','The 23 Stab Wounds of Julius Caesar','Artworks by Ian Johnstone. With a text by Geoff Cox and an afterword by artist Serena Korda.\r\nComes with a 40 minute music cassette by Daniel O\'Sullivan.','inherit','closed','closed','','6029-revision-v1','','','2018-05-17 11:58:19','2018-05-17 11:58:19','',6029,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/news/6029-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(6150,2,'2018-07-12 14:47:30','2018-07-12 14:47:30','<h2><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/the-surrender-of-silence/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6121\"><img class=\"alignright wp-image-6121\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/SOS.cover_.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"282\" height=\"422\" /></a><strong>The Memoir of Ironfoot Jack, <em>King of the Bohemians</em></strong></h2>\r\nEdited by Colin Stanley\r\n<i style=\"color: #000000;\">Introduction</i><i style=\"color: #000000;\"> by Phil Baker</i>\r\n\r\n<strong> Paperback\r\n125mm x 190mm\r\n264pp, 8 b/w Illos\r\n</strong><strong>£12.99\r\n</strong><strong> ISBN: 9781907222658</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/the-surrender-of-silence/\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">ORDER HERE</span></a>\r\n\r\n<strong><i>\"The Surrender of Silence will be the greatest book ever written on Bohemians in Europe—not fiction but reality; the life I chose to live.” Ironfoot Jack</i></strong>\r\n\r\n<i>“I became acquainted with gipsies, with show people, with buskers, with people who entertained the public by performing in the city, on fair grounds and market places and with a variety of ‘fiddles’—that is, some dubious methods of obtaining the means of life. I became a member of this fraternity.”</i>\r\n\r\nEscape artist, fortune-teller, author, cunning man and raconteur “Ironfoot Jack,” aka Jack Rudolph Neave (1881–1959), the self-styled “King of the Bohemians,” was a well-known Soho character in pre- and postwar London. This, his rich and enthralling story of a lifestyle now gone forever, was dictated as his portrait was being painted in 1956. It vividly describes his life on the streets and his many exploits, including establishing The Caravan Club in 1934, considered the first gay-friendly nightclub in London. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> </span>\r\n\r\nNeave’s unpublished manuscript was discovered amongst cult author Colin Wilson’s papers by his bibliographer Colin Stanley, who assembled and annotated the text, which is presented here for the first time, accompanied by a contextual introduction by cultural historian Phil Baker.\r\n\r\n<em>\"</em>The Surrender of Silence<em> is the outcome of years of struggle to survive; of solving the problem of existence by various and curious methods… Most of the people I am talking about led a precarious life and obtained their livelihood from day to day…. They worked to live; they did not live to work.”</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','The Surrender of Silence','The Memoir of Ironfoot Jack, King of the Bohemians\r\n£15.99, PB 264pp','inherit','closed','closed','','6120-revision-v1','','','2018-07-12 14:47:30','2018-07-12 14:47:30','',6120,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/news/6120-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(6129,2,'2018-05-17 12:20:10','2018-05-17 12:20:10','<h2><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/the-surrender-of-silence/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6121\"><img class=\"alignright wp-image-6121\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/SOS.cover_.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"282\" height=\"422\" /></a><strong>The Memoir of Ironfoot Jack, <em>King of the Bohemians</em></strong></h2>\r\nEdited by Colin Stanley\r\n<i style=\"color: #000000;\">Introduction</i><i style=\"color: #000000;\"> by Phil Baker</i>\r\n\r\n<strong> Paperback\r\n125mm x 190mm\r\n264pp, 8 b/w Illos\r\n</strong><strong>£15.99\r\n</strong><strong> ISBN: 9781907222658</strong>\r\n\r\nShipping 14/06/2018\r\n<a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/the-surrender-of-silence/\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">PRE-ORDER HERE</span></a>\r\n\r\n<strong><i>\"The Surrender of Silence will be the greatest book ever written on Bohemians in Europe—not fiction but reality; the life I chose to live.” Ironfoot Jack</i></strong>\r\n\r\n<i>“I became acquainted with gipsies, with show people, with buskers, with people who entertained the public by performing in the city, on fair grounds and market places and with a variety of ‘fiddles’—that is, some dubious methods of obtaining the means of life. I became a member of this fraternity.”</i>\r\n\r\nEscape artist, fortune-teller, author, cunning man and raconteur “Ironfoot Jack,” aka Jack Rudolph Neave (1881–1959), the self-styled “King of the Bohemians,” was a well-known Soho character in pre- and postwar London. This, his rich and enthralling story of a lifestyle now gone forever, was dictated as his portrait was being painted in 1956. It vividly describes his life on the streets and his many exploits, including establishing The Caravan Club in 1934, considered the first gay-friendly nightclub in London. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> </span>\r\n\r\nNeave’s unpublished manuscript was discovered amongst cult author Colin Wilson’s papers by his bibliographer Colin Stanley, who assembled and annotated the text, which is presented here for the first time, accompanied by a contextual introduction by cultural historian Phil Baker.\r\n\r\n<em>\"</em>The Surrender of Silence<em> is the outcome of years of struggle to survive; of solving the problem of existence by various and curious methods… Most of the people I am talking about led a precarious life and obtained their livelihood from day to day…. They worked to live; they did not live to work.”</em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;','The Surrender of Silence','The Memoir of Ironfoot Jack, King of the Bohemians\r\n£15.99, PB 264pp','inherit','closed','closed','','6120-revision-v1','','','2018-05-17 12:20:10','2018-05-17 12:20:10','',6120,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/news/6120-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(6130,2,'2018-05-21 09:01:24','2018-05-21 09:01:24','<h2><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/the-23-stab-wounds-of-julius-cae/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6040\"><img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6040\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Webwound2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"413\" height=\"282\" /></a></h2>\r\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><b><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Artworks by Ian Johnstone</span></b></h2>\r\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\"><b><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> With a</span> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">text by Geoff Cox\r\nand</span></b><strong> an afterword by Serena Korda.</strong><b>\r\n</b></h2>\r\n<b><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Music Cassette by Daniel O\'Sullivan.</span>\r\n</b>\r\n\r\n<em>Archival quality, large format, collectors\' hardback</em>\r\n<em> 240mm x 240mm, 72pp.</em>\r\n<em> Full colour throughout.</em>\r\n<em>£40.00 + p&amp;P*\r\n</em><i>300 copies only.</i>\r\n<i>All copies include two prints of Ian\'s artwork.</i>\r\n\r\n<em>(*23% of profits from sales of this book will be donated to the Terrence Higgins Trust)</em>\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/the-23-stab-wounds-of-julius-cae/\">ORDER HERE</a></strong>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/shoppe/23-stab-wounds-julius-caesar/attachment/23packweb/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6125\">\r\n</a><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/the-23-stab-wounds-of-julius-cae/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6125\"><img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6125 size-full\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/23packweb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" /></a>\r\n\r\n<em>Interred in the shadow of the tower of silence, beneath bird wing storm and acid hail, the fruiting body hardens. </em><em>Takes shape.</em>\r\n\r\n23 drawings by Ian Johnstone, in red ball point pen on melamine, originally exhibited at London\'s Horse Hospital in November 2010. The drawings celebrate individual blood consciousness, the in-between and the constant state of becoming.\r\n\r\n• Includes a 40 minute cassette of music composed for the original exhibition at the Horse Hospital by Daniel O\'Sullivan (Ulver, Mothlite, Grumbling Fur).\r\n\r\n\"This is a rare document of blood voiced signatures; weeping guilt details of all our conspiracies. Snatch it up. Let the words’ knifings and the split Biro capillaries own you. But never lend it out, or pocket it close to your heart, it’s too unforgiving.\"\r\n<strong>Brian Catling</strong>, author of <em>The Vorrh</em>\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/the-23-stab-wounds-of-julius-cae/\">ORDER HERE</a></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>PLUS</strong>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/j5LQEvGYmsk?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>\r\n\r\n<strong>Musick For Ark Todd</strong>\r\nBy Daniel O\'Sullivan\r\n\r\nA: <em>The Levitating Moon Piece\r\n</em>B: <em>Black Egg / Orpheus</em>\r\n\r\n\"I wrote several pieces of music for Ian’s ‘Ark Todd’ static levitation performance over the years. Each setting provoked a different approach. The collaboration with Ulver at the Norwegian Opera house in Oslo was well documented but this particular version, composed for the exhibition of his Stab Wounds at the Horse Hospital gallery in Bloomsbury, has been resting dormant until now.\r\n\r\nThe second piece was a commission for The Place theatre, also in Bloomsbury. An unfinished piece of choreography with dancer and vocalist Francois Testory. Like all of Ian’s work, this was a singular vision probing the human condition and meticulously scratching for truth under every surface.\"\r\n\r\n<strong>About Ian Johnstone\r\n</strong>\'Ian was artist of unimaginable talent and vision, articulated in his singular and exquisite aesthetic which was manifest in all he touched... he was charismatically irreverent, compelling to watch and to listen to and bottomlessly soulful.\' <strong>The Horse Hospital</strong><strong>\r\n</strong>\r\n<div>\r\n\r\nAs well as his own incredible work in sculpture, drawing, painting and performance, Ian collaborated on designs, costumes and performances with  musicians including Coil, Daniel O\'Sullivan, James B Hollands, Mothlite Francois Testory and Ulver.\r\n\r\nIan was a long time friend of Strange Attractor and we were working with him on this book when he died unexpectedly in 2015.\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<strong><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/the-23-stab-wounds-of-julius-cae/\">ORDER HERE</a></strong>','The 23 Stab Wounds of Julius Caesar','Artworks by Ian Johnstone. With a text by Geoff Cox and an afterword by artist Serena Korda.\r\nComes with a 40 minute music cassette by Daniel O\'Sullivan.','inherit','closed','closed','','6029-revision-v1','','','2018-05-21 09:01:24','2018-05-21 09:01:24','',6029,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/news/6029-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(6131,2,'2018-05-23 13:18:08','2018-05-23 13:18:08','<h2><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/the-23-stab-wounds-of-julius-cae/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6040\"><img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6040\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Webwound2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"413\" height=\"282\" /></a></h2>\r\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><b><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Artworks by Ian Johnstone</span></b></h2>\r\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\"><b><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> With a</span> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">text by Geoff Cox\r\nand</span></b><strong> an afterword by Serena Korda.</strong><b>\r\n</b></h2>\r\n<b><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Plus two prints and a music cassette by Daniel O\'Sullivan </span></b><span style=\"color: #000000;\">(also available in digital download formats)</span><b><span style=\"color: #000000;\">.</span>\r\n</b>\r\n\r\n<em>Archival quality, large format, collectors\' hardback</em>\r\n<em> 240mm x 240mm, 72pp.</em>\r\n<em> Full colour throughout.</em>\r\n<em>£40.00 + p&amp;P*\r\n</em><i>300 copies only.</i>\r\n\r\n<em>(*23% of profits from sales of this book will be donated to the Terrence Higgins Trust)</em>\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/the-23-stab-wounds-of-julius-cae/\">ORDER HERE</a></strong>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/shoppe/23-stab-wounds-julius-caesar/attachment/23packweb/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6125\">\r\n</a><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/the-23-stab-wounds-of-julius-cae/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6125\"><img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6125 size-full\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/23packweb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" /></a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<i>All copies of the book come with two prints of Ian\'s artwork, a music cassette and a link to download the music in digital formats (this will also be sent to anyone who has already purchased the book) . </i>\r\n\r\n<em>Interred in the shadow of the tower of silence, beneath bird wing storm and acid hail, the fruiting body hardens. </em><em>Takes shape.</em>\r\n\r\n23 drawings by Ian Johnstone, in red ball point pen on melamine, originally exhibited at London\'s Horse Hospital in November 2010. The drawings celebrate individual blood consciousness, the in-between and the constant state of becoming.\r\n\r\n• Includes a 40 minute cassette of music composed for the original exhibition at the Horse Hospital by Daniel O\'Sullivan (Ulver, Mothlite, Grumbling Fur).\r\n\r\n\"This is a rare document of blood voiced signatures; weeping guilt details of all our conspiracies. Snatch it up. Let the words’ knifings and the split Biro capillaries own you. But never lend it out, or pocket it close to your heart, it’s too unforgiving.\"\r\n<strong>Brian Catling</strong>, author of <em>The Vorrh</em>\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/the-23-stab-wounds-of-julius-cae/\">ORDER HERE</a></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>PLUS</strong>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/j5LQEvGYmsk?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>\r\n\r\n<strong>Musick For Ark Todd</strong>\r\nBy Daniel O\'Sullivan\r\n\r\nA: <em>The Levitating Moon Piece\r\n</em>B: <em>Black Egg / Orpheus</em>\r\n\r\n\"I wrote several pieces of music for Ian’s ‘Ark Todd’ static levitation performance over the years. Each setting provoked a different approach. The collaboration with Ulver at the Norwegian Opera house in Oslo was well documented but this particular version, composed for the exhibition of his Stab Wounds at the Horse Hospital gallery in Bloomsbury, has been resting dormant until now.\r\n\r\nThe second piece was a commission for The Place theatre, also in Bloomsbury. An unfinished piece of choreography with dancer and vocalist Francois Testory. Like all of Ian’s work, this was a singular vision probing the human condition and meticulously scratching for truth under every surface.\"\r\n\r\n<strong>About Ian Johnstone\r\n</strong>\'Ian was artist of unimaginable talent and vision, articulated in his singular and exquisite aesthetic which was manifest in all he touched... he was charismatically irreverent, compelling to watch and to listen to and bottomlessly soulful.\' <strong>The Horse Hospital</strong><strong>\r\n</strong>\r\n<div>\r\n\r\nAs well as his own incredible work in sculpture, drawing, painting and performance, Ian collaborated on designs, costumes and performances with  musicians including Coil, Daniel O\'Sullivan, James B Hollands, Mothlite Francois Testory and Ulver.\r\n\r\nIan was a long time friend of Strange Attractor and we were working with him on this book when he died unexpectedly in 2015.\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<strong><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/the-23-stab-wounds-of-julius-cae/\">ORDER HERE</a></strong>','The 23 Stab Wounds of Julius Caesar','Artworks by Ian Johnstone. With a text by Geoff Cox and an afterword by artist Serena Korda.\r\nComes with a 40 minute music cassette by Daniel O\'Sullivan.','inherit','closed','closed','','6029-revision-v1','','','2018-05-23 13:18:08','2018-05-23 13:18:08','',6029,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/news/6029-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(6132,2,'2018-05-24 11:14:17','2018-05-24 11:14:17','','jollyexpanded','','inherit','closed','closed','','jollyexpanded','','','2018-05-24 11:14:17','2018-05-24 11:14:17','',5081,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/jollyexpanded.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(6134,2,'2018-05-24 11:20:15','2018-05-24 11:20:15','<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/jolly-lad-2018-expanded-edition/\"><img class=\"alignright wp-image-6132\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/jollyexpanded.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"281\" height=\"396\" /></a>By John Doran\r\n</strong><strong>302pp, 210mm x 148mm\r\n</strong><strong>ISBN:</strong>  <strong>978-1-907222-337</strong></p>\r\n<strong>Expanded Paperback: £15.99</strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>Hardback: £23.00\r\n272pp, 500 only,sewn binding, includes CD<em> (last few copies)</em></strong>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Cover by Simon Fowler\r\n</strong><strong>Illustrations by Krent Able</strong></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/jolly-lad/\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Buy the hardback!</span></a></p>\r\n<a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/jolly-lad-2018-expanded-edition/\">Buy the expanded paperback</a>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/jolly-lad/\"><strong>Hardbacks are in an edition of 500 and will be signed, with a CD of readings and music from:</strong></a></p>\r\nNicky Wire (Manic Street Preachers) / Abi &amp; Neil (British Sea Power) / Eccentronic Research Council / Teeth Of The Sea / English Heretic / Grumbling Fur / Mark Dicker / GNOD / Bronze Teeth.\r\n\r\n“Doran thinks he’s Oliver fucking Cromwell… He’s a lunatic.”\r\nMark E Smith\r\n\r\n“Makes <em>Withnail &amp; I </em>look like<em>Little House On The Prairie</em>.”\r\nCaitlin Moran\r\n\r\n\"The work of a real writer propelled by that most vital of properties, self-doubt. John Doran has confected a book that is a hoot: a cheerful, balanced, beautifully wrought, un-self-pitying  and weirdly objective study of himself and his multiple addictions.\"\r\nJonathan Meades\r\n\r\n<strong>Back in print due to popular demand, now with an extra chapter documenting John\'s 2015 \'An English Trip\' reading tour of the UK.</strong>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Jolly Lad</em> is a memoir about the recovery from alcoholism, habitual drug use and mental illness. It is also about the healing power of music, how memory defines us, the redemption offered by fatherhood and what it means to be working class.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"This is not a ‘my drink and drug hell’ kind of book for several reasons – the main one being that I had, for the most part, had a really good time drinking. True, a handful of pretty appalling things have happened to me and some people that I know or used to know over the years. But I have, for the most part, left them out of this book as they are not illuminating, not edifying and in some cases concern other people who aren’t here to consent to their appearance. Instead this book concentrates on what you face after the drink and the drugs have gone.\"</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Jolly Lad</em> is about gentrification; being diagnosed bipolar; attending Alcoholics Anonymous; living in a block of flats on a housing estate in London; the psychological damage done by psychedelic drugs; depression; DJing; factory work; friendship; growing old; hallucinations; street violence and obsessive behaviour – especially regarding music\r\nand art.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Jolly_Lad_1_Lo_Res_for_web_1426716621_crop_550x781.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-5088 alignright\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Jolly_Lad_1_Lo_Res_for_web_1426716621_crop_550x781.jpg\" alt=\"Jolly_Lad_1_Lo_Res_for_web_1426716621_crop_550x781\" width=\"269\" height=\"382\" /></a></p>\r\n<strong>About the author\r\n</strong>John Doran is the co-founder and editor of <em>The Quietus</em> website. He lives in Hackney, London, with his girlfriend and three year old son and has written for the BBC, the <em>Guardian</em>, <em>The</em> <em>WIRE</em>, <em>Metal Hammer</em>, <em>The Stool Pigeon</em>, <em>VICE</em> and many others. He is also an occasional broadcaster for NOISEY and BBC TV and radio.<img src=\"https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_GB/i/scr/pixel.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" />','Jolly Lad','By John Doran\r\n272pp, 210mm x 148mm\r\nHB + CD £23 / PB £14.99','inherit','closed','closed','','5081-revision-v1','','','2018-05-24 11:20:15','2018-05-24 11:20:15','',5081,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/news/5081-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(6135,2,'2018-05-25 16:09:02','2018-05-25 16:09:02','Strange Attractor Press is an independent publishing house, founded in 2003, based in London, UK and run by Mark Pilkington and Jamie Sutcliffe.\r\n\r\nWe edit, publish and produce all of our titles in-house, aided by freelance editors, designers, illustrators and proof readers, commissioned on a project-by-project basis.\r\n\r\n<strong>Proposals</strong>\r\nMost of our titles emerge out of discussions with authors and we only rarely take on new projects on spec. Please read these <a href=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/news/submission-guidelines/\"><em>submission guidelines</em></a> before sending us a proposal.\r\n\r\n<strong>Working with SAP\r\n</strong>We are currently a two-person team and are not likely to expand in the near future, but if you would like to talk to us about working on a freelance basis, do please get in touch.\r\n\r\nWork Experience\r\nWe receive a large number of requests for work experience placements, and we welcome students and other visitors who want to see how we work. However, please bear the following in mind before writing to us:\r\n- unfortunately we we are not in a position to be able to pay work experience visitors or interns.  <strong>\r\n</strong>- please familiarise yourself with our titles and our approach before contacting us. If our books don\'t sound interesting to you, then we would suggest that you won\'t benefit from work experience with us. We would like you to have read at least one of our titles before getting in touch.<strong>\r\n</strong>- we welcome assistance from graduate or post-graduate students, but would recommend that you familiarise yourself with commercial design and layout software such as Abode Indesign and Photoshop if you want to work alongside us.\r\n- we are a small independent press and can\'t offer you any assistance in finding work in the commercial publishing arena. However, because we are small and independent, we manage all aspects of book publishing ourselves (though we work alongside MIT Press and State51 for distribution and publicity) so we can provide a good opportunity to learn the processes and practices involved.\r\n<strong>\r\nORDERING OUR BOOKS</strong>\r\n\r\nStrange Attractor Press titles are available directly from our <a href=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/shoppe/\">Shoppe</a>, or from all interesting bookshops worldwide.\r\n\r\nGlobal distribution is through The MIT Press, Cambridge <span style=\"color: #000000;\">Massachusetts, USA and London, UK.</span>\r\n\r\n<strong>Booksellers in the UK and in the rest of Europe can order our titles via</strong>\r\n\r\nJohn Wiley &amp; Sons Ltd\r\nEuropean Distribution Centre\r\nNew Era Estate\r\nOldlands Way, Bognor Regis\r\nPO22 9NQ\r\nUK\r\n\r\nOrder our titles for your bookshop:<strong>\r\n</strong><a href=\"https://bookseller.wiley.com/CGI-BIN/lansaweb?procfun+bookseller+bksfn07\">Login or set up an account here\r\n</a>UK orders:+44 1243 843291\r\nOverseas orders: +44 1243 843294\r\nEmail: <a href=\"mailto:Customer@wiley.com\">Customer@wiley.com</a>\r\n\r\n<strong>Booksellers in the USA and the Rest of the World can order via</strong>\r\n<a href=\"https://mitpress.mit.edu/booksellers\">The MIT Press</a>\r\nc/o Triliteral\r\n100 Maple Ridge Drive\r\nCumberland, RI 02864\r\n\r\n∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞\r\n\r\n<strong>A brief history of Strange Attractor Press</strong>\r\n\r\nIn <strong>2001 </strong>Mark Pilkington and John Lundberg instigated a series of events at London\'s <a href=\"http://www.thehorsehospital.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Horse Hospital</a> that ran for two years under the title \'Strange Attractor\' (<em>see images of our early events below</em>). Since then Mark has continued to organise sporadic Strange Attractor events and to work on larger collaborative projects.\r\n\r\nIn <strong>2003</strong>, along with designer Ali Hutchinson, Mark edited and published <em>Strange Attractor Journal One</em>, an anthology (now out-of-print) of writing on neglected and esoteric cultural, historical and anthropological themes in keeping with the original events, that marked the first appearance of Strange Attractor Press.\r\n\r\nIn <strong>2010 </strong>Strange Attractor Press became a limited company and in <strong>2014</strong> Jamie Sutcliffe joined us as an editor and publisher. In <strong>2017 </strong>SAP titles were picked up for global distribution by the MIT Press.\r\n\r\nOver a decade since its inception, with numerous exhibitions and books in its past, and in its future, Strange Attractor Press continues its mission to celebrate unpopular culture. Join us.\r\n\r\n∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞\r\n\r\n<strong>A long history of Strange Attractor</strong>\r\n<strong>by Ken Hollings </strong>\r\n(published in <a href=\"http://www.thewire.co.uk/\"><em>The Wire</em></a> magazine #<a href=\"http://www.thewire.co.uk/issues/275/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-2695 alignright\" title=\"The Wire #275 January 2007\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/The-Wire-275-January-2007-244x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"244\" height=\"300\" /></a>, January 2007)\r\n\r\n<em>Ken Hollings rides the world’s subcultural currents mapped by London’s Strange Attractor.</em>\r\n\r\nStrange Attractor is well named. There’s really no escaping it. Starting out as a series of live events, it has slowly transmuted into an annual publication, set up an online clearing house for the weird and the wonderful and recently made its first move towards establishing itself as a publishing house. “Strange Attractor celebrates unpopular culture,” runs its mission statement. “We declare war on mediocrity and a pox on the foot soldiers of stupidity. Join us.” Who could possibly resist such a challenge? Sooner or later you have to get involved. (In the interests of full transparency: the writer of this article has taken part in a number of Strange Attractor evenings and is a regular contributor to Strange Attractor Journal.)\r\n\r\nWith orders for the Strange Attractor publications coming in from all over the world, and mainstream media like The Independent On Sunday praising it for producing “one of the most weirdly beautiful, beautifully weird magazines of the past hundred-odd years” a bigger problem presents itself. How do you celebrate unpopular culture without losing its unpopularity?\r\n\r\n“There’s certainly no business plan,” admits Strange Attractor Journal’s publisher and chief editor, Mark Pilkington. “We’re really making it all up as we go along. I hope thatStrange Attractor’s approach to culture is simultaneously that of the archaeologist, the ethnographer, the anthropologist, the occultist, the showman and the curator.”\r\n\r\nIt’s a heady mix. The first two issues, both book-sized anthologies running to more than 200 and 400 pages apiece, have presented material ranged across such elusive topics as mind control experiments, mould art, hair sculpture, cargo cults, neglected gods and forgotten waxworks. Such a list limits more than it clarifies, however. Strange Attractor Journal is concerned less with the unexplained than with the unexpected. You never know what it will cover next.\r\n\r\n“I think Strange Attractor is refreshing to people in that it manages to straddle several cultural channels while still following its own agenda,” Pilkington admits, “and it’s one not driven by the same obvious memes. But at the same time it’s important that it doesn’t become obscurantist for its own sake—some things are lost for a reason, others will only resurface when the time is right.”\r\n\r\nStrange Attractor’s wayward eclecticism dates back to a series of monthly events begun in the summer of 2001 by Pilkington in collaboration with artist John Lundberg and continuing over the next two years. Staged at London’s Horse Hospital venue, they gave an early indication of the loose network of experimental enterprises that was starting to come into existence, linking outsider artists with cultural anthropologists, textual hackers and practising occultists.\r\n\r\n<img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2699\" title=\"SA2\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/SA2-300x235.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"235\" />\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/SA3.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2702\" title=\"SA3\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/SA3-300x290.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"290\" /></a>\r\n\r\n“We’d mix talks, films, music, presentations, each night being themed around a different topic,” Pilkington recalls. “I rather pretentiously called them ‘information happenings’. Subjects ranged from conspiracy theory to theremins, Esperanto to magick, hoaxes, illusions and psychic deceptions: basically anything that interested us and could draw people that we liked or wanted to meet into one place.” Highlights included a live and bloody demonstration of psychic surgery, sci-fi movie themes played on vintage electronic instruments and a live Lovecraft-influenced Chaos Magick ritual with a soundtrack performed “by a band who couldn’t see what was going on.”\r\n\r\nAfter Lundberg enrolled at the National Film and Television School, Pilkington went solo but eventually grew tired of doing regular live events, deciding instead to do something that would last longer: hence the Journal.\r\n\r\nThe notion of outliving the moment, of being around for more than just a quick cultural fix, is very much a part of SAJ’s overall look and feel. The first thing you notice is that the front and back cover of each issue is devoid of text or title, which only appears on the book’s spine. If you want to know who the contributors are, you’ll have to look inside.\r\n\r\n“For me, it was about giving as much space as possible to striking images and therefore making them stand out on the bookshelf,” Pilkington explains. “I imagined people being aware that something was wrong with the cover but perhaps not being able to put their finger on it.”\r\n\r\nThe absence of cover copy also binds together the Journal’s various contributors in the anonymity of a collective endeavour. “We’re lucky enough to live in an age where we can clearly trace the influences of the past on our present,” Pilkington continues, “and it’s not always today’s most celebrated ideas, musicians and writers who will be remembered. This notion of timelessness is very important to what SAJ is and does. I’d like the books to be as irrelevant to a reader 100 years in the future as it would be to someone 100 years in the past. It’s a re-manipulation of the notion of built-in obsolescence.”\r\n\r\nThe Journal’s pages teem with old woodcuts, antiquated typefaces and intricate layouts, giving the impression of having been produced in some parallel past: one that runs counter to established tenets of historical development. Having previously worked as a journalist for periodicals as varied as Fortean Times, Bizarre and The Guardian, Mark Pilkington remains keenly aware of what’s going on around him.\r\n\r\n“There’s a particularly vibrant, very loose cultural network in London at the moment,” he remarks, “one that incorporates music and sound, ideas and information, visual arts and almost anything else you’d care to imagine. It’s inevitable that these people, places and events all bounce off and influence each other in a kind of subcultural Brownian motion.”\r\n\r\nAs well as working closely with designer Alison Hutchinson, readying volume three for publication, Pilkington has also been getting Strange Attractor Press up and running. Its first book to date, The Field Guide: The Art, History And Philosophy Of Crop Circle Making by Rob Irving and John Lundberg, is a particularly cerebral blend of art theory, paranormal phenomena, hoaxes and speculations, ruggedly bound and designed to fit snugly inside your knapsack while out exploring the British countryside. Conventional wisdom says it shouldn’t work, but Strange Attractor’s own particular blend of parlour magic proves that it does.\r\n\r\n“I sometimes see myself as a medium,” Mark reveals, “a channel for all the material that has formed Strange Attractor. I’ve been incredibly lucky with the amazing contributions the Journal has attracted so far.”\r\n\r\nThere’s no escaping it. Strange Attractor really is well named.','About','','inherit','closed','closed','','2624-revision-v1','','','2018-05-25 16:09:02','2018-05-25 16:09:02','',2624,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/news/2624-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(6136,2,'2018-05-25 16:12:48','2018-05-25 16:12:48','<h2>Snail Mail</h2>\r\nBM SAP, WC1N 3XX, London, UK\r\n<h2>Email</h2>\r\n<strong>Hello:</strong>\r\nFor general contact and enquiries please email <b>contactee[at]strangeattractor.co.uk</b>\r\n\r\n<strong>Wholesale orders:\r\n</strong>UK orders:+44 1243 843291\r\nEuropean orders: +44 1243 843294\r\nEmail: <a href=\"mailto:Customer@wiley.com\">Customer@wiley.com</a>\r\n\r\nUSA &amp; Rest of World:\r\nvia <a href=\"https://mitpress.mit.edu/booksellers\">The MIT Press</a>\r\n\r\n<strong>Online orders:</strong>\r\nFor enquiries about online orders and deliveries please email <strong>support[at]state51.com</strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>Work experience:\r\n</strong>We welcome work experience visitors and interns, but please <em><a href=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/about-3/\">read this before contacting us</a>.</em><strong>\r\n</strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>Proposals: </strong>\r\nFor book or journal article proposals use <b>proposals[at]strangeattractor.co.uk\r\n</b><em>Please read <a href=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/news/submission-guidelines/\">these guidelines</a> before sending us your submission.</em>','Contact','','inherit','closed','closed','','5388-revision-v1','','','2018-05-25 16:12:48','2018-05-25 16:12:48','',5388,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/news/5388-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(6137,2,'2018-05-25 16:14:43','2018-05-25 16:14:43','<h2>Snail Mail</h2>\r\nBM SAP, WC1N 3XX, London, UK\r\n\r\n<strong>Hello:</strong>\r\nFor general contact and enquiries please email <b>contactee[at]strangeattractor.co.uk</b>\r\n\r\n<strong>Mailing list:\r\n</strong><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/subscribe/\">Sign up here</a> to keep up to date with news and special editions\r\n\r\n<strong>Wholesale orders:\r\n</strong>UK orders:+44 1243 843291\r\nEuropean orders: +44 1243 843294\r\nEmail: <a href=\"mailto:Customer@wiley.com\">Customer@wiley.com</a>\r\n\r\nUSA &amp; Rest of World:\r\nvia <a href=\"https://mitpress.mit.edu/booksellers\">The MIT Press</a>\r\n\r\n<strong>Online orders:</strong>\r\nFor enquiries about online orders and deliveries please email <strong>support[at]state51.com</strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>Work experience:\r\n</strong>We welcome work experience visitors and interns, but please <em><a href=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/about-3/\">read this before contacting us</a>.</em><strong>\r\n</strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>Proposals: </strong>\r\nFor book or journal article proposals use <b>proposals[at]strangeattractor.co.uk\r\n</b><em>Please read <a href=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/news/submission-guidelines/\">these guidelines</a> before sending us your submission.</em>','Contact','','inherit','closed','closed','','5388-revision-v1','','','2018-05-25 16:14:43','2018-05-25 16:14:43','',5388,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/news/5388-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(6342,2,'2019-06-21 08:21:59','2019-06-21 08:21:59','<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b><span style=\"caret-color: #000000;\"><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/the-bodies-beneath/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6322\"><img class=\"alignright wp-image-6322\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/BB-cover-web.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"348\" height=\"504\" /></a></span></b></span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b><span style=\"caret-color: #000000;\">THE BODIES BENEATH\r\nThe Flipside of British Film &amp; Television</span></b></span>\r\nby William Fowler and Vic Pratt\r\nForeword by Nicolas Winding Refn\r\nPaperback\r\n£15.99\r\n148mm x 210mm\r\n400pp\r\nISBN: 9781907222726\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/the-bodies-beneath/\">ORDER HERE</a>\r\n\r\n<b>“The missing links of british cinema...glorious...punk rock” - Nicolas Winding Refn</b>\r\n\r\n<strong>\"Compiled with love and a true fan\'s passion for the subject matter... one tidy little volume that feels solidly academic and readily accessible to all in equal measure.\" </strong>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.irishnews.com/arts/2019/06/21/news/cult-movie-the-bodies-beneath-compiles-oddball-tv-and-film-gems-1644683/\"><em>The Irish Times</em></a>\r\n\r\n<strong>JOIN US ON THE FLIPSIDE...</strong>\r\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 19\">\r\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\r\n<div class=\"column\">\r\n\r\n<em>Some cinematic paths lie neat and well-tended, others are ominously overgrown and ignored. Dig down deep to find the bodies beneath...</em>\r\n\r\nOccult rites are staged in hippie strip clubs; music hall dame Old Mother Riley haunts a vampiric Bela Lugosi; TV puppet Sooty doles out intoxicating pharmaceuticals; velvet-voiced Vincent Price presents a full-fat cookery programme...\r\n\r\nVeteran film curators William Fowler and Vic Pratt crack open the caskets of forgotten or neglected British films and telly to serve up a feast of curiosities to tempt the palate of even the most jaded cinephile. Their unflinching, all- embracing investigative gaze is as likely to reassess an established classic as it is to focus on cobweb-covered delights like pioneering 1930s female film director Mary Field’s beautifully bizarre <i>The Mystery of Marriage</i>, the much- maligned <i>Doctor Who </i>epic ‘The Trial of a Time Lord’, underground offerings like Anna Ambrose’s experimental art piece <i>Phoelix </i>and Andy Milligan’s bawdy bloodbath <i>The Body Beneath</i>.\r\n\r\nAll is grist to this monstrous mill, as the authors tamper with outmoded video formats and meddle with magenta-bias safety film in their mission to finger- paint an entirely unexpected, highly irreverent and thoroughly personal picture of film and television culture in twentieth-century Britain.\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<strong>ABOUT THE AUTHORS</strong>\r\n\r\nWilliam Fowler and Vic Pratt are both film archivists, writers, and curators, and have programmed numerous cinema screenings at venues internationally. In 2006, they co-founded The Flipside initiative at the British Film Institute. Every month for seven years, they presented weird and wonderful, offbeat, unseen and outrageous film and television, welcoming a host of acting and directorial talent.\r\n\r\nWill and Vic write regularly for many different film publications and anthologies, and contribute programme notes for screenings, DVD and Blu- Ray releases including the BFI Flipside label.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n</div>','The Bodies Beneath','£15.99,\r\n148mm x 210mm\r\nPB, 400pp','inherit','closed','closed','','6321-revision-v1','','','2019-06-21 08:21:59','2019-06-21 08:21:59','',6321,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/news/6321-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(6140,2,'2018-06-04 10:49:34','2018-06-04 10:49:34','<strong><a href=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/shoppe/all-in-the-downs/attachment/allinthedownscover-2/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6092\"><img class=\"alignright wp-image-6092\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/allinthedownscover-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"336\" height=\"478\" /></a><a href=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/shoppe/all-in-the-downs/attachment/allinthedownscover/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5998\">\r\n</a>Reflections on Life, Landscape and Song</strong>\r\nBy Shirley Collins\r\n\r\n<i>I</i><i style=\"color: #000000;\">ntroduction by Stewart Lee\r\n</i><strong> PB / Limited HB\r\n196mm x 132mm\r\n256pp, 58 images in colour &amp; B/W\r\n£15.99 (PB) / £25 (HB)\r\n</strong><strong> ISBN: 9781907222412</strong>\r\n\r\n<em>(Cover photo by SF Said)</em><strong>\r\n</strong><em>\r\n</em><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/all-in-the-downs/\"><strong>Order the hardback  here</strong></a>\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/all-downs\">Or the paperback here</a></strong>\r\n<div>\r\n\r\n<strong>Available in <a href=\"https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/all-downs\">paperback</a> and a special hardback edition including an insert signed by Shirley Collins</strong><strong> (limited to 500 copies).  </strong>\r\n\r\n<em>\"Spirited... elegant... highly enjoyable... Shirley Collins’s descriptions of her beloved Sussex, along with the richness of her culture, make an elegant case for reclaiming a variant of English history.\" </em>The Guardian\r\n\r\n<em>\"Luminous... All in the Downs traces the rhythm of a life with the old songs and music. Deeply moving... [it] allows us to read Collins in the landscape and the landscape in her.\"\r\n</em>The Wire\r\n<em>\r\n\"Another strong female voice to add to the chorus of music history, going against the grain, so tunefully ...it’s a book that makes you want to hear those old ballads about love and loss, full of hunger and heat.\" </em>Mail on Sunday\r\n\r\n<em>“All In The Downs </em>dissolves time, darting between distant memory and history and the events of her recent renaissance, dissolving the years between incidents, bringing ghosts, both metaphorical and literal, striding over the downs into life before us.”\r\nFrom the introduction by Stewart Lee\r\n\r\nA legendary singer, folklorist, and music historian, Shirley Collins has been an integral figure in the English folk music scene for more than sixty years. In her new memoir, <i>All in the Downs</i>, Collins tells the story of that lifelong relationship with English folksong—a dedication to artistic integrity that has guided her through the triumphs and tragedies of her life.\r\n\r\n<img class=\"alignright wp-image-6096\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/IMG_7901-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"344\" height=\"344\" /><i>All in the Downs</i> combines elements of memoir—from her working-class origins in wartime Hastings to the bright lights of the 1950s folk revival in London—alongside reflections on the role traditional music and the English landscape have played in shaping her vision. From formative field recordings made with Alan Lomax in the United States to the “crowning glories” recorded with her sister Dolly on the Sussex Downs, she writes of the obstacles that led to her withdrawal from the spotlight and the redemption of a new artistic flourishing that continues today with her unexpected return to recording in 2016.\r\n\r\nThrough it all, Shirley Collins has been guided and supported by three vital and inseparable loves: traditional English song, the people and landscape of her native Sussex, and an unwavering sense of artistic integrity. <i>All in the Downs</i> pays tribute to these passions, and in doing so, illustrates a way of life as old as England, that has all but vanished from this land.\r\n\r\n<strong>About the Author</strong>\r\nShirley Collins MBE  is a renowned folk singer who has recorded over 20 albums, and the author of <em>America Over the Water</em> (2004). She is the president of the English Folk Dance and Song Society in London. Her critically lauded album <i>Lodestar</i>, released in 2016, marked a triumphant return to performance after thirty eight years. 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Shirley Collins’s descriptions of her beloved Sussex, along with the richness of her culture, make an elegant case for reclaiming a variant of English history.\" </em>The Guardian\r\n\r\n<em>\"Luminous... All in the Downs traces the rhythm of a life with the old songs and music. Deeply moving... [it] allows us to read Collins in the landscape and the landscape in her.\" </em>The Wire\r\n<em>\r\n\"Another strong female voice to add to the chorus of music history, going against the grain, so tunefully ...it’s a book that makes you want to hear those old ballads about love and loss, full of hunger and heat.\" </em>Mail on Sunday\r\n\r\n<em>“All In The Downs </em>dissolves time, darting between distant memory and history and the events of her recent renaissance, dissolving the years between incidents, bringing ghosts, both metaphorical and literal, striding over the downs into life before us.”\r\nFrom the introduction by Stewart Lee\r\n\r\nA legendary singer, folklorist, and music historian, Shirley Collins has been an integral figure in the English folk music scene for more than sixty years. In her new memoir, <i>All in the Downs</i>, Collins tells the story of that lifelong relationship with English folksong—a dedication to artistic integrity that has guided her through the triumphs and tragedies of her life.\r\n\r\n<img class=\"alignright wp-image-6096\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/IMG_7901-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"344\" height=\"344\" /><i>All in the Downs</i> combines elements of memoir—from her working-class origins in wartime Hastings to the bright lights of the 1950s folk revival in London—alongside reflections on the role traditional music and the English landscape have played in shaping her vision. From formative field recordings made with Alan Lomax in the United States to the “crowning glories” recorded with her sister Dolly on the Sussex Downs, she writes of the obstacles that led to her withdrawal from the spotlight and the redemption of a new artistic flourishing that continues today with her unexpected return to recording in 2016.\r\n\r\nThrough it all, Shirley Collins has been guided and supported by three vital and inseparable loves: traditional English song, the people and landscape of her native Sussex, and an unwavering sense of artistic integrity. <i>All in the Downs</i> pays tribute to these passions, and in doing so, illustrates a way of life as old as England, that has all but vanished from this land.\r\n\r\n<strong>About the Author</strong>\r\nShirley Collins MBE  is a renowned folk singer who has recorded over 20 albums, and the author of <em>America Over the Water</em> (2004). She is the president of the English Folk Dance and Song Society in London. Her critically lauded album <i>Lodestar</i>, released in 2016, marked a triumphant return to performance after thirty eight years. Shirley was recently the subject of a feature documentary film, <em>The Ballad of Shirley Collins</em>.\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/all-in-the-downs/\">Order Here</a>','All in the Downs','Reflections on Life, Landscape and Song\r\nShirley Collins\r\nPB / Limited HB\r\n','inherit','closed','closed','','6068-revision-v1','','','2018-06-04 10:50:20','2018-06-04 10:50:20','',6068,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/news/6068-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(6142,2,'2018-06-05 12:42:12','2018-06-05 12:42:12','<a href=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/MP_AI.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5005\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/MP_AI-268x300.jpg\" alt=\"MP_AI\" width=\"268\" height=\"300\" /></a><strong>BY STEPHEN THROWER</strong>\r\n<strong> WITH JULIAN GRAINGER</strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>432PP, HB  PLUS 32 PAGES OF COLOUR</strong>\r\n<strong> 268.8 X 240 MM</strong>\r\n<strong> £40 / £50</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/murderous-passions/\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>BUY HERE</strong></span></a>\r\n\r\n<strong>Reprint Due late 2018</strong>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><del>The book is available in two editions from SAP:• Signed and numbered <strong>Special Edition</strong>, <em>below</em>, limited to 300 copies, in a cloth, foil blocked cover with inserted colour plate, plus limited 7\" vinyl disc of Franco music and a postcard set.</del></p>\r\n<del>The single contains three tracks from <em>La Comtesse Perverse </em>and<em> Le Journal Intime dune Nymphomane</em>,  all by Roger Davy.</del>\r\n\r\n<strong>Standard Edition </strong>- with colour cover from <em>Female Vampire</em>\r\n\r\n<strong>Currently out of print, but we are planning a reprint of the standard edition for late 2018. </strong>\r\n\r\n<img class=\" size-full wp-image-5118 aligncenter\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/MP-special.jpg\" alt=\"MP-special\" width=\"600\" height=\"367\" />\r\n\r\nJesús ‘Jess\' Franco is an iconic figure in world cinema. His sexually charged, fearlessly personal style of filmmaking has never been in vogue with mainstream critics, but for lovers of the strange and sado-erotic he is a magician, spinning his unique and disturbing dream worlds from the cheapest of budgets.\r\n\r\nIn the world of Jess Franco freedom was the key, and he pushed at the boundaries of taste and censorship over and over again, throughout an astonishingly varied career spanning sixty years. The director of more than 180 films, at his most prolific he reached a supercharged frenzy that yielded as many as twelve films per year, making him one of the most prolific filmmakers of all time.\r\n\r\nFranco was the winner of a Lifetime Achievement prize at the 2009 Spanish Goya Film Awards, but his appeal does not depend upon mainstream respect; instead fans around the world have embraced his cinema, first on video and then more and more frequently on DVD and Blu-Ray. Where once he was castigated for slapdash haste, many fans today not only accept but even revel in the rough edges of his work. His delirious improvisations and raw, punkish spontaneity turn the basics of popular cinema, sex and violence, into a whirl of sensations, a seductive and bewitching spectacle that could only be the work of one man.\r\n\r\nFranco’s taste for the sexy and horrific, his lifelong obsession with the Marquis De Sade and his roving hand-held camera style birthed a whole new strain of erotic cinema. Disturbing, exciting and defiantly avant-garde, films such as <em>Necronomicon</em>, <em>Vampyros Lesbos</em>, <em>Virgin Among the Living Dead</em> and <em>Venus in Furs</em> are among the jewels of European horror, while a plethora of multiple versions, re-edits and echoes of earlier works turn the Franco experience into a dizzying hall of mirrors, further entrancing the viewer who dares enter Franco’s domain.\r\n\r\nStephen Thrower has devoted five years to examining each and every Franco film. This book – the first in a two-volume set – delves into the first half of Franco’s career: from his avant-garde comedy <em>Tenemos 18 año</em>s in 1959, through the groundbreaking surgical horror story <em>The Awful Dr. Orlof</em> and the art-horror masterpiece <em>Necronomicon</em>, to his grisly psycho-killer opus <em>Exorcism</em> in 1974. Ably assisted by the esteemed critic and researcher Julian Grainger, Thrower shines a light into the darkest corners of the Franco filmography and uncovers previously unknown and unsuspected facts about their casts, crews and production histories.\r\n\r\nUnparalleled in scope and ambition, <em>Murderous Passions</em> brings Franco’s career into focus in a landmark study that aims to provide the definitive assessment of Jess Franco’s labyrinthine film universe.\r\n\r\n<em>Stephen Thrower is the acclaimed author of Beyond Terror: the films of Lucio Fulci and the ground-breaking Nightmare USA: The Untold Story of the Exploitation Independents.</em>','Murderous Passions','464pp, HB\r\n268 x 240 mm\r\n£40 /£50 + P&P','inherit','closed','closed','','5004-revision-v1','','','2018-06-05 12:42:12','2018-06-05 12:42:12','',5004,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/news/5004-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(6143,2,'2018-06-07 13:13:08','2018-06-07 13:13:08','<strong><a href=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/shoppe/all-in-the-downs/attachment/allinthedownscover-2/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6092\"><img class=\"alignright wp-image-6092\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/allinthedownscover-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"336\" height=\"478\" /></a><a href=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/shoppe/all-in-the-downs/attachment/allinthedownscover/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5998\">\r\n</a>Reflections on Life, Landscape and Song</strong>\r\nBy Shirley Collins\r\n\r\n<i>I</i><i style=\"color: #000000;\">ntroduction by Stewart Lee\r\n</i><strong> PB / Limited HB\r\n196mm x 132mm\r\n280pp, 58 images in colour &amp; B/W\r\n£15.99 (PB) / £25 (HB)\r\n</strong><strong> ISBN: 9781907222412</strong>\r\n\r\n<em>(Cover photo by SF Said)</em><strong>\r\n</strong><em>\r\n</em><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/all-in-the-downs/\"><strong>Order the hardback  here</strong></a>\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/all-downs\">Or the paperback here</a></strong>\r\n<div>\r\n\r\n<strong>Available in <a href=\"https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/all-downs\">paperback</a> and a special hardback edition including an insert signed by Shirley Collins</strong><strong> (limited to 500 copies).  </strong>\r\n\r\n<em>\"Spirited... elegant... highly enjoyable... Shirley Collins’s descriptions of her beloved Sussex, along with the richness of her culture, make an elegant case for reclaiming a variant of English history.\" </em>The Guardian\r\n\r\n<em>\"Luminous... All in the Downs traces the rhythm of a life with the old songs and music. Deeply moving... [it] allows us to read Collins in the landscape and the landscape in her.\" </em>The Wire\r\n<em>\r\n\"Another strong female voice to add to the chorus of music history, going against the grain, so tunefully ...it’s a book that makes you want to hear those old ballads about love and loss, full of hunger and heat.\" </em>Mail on Sunday\r\n\r\n<em>“All In The Downs </em>dissolves time, darting between distant memory and history and the events of her recent renaissance, dissolving the years between incidents, bringing ghosts, both metaphorical and literal, striding over the downs into life before us.”\r\nFrom the introduction by Stewart Lee\r\n\r\nA legendary singer, folklorist, and music historian, Shirley Collins has been an integral figure in the English folk music scene for more than sixty years. In her new memoir, <i>All in the Downs</i>, Collins tells the story of that lifelong relationship with English folksong—a dedication to artistic integrity that has guided her through the triumphs and tragedies of her life.\r\n\r\n<img class=\"alignright wp-image-6096\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/IMG_7901-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"344\" height=\"344\" /><i>All in the Downs</i> combines elements of memoir—from her working-class origins in wartime Hastings to the bright lights of the 1950s folk revival in London—alongside reflections on the role traditional music and the English landscape have played in shaping her vision. From formative field recordings made with Alan Lomax in the United States to the “crowning glories” recorded with her sister Dolly on the Sussex Downs, she writes of the obstacles that led to her withdrawal from the spotlight and the redemption of a new artistic flourishing that continues today with her unexpected return to recording in 2016.\r\n\r\nThrough it all, Shirley Collins has been guided and supported by three vital and inseparable loves: traditional English song, the people and landscape of her native Sussex, and an unwavering sense of artistic integrity. <i>All in the Downs</i> pays tribute to these passions, and in doing so, illustrates a way of life as old as England, that has all but vanished from this land.\r\n\r\n<strong>About the Author</strong>\r\nShirley Collins MBE  is a renowned folk singer who has recorded over 20 albums, and the author of <em>America Over the Water</em> (2004). She is the president of the English Folk Dance and Song Society in London. Her critically lauded album <i>Lodestar</i>, released in 2016, marked a triumphant return to performance after thirty eight years. Shirley was recently the subject of a feature documentary film, <em>The Ballad of Shirley Collins</em>.\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/all-in-the-downs/\">Order Here</a>','All in the Downs','Reflections on Life, Landscape and Song\r\nShirley Collins\r\nPB / Limited HB\r\n','inherit','closed','closed','','6068-revision-v1','','','2018-06-07 13:13:08','2018-06-07 13:13:08','',6068,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/news/6068-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(6144,2,'2018-06-13 08:01:16','2018-06-13 08:01:16','<a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/of-kings-and-things/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6014\"><img class=\"wp-image-6014 size-medium alignright\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/9781907222573-300x426.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"426\" /></a><strong>Strange Tales and Decadent Poems</strong>\r\n<strong>by Count Stanislaus Eric Stenbock</strong>\r\n\r\nEdited and introduced by David Tibet; with an afterword by Tim d\'Arch Smith and a comprehensive bibliography by David Tibet, Ray Russell and Mark Valentine.\r\n\r\nIllustrated with exceedingly rare archive material.\r\n\r\nHB/PB\r\n256pp (approx), 210 x 148\r\nISBN: 9781907222573\r\n£40.00/£15.99\r\n\r\n<strong>Available early August 2018</strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/of-kings-and-things/\">PRE-ORDER IT HERE</a></strong>\r\n\r\nAvailable for pre-order in two editions:\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><strong>Signed (by David Tibet), hardback special edition:\r\n</strong>including book plate and a limited edition \'Studies of Death\' tote bag featuring Stenbock\'s original cover illustration.  Limited to 500 copies only - £40.00</li>\r\n 	<li><strong>High quality paperback\r\n</strong>- £15.99</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nDescribed by W. B. Yeats as a “scholar, connoisseur, drunkard, poet, pervert, most charming of men,” Count Stanislaus Eric Stenbock (1860–1895) is surely the greatest exemplar of the Decadent movement of the late nineteenth century.\r\n\r\nA friend of Aubrey Beardsley, patron of the extraordinary pre-Raphaelite artist Simeon Solomon, and contemporary of Oscar Wilde, Stenbock died at the age of thirty-six as a result of his addiction to opium and his alcoholism, having published just three slim volumes of suicidal poetry and one collection of morbid short stories.\r\n\r\nStenbock was a homosexual convert to Roman Catholicism and owner of a serpent, a toad, and a dachshund called Trixie. It was said that toward the end of his life he was accompanied everywhere by a life-size wooden doll that he believed to be his son. His poems and stories are replete with queer, supernatural, mystical, and Satanic themes; original editions of his books are highly sought by collectors of recherché literature.\r\n\r\nEdited and introduced by David Tibet; with an afterword by Tim d\'Arch Smith and a comprehensive bibliography by David Tibet, Ray Russell and Mark Valentine, <em>Of Kings and Things</em> is the first introduction to Stenbock’s writing for the general reader.\r\n\r\nThis volume offers fifteen stories, including all of those in his fabled collections <em>Studies of Death</em> and <em>Child of the Soul</em>,  over thirty poems and two essays by this complex, intriguing figure.\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/of-kings-and-things/\">PRE-ORDER IT HERE</a></strong></li>\r\n</ul>','Of Kings and Things','Of Kings and Things: Strange Tales and Decadent Poems\r\nby Count Eric Stanislaus Stenbock\r\nEdited by David Tibet','inherit','closed','closed','','6012-revision-v1','','','2018-06-13 08:01:16','2018-06-13 08:01:16','',6012,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/news/6012-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(6145,2,'2018-06-14 10:33:29','2018-06-14 10:33:29','<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/jolly-lad-2018-expanded-edition/\"><img class=\"alignright wp-image-6132\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/jollyexpanded.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"281\" height=\"396\" /></a>By John Doran\r\n</strong><strong>302pp, 210mm x 148mm\r\n</strong><strong>ISBN:</strong>  <strong>978-1-907222-337</strong></p>\r\n<strong>Expanded Paperback: £15.99</strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>Hardback: £23.00\r\n272pp, 500 only,sewn binding, includes CD<em> (last few copies)</em></strong>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Cover by Simon Fowler\r\n</strong><strong>Illustrations by Krent Able</strong></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/jolly-lad/\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Buy the hardback!</span></a></p>\r\n<a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/jolly-lad-2018-expanded-edition/\">Buy the expanded paperback</a>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/jolly-lad/\"><strong>Hardbacks are in an edition of 500 and will be signed, with a CD of readings and music from:</strong></a></p>\r\nNicky Wire (Manic Street Preachers) / Abi &amp; Neil (British Sea Power) / Eccentronic Research Council / Teeth Of The Sea / English Heretic / Grumbling Fur / Mark Dicker / GNOD / Bronze Teeth.\r\n\r\n“Doran thinks he’s Oliver fucking Cromwell… He’s a lunatic.”\r\nMark E Smith\r\n\r\n“Makes <em>Withnail &amp; I </em>look like<em>Little House On The Prairie</em>.”\r\nCaitlin Moran\r\n\r\n\"I’ve read this book twice now and both times I’ve been astounded by John’s humour throughout the telling of the many frightening situations he found himself in, and by his brutal honesty in recounting his struggles with addiction and depression. He is a remarkable writer and I can’t wait for his next book.”\r\nCosey Fanni Tutti\r\n\r\n\"The work of a real writer propelled by that most vital of properties, self-doubt. John Doran has confected a book that is a hoot: a cheerful, balanced, beautifully wrought, un-self-pitying  and weirdly objective study of himself and his multiple addictions.\"\r\nJonathan Meades\r\n\r\n<strong>Back in print due to popular demand, now with an extra chapter documenting John\'s 2015 \'An English Trip\' reading tour of the UK.</strong>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Jolly Lad</em> is a memoir about the recovery from alcoholism, habitual drug use and mental illness. It is also about the healing power of music, how memory defines us, the redemption offered by fatherhood and what it means to be working class.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"This is not a ‘my drink and drug hell’ kind of book for several reasons – the main one being that I had, for the most part, had a really good time drinking. True, a handful of pretty appalling things have happened to me and some people that I know or used to know over the years. But I have, for the most part, left them out of this book as they are not illuminating, not edifying and in some cases concern other people who aren’t here to consent to their appearance. Instead this book concentrates on what you face after the drink and the drugs have gone.\"</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Jolly Lad</em> is about gentrification; being diagnosed bipolar; attending Alcoholics Anonymous; living in a block of flats on a housing estate in London; the psychological damage done by psychedelic drugs; depression; DJing; factory work; friendship; growing old; hallucinations; street violence and obsessive behaviour – especially regarding music\r\nand art.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Jolly_Lad_1_Lo_Res_for_web_1426716621_crop_550x781.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-5088 alignright\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Jolly_Lad_1_Lo_Res_for_web_1426716621_crop_550x781.jpg\" alt=\"Jolly_Lad_1_Lo_Res_for_web_1426716621_crop_550x781\" width=\"269\" height=\"382\" /></a></p>\r\n<strong>About the author\r\n</strong>John Doran is the co-founder and editor of <em>The Quietus</em> website. He lives in Hackney, London, with his girlfriend and three year old son and has written for the BBC, the <em>Guardian</em>, <em>The</em> <em>WIRE</em>, <em>Metal Hammer</em>, <em>The Stool Pigeon</em>, <em>VICE</em> and many others. He is also an occasional broadcaster for NOISEY and BBC TV and radio.<img style=\"display: none !important; visibility: hidden !important; opacity: 0 !important; background-position: 0px 0px;\" src=\"https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_GB/i/scr/pixel.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\" border=\"0\" />','Jolly Lad','By John Doran\r\n272pp, 210mm x 148mm\r\nHB + CD £23 / PB £14.99','inherit','closed','closed','','5081-revision-v1','','','2018-06-14 10:33:29','2018-06-14 10:33:29','',5081,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/news/5081-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(6232,2,'2018-12-10 13:08:14','2018-12-10 13:08:14','<strong><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/all-in-the-downs/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6092\"><img class=\"alignright wp-image-6092\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/allinthedownscover-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"336\" height=\"478\" /></a><a href=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/shoppe/all-in-the-downs/attachment/allinthedownscover/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5998\">\r\n</a>Reflections on Life, Landscape and Song</strong>\r\nBy Shirley Collins\r\n\r\n<i>I</i><i style=\"color: #000000;\">ntroduction by Stewart Lee\r\n</i><strong> PB / Limited HB\r\n196mm x 132mm\r\n280pp, 58 images in colour &amp; B/W\r\n£15.99 (PB) /\r\nHB IS NOW SOLD OUT\r\n</strong><strong> ISBN: 9781907222412</strong>\r\n\r\n<em>(Cover photo by SF Said)</em>\r\n<div>\r\n\r\n<strong>Available in paperback and a special hardback edition including an insert signed by Shirley Collins</strong><strong> (limited to 500 copies - SOLD OUT).  </strong>\r\n\r\n<em> </em><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/all-in-the-downs/\"><strong>Order the paperback here</strong></a>\r\n\r\n<em>\"Spirited... elegant... highly enjoyable... Shirley Collins’s descriptions of her beloved Sussex, along with the richness of her culture, make an elegant case for reclaiming a variant of English history.\" </em>The Guardian\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\r\n<div class=\"section\">\r\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\r\n<div class=\"column\">\r\n\r\n<em>\"In these pages Shirley Collins completes her comeback, reclaiming her rightful place in the English folk revival from those who placed obstacles in her way.\"</em>\r\nBilly Bragg in The New Statesman\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n<div>\r\n\r\n<em>\"Luminous... All in the Downs traces the rhythm of a life with the old songs and music. Deeply moving... [it] allows us to read Collins in the landscape and the landscape in her.\" </em>The Wire\r\n<em>\r\n\"Another strong female voice to add to the chorus of music history, going against the grain, so tunefully ...it’s a book that makes you want to hear those old ballads about love and loss, full of hunger and heat.\" </em>Mail on Sunday\r\n\r\n<em>“All In The Downs </em>dissolves time, darting between distant memory and history and the events of her recent renaissance, dissolving the years between incidents, bringing ghosts, both metaphorical and literal, striding over the downs into life before us.”\r\nFrom the introduction by Stewart Lee\r\n\r\nA legendary singer, folklorist, and music historian, Shirley Collins has been an integral figure in the English folk music scene for more than sixty years. In her new memoir, <i>All in the Downs</i>, Collins tells the story of that lifelong relationship with English folksong—a dedication to artistic integrity that has guided her through the triumphs and tragedies of her life.\r\n\r\n<img class=\"alignright wp-image-6096\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/IMG_7901-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"344\" height=\"344\" /><i>All in the Downs</i> combines elements of memoir—from her working-class origins in wartime Hastings to the bright lights of the 1950s folk revival in London—alongside reflections on the role traditional music and the English landscape have played in shaping her vision. From formative field recordings made with Alan Lomax in the United States to the “crowning glories” recorded with her sister Dolly on the Sussex Downs, she writes of the obstacles that led to her withdrawal from the spotlight and the redemption of a new artistic flourishing that continues today with her unexpected return to recording in 2016.\r\n\r\nThrough it all, Shirley Collins has been guided and supported by three vital and inseparable loves: traditional English song, the people and landscape of her native Sussex, and an unwavering sense of artistic integrity. <i>All in the Downs</i> pays tribute to these passions, and in doing so, illustrates a way of life as old as England, that has all but vanished from this land.\r\n\r\n<strong>About the Author</strong>\r\nShirley Collins MBE  is a renowned folk singer who has recorded over 20 albums, and the author of <em>America Over the Water</em> (2004). She is the president of the English Folk Dance and Song Society in London. Her critically lauded album <i>Lodestar</i>, released in 2016, marked a triumphant return to performance after thirty eight years. Shirley was recently the subject of a feature documentary film, <em>The Ballad of Shirley Collins</em>.\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/all-in-the-downs/\">Order Here</a>','All in the Downs','Reflections on Life, Landscape and Song\r\nShirley Collins\r\nPB / Limited HB\r\n','inherit','closed','closed','','6068-revision-v1','','','2018-12-10 13:08:14','2018-12-10 13:08:14','',6068,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/news/6068-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(6230,2,'2018-12-07 17:11:43','2018-12-07 17:11:43','<strong><a href=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/shoppe/all-in-the-downs/attachment/allinthedownscover-2/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6092\"><img class=\"alignright wp-image-6092\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/allinthedownscover-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"336\" height=\"478\" /></a><a href=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/shoppe/all-in-the-downs/attachment/allinthedownscover/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5998\">\r\n</a>Reflections on Life, Landscape and Song</strong>\r\nBy Shirley Collins\r\n\r\n<i>I</i><i style=\"color: #000000;\">ntroduction by Stewart Lee\r\n</i><strong> PB / Limited HB\r\n196mm x 132mm\r\n280pp, 58 images in colour &amp; B/W\r\n£15.99 (PB) /\r\nHB IS NOW SOLD OUT\r\n</strong><strong> ISBN: 9781907222412</strong>\r\n\r\n<em>(Cover photo by SF Said)</em><strong>\r\n</strong><em>\r\n</em>\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/all-downs\">Or the paperback here</a></strong>\r\n<div>\r\n\r\n<strong>Available in <a href=\"https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/all-downs\">paperback</a> and a special hardback edition including an insert signed by Shirley Collins</strong><strong> (limited to 500 copies - SOLD OUT).  </strong>\r\n\r\n<em>\"Spirited... elegant... highly enjoyable... Shirley Collins’s descriptions of her beloved Sussex, along with the richness of her culture, make an elegant case for reclaiming a variant of English history.\" </em>The Guardian\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\r\n<div class=\"section\">\r\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\r\n<div class=\"column\">\r\n\r\n<em>\"In these pages Shirley Collins completes her comeback, reclaiming her rightful place in the English folk revival from those who placed obstacles in her way.\"</em>\r\nBilly Bragg in The New Statesman\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n<div>\r\n\r\n<em>\"Luminous... All in the Downs traces the rhythm of a life with the old songs and music. Deeply moving... [it] allows us to read Collins in the landscape and the landscape in her.\" </em>The Wire\r\n<em>\r\n\"Another strong female voice to add to the chorus of music history, going against the grain, so tunefully ...it’s a book that makes you want to hear those old ballads about love and loss, full of hunger and heat.\" </em>Mail on Sunday\r\n\r\n<em>“All In The Downs </em>dissolves time, darting between distant memory and history and the events of her recent renaissance, dissolving the years between incidents, bringing ghosts, both metaphorical and literal, striding over the downs into life before us.”\r\nFrom the introduction by Stewart Lee\r\n\r\nA legendary singer, folklorist, and music historian, Shirley Collins has been an integral figure in the English folk music scene for more than sixty years. In her new memoir, <i>All in the Downs</i>, Collins tells the story of that lifelong relationship with English folksong—a dedication to artistic integrity that has guided her through the triumphs and tragedies of her life.\r\n\r\n<img class=\"alignright wp-image-6096\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/IMG_7901-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"344\" height=\"344\" /><i>All in the Downs</i> combines elements of memoir—from her working-class origins in wartime Hastings to the bright lights of the 1950s folk revival in London—alongside reflections on the role traditional music and the English landscape have played in shaping her vision. From formative field recordings made with Alan Lomax in the United States to the “crowning glories” recorded with her sister Dolly on the Sussex Downs, she writes of the obstacles that led to her withdrawal from the spotlight and the redemption of a new artistic flourishing that continues today with her unexpected return to recording in 2016.\r\n\r\nThrough it all, Shirley Collins has been guided and supported by three vital and inseparable loves: traditional English song, the people and landscape of her native Sussex, and an unwavering sense of artistic integrity. <i>All in the Downs</i> pays tribute to these passions, and in doing so, illustrates a way of life as old as England, that has all but vanished from this land.\r\n\r\n<strong>About the Author</strong>\r\nShirley Collins MBE  is a renowned folk singer who has recorded over 20 albums, and the author of <em>America Over the Water</em> (2004). She is the president of the English Folk Dance and Song Society in London. Her critically lauded album <i>Lodestar</i>, released in 2016, marked a triumphant return to performance after thirty eight years. Shirley was recently the subject of a feature documentary film, <em>The Ballad of Shirley Collins</em>.\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/all-in-the-downs/\">Order Here</a>','All in the Downs','Reflections on Life, Landscape and Song\r\nShirley Collins\r\nPB / Limited HB\r\n','inherit','closed','closed','','6068-revision-v1','','','2018-12-07 17:11:43','2018-12-07 17:11:43','',6068,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/news/6068-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(6146,2,'2018-06-19 13:39:53','2018-06-19 13:39:53','<strong><a href=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/shoppe/all-in-the-downs/attachment/allinthedownscover-2/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6092\"><img class=\"alignright wp-image-6092\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/allinthedownscover-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"336\" height=\"478\" /></a><a href=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/shoppe/all-in-the-downs/attachment/allinthedownscover/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5998\">\r\n</a>Reflections on Life, Landscape and Song</strong>\r\nBy Shirley Collins\r\n\r\n<i>I</i><i style=\"color: #000000;\">ntroduction by Stewart Lee\r\n</i><strong> PB / Limited HB\r\n196mm x 132mm\r\n280pp, 58 images in colour &amp; B/W\r\n£15.99 (PB) / £25 (HB)\r\n</strong><strong> ISBN: 9781907222412</strong>\r\n\r\n<em>(Cover photo by SF Said)</em><strong>\r\n</strong><em>\r\n</em><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/all-in-the-downs/\"><strong>Order the hardback  here</strong></a>\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/all-downs\">Or the paperback here</a></strong>\r\n<div>\r\n\r\n<strong>Available in <a href=\"https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/all-downs\">paperback</a> and a special hardback edition including an insert signed by Shirley Collins</strong><strong> (limited to 500 copies).  </strong>\r\n\r\n<em>\"Spirited... elegant... highly enjoyable... Shirley Collins’s descriptions of her beloved Sussex, along with the richness of her culture, make an elegant case for reclaiming a variant of English history.\" </em>The Guardian\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\r\n<div class=\"section\">\r\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\r\n<div class=\"column\">\r\n\r\n<em>\"In these pages Shirley Collins completes her comeback, reclaiming her rightful place in the English folk revival from those who placed obstacles in her way.\"</em>\r\nBilly Bragg in The New Statesman\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n<div>\r\n\r\n<em>\"Luminous... All in the Downs traces the rhythm of a life with the old songs and music. Deeply moving... [it] allows us to read Collins in the landscape and the landscape in her.\" </em>The Wire\r\n<em>\r\n\"Another strong female voice to add to the chorus of music history, going against the grain, so tunefully ...it’s a book that makes you want to hear those old ballads about love and loss, full of hunger and heat.\" </em>Mail on Sunday\r\n\r\n<em>“All In The Downs </em>dissolves time, darting between distant memory and history and the events of her recent renaissance, dissolving the years between incidents, bringing ghosts, both metaphorical and literal, striding over the downs into life before us.”\r\nFrom the introduction by Stewart Lee\r\n\r\nA legendary singer, folklorist, and music historian, Shirley Collins has been an integral figure in the English folk music scene for more than sixty years. In her new memoir, <i>All in the Downs</i>, Collins tells the story of that lifelong relationship with English folksong—a dedication to artistic integrity that has guided her through the triumphs and tragedies of her life.\r\n\r\n<img class=\"alignright wp-image-6096\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/IMG_7901-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"344\" height=\"344\" /><i>All in the Downs</i> combines elements of memoir—from her working-class origins in wartime Hastings to the bright lights of the 1950s folk revival in London—alongside reflections on the role traditional music and the English landscape have played in shaping her vision. From formative field recordings made with Alan Lomax in the United States to the “crowning glories” recorded with her sister Dolly on the Sussex Downs, she writes of the obstacles that led to her withdrawal from the spotlight and the redemption of a new artistic flourishing that continues today with her unexpected return to recording in 2016.\r\n\r\nThrough it all, Shirley Collins has been guided and supported by three vital and inseparable loves: traditional English song, the people and landscape of her native Sussex, and an unwavering sense of artistic integrity. <i>All in the Downs</i> pays tribute to these passions, and in doing so, illustrates a way of life as old as England, that has all but vanished from this land.\r\n\r\n<strong>About the Author</strong>\r\nShirley Collins MBE  is a renowned folk singer who has recorded over 20 albums, and the author of <em>America Over the Water</em> (2004). She is the president of the English Folk Dance and Song Society in London. Her critically lauded album <i>Lodestar</i>, released in 2016, marked a triumphant return to performance after thirty eight years. Shirley was recently the subject of a feature documentary film, <em>The Ballad of Shirley Collins</em>.\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/all-in-the-downs/\">Order Here</a>','All in the Downs','Reflections on Life, Landscape and Song\r\nShirley Collins\r\nPB / Limited HB\r\n','inherit','closed','closed','','6068-revision-v1','','','2018-06-19 13:39:53','2018-06-19 13:39:53','',6068,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/news/6068-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(6147,2,'2018-07-04 15:03:04','2018-07-04 15:03:04','<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/jolly-lad-2018-expanded-edition/\"><img class=\"alignright wp-image-6132\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/jollyexpanded.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"281\" height=\"396\" /></a>By John Doran\r\n</strong><strong>302pp, 210mm x 148mm\r\n</strong><strong>ISBN:</strong>  <strong>978-1-907222-337</strong></p>\r\n<strong>Expanded Paperback: £15.99</strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>Hardback: £23.00\r\n272pp, 500 only,sewn binding, includes CD<em> (last few copies)</em></strong>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Cover by Simon Fowler\r\n</strong><strong>Illustrations by Krent Able</strong></p>\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/jolly-lad-2018-expanded-edition/\">!!!Buy the expanded paperback</a>!!!</span>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/jolly-lad/\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Buy the hardback!</span></a></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/jolly-lad/\"><strong>Hardbacks are in an edition of 500 and will be signed, with a CD of readings and music from:</strong></a></p>\r\nNicky Wire (Manic Street Preachers) / Abi &amp; Neil (British Sea Power) / Eccentronic Research Council / Teeth Of The Sea / English Heretic / Grumbling Fur / Mark Dicker / GNOD / Bronze Teeth.\r\n\r\n“Doran thinks he’s Oliver fucking Cromwell… He’s a lunatic.”\r\nMark E Smith\r\n\r\n“Makes <em>Withnail &amp; I </em>look like<em>Little House On The Prairie</em>.”\r\nCaitlin Moran\r\n\r\n\"I’ve read this book twice now and both times I’ve been astounded by John’s humour throughout the telling of the many frightening situations he found himself in, and by his brutal honesty in recounting his struggles with addiction and depression. He is a remarkable writer and I can’t wait for his next book.”\r\nCosey Fanni Tutti\r\n\r\n\"The work of a real writer propelled by that most vital of properties, self-doubt. John Doran has confected a book that is a hoot: a cheerful, balanced, beautifully wrought, un-self-pitying  and weirdly objective study of himself and his multiple addictions.\"\r\nJonathan Meades\r\n\r\n<strong>Back in print due to popular demand, now with an extra chapter documenting John\'s 2015 \'An English Trip\' reading tour of the UK.</strong>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Jolly Lad</em> is a memoir about the recovery from alcoholism, habitual drug use and mental illness. It is also about the healing power of music, how memory defines us, the redemption offered by fatherhood and what it means to be working class.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"This is not a ‘my drink and drug hell’ kind of book for several reasons – the main one being that I had, for the most part, had a really good time drinking. True, a handful of pretty appalling things have happened to me and some people that I know or used to know over the years. But I have, for the most part, left them out of this book as they are not illuminating, not edifying and in some cases concern other people who aren’t here to consent to their appearance. Instead this book concentrates on what you face after the drink and the drugs have gone.\"</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Jolly Lad</em> is about gentrification; being diagnosed bipolar; attending Alcoholics Anonymous; living in a block of flats on a housing estate in London; the psychological damage done by psychedelic drugs; depression; DJing; factory work; friendship; growing old; hallucinations; street violence and obsessive behaviour – especially regarding music\r\nand art.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Jolly_Lad_1_Lo_Res_for_web_1426716621_crop_550x781.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-5088 alignright\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Jolly_Lad_1_Lo_Res_for_web_1426716621_crop_550x781.jpg\" alt=\"Jolly_Lad_1_Lo_Res_for_web_1426716621_crop_550x781\" width=\"269\" height=\"382\" /></a></p>\r\n<strong>About the author\r\n</strong>John Doran is the co-founder and editor of <em>The Quietus</em> website. He lives in Hackney, London, with his girlfriend and three year old son and has written for the BBC, the <em>Guardian</em>, <em>The</em> <em>WIRE</em>, <em>Metal Hammer</em>, <em>The Stool Pigeon</em>, <em>VICE</em> and many others. He is also an occasional broadcaster for NOISEY and BBC TV and radio.<img style=\"display: none !important; visibility: hidden !important; opacity: 0 !important; background-position: 0px 0px;\" src=\"https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_GB/i/scr/pixel.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\" border=\"0\" />','Jolly Lad','By John Doran\r\n272pp, 210mm x 148mm\r\nHB + CD £23 / PB £14.99','inherit','closed','closed','','5081-revision-v1','','','2018-07-04 15:03:04','2018-07-04 15:03:04','',5081,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/news/5081-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(6148,2,'2018-07-04 15:56:59','2018-07-04 15:56:59','<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/jolly-lad-2018-expanded-edition/\"><img class=\"alignright wp-image-6132\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/jollyexpanded.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"281\" height=\"396\" /></a>By John Doran\r\n</strong><strong>302pp, 210mm x 148mm\r\n</strong><strong>ISBN:</strong>  <strong>978-1-907222-337</strong></p>\r\n<a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/jolly-lad-2018-expanded-edition/\"><strong>Expanded Paperback: £15.99</strong></a>\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/jolly-lad/\">Hardback: £23.00</a>\r\n272pp, 500 only,sewn binding, includes CD<em> (last few copies)</em></strong>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Cover by Simon Fowler\r\n</strong><strong>Illustrations by Krent Able</strong></p>\r\n<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/jolly-lad-2018-expanded-edition/\">!!!Buy the expanded paperback</a>!!!</span></strong>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/jolly-lad/\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Buy the hardback!</span></a></strong></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/jolly-lad/\"><strong>Hardbacks are in an edition of 500 and will be signed, with a CD of readings and music from:</strong></a></p>\r\nNicky Wire (Manic Street Preachers) / Abi &amp; Neil (British Sea Power) / Eccentronic Research Council / Teeth Of The Sea / English Heretic / Grumbling Fur / Mark Dicker / GNOD / Bronze Teeth.\r\n\r\n“Doran thinks he’s Oliver fucking Cromwell… He’s a lunatic.”\r\nMark E Smith\r\n\r\n“Makes <em>Withnail &amp; I </em>look like<em>Little House On The Prairie</em>.”\r\nCaitlin Moran\r\n\r\n\"I’ve read this book twice now and both times I’ve been astounded by John’s humour throughout the telling of the many frightening situations he found himself in, and by his brutal honesty in recounting his struggles with addiction and depression. He is a remarkable writer and I can’t wait for his next book.”\r\nCosey Fanni Tutti\r\n\r\n\"The work of a real writer propelled by that most vital of properties, self-doubt. John Doran has confected a book that is a hoot: a cheerful, balanced, beautifully wrought, un-self-pitying  and weirdly objective study of himself and his multiple addictions.\"\r\nJonathan Meades\r\n\r\n<strong>Back in print due to popular demand, now with an extra chapter documenting John\'s 2015 \'An English Trip\' reading tour of the UK.</strong>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Jolly Lad</em> is a memoir about the recovery from alcoholism, habitual drug use and mental illness. It is also about the healing power of music, how memory defines us, the redemption offered by fatherhood and what it means to be working class.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"This is not a ‘my drink and drug hell’ kind of book for several reasons – the main one being that I had, for the most part, had a really good time drinking. True, a handful of pretty appalling things have happened to me and some people that I know or used to know over the years. But I have, for the most part, left them out of this book as they are not illuminating, not edifying and in some cases concern other people who aren’t here to consent to their appearance. Instead this book concentrates on what you face after the drink and the drugs have gone.\"</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Jolly Lad</em> is about gentrification; being diagnosed bipolar; attending Alcoholics Anonymous; living in a block of flats on a housing estate in London; the psychological damage done by psychedelic drugs; depression; DJing; factory work; friendship; growing old; hallucinations; street violence and obsessive behaviour – especially regarding music\r\nand art.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Jolly_Lad_1_Lo_Res_for_web_1426716621_crop_550x781.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-5088 alignright\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Jolly_Lad_1_Lo_Res_for_web_1426716621_crop_550x781.jpg\" alt=\"Jolly_Lad_1_Lo_Res_for_web_1426716621_crop_550x781\" width=\"269\" height=\"382\" /></a></p>\r\n<strong>About the author\r\n</strong>John Doran is the co-founder and editor of <em>The Quietus</em> website. He lives in Hackney, London, with his girlfriend and three year old son and has written for the BBC, the <em>Guardian</em>, <em>The</em> <em>WIRE</em>, <em>Metal Hammer</em>, <em>The Stool Pigeon</em>, <em>VICE</em> and many others. 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John Doran has confected a book that is a hoot: a cheerful, balanced, beautifully wrought, un-self-pitying  and weirdly objective study of himself and his multiple addictions.\"\r\nJonathan Meades\r\n\r\n<strong>Back in print due to popular demand, now with an extra chapter documenting John\'s 2015 \'An English Trip\' reading tour of the UK.</strong>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Jolly Lad</em> is a memoir about the recovery from alcoholism, habitual drug use and mental illness. It is also about the healing power of music, how memory defines us, the redemption offered by fatherhood and what it means to be working class.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\"This is not a ‘my drink and drug hell’ kind of book for several reasons – the main one being that I had, for the most part, had a really good time drinking. True, a handful of pretty appalling things have happened to me and some people that I know or used to know over the years. But I have, for the most part, left them out of this book as they are not illuminating, not edifying and in some cases concern other people who aren’t here to consent to their appearance. Instead this book concentrates on what you face after the drink and the drugs have gone.\"</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Jolly Lad</em> is about gentrification; being diagnosed bipolar; attending Alcoholics Anonymous; living in a block of flats on a housing estate in London; the psychological damage done by psychedelic drugs; depression; DJing; factory work; friendship; growing old; hallucinations; street violence and obsessive behaviour – especially regarding music\r\nand art.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Jolly_Lad_1_Lo_Res_for_web_1426716621_crop_550x781.jpg\"><img class=\" wp-image-5088 alignright\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Jolly_Lad_1_Lo_Res_for_web_1426716621_crop_550x781.jpg\" alt=\"Jolly_Lad_1_Lo_Res_for_web_1426716621_crop_550x781\" width=\"269\" height=\"382\" /></a></p>\r\n<strong>About the author\r\n</strong>John Doran is the co-founder and editor of <em>The Quietus</em> website. He lives in Hackney, London, with his girlfriend and three year old son and has written for the BBC, the <em>Guardian</em>, <em>The</em> <em>WIRE</em>, <em>Metal Hammer</em>, <em>The Stool Pigeon</em>, <em>VICE</em> and many others. He is also an occasional broadcaster for NOISEY and BBC TV and radio.<img style=\"display: none !important; visibility: hidden !important; opacity: 0 !important; background-position: 0px 0px;\" src=\"https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_GB/i/scr/pixel.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\" border=\"0\" />','Jolly Lad (2018 edition)','By John Doran\r\n272pp, 210mm x 148mm\r\nHB + CD £23 / PB £14.99','inherit','closed','closed','','5081-revision-v1','','','2018-07-04 16:16:10','2018-07-04 16:16:10','',5081,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/news/5081-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(6376,2,'2019-08-28 13:43:59','2019-08-28 13:43:59','<a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/of-kings-and-things/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6014\"><img class=\"wp-image-6014 size-medium alignright\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/9781907222573-300x426.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"426\" /></a><strong>Strange Tales and Decadent Poems</strong>\r\n<strong>by Count Stanislaus Eric Stenbock</strong>\r\n\r\nEdited and introduced by David Tibet; with an afterword by Tim d\'Arch Smith and a comprehensive bibliography by David Tibet, Ray Russell and Mark Valentine.\r\n\r\nIllustrated with exceedingly rare archive material.\r\n\r\nHB/PB\r\n256pp (approx), 210 x 148\r\nISBN: 9781907222573\r\n<del>£40.00</del>/£15.99\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/of-kings-and-things/\">ORDER HERE</a></strong>\r\n\r\nAvailable for pre-order in two editions:\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><del><strong>Signed (by David Tibet), hardback special edition:\r\n</strong>including book plate and a limited edition \'Studies of Death\' tote bag featuring Stenbock\'s original cover illustration.  Limited to 500 copies only - £40.00 </del><strong> HB OUT OF PRINT</strong></li>\r\n 	<li><strong>High quality paperback\r\n</strong>- £15.99</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nDescribed by W. B. Yeats as a “scholar, connoisseur, drunkard, poet, pervert, most charming of men,” Count Stanislaus Eric Stenbock (1860–1895) is surely the greatest exemplar of the Decadent movement of the late nineteenth century.\r\n\r\nA friend of Aubrey Beardsley, patron of the extraordinary pre-Raphaelite artist Simeon Solomon, and contemporary of Oscar Wilde, Stenbock died at the age of thirty-six as a result of his addiction to opium and his alcoholism, having published just three slim volumes of suicidal poetry and one collection of morbid short stories.\r\n\r\nStenbock was a homosexual convert to Roman Catholicism and owner of a serpent, a toad, and a dachshund called Trixie. It was said that toward the end of his life he was accompanied everywhere by a life-size wooden doll that he believed to be his son. His poems and stories are replete with queer, supernatural, mystical, and Satanic themes; original editions of his books are highly sought by collectors of recherché literature.\r\n\r\nEdited and introduced by David Tibet; with an afterword by Tim d\'Arch Smith and a comprehensive bibliography by David Tibet, Ray Russell and Mark Valentine, <em>Of Kings and Things</em> is the first introduction to Stenbock’s writing for the general reader.\r\n\r\nThis volume offers fifteen stories, including all of those in his fabled collections <em>Studies of Death</em> and <em>Child of the Soul</em>,  over thirty poems and two essays by this complex, intriguing figure.\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/of-kings-and-things/\">ORDER HERE</a></strong></li>\r\n</ul>','Of Kings and Things','Of Kings and Things: Strange Tales and Decadent Poems\r\nby Count Eric Stanislaus Stenbock\r\nEdited by David Tibet','inherit','closed','closed','','6012-revision-v1','','','2019-08-28 13:43:59','2019-08-28 13:43:59','',6012,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/news/6012-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(6151,2,'2018-08-31 09:06:41','2018-08-31 09:06:41','<a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/of-kings-and-things/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6014\"><img class=\"wp-image-6014 size-medium alignright\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/9781907222573-300x426.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"426\" /></a><strong>Strange Tales and Decadent Poems</strong>\r\n<strong>by Count Stanislaus Eric Stenbock</strong>\r\n\r\nEdited and introduced by David Tibet; with an afterword by Tim d\'Arch Smith and a comprehensive bibliography by David Tibet, Ray Russell and Mark Valentine.\r\n\r\nIllustrated with exceedingly rare archive material.\r\n\r\nHB/PB\r\n256pp (approx), 210 x 148\r\nISBN: 9781907222573\r\n£40.00/£15.99\r\n<h4><strong>Available early October 2018</strong></h4>\r\n<h5>(Sorry for the endless delays, but we are finally going to press in early September!)</h5>\r\n<strong><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/of-kings-and-things/\">PRE-ORDER IT HERE</a></strong>\r\n\r\nAvailable for pre-order in two editions:\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\r\n<ul>\r\n 	<li><strong>Signed (by David Tibet), hardback special edition:\r\n</strong>including book plate and a limited edition \'Studies of Death\' tote bag featuring Stenbock\'s original cover illustration.  Limited to 500 copies only - £40.00</li>\r\n 	<li><strong>High quality paperback\r\n</strong>- £15.99</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nDescribed by W. B. Yeats as a “scholar, connoisseur, drunkard, poet, pervert, most charming of men,” Count Stanislaus Eric Stenbock (1860–1895) is surely the greatest exemplar of the Decadent movement of the late nineteenth century.\r\n\r\nA friend of Aubrey Beardsley, patron of the extraordinary pre-Raphaelite artist Simeon Solomon, and contemporary of Oscar Wilde, Stenbock died at the age of thirty-six as a result of his addiction to opium and his alcoholism, having published just three slim volumes of suicidal poetry and one collection of morbid short stories.\r\n\r\nStenbock was a homosexual convert to Roman Catholicism and owner of a serpent, a toad, and a dachshund called Trixie. It was said that toward the end of his life he was accompanied everywhere by a life-size wooden doll that he believed to be his son. His poems and stories are replete with queer, supernatural, mystical, and Satanic themes; original editions of his books are highly sought by collectors of recherché literature.\r\n\r\nEdited and introduced by David Tibet; with an afterword by Tim d\'Arch Smith and a comprehensive bibliography by David Tibet, Ray Russell and Mark Valentine, <em>Of Kings and Things</em> is the first introduction to Stenbock’s writing for the general reader.\r\n\r\nThis volume offers fifteen stories, including all of those in his fabled collections <em>Studies of Death</em> and <em>Child of the Soul</em>,  over thirty poems and two essays by this complex, intriguing figure.\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/of-kings-and-things/\">PRE-ORDER IT HERE</a></strong></li>\r\n</ul>','Of Kings and Things','Of Kings and Things: Strange Tales and Decadent Poems\r\nby Count Eric Stanislaus Stenbock\r\nEdited by David Tibet','inherit','closed','closed','','6012-revision-v1','','','2018-08-31 09:06:41','2018-08-31 09:06:41','',6012,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/news/6012-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(6152,2,'2018-09-12 15:08:57','2018-09-12 15:08:57','<b><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/the-space-oracle-0/\"><img class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6172\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/space-oracle-web2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"285\" height=\"420\" /></a>A Guide to Your Stars</b>\r\n\r\nBy Ken Hollings\r\n\r\n<strong>Paperback\r\n</strong><strong>116mm x 186mm\r\n176pp, 12 b/w Illos\r\n</strong><strong>£13.99\r\n</strong><strong> ISBN: 9781907222535</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/the-space-oracle-0/\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">ORDER HERE</span></a>\r\n\r\n<em>‘Takes the reader on some delightfully unexpected cosmic journeys… [a] playful and evocative meditation on the celestial\'.\r\n</em>PD Smith, The Guardian\r\n\r\n<em>\'Reading Ken Hollings is the intellectual equivalent of being fired out from the space-module for a non-stop EVA.’\r\n</em>Tom McCarthy, author of <em>Men In Space</em> and <em>Satin Island</em>\r\n\r\n<em>‘Within the courtly form of a Renaissance almanac, and in a voice that echoes the recursive wanderings of a comet, Hollings gives us a vision of humanity endlessly making sense of the heavens.’ </em>Richard Barnett, author of <em>The Sick Rose</em>\r\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\r\n<p class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\"><em>‘The Space Oracle shows what happens when astronomy escapes into the wider human world, and finds purposes beyond the scientific. As Ken Hollings points out, ‘‘the further into space we go, the more we learn about ourselves’’’.\r\n</em>Marek Kukula, Public Astronomer, Royal Observatory Greenwich</p>\r\nA radical retelling of our relationship with the cosmos, reinventing the history of astronomy as a new form of astrological calendar.\r\n\r\n</div>\r\nAstronomy is another form of cinema. Time is fragmented and extended. Matter becomes light in motion. The camera remains fixed, looking outwards into the darkness, while the earth moves beneath our feet.\r\n\r\nA carefully constructed text in sixty numbered sections, <em>The Space Oracle</em> reinvents the history of astronomy as a new form of astrological calendar. This radical retelling of our relationship with the cosmos reaches back to places and times when astronomers were treated as artists or priests, to when popes took part in astral rites and the common people feared eclipses and comets as portents of disaster.\r\n\r\nPanoramic and encyclopedic in its scope, <em>The Space Oracle</em> brings astronauts and spies, engineers and soldiers, goddesses and satellites into alignment with speculative insights and everyday observations. The universe, Hollings argues, is a work in progress—enjoy it.\r\n\r\n<strong>About the Author</strong>\r\nKen Hollings is a writer, broadcaster, and cultural theorist based in London. He has given readings, lectures and presentations of his work at the Royal Institution, the Berlin Akademie der Künste, the Venice Biennale, Tate Britain and the Royal College of Art, where he currently teaches. 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Yeats\r\n\r\nWritings that shed new light on one of the most gifted, if reclusive, poets of the<em> fin-de-siècle</em>.\r\n\r\nA lost poet of the decadent era, Lionel Johnson is the shadow man of the 1890s, an enigma “pale as wasted golden hair.” History has all but forgotten Johnson, except as a footnote to the lives of more celebrated characters like W. B. Yeats and Oscar Wilde.\r\n\r\nJohnson should have been one of the great poets of the age but was already drinking eau-de-cologne for kicks while a teenager at Winchester College. His attraction to absinthe damaged his fragile health and cast him forever into a waking dream of haunted rooms and spectral poetry. A habitual insomniac, he haunted medieval burial grounds after dark, jotting down the epitaphs of the gone-too-young, as if anticipating his own early demise at the age of 35—falling from a bar stool in a Fleet Street pub.\r\n\r\nIt was rumored that Johnson performed “strange religious rites” in his rooms at Oxford and experimented with hashish in the company of fellow poet Ernest Dowson. Moving to London, he fell in with Simeon Solomon, Oscar Wilde, and Aubrey Beardsley, and would contribute to the leading decadent publications of the day, including <em>The Chameleon</em>, <em>The Yellow Book</em>, and <em>The Savoy</em>.\r\n\r\nLike a glimmering of a votive candle in one of Johnson\'s dream churches, I ncurable sheds new light on one of the most gifted, if reclusive, poets of the <em>fin-de-siècle</em>. 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As Ken Hollings points out, ‘‘the further into space we go, the more we learn about ourselves’’’.\r\n</em>Marek Kukula, Public Astronomer, Royal Observatory Greenwich</h3>\r\n<em>‘Within the courtly form of a Renaissance almanac, and in a voice that echoes the recursive wanderings of a comet, Hollings gives us a vision of humanity endlessly making sense of the heavens.’ </em>Richard Barnett, author of <em>The Sick Rose</em>\r\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\r\n\r\n<em>\'Reading Ken Hollings is the intellectual equivalent of being fired out from the space-module for a non-stop .’ </em>Tom McCarthy, author of <em>Men In Space</em> and <em>Satin Island</em>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\nA radical retelling of our relationship with the cosmos, reinventing the history of astronomy as a new form of astrological calendar.\r\n\r\nAstronomy is another form of cinema. Time is fragmented and extended. Matter becomes light in motion. The camera remains fixed, looking outwards into the darkness, while the earth moves beneath our feet.\r\n\r\nA carefully constructed text in sixty numbered sections, <em>The Space Oracle</em> reinvents the history of astronomy as a new form of astrological calendar. This radical retelling of our relationship with the cosmos reaches back to places and times when astronomers were treated as artists or priests, to when popes took part in astral rites and the common people feared eclipses and comets as portents of disaster.\r\n\r\nPanoramic and encyclopedic in its scope, <em>The Space Oracle</em> brings astronauts and spies, engineers and soldiers, goddesses and satellites into alignment with speculative insights and everyday observations. The universe, Hollings argues, is a work in progress—enjoy it.\r\n\r\n<strong>About the Author</strong>\r\nKen Hollings is a writer, broadcaster, and cultural theorist based in London. He has given readings, lectures and presentations of his work at the Royal Institution, the Berlin Akademie der Künste, the Venice Biennale, Tate Britain and the Royal College of Art, where he currently teaches. 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As Ken Hollings points out, ‘‘the further into space we go, the more we learn about ourselves’’’.\r\n</em>Marek Kukula, Public Astronomer, Royal Observatory Greenwich\r\n\r\n<em>‘Within the courtly form of a Renaissance almanac, and in a voice that echoes the recursive wanderings of a comet, Hollings gives us a vision of humanity endlessly making sense of the heavens.’ </em>Richard Barnett, author of <em>The Sick Rose</em>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\r\n<div class=\"section\">\r\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\r\n<div class=\"column\">\r\n\r\n<em>\'Reading Ken Hollings is the intellectual equivalent of being fired out from the space-module for a non-stop .’ </em>Tom McCarthy, author of <em>Men In Space</em> and <em>Satin Island</em>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\nA radical retelling of our relationship with the cosmos, reinventing the history of astronomy as a new form of astrological calendar.\r\n\r\nAstronomy is another form of cinema. 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He has given readings, lectures and presentations of his work at the Royal Institution, the Berlin Akademie der Künste, the Venice Biennale, Tate Britain and the Royal College of Art, where he currently teaches. 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As Ken Hollings points out, ‘‘the further into space we go, the more we learn about ourselves’’’.\r\n</em>Marek Kukula, Public Astronomer, Royal Observatory Greenwich\r\n\r\n<em>‘Within the courtly form of a Renaissance almanac, and in a voice that echoes the recursive wanderings of a comet, Hollings gives us a vision of humanity endlessly making sense of the heavens.’ </em>Richard Barnett, author of <em>The Sick Rose</em>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\r\n<div class=\"section\">\r\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\r\n<div class=\"column\">\r\n\r\n<em>\'Reading Ken Hollings is the intellectual equivalent of being fired out from the space-module for a non-stop .’ </em>Tom McCarthy, author of <em>Men In Space</em> and <em>Satin Island</em>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\nA radical retelling of our relationship with the cosmos, reinventing the history of astronomy as a new form of astrological calendar.\r\n\r\nAstronomy is another form of cinema. Time is fragmented and extended. Matter becomes light in motion. The camera remains fixed, looking outwards into the darkness, while the earth moves beneath our feet.\r\n\r\nA carefully constructed text in sixty numbered sections, <em>The Space Oracle</em> reinvents the history of astronomy as a new form of astrological calendar. This radical retelling of our relationship with the cosmos reaches back to places and times when astronomers were treated as artists or priests, to when popes took part in astral rites and the common people feared eclipses and comets as portents of disaster.\r\n\r\nPanoramic and encyclopedic in its scope, <em>The Space Oracle</em> brings astronauts and spies, engineers and soldiers, goddesses and satellites into alignment with speculative insights and everyday observations. The universe, Hollings argues, is a work in progress—enjoy it.\r\n\r\n<strong>About the Author</strong>\r\nKen Hollings is a writer, broadcaster, and cultural theorist based in London. He has given readings, lectures and presentations of his work at the Royal Institution, the Berlin Akademie der Künste, the Venice Biennale, Tate Britain and the Royal College of Art, where he currently teaches. His previous two books, <em>Welcome to Mars</em> and <em>The Bright Labyrinth</em> are published by Strange Attractor Press.','The Space Oracle','PB, 116mm x 186mm\r\n176pp, 12 b/w Illos\r\n£13.99','inherit','closed','closed','','6152-revision-v1','','','2018-09-12 15:08:23','2018-09-12 15:08:23','',6152,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/news/6152-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(6159,2,'2018-09-12 15:11:18','2018-09-12 15:11:18','<b><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/the-space-oracle-0/\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-6154 alignright\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/space-oracle-web-300x442.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"442\" /></a>The Space Oracle\r\nA Guide to Your Stars</b>\r\n<h3>By Ken Hollings</h3>\r\n<strong>Paperback\r\n</strong><strong>116mm x 186mm\r\n176pp, 12 b/w Illos\r\n</strong><strong>£13.99\r\n</strong><strong> ISBN: 9781907222535</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/the-space-oracle-0/\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">PRE-ORDER HERE</span></a>\r\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\r\n<div class=\"section\">\r\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\r\n<div class=\"column\">\r\n\r\n<em>‘The Space Oracle shows what happens when astronomy escapes into the wider human world, and finds purposes beyond the scientific. As Ken Hollings points out, ‘‘the further into space we go, the more we learn about ourselves’’’.\r\n</em>Marek Kukula, Public Astronomer, Royal Observatory Greenwich\r\n\r\n<em>‘Within the courtly form of a Renaissance almanac, and in a voice that echoes the recursive wanderings of a comet, Hollings gives us a vision of humanity endlessly making sense of the heavens.’ </em>Richard Barnett, author of <em>The Sick Rose</em>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\r\n<div class=\"section\">\r\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\r\n<div class=\"column\">\r\n\r\n<em>\'Reading Ken Hollings is the intellectual equivalent of being fired out from the space-module for a non-stop .’ </em>Tom McCarthy, author of <em>Men In Space</em> and <em>Satin Island</em>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\nA radical retelling of our relationship with the cosmos, reinventing the history of astronomy as a new form of astrological calendar.\r\n\r\nAstronomy is another form of cinema. 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He has given readings, lectures and presentations of his work at the Royal Institution, the Berlin Akademie der Künste, the Venice Biennale, Tate Britain and the Royal College of Art, where he currently teaches. His previous two books, <em>Welcome to Mars</em> and <em>The Bright Labyrinth</em> are published by Strange Attractor Press.','The Space Oracle','PB, 116mm x 186mm\r\n176pp, 12 b/w Illos\r\n£13.99','inherit','closed','closed','','6152-revision-v1','','','2018-09-12 15:11:18','2018-09-12 15:11:18','',6152,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/news/6152-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(6157,2,'2018-09-12 15:08:57','2018-09-12 15:08:57','<a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/the-space-oracle-0/\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-6154 alignright\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/space-oracle-web-300x442.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"442\" /></a>\r\n<h2><b>The Space Oracle\r\nA Guide to Your Stars</b></h2>\r\n<h3>By Ken Hollings</h3>\r\n<strong>Paperback\r\n</strong><strong>116mm x 186mm\r\n176pp, 12 b/w Illos\r\n</strong><strong>£13.99\r\n</strong><strong> ISBN: 9781907222535</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/the-space-oracle-0/\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">PRE-ORDER HERE</span></a>\r\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\r\n<div class=\"section\">\r\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\r\n<div class=\"column\">\r\n\r\n<em>‘The Space Oracle shows what happens when astronomy escapes into the wider human world, and finds purposes beyond the scientific. 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Time is fragmented and extended. Matter becomes light in motion. The camera remains fixed, looking outwards into the darkness, while the earth moves beneath our feet.\r\n\r\nA carefully constructed text in sixty numbered sections, <em>The Space Oracle</em> reinvents the history of astronomy as a new form of astrological calendar. This radical retelling of our relationship with the cosmos reaches back to places and times when astronomers were treated as artists or priests, to when popes took part in astral rites and the common people feared eclipses and comets as portents of disaster.\r\n\r\nPanoramic and encyclopedic in its scope, <em>The Space Oracle</em> brings astronauts and spies, engineers and soldiers, goddesses and satellites into alignment with speculative insights and everyday observations. The universe, Hollings argues, is a work in progress—enjoy it.\r\n\r\n<strong>About the Author</strong>\r\nKen Hollings is a writer, broadcaster, and cultural theorist based in London. He has given readings, lectures and presentations of his work at the Royal Institution, the Berlin Akademie der Künste, the Venice Biennale, Tate Britain and the Royal College of Art, where he currently teaches. His previous two books, <em>Welcome to Mars</em> and <em>The Bright Labyrinth</em> are published by Strange Attractor Press.','The Space Oracle','PB, 116mm x 186mm\r\n176pp, 12 b/w Illos\r\n£13.99','inherit','closed','closed','','6152-revision-v1','','','2018-09-12 15:08:57','2018-09-12 15:08:57','',6152,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/news/6152-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(6158,2,'2018-09-12 15:38:59','2018-09-12 15:38:59','<b><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/the-space-oracle-0/\"><img class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6172\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/space-oracle-web2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"285\" height=\"420\" /></a>The Space Oracle<a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/the-space-oracle-0/\"><img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-6154\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/space-oracle-web-300x442.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"442\" /></a>\nA Guide to Your Stars</b>\n\nBy Ken Hollings\n\n<strong>Paperback\n</strong><strong>116mm x 186mm\n176pp, 12 b/w Illos\n</strong><strong>£13.99\n</strong><strong> ISBN: 9781907222535</strong>\n\n(Available Mid-October)\n\n<a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/the-space-oracle-0/\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">PRE-ORDER HERE</span></a>\n\n<em>\'Reading Ken Hollings is the intellectual equivalent of being fired out from the space-module for a non-stop EVA.’\n</em>Tom McCarthy, author of <em>Men In Space</em> and <em>Satin Island</em>\n\n<em>‘Within the courtly form of a Renaissance almanac, and in a voice that echoes the recursive wanderings of a comet, Hollings gives us a vision of humanity endlessly making sense of the heavens.’ </em>Richard Barnett, author of <em>The Sick Rose</em>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<p class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\"><em>‘The Space Oracle shows what happens when astronomy escapes into the wider human world, and finds purposes beyond the scientific. As Ken Hollings points out, ‘‘the further into space we go, the more we learn about ourselves’’’.\n</em>Marek Kukula, Public Astronomer, Royal Observatory Greenwich</p>\nA radical retelling of our relationship with the cosmos, reinventing the history of astronomy as a new form of astrological calendar.\n\n</div>\nAstronomy is another form of cinema. Time is fragmented and extended. Matter becomes light in motion. The camera remains fixed, looking outwards into the darkness, while the earth moves beneath our feet.\n\nA carefully constructed text in sixty numbered sections, <em>The Space Oracle</em> reinvents the history of astronomy as a new form of astrological calendar. This radical retelling of our relationship with the cosmos reaches back to places and times when astronomers were treated as artists or priests, to when popes took part in astral rites and the common people feared eclipses and comets as portents of disaster.\n\nPanoramic and encyclopedic in its scope, <em>The Space Oracle</em> brings astronauts and spies, engineers and soldiers, goddesses and satellites into alignment with speculative insights and everyday observations. The universe, Hollings argues, is a work in progress—enjoy it.\n\n<strong>About the Author</strong>\nKen Hollings is a writer, broadcaster, and cultural theorist based in London. He has given readings, lectures and presentations of his work at the Royal Institution, the Berlin Akademie der Künste, the Venice Biennale, Tate Britain and the Royal College of Art, where he currently teaches. His previous two books, <em>Welcome to Mars</em> and <em>The Bright Labyrinth</em> are published by Strange Attractor Press.','The Space Oracle','PB, 116mm x 186mm\n176pp, 12 b/w Illos\n£13.99','inherit','closed','closed','','6152-autosave-v1','','','2018-09-12 15:38:59','2018-09-12 15:38:59','',6152,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/news/6152-autosave-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(6176,2,'2018-09-12 15:56:44','2018-09-12 15:56:44','<h4><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/incurable-3/\"><img class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6173\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/incurable-web2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"269\" height=\"426\" /></a><em style=\"font-size: 1.4em;\">The Haunted Writings of Lionel Johnson, the Decadent Era’s\r\nDark Angel</em></h4>\r\nEdited by Nina Antonia\r\n\r\n<strong>PB/HB 216pp\r\n190mm x 125mm\r\n£25.00 / £14.99</strong>\r\n<h4><strong>Hardback special edition limited to <em>100</em> copies.\r\n</strong><strong>Unlimited paperback edition.</strong></h4>\r\n<strong>ISBN: 9781907222627</strong>\r\n\r\nAvailable Mid October\r\n<a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/incurable-3/\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">PRE-ORDER HERE</span></a>\r\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\r\n<div class=\"section\">\r\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\r\n<div class=\"column\">\r\n\r\n<em>Dark Angel, with thine aching lust</em>\r\n<em> To rid the world of penitence: </em>\r\n<em>Malicious Angel, who still dost </em>\r\n<em>My soul such subtile violence!</em>\r\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\r\n<div class=\"section\">\r\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\r\n<div class=\"column\">\r\n\r\n<em>He has renounced the world and built up a twilight world instead, where all the colours are like colours in the rainbow that is cast by the Moon...</em>\r\nW.B. Yeats\r\n\r\nWritings that shed new light on one of the most gifted, if reclusive, poets of the<em> fin-de-siècle</em>.\r\n\r\nA lost poet of the decadent era, Lionel Johnson is the shadow man of the 1890s, an enigma “pale as wasted golden hair.” History has all but forgotten Johnson, except as a footnote to the lives of more celebrated characters like W. B. Yeats and Oscar Wilde.\r\n\r\nJohnson should have been one of the great poets of the age but was already drinking eau-de-cologne for kicks while a teenager at Winchester College. His attraction to absinthe damaged his fragile health and cast him forever into a waking dream of haunted rooms and spectral poetry. A habitual insomniac, he haunted medieval burial grounds after dark, jotting down the epitaphs of the gone-too-young, as if anticipating his own early demise at the age of 35—falling from a bar stool in a Fleet Street pub.\r\n\r\nIt was rumored that Johnson performed “strange religious rites” in his rooms at Oxford and experimented with hashish in the company of fellow poet Ernest Dowson. Moving to London, he fell in with Simeon Solomon, Oscar Wilde, and Aubrey Beardsley, and would contribute to the leading decadent publications of the day, including <em>The Chameleon</em>, <em>The Yellow Book</em>, and <em>The Savoy</em>.\r\n\r\nLike a glimmering of a votive candle in one of Johnson\'s dream churches, I ncurable sheds new light on one of the most gifted, if reclusive, poets of the <em>fin-de-siècle</em>. Containing a detailed biographical essay, illustrations, rare and unusual material including previously unseen letters, poetry, and essays, <em>Incurable</em> pays tribute to this enchanting and eccentric poet while providing fresh insight into an era that continues to fascinate.','Incurable','PB/HB 216pp\r\n190mm x 125mm\r\n£25.00 / £14.99','inherit','closed','closed','','6153-revision-v1','','','2018-09-12 15:56:44','2018-09-12 15:56:44','',6153,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/news/6153-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(6164,2,'2018-09-12 15:22:13','2018-09-12 15:22:13','<h3><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/incurable-3/\"><img class=\"alignright wp-image-6162 size-medium\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/incurable-web-300x474.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"474\" /></a><em style=\"font-size: 1.4em;\">The Haunted Writings of Lionel Johnson, the Decadent Era’s Dark Angel</em></h3>\r\nEdited by Nina Antonia\r\n\r\n<strong>PB/HB 216pp\r\n190mm x 125mm\r\n£25.00 / £14.99</strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>Hardback special edition limited to <em>100</em> copies</strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>Unlimited paperback edition.</strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>ISBN: 9781907222627</strong>\r\n\r\nAvailable Mid October\r\n<a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/incurable-3/\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">PRE-ORDER HERE</span></a>\r\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\r\n<div class=\"section\">\r\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\r\n<div class=\"column\">\r\n\r\n<em>Dark Angel, with thine aching lust</em>\r\n<em> To rid the world of penitence: </em>\r\n<em>Malicious Angel, who still dost </em>\r\n<em>My soul such subtile violence!</em>\r\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\r\n<div class=\"section\">\r\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\r\n<div class=\"column\">\r\n\r\n<em>He has renounced the world and built up a twilight world instead, where all the colours are like colours in the rainbow that is cast by the Moon...</em>\r\nW.B. Yeats\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\nWritings that shed new light on one of the most gifted, if reclusive, poets of the<em> fin-de-siècle</em>.\r\n\r\nA lost poet of the decadent era, Lionel Johnson is the shadow man of the 1890s, an enigma “pale as wasted golden hair.” History has all but forgotten Johnson, except as a footnote to the lives of more celebrated characters like W. B. Yeats and Oscar Wilde.\r\n\r\nJohnson should have been one of the great poets of the age but was already drinking eau-de-cologne for kicks while a teenager at Winchester College. His attraction to absinthe damaged his fragile health and cast him forever into a waking dream of haunted rooms and spectral poetry. A habitual insomniac, he haunted medieval burial grounds after dark, jotting down the epitaphs of the gone-too-young, as if anticipating his own early demise at the age of 35—falling from a bar stool in a Fleet Street pub.\r\n\r\nIt was rumored that Johnson performed “strange religious rites” in his rooms at Oxford and experimented with hashish in the company of fellow poet Ernest Dowson. Moving to London, he fell in with Simeon Solomon, Oscar Wilde, and Aubrey Beardsley, and would contribute to the leading decadent publications of the day, including <em>The Chameleon</em>, <em>The Yellow Book</em>, and <em>The Savoy</em>.\r\n\r\nLike a glimmering of a votive candle in one of Johnson\'s dream churches, I ncurable sheds new light on one of the most gifted, if reclusive, poets of the <em>fin-de-siècle</em>. Containing a detailed biographical essay, illustrations, rare and unusual material including previously unseen letters, poetry, and essays, <em>Incurable</em> pays tribute to this enchanting and eccentric poet while providing fresh insight into an era that continues to fascinate.','Incurable','PB/HB 216pp\r\n190mm x 125mm\r\n£25.00 / £14.99','inherit','closed','closed','','6153-revision-v1','','','2018-09-12 15:22:13','2018-09-12 15:22:13','',6153,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/news/6153-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(6163,2,'2018-09-12 15:21:10','2018-09-12 15:21:10','<h3><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/incurable-3/\"><img class=\"alignright wp-image-6162 size-medium\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/incurable-web-300x474.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"474\" /></a><strong>Incurable\r\n</strong></h3>\r\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\r\n<div class=\"section\">\r\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\r\n<div class=\"column\">\r\n<h3><em>The Haunted Writings of Lionel Johnson, the Decadent Era’s Dark Angel</em></h3>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\nEdited by Nina Antonia\r\n\r\n<strong>PB/HB 216pp\r\n190mm x 125mm\r\n£25.00 / £14.99\r\n\r\n</strong><strong>Hardback special edition limited to <em>100</em> copies</strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>Unlimited paperback edition.</strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>ISBN: 9781907222627</strong>\r\n\r\nAvailable Mid October\r\n<a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/incurable-3/\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">PRE-ORDER HERE</span></a>\r\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\r\n<div class=\"section\">\r\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\r\n<div class=\"column\">\r\n\r\n<em>Dark Angel, with thine aching lust</em>\r\n<em> To rid the world of penitence: </em>\r\n<em>Malicious Angel, who still dost </em>\r\n<em>My soul such subtile violence!</em>\r\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\r\n<div class=\"section\">\r\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\r\n<div class=\"column\">\r\n\r\n<em>He has renounced the world and built up a twilight world instead, where all the colours are like colours in the rainbow that is cast by the Moon...</em>\r\nW.B. 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A habitual insomniac, he haunted medieval burial grounds after dark, jotting down the epitaphs of the gone-too-young, as if anticipating his own early demise at the age of 35—falling from a bar stool in a Fleet Street pub.\r\n\r\nIt was rumored that Johnson performed “strange religious rites” in his rooms at Oxford and experimented with hashish in the company of fellow poet Ernest Dowson. Moving to London, he fell in with Simeon Solomon, Oscar Wilde, and Aubrey Beardsley, and would contribute to the leading decadent publications of the day, including <em>The Chameleon</em>, <em>The Yellow Book</em>, and <em>The Savoy</em>.\r\n\r\nLike a glimmering of a votive candle in one of Johnson\'s dream churches, I ncurable sheds new light on one of the most gifted, if reclusive, poets of the <em>fin-de-siècle</em>. Containing a detailed biographical essay, illustrations, rare and unusual material including previously unseen letters, poetry, and essays, <em>Incurable</em> pays tribute to this enchanting and eccentric poet while providing fresh insight into an era that continues to fascinate.','Incurable','PB/HB 216pp\r\n190mm x 125mm\r\n£25.00 / £14.99','inherit','closed','closed','','6153-revision-v1','','','2018-09-12 15:21:10','2018-09-12 15:21:10','',6153,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/news/6153-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(6165,2,'2018-09-12 15:22:50','2018-09-12 15:22:50','<h4><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/incurable-3/\"><img class=\"alignright wp-image-6162 size-medium\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/incurable-web-300x474.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"474\" /></a><em style=\"font-size: 1.4em;\">The Haunted Writings of Lionel Johnson, the Decadent Era’s\r\nDark Angel</em></h4>\r\nEdited by Nina Antonia\r\n\r\n<strong>PB/HB 216pp\r\n190mm x 125mm\r\n£25.00 / £14.99</strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>Hardback special edition limited to <em>100</em> copies</strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>Unlimited paperback edition.</strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>ISBN: 9781907222627</strong>\r\n\r\nAvailable Mid October\r\n<a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/incurable-3/\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">PRE-ORDER HERE</span></a>\r\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\r\n<div class=\"section\">\r\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\r\n<div class=\"column\">\r\n\r\n<em>Dark Angel, with thine aching lust</em>\r\n<em> To rid the world of penitence: </em>\r\n<em>Malicious Angel, who still dost </em>\r\n<em>My soul such subtile violence!</em>\r\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\r\n<div class=\"section\">\r\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\r\n<div class=\"column\">\r\n\r\n<em>He has renounced the world and built up a twilight world instead, where all the colours are like colours in the rainbow that is cast by the Moon...</em>\r\nW.B. Yeats\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\nWritings that shed new light on one of the most gifted, if reclusive, poets of the<em> fin-de-siècle</em>.\r\n\r\nA lost poet of the decadent era, Lionel Johnson is the shadow man of the 1890s, an enigma “pale as wasted golden hair.” History has all but forgotten Johnson, except as a footnote to the lives of more celebrated characters like W. B. Yeats and Oscar Wilde.\r\n\r\nJohnson should have been one of the great poets of the age but was already drinking eau-de-cologne for kicks while a teenager at Winchester College. His attraction to absinthe damaged his fragile health and cast him forever into a waking dream of haunted rooms and spectral poetry. A habitual insomniac, he haunted medieval burial grounds after dark, jotting down the epitaphs of the gone-too-young, as if anticipating his own early demise at the age of 35—falling from a bar stool in a Fleet Street pub.\r\n\r\nIt was rumored that Johnson performed “strange religious rites” in his rooms at Oxford and experimented with hashish in the company of fellow poet Ernest Dowson. Moving to London, he fell in with Simeon Solomon, Oscar Wilde, and Aubrey Beardsley, and would contribute to the leading decadent publications of the day, including <em>The Chameleon</em>, <em>The Yellow Book</em>, and <em>The Savoy</em>.\r\n\r\nLike a glimmering of a votive candle in one of Johnson\'s dream churches, I ncurable sheds new light on one of the most gifted, if reclusive, poets of the <em>fin-de-siècle</em>. Containing a detailed biographical essay, illustrations, rare and unusual material including previously unseen letters, poetry, and essays, <em>Incurable</em> pays tribute to this enchanting and eccentric poet while providing fresh insight into an era that continues to fascinate.','Incurable','PB/HB 216pp\r\n190mm x 125mm\r\n£25.00 / £14.99','inherit','closed','closed','','6153-revision-v1','','','2018-09-12 15:22:50','2018-09-12 15:22:50','',6153,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/news/6153-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(6166,2,'2018-09-12 15:23:58','2018-09-12 15:23:58','<h4><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/incurable-3/\"><img class=\"alignright wp-image-6162 size-medium\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/incurable-web-300x474.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"474\" /></a><em style=\"font-size: 1.4em;\">The Haunted Writings of Lionel Johnson, the Decadent Era’s\r\nDark Angel</em></h4>\r\nEdited by Nina Antonia\r\n\r\n<strong>PB/HB 216pp\r\n190mm x 125mm\r\n£25.00 / £14.99</strong>\r\n<h4><strong>Hardback special edition limited to <em>100</em> copies.\r\n</strong><strong>Unlimited paperback edition.</strong></h4>\r\n<strong>ISBN: 9781907222627</strong>\r\n\r\nAvailable Mid October\r\n<a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/incurable-3/\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">PRE-ORDER HERE</span></a>\r\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\r\n<div class=\"section\">\r\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\r\n<div class=\"column\">\r\n\r\n<em>Dark Angel, with thine aching lust</em>\r\n<em> To rid the world of penitence: </em>\r\n<em>Malicious Angel, who still dost </em>\r\n<em>My soul such subtile violence!</em>\r\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\r\n<div class=\"section\">\r\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\r\n<div class=\"column\">\r\n\r\n<em>He has renounced the world and built up a twilight world instead, where all the colours are like colours in the rainbow that is cast by the Moon...</em>\r\nW.B. 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A habitual insomniac, he haunted medieval burial grounds after dark, jotting down the epitaphs of the gone-too-young, as if anticipating his own early demise at the age of 35—falling from a bar stool in a Fleet Street pub.\r\n\r\nIt was rumored that Johnson performed “strange religious rites” in his rooms at Oxford and experimented with hashish in the company of fellow poet Ernest Dowson. Moving to London, he fell in with Simeon Solomon, Oscar Wilde, and Aubrey Beardsley, and would contribute to the leading decadent publications of the day, including <em>The Chameleon</em>, <em>The Yellow Book</em>, and <em>The Savoy</em>.\r\n\r\nLike a glimmering of a votive candle in one of Johnson\'s dream churches, I ncurable sheds new light on one of the most gifted, if reclusive, poets of the <em>fin-de-siècle</em>. Containing a detailed biographical essay, illustrations, rare and unusual material including previously unseen letters, poetry, and essays, <em>Incurable</em> pays tribute to this enchanting and eccentric poet while providing fresh insight into an era that continues to fascinate.','Incurable','PB/HB 216pp\r\n190mm x 125mm\r\n£25.00 / £14.99','inherit','closed','closed','','6153-revision-v1','','','2018-09-12 15:23:58','2018-09-12 15:23:58','',6153,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/news/6153-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(6167,2,'2018-09-12 15:24:48','2018-09-12 15:24:48','<b><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/the-space-oracle-0/\"><img class=\"size-medium wp-image-6154 alignright\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/space-oracle-web-300x442.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"442\" /></a>The Space Oracle\r\nA Guide to Your Stars</b>\r\n<h3>By Ken Hollings</h3>\r\n<strong>Paperback\r\n</strong><strong>116mm x 186mm\r\n176pp, 12 b/w Illos\r\n</strong><strong>£13.99\r\n</strong><strong> ISBN: 9781907222535</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/the-space-oracle-0/\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">PRE-ORDER HERE</span></a>\r\n<h3 class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\"><em>‘The Space Oracle shows what happens when astronomy escapes into the wider human world, and finds purposes beyond the scientific. As Ken Hollings points out, ‘‘the further into space we go, the more we learn about ourselves’’’.\r\n</em>Marek Kukula, Public Astronomer, Royal Observatory Greenwich</h3>\r\n<em>‘Within the courtly form of a Renaissance almanac, and in a voice that echoes the recursive wanderings of a comet, Hollings gives us a vision of humanity endlessly making sense of the heavens.’ </em>Richard Barnett, author of <em>The Sick Rose</em>\r\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\r\n\r\n<em>\'Reading Ken Hollings is the intellectual equivalent of being fired out from the space-module for a non-stop .’ </em>Tom McCarthy, author of <em>Men In Space</em> and <em>Satin Island</em>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\nA radical retelling of our relationship with the cosmos, reinventing the history of astronomy as a new form of astrological calendar.\r\n\r\nAstronomy is another form of cinema. Time is fragmented and extended. Matter becomes light in motion. The camera remains fixed, looking outwards into the darkness, while the earth moves beneath our feet.\r\n\r\nA carefully constructed text in sixty numbered sections, <em>The Space Oracle</em> reinvents the history of astronomy as a new form of astrological calendar. This radical retelling of our relationship with the cosmos reaches back to places and times when astronomers were treated as artists or priests, to when popes took part in astral rites and the common people feared eclipses and comets as portents of disaster.\r\n\r\nPanoramic and encyclopedic in its scope, <em>The Space Oracle</em> brings astronauts and spies, engineers and soldiers, goddesses and satellites into alignment with speculative insights and everyday observations. The universe, Hollings argues, is a work in progress—enjoy it.\r\n\r\n<strong>About the Author</strong>\r\nKen Hollings is a writer, broadcaster, and cultural theorist based in London. He has given readings, lectures and presentations of his work at the Royal Institution, the Berlin Akademie der Künste, the Venice Biennale, Tate Britain and the Royal College of Art, where he currently teaches. His previous two books, <em>Welcome to Mars</em> and <em>The Bright Labyrinth</em> are published by Strange Attractor Press.','The Space Oracle','PB, 116mm x 186mm\r\n176pp, 12 b/w Illos\r\n£13.99','inherit','closed','closed','','6152-revision-v1','','','2018-09-12 15:24:48','2018-09-12 15:24:48','',6152,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/news/6152-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(6168,2,'2018-09-12 15:25:49','2018-09-12 15:25:49','<b>The Space Oracle<a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/the-space-oracle-0/\"><img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-6154\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/space-oracle-web-300x442.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"442\" /></a>\r\nA Guide to Your Stars</b>\r\n\r\nBy Ken Hollings\r\n\r\n<strong>Paperback\r\n</strong><strong>116mm x 186mm\r\n176pp, 12 b/w Illos\r\n</strong><strong>£13.99\r\n</strong><strong> ISBN: 9781907222535</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/the-space-oracle-0/\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">PRE-ORDER HERE</span></a>\r\n<h3 class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\"><em>‘The Space Oracle shows what happens when astronomy escapes into the wider human world, and finds purposes beyond the scientific. As Ken Hollings points out, ‘‘the further into space we go, the more we learn about ourselves’’’.\r\n</em>Marek Kukula, Public Astronomer, Royal Observatory Greenwich</h3>\r\n<em>‘Within the courtly form of a Renaissance almanac, and in a voice that echoes the recursive wanderings of a comet, Hollings gives us a vision of humanity endlessly making sense of the heavens.’ </em>Richard Barnett, author of <em>The Sick Rose</em>\r\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\r\n\r\n<em>\'Reading Ken Hollings is the intellectual equivalent of being fired out from the space-module for a non-stop .’ </em>Tom McCarthy, author of <em>Men In Space</em> and <em>Satin Island</em>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\nA radical retelling of our relationship with the cosmos, reinventing the history of astronomy as a new form of astrological calendar.\r\n\r\nAstronomy is another form of cinema. Time is fragmented and extended. Matter becomes light in motion. The camera remains fixed, looking outwards into the darkness, while the earth moves beneath our feet.\r\n\r\nA carefully constructed text in sixty numbered sections, <em>The Space Oracle</em> reinvents the history of astronomy as a new form of astrological calendar. This radical retelling of our relationship with the cosmos reaches back to places and times when astronomers were treated as artists or priests, to when popes took part in astral rites and the common people feared eclipses and comets as portents of disaster.\r\n\r\nPanoramic and encyclopedic in its scope, <em>The Space Oracle</em> brings astronauts and spies, engineers and soldiers, goddesses and satellites into alignment with speculative insights and everyday observations. The universe, Hollings argues, is a work in progress—enjoy it.\r\n\r\n<strong>About the Author</strong>\r\nKen Hollings is a writer, broadcaster, and cultural theorist based in London. He has given readings, lectures and presentations of his work at the Royal Institution, the Berlin Akademie der Künste, the Venice Biennale, Tate Britain and the Royal College of Art, where he currently teaches. His previous two books, <em>Welcome to Mars</em> and <em>The Bright Labyrinth</em> are published by Strange Attractor Press.','The Space Oracle','PB, 116mm x 186mm\r\n176pp, 12 b/w Illos\r\n£13.99','inherit','closed','closed','','6152-revision-v1','','','2018-09-12 15:25:49','2018-09-12 15:25:49','',6152,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/news/6152-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(6169,2,'2018-09-12 15:26:51','2018-09-12 15:26:51','<b>The Space Oracle<a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/the-space-oracle-0/\"><img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-6154\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/space-oracle-web-300x442.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"442\" /></a>\r\nA Guide to Your Stars</b>\r\n\r\nBy Ken Hollings\r\n\r\n<strong>Paperback\r\n</strong><strong>116mm x 186mm\r\n176pp, 12 b/w Illos\r\n</strong><strong>£13.99\r\n</strong><strong> ISBN: 9781907222535</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/the-space-oracle-0/\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">PRE-ORDER HERE</span></a>\r\n\r\n<em>\'Reading Ken Hollings is the intellectual equivalent of being fired out from the space-module for a non-stop .’ </em>Tom McCarthy, author of <em>Men In Space</em> and <em>Satin Island</em>\r\n\r\n<em>‘Within the courtly form of a Renaissance almanac, and in a voice that echoes the recursive wanderings of a comet, Hollings gives us a vision of humanity endlessly making sense of the heavens.’ </em>Richard Barnett, author of <em>The Sick Rose</em>\r\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\r\n<p class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\"><em>‘The Space Oracle shows what happens when astronomy escapes into the wider human world, and finds purposes beyond the scientific. As Ken Hollings points out, ‘‘the further into space we go, the more we learn about ourselves’’’.\r\n</em>Marek Kukula, Public Astronomer, Royal Observatory Greenwich</p>\r\nA radical retelling of our relationship with the cosmos, reinventing the history of astronomy as a new form of astrological calendar.\r\n\r\n</div>\r\nAstronomy is another form of cinema. Time is fragmented and extended. Matter becomes light in motion. The camera remains fixed, looking outwards into the darkness, while the earth moves beneath our feet.\r\n\r\nA carefully constructed text in sixty numbered sections, <em>The Space Oracle</em> reinvents the history of astronomy as a new form of astrological calendar. This radical retelling of our relationship with the cosmos reaches back to places and times when astronomers were treated as artists or priests, to when popes took part in astral rites and the common people feared eclipses and comets as portents of disaster.\r\n\r\nPanoramic and encyclopedic in its scope, <em>The Space Oracle</em> brings astronauts and spies, engineers and soldiers, goddesses and satellites into alignment with speculative insights and everyday observations. The universe, Hollings argues, is a work in progress—enjoy it.\r\n\r\n<strong>About the Author</strong>\r\nKen Hollings is a writer, broadcaster, and cultural theorist based in London. He has given readings, lectures and presentations of his work at the Royal Institution, the Berlin Akademie der Künste, the Venice Biennale, Tate Britain and the Royal College of Art, where he currently teaches. His previous two books, <em>Welcome to Mars</em> and <em>The Bright Labyrinth</em> are published by Strange Attractor Press.','The Space Oracle','PB, 116mm x 186mm\r\n176pp, 12 b/w Illos\r\n£13.99','inherit','closed','closed','','6152-revision-v1','','','2018-09-12 15:26:51','2018-09-12 15:26:51','',6152,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/news/6152-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(6170,2,'2018-09-12 15:27:23','2018-09-12 15:27:23','<b>The Space Oracle<a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/the-space-oracle-0/\"><img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-6154\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/space-oracle-web-300x442.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"442\" /></a>\r\nA Guide to Your Stars</b>\r\n\r\nBy Ken Hollings\r\n\r\n<strong>Paperback\r\n</strong><strong>116mm x 186mm\r\n176pp, 12 b/w Illos\r\n</strong><strong>£13.99\r\n</strong><strong> ISBN: 9781907222535</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/the-space-oracle-0/\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">PRE-ORDER HERE</span></a>\r\n\r\n<em>\'Reading Ken Hollings is the intellectual equivalent of being fired out from the space-module for a non-stop EVA.’\r\n</em>Tom McCarthy, author of <em>Men In Space</em> and <em>Satin Island</em>\r\n\r\n<em>‘Within the courtly form of a Renaissance almanac, and in a voice that echoes the recursive wanderings of a comet, Hollings gives us a vision of humanity endlessly making sense of the heavens.’ </em>Richard Barnett, author of <em>The Sick Rose</em>\r\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\r\n<p class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\"><em>‘The Space Oracle shows what happens when astronomy escapes into the wider human world, and finds purposes beyond the scientific. As Ken Hollings points out, ‘‘the further into space we go, the more we learn about ourselves’’’.\r\n</em>Marek Kukula, Public Astronomer, Royal Observatory Greenwich</p>\r\nA radical retelling of our relationship with the cosmos, reinventing the history of astronomy as a new form of astrological calendar.\r\n\r\n</div>\r\nAstronomy is another form of cinema. Time is fragmented and extended. Matter becomes light in motion. The camera remains fixed, looking outwards into the darkness, while the earth moves beneath our feet.\r\n\r\nA carefully constructed text in sixty numbered sections, <em>The Space Oracle</em> reinvents the history of astronomy as a new form of astrological calendar. This radical retelling of our relationship with the cosmos reaches back to places and times when astronomers were treated as artists or priests, to when popes took part in astral rites and the common people feared eclipses and comets as portents of disaster.\r\n\r\nPanoramic and encyclopedic in its scope, <em>The Space Oracle</em> brings astronauts and spies, engineers and soldiers, goddesses and satellites into alignment with speculative insights and everyday observations. The universe, Hollings argues, is a work in progress—enjoy it.\r\n\r\n<strong>About the Author</strong>\r\nKen Hollings is a writer, broadcaster, and cultural theorist based in London. He has given readings, lectures and presentations of his work at the Royal Institution, the Berlin Akademie der Künste, the Venice Biennale, Tate Britain and the Royal College of Art, where he currently teaches. His previous two books, <em>Welcome to Mars</em> and <em>The Bright Labyrinth</em> are published by Strange Attractor Press.','The Space Oracle','PB, 116mm x 186mm\r\n176pp, 12 b/w Illos\r\n£13.99','inherit','closed','closed','','6152-revision-v1','','','2018-09-12 15:27:23','2018-09-12 15:27:23','',6152,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/news/6152-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(6174,2,'2018-09-12 15:39:38','2018-09-12 15:39:38','<b><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/the-space-oracle-0/\"><img class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6172\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/space-oracle-web2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"285\" height=\"420\" /></a>A Guide to Your Stars</b>\r\n\r\nBy Ken Hollings\r\n\r\n<strong>Paperback\r\n</strong><strong>116mm x 186mm\r\n176pp, 12 b/w Illos\r\n</strong><strong>£13.99\r\n</strong><strong> ISBN: 9781907222535</strong>\r\n\r\n(Available Mid-October)\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/the-space-oracle-0/\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">PRE-ORDER HERE</span></a>\r\n\r\n<em>\'Reading Ken Hollings is the intellectual equivalent of being fired out from the space-module for a non-stop EVA.’\r\n</em>Tom McCarthy, author of <em>Men In Space</em> and <em>Satin Island</em>\r\n\r\n<em>‘Within the courtly form of a Renaissance almanac, and in a voice that echoes the recursive wanderings of a comet, Hollings gives us a vision of humanity endlessly making sense of the heavens.’ </em>Richard Barnett, author of <em>The Sick Rose</em>\r\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\r\n<p class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\"><em>‘The Space Oracle shows what happens when astronomy escapes into the wider human world, and finds purposes beyond the scientific. As Ken Hollings points out, ‘‘the further into space we go, the more we learn about ourselves’’’.\r\n</em>Marek Kukula, Public Astronomer, Royal Observatory Greenwich</p>\r\nA radical retelling of our relationship with the cosmos, reinventing the history of astronomy as a new form of astrological calendar.\r\n\r\n</div>\r\nAstronomy is another form of cinema. Time is fragmented and extended. Matter becomes light in motion. The camera remains fixed, looking outwards into the darkness, while the earth moves beneath our feet.\r\n\r\nA carefully constructed text in sixty numbered sections, <em>The Space Oracle</em> reinvents the history of astronomy as a new form of astrological calendar. This radical retelling of our relationship with the cosmos reaches back to places and times when astronomers were treated as artists or priests, to when popes took part in astral rites and the common people feared eclipses and comets as portents of disaster.\r\n\r\nPanoramic and encyclopedic in its scope, <em>The Space Oracle</em> brings astronauts and spies, engineers and soldiers, goddesses and satellites into alignment with speculative insights and everyday observations. The universe, Hollings argues, is a work in progress—enjoy it.\r\n\r\n<strong>About the Author</strong>\r\nKen Hollings is a writer, broadcaster, and cultural theorist based in London. He has given readings, lectures and presentations of his work at the Royal Institution, the Berlin Akademie der Künste, the Venice Biennale, Tate Britain and the Royal College of Art, where he currently teaches. His previous two books, <em>Welcome to Mars</em> and <em>The Bright Labyrinth</em> are published by Strange Attractor Press.','The Space Oracle','PB, 116mm x 186mm\r\n176pp, 12 b/w Illos\r\n£13.99','inherit','closed','closed','','6152-revision-v1','','','2018-09-12 15:39:38','2018-09-12 15:39:38','',6152,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/news/6152-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(6171,2,'2018-09-12 15:30:19','2018-09-12 15:30:19','<b>The Space Oracle<a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/the-space-oracle-0/\"><img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-6154\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/space-oracle-web-300x442.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"442\" /></a>\r\nA Guide to Your Stars</b>\r\n\r\nBy Ken Hollings\r\n\r\n<strong>Paperback\r\n</strong><strong>116mm x 186mm\r\n176pp, 12 b/w Illos\r\n</strong><strong>£13.99\r\n</strong><strong> ISBN: 9781907222535</strong>\r\n\r\n(Available Mid-October)\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/the-space-oracle-0/\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">PRE-ORDER HERE</span></a>\r\n\r\n<em>\'Reading Ken Hollings is the intellectual equivalent of being fired out from the space-module for a non-stop EVA.’\r\n</em>Tom McCarthy, author of <em>Men In Space</em> and <em>Satin Island</em>\r\n\r\n<em>‘Within the courtly form of a Renaissance almanac, and in a voice that echoes the recursive wanderings of a comet, Hollings gives us a vision of humanity endlessly making sense of the heavens.’ </em>Richard Barnett, author of <em>The Sick Rose</em>\r\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\r\n<p class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\"><em>‘The Space Oracle shows what happens when astronomy escapes into the wider human world, and finds purposes beyond the scientific. As Ken Hollings points out, ‘‘the further into space we go, the more we learn about ourselves’’’.\r\n</em>Marek Kukula, Public Astronomer, Royal Observatory Greenwich</p>\r\nA radical retelling of our relationship with the cosmos, reinventing the history of astronomy as a new form of astrological calendar.\r\n\r\n</div>\r\nAstronomy is another form of cinema. Time is fragmented and extended. Matter becomes light in motion. The camera remains fixed, looking outwards into the darkness, while the earth moves beneath our feet.\r\n\r\nA carefully constructed text in sixty numbered sections, <em>The Space Oracle</em> reinvents the history of astronomy as a new form of astrological calendar. This radical retelling of our relationship with the cosmos reaches back to places and times when astronomers were treated as artists or priests, to when popes took part in astral rites and the common people feared eclipses and comets as portents of disaster.\r\n\r\nPanoramic and encyclopedic in its scope, <em>The Space Oracle</em> brings astronauts and spies, engineers and soldiers, goddesses and satellites into alignment with speculative insights and everyday observations. The universe, Hollings argues, is a work in progress—enjoy it.\r\n\r\n<strong>About the Author</strong>\r\nKen Hollings is a writer, broadcaster, and cultural theorist based in London. He has given readings, lectures and presentations of his work at the Royal Institution, the Berlin Akademie der Künste, the Venice Biennale, Tate Britain and the Royal College of Art, where he currently teaches. 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Yeats\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\nWritings that shed new light on one of the most gifted, if reclusive, poets of the<em> fin-de-siècle</em>.\r\n\r\nA lost poet of the decadent era, Lionel Johnson is the shadow man of the 1890s, an enigma “pale as wasted golden hair.” History has all but forgotten Johnson, except as a footnote to the lives of more celebrated characters like W. B. Yeats and Oscar Wilde.\r\n\r\nJohnson should have been one of the great poets of the age but was already drinking eau-de-cologne for kicks while a teenager at Winchester College. His attraction to absinthe damaged his fragile health and cast him forever into a waking dream of haunted rooms and spectral poetry. A habitual insomniac, he haunted medieval burial grounds after dark, jotting down the epitaphs of the gone-too-young, as if anticipating his own early demise at the age of 35—falling from a bar stool in a Fleet Street pub.\r\n\r\nIt was rumored that Johnson performed “strange religious rites” in his rooms at Oxford and experimented with hashish in the company of fellow poet Ernest Dowson. Moving to London, he fell in with Simeon Solomon, Oscar Wilde, and Aubrey Beardsley, and would contribute to the leading decadent publications of the day, including <em>The Chameleon</em>, <em>The Yellow Book</em>, and <em>The Savoy</em>.\r\n\r\nLike a glimmering of a votive candle in one of Johnson\'s dream churches, I ncurable sheds new light on one of the most gifted, if reclusive, poets of the <em>fin-de-siècle</em>. Containing a detailed biographical essay, illustrations, rare and unusual material including previously unseen letters, poetry, and essays, <em>Incurable</em> pays tribute to this enchanting and eccentric poet while providing fresh insight into an era that continues to fascinate.','Incurable','PB/HB 216pp\r\n190mm x 125mm\r\n£25.00 / £14.99','inherit','closed','closed','','6153-revision-v1','','','2018-09-12 15:43:42','2018-09-12 15:43:42','',6153,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/news/6153-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(6177,2,'2018-09-17 10:05:18','2018-09-17 10:05:18','<strong><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/high-static-dead-lines/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6112\"><img class=\"wp-image-6112 alignright\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/High-Static-Dead-Lines-MIT-Cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"328\" height=\"465\" /></a></strong><strong>High Static, Dead Lines\r\n</strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><em>Sonic Spectres and the Object Hereafter</em>\r\n</strong></span>By Kristen Gallerneaux\r\n\r\n<i style=\"color: #000000;\">Foreword</i><i style=\"color: #000000;\"> by Dave Tompkins\r\n</i><strong> Paperback\r\n130mm x 205mm\r\n320pp, fully illustrated in black and white\r\n</strong><strong>£16.99\r\n</strong><strong> ISBN: 9781907222665</strong>\r\n\r\nShipping 12/06/2018\r\n<a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/high-static-dead-lines/\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">PRE-ORDER HERE</span></a>\r\n\r\n<b>A literary mix tape that explores the entwined boundaries between sound, material culture, landscape and esoteric belief.</b>\r\n\r\nHigh Static, Dead Lines<em> is one of the most imaginative books to contend with sound in recent memory. Its labyrinthine explorations creatively mirror the strange and often baffling phenomena they describe. </em><a href=\"http://4columns.org/dayal-geeta/high-static-dead-lines\">Geeta Dayal</a>\r\n\r\nTrees rigged up to the wireless radio heavens. A fax machine used to decode the language of hurricanes. A broadcast ghost that hijacked a television station to terrorize a city. A failed computer factory in the desert with a slap-back echo resounding into ruin.\r\n\r\nIn <i>High Static, Dead Lines</i>, media historian and artist Kristen Gallerneaux weaves a literary mix tape that explores the entwined boundaries between sound, material culture, landscape, and esoteric belief. Essays and fictocritical interludes are arranged to evoke a network of ley lines for the “sonic spectre” to travel through—a hypothetical presence that manifests itself as an invisible layer of noise alongside the conventional histories of technological artifacts.\r\n\r\nThe objects and stories within span from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day, touching upon military, communications, and cultural history. A connective thread is the recurring presence of sound—audible, self-generative, and remembered—charting the contentious sonic histories of paranormal culture.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<b>About the Author</b>\r\n\r\nKristen Gallerneaux is a writer, folklorist, and artist. She has published on topics as diverse as mathematics in midcentury design, the visual history of telepathy research, the world\'s first mouse pad, and car audio bass battles in Miami. 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His sexually charged, fearlessly personal style of filmmaking has never been in vogue with mainstream critics, but for lovers of the strange and sado-erotic he is a magician, spinning his unique and disturbing dream worlds from the cheapest of budgets.\r\n\r\nStephen Thrower has devoted many years to examining each and every known Franco film, second only to the maestro himself. This book—the second in a two-volume set—delves into the latter half of Franco\'s career, covering films that have never received critical appraisal before, as well as exclusive interviews with Franco collaborators including Antonio Mayans, Juan Soler, Katja Bienert and Monica Swinn.\r\n\r\nIn the world of Jess Franco freedom was the key, and he pushed at the boundaries of taste and censorship repeatedly, throughout an astonishingly varied career spanning sixty years. The director of more than 180 films, at his most prolific he worked in a supercharged frenzy that yielded as many as twelve titles per year, making him one of the most generative auteurs of all time.\r\n\r\nFranco\'s taste for the sexy and horrific, his lifelong obsession with the Marquis De Sade, and his roving hand-held camera style launched a whole new strain of erotic cinema. 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The director of more than 180 films, at his most prolific he worked in a supercharged frenzy that yielded as many as twelve titles per year, making him one of the most generative auteurs of all time.\r\n\r\nFranco\'s taste for the sexy and horrific, his lifelong obsession with the Marquis De Sade, and his roving hand-held camera style launched a whole new strain of erotic cinema. 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Jess and Lena left the hotel in a hurry abandoning a suitcase containing numerous script treatments, story outlines and poster ideas, all of which are reproduced, annotated and made public here for the first time. This is a unique opportunity to own a piece of cinematic history and won\'t be repeated.\r\n\r\n<em>This unique, one-off publication, presents a detailed cross-section of Jess Franco\'s seething imagination and hectic filming schedule at the crest of his career.   </em>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/incurable-3/\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">PRE-ORDER HERE</span></a>\r\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\r\n<div class=\"section\">\r\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\r\n<div class=\"column\">\r\n\r\n<i>The second volume in Stephen Thrower\'s monumental study of Jess Franco\'s cinematic delirium, covering the years 1975 to his death in 2013.</i>\r\n\r\nJesús “Jess” Franco is an iconic figure in world cinema. His sexually charged, fearlessly personal style of filmmaking has never been in vogue with mainstream critics, but for lovers of the strange and sado-erotic he is a magician, spinning his unique and disturbing dream worlds from the cheapest of budgets.\r\n\r\nStephen Thrower has devoted many years to examining each and every known Franco film, second only to the maestro himself. This book—the second in a two-volume set—delves into the latter half of Franco\'s career, covering films that have never received critical appraisal before, as well as exclusive interviews with Franco collaborators including Antonio Mayans, Juan Soler, Katja Bienert and Monica Swinn.\r\n\r\nIn the world of Jess Franco freedom was the key, and he pushed at the boundaries of taste and censorship repeatedly, throughout an astonishingly varied career spanning sixty years. The director of more than 180 films, at his most prolific he worked in a supercharged frenzy that yielded as many as twelve titles per year, making him one of the most generative auteurs of all time.\r\n\r\nFranco\'s taste for the sexy and horrific, his lifelong obsession with the Marquis De Sade, and his roving hand-held camera style launched a whole new strain of erotic cinema. 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Jess and Lena left the hotel in a hurry abandoning a suitcase containing numerous script treatments, story outlines and poster ideas, all of which are reproduced, annotated and made public here for the first time. This is a unique opportunity to own a piece of cinematic history and won\'t be repeated.\r\n\r\n<em>This unique, one-off publication, presents a detailed cross-section of Jess Franco\'s seething imagination and hectic filming schedule at the crest of his career.   </em>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/incurable-3/\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">PRE-ORDER HERE</span></a>\r\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\r\n<div class=\"section\">\r\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\r\n<div class=\"column\">\r\n\r\n<i>The second volume in Stephen Thrower\'s monumental study of Jess Franco\'s cinematic delirium, covering the years 1975 to his death in 2013.</i>\r\n\r\nJesús “Jess” Franco is an iconic figure in world cinema. His sexually charged, fearlessly personal style of filmmaking has never been in vogue with mainstream critics, but for lovers of the strange and sado-erotic he is a magician, spinning his unique and disturbing dream worlds from the cheapest of budgets.\r\n\r\nStephen Thrower has devoted many years to examining each and every known Franco film, second only to the maestro himself. This book—the second in a two-volume set—delves into the latter half of Franco\'s career, covering films that have never received critical appraisal before, as well as exclusive interviews with Franco collaborators including Antonio Mayans, Juan Soler, Katja Bienert and Monica Swinn.\r\n\r\nIn the world of Jess Franco freedom was the key, and he pushed at the boundaries of taste and censorship repeatedly, throughout an astonishingly varied career spanning sixty years. The director of more than 180 films, at his most prolific he worked in a supercharged frenzy that yielded as many as twelve titles per year, making him one of the most generative auteurs of all time.\r\n\r\nFranco\'s taste for the sexy and horrific, his lifelong obsession with the Marquis De Sade, and his roving hand-held camera style launched a whole new strain of erotic cinema. Disturbing, exciting, and defiantly avant-garde, films such as <em>Shining Sex</em>, <em>Barbed Wire Dolls</em>, <em>Ilsa The Wicked Warden </em>and<em> Bloody Moon</em> are among the jewels of European horror, while a plethora of multiple versions, re-edits and echoes of earlier works turn the Franco experience into a dizzying hall of mirrors, further entrancing the viewer who dares enter Franco\'s domain.\r\n\r\nThrower shines a light into the darkest corners of the Franco filmography and uncovers previously unknown and unsuspected facts about their casts, crews, and production histories.\r\n\r\nUnparalleled in scope and ambition, <i>Flowers of Perversion </i>brings Jess Franco\'s career into focus with a landmark study that aims to provide the definitive assessment of his labyrinthine film universe.\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/incurable-3/\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">PRE-ORDER HERE</span></a>\r\n\r\n<em>Murderous Passion</em>, the first volume of this set, will be reprinted in early 2019 in full colour.\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>','Flowers of Perversion','HB 512pp,\r\n240mm x 269mm\r\n£45.00 / £65\r\n','inherit','closed','closed','','6178-revision-v1','','','2018-09-20 15:02:06','2018-09-20 15:02:06','',6178,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/news/6178-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(6184,2,'2018-09-20 15:06:21','2018-09-20 15:06:21','<h2><img class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6183\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/FOPcoverwebsmall.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"365\" height=\"420\" /></h2>\r\n<h3><em>The Delirious Cinema of Jesus Franco, Volume Two</em></h3>\r\n<h3>By Stephen Thrower</h3>\r\n<strong>HB 512pp\r\n240mm x 269mm\r\n£45.00 / £65\r\n520 images, full colour throughout </strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>ISBN: 9781907222603</strong>\r\n\r\nAvailable Mid-November in Standard and Collectors\' Editions.\r\n<i>The Collectors\' Edition </i>of 500 copies is signed and numbered by Stephen Thrower and features specially designed boards and a different dust jacket image, a set of colour postcards and...\r\n\r\n<em>The Sinister Case of Dr. Franco</em>\r\nA 100 page, hardbound book, featuring a facsimile of items left behind at Hotel Quetzal in Southern France during the shooting of <em>Mandinga </em>in 1975. Jess and Lina Romay left the hotel in a hurry abandoning a suitcase containing numerous script treatments, story outlines and poster ideas, all of which are reproduced, annotated and made public here for the first time. This is a unique opportunity to own a piece of cinematic history and won\'t be repeated.\r\n\r\n<em>This unique, one-off publication, presents a detailed cross-section of Jess Franco\'s seething imagination and hectic filming schedule at the crest of his career.   </em>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/incurable-3/\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">PRE-ORDER HERE</span></a>\r\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\r\n<div class=\"section\">\r\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\r\n<div class=\"column\">\r\n\r\n<i>The second volume in Stephen Thrower\'s monumental study of Jess Franco\'s cinematic delirium, covering the years 1975 to his death in 2013.</i>\r\n\r\nJesús “Jess” Franco is an iconic figure in world cinema. His sexually charged, fearlessly personal style of filmmaking has never been in vogue with mainstream critics, but for lovers of the strange and sado-erotic he is a magician, spinning his unique and disturbing dream worlds from the cheapest of budgets.\r\n\r\nStephen Thrower has devoted many years to examining each and every known Franco film, second only to the maestro himself. This book—the second in a two-volume set—delves into the latter half of Franco\'s career, covering films that have never received critical appraisal before, as well as exclusive interviews with Franco collaborators including Antonio Mayans, Juan Soler, Katja Bienert and Monica Swinn.\r\n\r\nIn the world of Jess Franco freedom was the key, and he pushed at the boundaries of taste and censorship repeatedly, throughout an astonishingly varied career spanning sixty years. The director of more than 180 films, at his most prolific he worked in a supercharged frenzy that yielded as many as twelve titles per year, making him one of the most generative auteurs of all time.\r\n\r\nFranco\'s taste for the sexy and horrific, his lifelong obsession with the Marquis De Sade, and his roving hand-held camera style launched a whole new strain of erotic cinema. 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His sexually charged, fearlessly personal style of filmmaking has never been in vogue with mainstream critics, but for lovers of the strange and sado-erotic he is a magician, spinning his unique and disturbing dream worlds from the cheapest of budgets.\r\n\r\nStephen Thrower has devoted many years to examining each and every known Franco film, second only to the maestro himself. This book—the second in a two-volume set—delves into the latter half of Franco\'s career, covering films that have never received critical appraisal before, as well as exclusive interviews with Franco collaborators including Antonio Mayans, Juan Soler, Katja Bienert and Monica Swinn.\r\n\r\nIn the world of Jess Franco freedom was the key, and he pushed at the boundaries of taste and censorship repeatedly, throughout an astonishingly varied career spanning sixty years. The director of more than 180 films, at his most prolific he worked in a supercharged frenzy that yielded as many as twelve titles per year, making him one of the most generative auteurs of all time.\r\n\r\nFranco\'s taste for the sexy and horrific, his lifelong obsession with the Marquis De Sade, and his roving hand-held camera style launched a whole new strain of erotic cinema. 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His sexually charged, fearlessly personal style of filmmaking has never been in vogue with mainstream critics, but for lovers of the strange and sado-erotic he is a magician, spinning his unique and disturbing dream worlds from the cheapest of budgets.\r\n\r\nStephen Thrower has devoted many years to examining each and every known Franco film, second only to the maestro himself. This book—the second in a two-volume set—delves into the latter half of Franco\'s career, covering films that have never received critical appraisal before, as well as exclusive interviews with Franco collaborators including Antonio Mayans, Juan Soler, Katja Bienert and Monica Swinn.\r\n\r\nIn the world of Jess Franco freedom was the key, and he pushed at the boundaries of taste and censorship repeatedly, throughout an astonishingly varied career spanning sixty years. The director of more than 180 films, at his most prolific he worked in a supercharged frenzy that yielded as many as twelve titles per year, making him one of the most generative auteurs of all time.\r\n\r\nFranco\'s taste for the sexy and horrific, his lifelong obsession with the Marquis De Sade, and his roving hand-held camera style launched a whole new strain of erotic cinema. 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Jess and Lina Romay left the hotel in a hurry abandoning a suitcase containing numerous script treatments, story outlines and poster ideas, all of which are reproduced, annotated and made public here for the first time. This is a unique opportunity to own a piece of cinematic history and won\'t be repeated.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>This unique, one-off publication, presents a detailed cross-section of Jess Franco\'s seething imagination and hectic filming schedule at the crest of his career.   </em></p>\r\n<a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/incurable-3/\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">PRE-ORDER HERE</span></a>\r\n\r\n<i>The second volume in Stephen Thrower\'s monumental study of Jess Franco\'s cinematic delirium, covering the years 1975 to his death in 2013.</i>\r\n\r\nJesús “Jess” Franco is an iconic figure in world cinema. His sexually charged, fearlessly personal style of filmmaking has never been in vogue with mainstream critics, but for lovers of the strange and sado-erotic he is a magician, spinning his unique and disturbing dream worlds from the cheapest of budgets.\r\n\r\nStephen Thrower has devoted many years to examining each and every known Franco film, second only to the maestro himself. This book—the second in a two-volume set—delves into the latter half of Franco\'s career, covering films that have never received critical appraisal before, as well as exclusive interviews with Franco collaborators including Antonio Mayans, Juan Soler, Katja Bienert and Monica Swinn.\r\n\r\nIn the world of Jess Franco freedom was the key, and he pushed at the boundaries of taste and censorship repeatedly, throughout an astonishingly varied career spanning sixty years. The director of more than 180 films, at his most prolific he worked in a supercharged frenzy that yielded as many as twelve titles per year, making him one of the most generative auteurs of all time.\r\n\r\nFranco\'s taste for the sexy and horrific, his lifelong obsession with the Marquis De Sade, and his roving hand-held camera style launched a whole new strain of erotic cinema. 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Jess and Lina Romay left the hotel in a hurry abandoning a suitcase containing numerous script treatments, story outlines and poster ideas, all of which are reproduced, annotated and made public here for the first time. This is a unique opportunity to own a piece of cinematic history and won\'t be repeated.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>This unique, one-off publication, presents a detailed cross-section of Jess Franco\'s seething imagination and hectic filming schedule at the crest of his career.   </em></p>\r\n<a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/incurable-3/\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">PRE-ORDER HERE</span></a>\r\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\r\n<div class=\"section\">\r\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\r\n<div class=\"column\">\r\n\r\n<i>The second volume in Stephen Thrower\'s monumental study of Jess Franco\'s cinematic delirium, covering the years 1975 to his death in 2013.</i>\r\n\r\nJesús “Jess” Franco is an iconic figure in world cinema. His sexually charged, fearlessly personal style of filmmaking has never been in vogue with mainstream critics, but for lovers of the strange and sado-erotic he is a magician, spinning his unique and disturbing dream worlds from the cheapest of budgets.\r\n\r\nStephen Thrower has devoted many years to examining each and every known Franco film, second only to the maestro himself. This book—the second in a two-volume set—delves into the latter half of Franco\'s career, covering films that have never received critical appraisal before, as well as exclusive interviews with Franco collaborators including Antonio Mayans, Juan Soler, Katja Bienert and Monica Swinn.\r\n\r\nIn the world of Jess Franco freedom was the key, and he pushed at the boundaries of taste and censorship repeatedly, throughout an astonishingly varied career spanning sixty years. The director of more than 180 films, at his most prolific he worked in a supercharged frenzy that yielded as many as twelve titles per year, making him one of the most generative auteurs of all time.\r\n\r\nFranco\'s taste for the sexy and horrific, his lifelong obsession with the Marquis De Sade, and his roving hand-held camera style launched a whole new strain of erotic cinema. 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Dig down deep to find the bodies beneath...</em>\n\nOccult rites are staged in hippie strip clubs; music hall dame Old Mother Riley haunts a vampiric Bela Lugosi; TV puppet Sooty doles out intoxicating pharmaceuticals; velvet-voiced Vincent Price presents a full-fat cookery programme...\n\nVeteran film curators William Fowler and Vic Pratt crack open the caskets of forgotten or neglected British films and telly to serve up a feast of curiosities to tempt the palate of even the most jaded cinephile. Their unflinching, all- embracing investigative gaze is as likely to reassess an established classic as it is to focus on cobweb-covered delights like pioneering 1930s female film director Mary Field’s beautifully bizarre <i>The Mystery of Marriage</i>, the much- maligned <i>Doctor Who </i>epic ‘The Trial of a Time Lord’, underground offerings like Anna Ambrose’s experimental art piece <i>Phoelix </i>and Andy Milligan’s bawdy bloodbath <i>The Body Beneath</i>.\n\nAll is grist to this monstrous mill, as the authors tamper with outmoded video formats and meddle with magenta-bias safety film in their mission to finger- paint an entirely unexpected, highly irreverent and thoroughly personal picture of film and television culture in twentieth-century Britain.\n\n</div>\n<strong>ABOUT THE AUTHORS</strong>\n\nWilliam Fowler and Vic Pratt are both film archivists, writers, and curators, and have programmed numerous cinema screenings at venues internationally. In 2006, they co-founded The Flipside initiative at the British Film Institute. Every month for seven years, they presented weird and wonderful, offbeat, unseen and outrageous film and television, welcoming a host of acting and directorial talent.\n\nWill and Vic write regularly for many different film publications and anthologies, and contribute programme notes for screenings, DVD and Blu- Ray releases including the BFI Flipside label.\n\n&nbsp;\n\n</div>\n</div>','The Bodies Beneath','£15.99,\n148mm x 210mm\nPB, 400pp','inherit','closed','closed','','6321-autosave-v1','','','2019-06-21 08:20:25','2019-06-21 08:20:25','',6321,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/news/6321-autosave-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(6189,2,'2018-09-20 15:23:04','0000-00-00 00:00:00','<h2><em><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6183 alignright\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/FOPcoverwebsmall.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"365\" height=\"420\" />The Delirious Cinema of Jesús Franco\nVolume Two</em></h2>\n<h2>By Stephen Thrower</h2>\n<strong>HB 512pp\n240mm x 269mm\n£45.00 / £65\n520 images,\n</strong><strong>Full colour throughout </strong>\n\n<strong>ISBN: 9781907222603</strong>\n\nAvailable Mid-November in Standard and Collectors\' Editions.\n<i>The Collectors\' Edition </i>of 500 copies is signed and numbered by Stephen Thrower and features specially designed boards and a different dust jacket image, a set of colour postcards and...\n\n<em>The Sinister Case of Dr. Franco</em>\nA 100 page, hardbound book, featuring a facsimile of items left behind at Hotel Quetzal in Southern France during the shooting of <em>Mandinga </em>in 1975. Jess and Lina Romay left the hotel in a hurry abandoning a suitcase containing numerous script treatments, story outlines and poster ideas, all of which are reproduced, annotated and made public here for the first time. This is a unique opportunity to own a piece of cinematic history and won\'t be repeated.\n\n<em>This unique, one-off publication, presents a detailed cross-section of Jess Franco\'s seething imagination and hectic filming schedule at the crest of his career.   </em>\n\n<a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/incurable-3/\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">PRE-ORDER HERE</span></a>\n\n<i>The second volume in Stephen Thrower\'s monumental study of Jess Franco\'s cinematic delirium, covering the years 1975 to his death in 2013.</i>\n\nJesús “Jess” Franco is an iconic figure in world cinema. His sexually charged, fearlessly personal style of filmmaking has never been in vogue with mainstream critics, but for lovers of the strange and sado-erotic he is a magician, spinning his unique and disturbing dream worlds from the cheapest of budgets.\n\nStephen Thrower has devoted many years to examining each and every known Franco film, second only to the maestro himself. This book—the second in a two-volume set—delves into the latter half of Franco\'s career, covering films that have never received critical appraisal before, as well as exclusive interviews with Franco collaborators including Antonio Mayans, Juan Soler, Katja Bienert and Monica Swinn.\n\nIn the world of Jess Franco freedom was the key, and he pushed at the boundaries of taste and censorship repeatedly, throughout an astonishingly varied career spanning sixty years. The director of more than 180 films, at his most prolific he worked in a supercharged frenzy that yielded as many as twelve titles per year, making him one of the most generative auteurs of all time.\n\nFranco\'s taste for the sexy and horrific, his lifelong obsession with the Marquis De Sade, and his roving hand-held camera style launched a whole new strain of erotic cinema. Disturbing, exciting, and defiantly avant-garde, films such as <em>Shining Sex</em>, <em>Barbed Wire Dolls</em>, <em>Ilsa The Wicked Warden </em>and<em> Bloody Moon</em> are among the jewels of European horror, while a plethora of multiple versions, re-edits and echoes of earlier works turn the Franco experience into a dizzying hall of mirrors, further entrancing the viewer who dares enter Franco\'s domain.\n\nThrower shines a light into the darkest corners of the Franco filmography and uncovers previously unknown and unsuspected facts about their casts, crews, and production histories.\n\nUnparalleled in scope and ambition, <i>Flowers of Perversion </i>brings Jess Franco\'s career into focus with a landmark study that aims to provide the definitive assessment of his labyrinthine film universe.\n\n<a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/incurable-3/\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">PRE-ORDER HERE</span></a>\n\n<em>Murderous Passion</em>, the first volume of this set, will be reprinted in early 2019 in full colour.','Flowers of Perversion','HB 512pp,\n240mm x 269mm\n£45.00 / £65\n','draft','closed','closed','','','','','2018-09-20 15:23:04','2018-09-20 15:23:04','',0,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/?p=6189',0,'post','',0),(6191,2,'2018-09-20 15:20:50','2018-09-20 15:20:50','<h2><em><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6183 alignright\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/FOPcoverwebsmall.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"365\" height=\"420\" />The Delirious Cinema of Jesús Franco\r\nVolume Two</em></h2>\r\n<h2>By Stephen Thrower</h2>\r\n<strong>HB 512pp\r\n240mm x 269mm\r\n£45.00 / £65\r\n520 images,\r\n</strong><strong>Full colour throughout </strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>ISBN: 9781907222603</strong>\r\n\r\nAvailable Mid-November in Standard and Collectors\' Editions.\r\n<i>The Collectors\' Edition </i>of 500 copies is signed and numbered by Stephen Thrower and features specially designed boards and a different dust jacket image, a set of colour postcards and...\r\n\r\n<em>The Sinister Case of Dr. Franco</em>\r\nA 100 page, hardbound book, featuring a facsimile of items left behind at Hotel Quetzal in Southern France during the shooting of <em>Mandinga </em>in 1975. Jess and Lina Romay left the hotel in a hurry abandoning a suitcase containing numerous script treatments, story outlines and poster ideas, all of which are reproduced, annotated and made public here for the first time. This is a unique opportunity to own a piece of cinematic history and won\'t be repeated.\r\n\r\n<em>This unique, one-off publication, presents a detailed cross-section of Jess Franco\'s seething imagination and hectic filming schedule at the crest of his career.   </em>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/incurable-3/\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">PRE-ORDER HERE</span></a>\r\n\r\n<i>The second volume in Stephen Thrower\'s monumental study of Jess Franco\'s cinematic delirium, covering the years 1975 to his death in 2013.</i>\r\n\r\nJesús “Jess” Franco is an iconic figure in world cinema. His sexually charged, fearlessly personal style of filmmaking has never been in vogue with mainstream critics, but for lovers of the strange and sado-erotic he is a magician, spinning his unique and disturbing dream worlds from the cheapest of budgets.\r\n\r\nStephen Thrower has devoted many years to examining each and every known Franco film, second only to the maestro himself. This book—the second in a two-volume set—delves into the latter half of Franco\'s career, covering films that have never received critical appraisal before, as well as exclusive interviews with Franco collaborators including Antonio Mayans, Juan Soler, Katja Bienert and Monica Swinn.\r\n\r\nIn the world of Jess Franco freedom was the key, and he pushed at the boundaries of taste and censorship repeatedly, throughout an astonishingly varied career spanning sixty years. The director of more than 180 films, at his most prolific he worked in a supercharged frenzy that yielded as many as twelve titles per year, making him one of the most generative auteurs of all time.\r\n\r\nFranco\'s taste for the sexy and horrific, his lifelong obsession with the Marquis De Sade, and his roving hand-held camera style launched a whole new strain of erotic cinema. 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Jess and Lina Romay left the hotel in a hurry abandoning a suitcase containing numerous script treatments, story outlines and poster ideas, all of which are reproduced, annotated and made public here for the first time. This is a unique opportunity to own a piece of cinematic history and won\'t be repeated.\r\n\r\n<em>This unique, one-off publication, presents a detailed cross-section of Jess Franco\'s seething imagination and hectic filming schedule at the crest of his career.   </em>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/incurable-3/\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">PRE-ORDER HERE</span></a>\r\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\r\n<div class=\"section\">\r\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\r\n<div class=\"column\">\r\n\r\n<i>The second volume in Stephen Thrower\'s monumental study of Jess Franco\'s cinematic delirium, covering the years 1975 to his death in 2013.</i>\r\n\r\nJesús “Jess” Franco is an iconic figure in world cinema. His sexually charged, fearlessly personal style of filmmaking has never been in vogue with mainstream critics, but for lovers of the strange and sado-erotic he is a magician, spinning his unique and disturbing dream worlds from the cheapest of budgets.\r\n\r\nStephen Thrower has devoted many years to examining each and every known Franco film, second only to the maestro himself. This book—the second in a two-volume set—delves into the latter half of Franco\'s career, covering films that have never received critical appraisal before, as well as exclusive interviews with Franco collaborators including Antonio Mayans, Juan Soler, Katja Bienert and Monica Swinn.\r\n\r\nIn the world of Jess Franco freedom was the key, and he pushed at the boundaries of taste and censorship repeatedly, throughout an astonishingly varied career spanning sixty years. The director of more than 180 films, at his most prolific he worked in a supercharged frenzy that yielded as many as twelve titles per year, making him one of the most generative auteurs of all time.\r\n\r\nFranco\'s taste for the sexy and horrific, his lifelong obsession with the Marquis De Sade, and his roving hand-held camera style launched a whole new strain of erotic cinema. 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Jess and Lina Romay left the hotel in a hurry abandoning a suitcase containing numerous script treatments, story outlines and poster ideas, all of which are reproduced, annotated and made public here for the first time. This is a unique opportunity to own a piece of cinematic history and won\'t be repeated.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>This unique, one-off publication, presents a detailed cross-section of Jess Franco\'s seething imagination and hectic filming schedule at the crest of his career.   </em></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/incurable-3/\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">PRE-ORDER HERE</span></a></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\r\n<div class=\"section\">\r\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\r\n<div class=\"column\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\r\n\r\n<i>The second volume in Stephen Thrower\'s monumental study of Jess Franco\'s cinematic delirium, covering the years 1975 to his death in 2013.</i>\r\n\r\nJesús “Jess” Franco is an iconic figure in world cinema. His sexually charged, fearlessly personal style of filmmaking has never been in vogue with mainstream critics, but for lovers of the strange and sado-erotic he is a magician, spinning his unique and disturbing dream worlds from the cheapest of budgets.\r\n\r\nStephen Thrower has devoted many years to examining each and every known Franco film, second only to the maestro himself. This book—the second in a two-volume set—delves into the latter half of Franco\'s career, covering films that have never received critical appraisal before, as well as exclusive interviews with Franco collaborators including Antonio Mayans, Juan Soler, Katja Bienert and Monica Swinn.\r\n\r\nIn the world of Jess Franco freedom was the key, and he pushed at the boundaries of taste and censorship repeatedly, throughout an astonishingly varied career spanning sixty years. The director of more than 180 films, at his most prolific he worked in a supercharged frenzy that yielded as many as twelve titles per year, making him one of the most generative auteurs of all time.\r\n\r\nFranco\'s taste for the sexy and horrific, his lifelong obsession with the Marquis De Sade, and his roving hand-held camera style launched a whole new strain of erotic cinema. Disturbing, exciting, and defiantly avant-garde, films such as <em>Shining Sex</em>, <em>Barbed Wire Dolls</em>, <em>Ilsa The Wicked Warden </em>and<em> Bloody Moon</em> are among the jewels of European horror, while a plethora of multiple versions, re-edits and echoes of earlier works turn the Franco experience into a dizzying hall of mirrors, further entrancing the viewer who dares enter Franco\'s domain.\r\n\r\nThrower shines a light into the darkest corners of the Franco filmography and uncovers previously unknown and unsuspected facts about their casts, crews, and production histories.\r\n\r\nUnparalleled in scope and ambition, <i>Flowers of Perversion </i>brings Jess Franco\'s career into focus with a landmark study that aims to provide the definitive assessment of his labyrinthine film universe.\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/incurable-3/\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">PRE-ORDER HERE</span></a></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>Murderous Passion</em>, the first volume of this set, will be reprinted in early 2019 in full colour.</p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>','Flowers of Perversion','HB 512pp,\r\n240mm x 269mm\r\n£45.00 / £65\r\n','inherit','closed','closed','','6178-revision-v1','','','2018-09-20 15:27:35','2018-09-20 15:27:35','',6178,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/news/6178-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(6193,2,'2018-09-20 15:22:57','2018-09-20 15:22:57','<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6183 alignright\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/FOPcoverwebsmall.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"365\" height=\"420\" />The Delirious Cinema of Jesús Franco, Volume Two</em></h2>\r\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">By Stephen Thrower</h2>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>HB 512pp\r\n240mm x 269mm\r\n£45.00 / £65\r\n520 images, full colour throughout </strong></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>ISBN: 9781907222603</strong></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Available Mid-November in Standard and Collectors\' Editions.\r\n<i>The Collectors\' Edition </i>of 500 copies is signed and numbered by Stephen Thrower and features specially designed boards and a different dust jacket image, a set of colour postcards and...</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>The Sinister Case of Dr. Franco</em>\r\nA 100 page, hardbound book, featuring a facsimile of items left behind at Hotel Quetzal in Southern France during the shooting of <em>Mandinga </em>in 1975. Jess and Lina Romay left the hotel in a hurry abandoning a suitcase containing numerous script treatments, story outlines and poster ideas, all of which are reproduced, annotated and made public here for the first time. This is a unique opportunity to own a piece of cinematic history and won\'t be repeated.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>This unique, one-off publication, presents a detailed cross-section of Jess Franco\'s seething imagination and hectic filming schedule at the crest of his career.   </em></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/incurable-3/\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">PRE-ORDER HERE</span></a></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\r\n<div class=\"section\">\r\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\r\n<div class=\"column\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\r\n\r\n<i>The second volume in Stephen Thrower\'s monumental study of Jess Franco\'s cinematic delirium, covering the years 1975 to his death in 2013.</i>\r\n\r\nJesús “Jess” Franco is an iconic figure in world cinema. His sexually charged, fearlessly personal style of filmmaking has never been in vogue with mainstream critics, but for lovers of the strange and sado-erotic he is a magician, spinning his unique and disturbing dream worlds from the cheapest of budgets.\r\n\r\nStephen Thrower has devoted many years to examining each and every known Franco film, second only to the maestro himself. This book—the second in a two-volume set—delves into the latter half of Franco\'s career, covering films that have never received critical appraisal before, as well as exclusive interviews with Franco collaborators including Antonio Mayans, Juan Soler, Katja Bienert and Monica Swinn.\r\n\r\nIn the world of Jess Franco freedom was the key, and he pushed at the boundaries of taste and censorship repeatedly, throughout an astonishingly varied career spanning sixty years. The director of more than 180 films, at his most prolific he worked in a supercharged frenzy that yielded as many as twelve titles per year, making him one of the most generative auteurs of all time.\r\n\r\nFranco\'s taste for the sexy and horrific, his lifelong obsession with the Marquis De Sade, and his roving hand-held camera style launched a whole new strain of erotic cinema. Disturbing, exciting, and defiantly avant-garde, films such as <em>Shining Sex</em>, <em>Barbed Wire Dolls</em>, <em>Ilsa The Wicked Warden </em>and<em> Bloody Moon</em> are among the jewels of European horror, while a plethora of multiple versions, re-edits and echoes of earlier works turn the Franco experience into a dizzying hall of mirrors, further entrancing the viewer who dares enter Franco\'s domain.\r\n\r\nThrower shines a light into the darkest corners of the Franco filmography and uncovers previously unknown and unsuspected facts about their casts, crews, and production histories.\r\n\r\nUnparalleled in scope and ambition, <i>Flowers of Perversion </i>brings Jess Franco\'s career into focus with a landmark study that aims to provide the definitive assessment of his labyrinthine film universe.\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/incurable-3/\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">PRE-ORDER HERE</span></a></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Murderous Passion</em>, the first volume of this set, will be reprinted in early 2019 in full colour.</p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>','Flowers of Perversion','HB 512pp,\r\n240mm x 269mm\r\n£45.00 / £65\r\n','inherit','closed','closed','','6178-revision-v1','','','2018-09-20 15:22:57','2018-09-20 15:22:57','',6178,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/news/6178-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(6194,2,'2018-09-20 15:24:03','2018-09-20 15:24:03','<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6183 alignleft\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/FOPcoverwebsmall.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"365\" height=\"420\" /></em></p>\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>The Delirious Cinema of Jesús Franco, Volume Two</em></h2>\r\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\">By Stephen Thrower</h2>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>HB 512pp\r\n240mm x 269mm\r\n£45.00 / £65\r\n520 images, full colour throughout </strong></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>ISBN: 9781907222603</strong></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Available Mid-November in Standard and Collectors\' Editions.\r\n<i>The Collectors\' Edition </i>of 500 copies is signed and numbered by Stephen Thrower and features specially designed boards and a different dust jacket image, a set of colour postcards and...</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>The Sinister Case of Dr. Franco</em>\r\nA 100 page, hardbound book, featuring a facsimile of items left behind at Hotel Quetzal in Southern France during the shooting of <em>Mandinga </em>in 1975. Jess and Lina Romay left the hotel in a hurry abandoning a suitcase containing numerous script treatments, story outlines and poster ideas, all of which are reproduced, annotated and made public here for the first time. This is a unique opportunity to own a piece of cinematic history and won\'t be repeated.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>This unique, one-off publication, presents a detailed cross-section of Jess Franco\'s seething imagination and hectic filming schedule at the crest of his career.   </em></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/incurable-3/\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">PRE-ORDER HERE</span></a></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\r\n<div class=\"section\">\r\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\r\n<div class=\"column\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\r\n\r\n<i>The second volume in Stephen Thrower\'s monumental study of Jess Franco\'s cinematic delirium, covering the years 1975 to his death in 2013.</i>\r\n\r\nJesús “Jess” Franco is an iconic figure in world cinema. His sexually charged, fearlessly personal style of filmmaking has never been in vogue with mainstream critics, but for lovers of the strange and sado-erotic he is a magician, spinning his unique and disturbing dream worlds from the cheapest of budgets.\r\n\r\nStephen Thrower has devoted many years to examining each and every known Franco film, second only to the maestro himself. This book—the second in a two-volume set—delves into the latter half of Franco\'s career, covering films that have never received critical appraisal before, as well as exclusive interviews with Franco collaborators including Antonio Mayans, Juan Soler, Katja Bienert and Monica Swinn.\r\n\r\nIn the world of Jess Franco freedom was the key, and he pushed at the boundaries of taste and censorship repeatedly, throughout an astonishingly varied career spanning sixty years. The director of more than 180 films, at his most prolific he worked in a supercharged frenzy that yielded as many as twelve titles per year, making him one of the most generative auteurs of all time.\r\n\r\nFranco\'s taste for the sexy and horrific, his lifelong obsession with the Marquis De Sade, and his roving hand-held camera style launched a whole new strain of erotic cinema. Disturbing, exciting, and defiantly avant-garde, films such as <em>Shining Sex</em>, <em>Barbed Wire Dolls</em>, <em>Ilsa The Wicked Warden </em>and<em> Bloody Moon</em> are among the jewels of European horror, while a plethora of multiple versions, re-edits and echoes of earlier works turn the Franco experience into a dizzying hall of mirrors, further entrancing the viewer who dares enter Franco\'s domain.\r\n\r\nThrower shines a light into the darkest corners of the Franco filmography and uncovers previously unknown and unsuspected facts about their casts, crews, and production histories.\r\n\r\nUnparalleled in scope and ambition, <i>Flowers of Perversion </i>brings Jess Franco\'s career into focus with a landmark study that aims to provide the definitive assessment of his labyrinthine film universe.\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/incurable-3/\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">PRE-ORDER HERE</span></a></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>Murderous Passion</em>, the first volume of this set, will be reprinted in early 2019 in full colour.</p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>','Flowers of Perversion','HB 512pp,\r\n240mm x 269mm\r\n£45.00 / £65\r\n','inherit','closed','closed','','6178-revision-v1','','','2018-09-20 15:24:03','2018-09-20 15:24:03','',6178,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/news/6178-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(6195,2,'2018-09-20 15:24:18','2018-09-20 15:24:18','<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6183 alignright\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/FOPcoverwebsmall.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"365\" height=\"420\" /></em></p>\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>The Delirious Cinema of Jesús Franco, Volume Two</em></h2>\r\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\">By Stephen Thrower</h2>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>HB 512pp\r\n240mm x 269mm\r\n£45.00 / £65\r\n520 images, full colour throughout </strong></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>ISBN: 9781907222603</strong></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Available Mid-November in Standard and Collectors\' Editions.\r\n<i>The Collectors\' Edition </i>of 500 copies is signed and numbered by Stephen Thrower and features specially designed boards and a different dust jacket image, a set of colour postcards and...</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>The Sinister Case of Dr. Franco</em>\r\nA 100 page, hardbound book, featuring a facsimile of items left behind at Hotel Quetzal in Southern France during the shooting of <em>Mandinga </em>in 1975. Jess and Lina Romay left the hotel in a hurry abandoning a suitcase containing numerous script treatments, story outlines and poster ideas, all of which are reproduced, annotated and made public here for the first time. This is a unique opportunity to own a piece of cinematic history and won\'t be repeated.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>This unique, one-off publication, presents a detailed cross-section of Jess Franco\'s seething imagination and hectic filming schedule at the crest of his career.   </em></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/incurable-3/\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">PRE-ORDER HERE</span></a></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\r\n<div class=\"section\">\r\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\r\n<div class=\"column\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\r\n\r\n<i>The second volume in Stephen Thrower\'s monumental study of Jess Franco\'s cinematic delirium, covering the years 1975 to his death in 2013.</i>\r\n\r\nJesús “Jess” Franco is an iconic figure in world cinema. His sexually charged, fearlessly personal style of filmmaking has never been in vogue with mainstream critics, but for lovers of the strange and sado-erotic he is a magician, spinning his unique and disturbing dream worlds from the cheapest of budgets.\r\n\r\nStephen Thrower has devoted many years to examining each and every known Franco film, second only to the maestro himself. This book—the second in a two-volume set—delves into the latter half of Franco\'s career, covering films that have never received critical appraisal before, as well as exclusive interviews with Franco collaborators including Antonio Mayans, Juan Soler, Katja Bienert and Monica Swinn.\r\n\r\nIn the world of Jess Franco freedom was the key, and he pushed at the boundaries of taste and censorship repeatedly, throughout an astonishingly varied career spanning sixty years. The director of more than 180 films, at his most prolific he worked in a supercharged frenzy that yielded as many as twelve titles per year, making him one of the most generative auteurs of all time.\r\n\r\nFranco\'s taste for the sexy and horrific, his lifelong obsession with the Marquis De Sade, and his roving hand-held camera style launched a whole new strain of erotic cinema. Disturbing, exciting, and defiantly avant-garde, films such as <em>Shining Sex</em>, <em>Barbed Wire Dolls</em>, <em>Ilsa The Wicked Warden </em>and<em> Bloody Moon</em> are among the jewels of European horror, while a plethora of multiple versions, re-edits and echoes of earlier works turn the Franco experience into a dizzying hall of mirrors, further entrancing the viewer who dares enter Franco\'s domain.\r\n\r\nThrower shines a light into the darkest corners of the Franco filmography and uncovers previously unknown and unsuspected facts about their casts, crews, and production histories.\r\n\r\nUnparalleled in scope and ambition, <i>Flowers of Perversion </i>brings Jess Franco\'s career into focus with a landmark study that aims to provide the definitive assessment of his labyrinthine film universe.\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/incurable-3/\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">PRE-ORDER HERE</span></a></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>Murderous Passion</em>, the first volume of this set, will be reprinted in early 2019 in full colour.</p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>','Flowers of Perversion','HB 512pp,\r\n240mm x 269mm\r\n£45.00 / £65\r\n','inherit','closed','closed','','6178-revision-v1','','','2018-09-20 15:24:18','2018-09-20 15:24:18','',6178,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/news/6178-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),(6196,2,'2018-09-20 15:24:54','2018-09-20 15:24:54','<p style=\"text-align: left;\"></p>\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>The Delirious Cinema of Jesús Franco, Volume Two<img class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6183\" src=\"http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/FOPcoverwebsmall.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"365\" height=\"420\" /></em></h2>\r\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\">By Stephen Thrower</h2>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>HB 512pp\r\n240mm x 269mm\r\n£45.00 / £65\r\n520 images, full colour throughout </strong></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>ISBN: 9781907222603</strong></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Available Mid-November in Standard and Collectors\' Editions.\r\n<i>The Collectors\' Edition </i>of 500 copies is signed and numbered by Stephen Thrower and features specially designed boards and a different dust jacket image, a set of colour postcards and...</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>The Sinister Case of Dr. Franco</em>\r\nA 100 page, hardbound book, featuring a facsimile of items left behind at Hotel Quetzal in Southern France during the shooting of <em>Mandinga </em>in 1975. Jess and Lina Romay left the hotel in a hurry abandoning a suitcase containing numerous script treatments, story outlines and poster ideas, all of which are reproduced, annotated and made public here for the first time. This is a unique opportunity to own a piece of cinematic history and won\'t be repeated.</p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>This unique, one-off publication, presents a detailed cross-section of Jess Franco\'s seething imagination and hectic filming schedule at the crest of his career.   </em></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/incurable-3/\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">PRE-ORDER HERE</span></a></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\r\n<div class=\"section\">\r\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\r\n<div class=\"column\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\r\n\r\n<i>The second volume in Stephen Thrower\'s monumental study of Jess Franco\'s cinematic delirium, covering the years 1975 to his death in 2013.</i>\r\n\r\nJesús “Jess” Franco is an iconic figure in world cinema. His sexually charged, fearlessly personal style of filmmaking has never been in vogue with mainstream critics, but for lovers of the strange and sado-erotic he is a magician, spinning his unique and disturbing dream worlds from the cheapest of budgets.\r\n\r\nStephen Thrower has devoted many years to examining each and every known Franco film, second only to the maestro himself. This book—the second in a two-volume set—delves into the latter half of Franco\'s career, covering films that have never received critical appraisal before, as well as exclusive interviews with Franco collaborators including Antonio Mayans, Juan Soler, Katja Bienert and Monica Swinn.\r\n\r\nIn the world of Jess Franco freedom was the key, and he pushed at the boundaries of taste and censorship repeatedly, throughout an astonishingly varied career spanning sixty years. The director of more than 180 films, at his most prolific he worked in a supercharged frenzy that yielded as many as twelve titles per year, making him one of the most generative auteurs of all time.\r\n\r\nFranco\'s taste for the sexy and horrific, his lifelong obsession with the Marquis De Sade, and his roving hand-held camera style launched a whole new strain of erotic cinema. Disturbing, exciting, and defiantly avant-garde, films such as <em>Shining Sex</em>, <em>Barbed Wire Dolls</em>, <em>Ilsa The Wicked Warden </em>and<em> Bloody Moon</em> are among the jewels of European horror, while a plethora of multiple versions, re-edits and echoes of earlier works turn the Franco experience into a dizzying hall of mirrors, further entrancing the viewer who dares enter Franco\'s domain.\r\n\r\nThrower shines a light into the darkest corners of the Franco filmography and uncovers previously unknown and unsuspected facts about their casts, crews, and production histories.\r\n\r\nUnparalleled in scope and ambition, <i>Flowers of Perversion </i>brings Jess Franco\'s career into focus with a landmark study that aims to provide the definitive assessment of his labyrinthine film universe.\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https://strangeattractor.greedbag.com/buy/incurable-3/\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">PRE-ORDER HERE</span></a></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>Murderous Passion</em>, the first volume of this set, will be reprinted in early 2019 in full colour.</p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>','Flowers of Perversion','HB 512pp,\r\n240mm x 269mm\r\n£45.00 / £65\r\n','inherit','closed','closed','','6178-revision-v1','','','2018-09-20 15:24:54','2018-09-20 15:24:54','',6178,'http://strangeattractor.co.uk/news/6178-revision-v1/',0,'revision','',0),