The mass-market paperback version of Man-Eating Typewriter will be published by White Rabbit on September 12th 2024, selling at £12.99.
From the back cover:
‘Brilliantly constructed’ John Higgs
‘Remarkable, beautiful, magic’ Paolo Hewitt
‘A phenomenal achievement’ Literary Review
‘Erudite, witty, immaculately crafted’ Ali Millar, author of Ava Anna Ada
Set at the fag-end of the 1960s and framed as a novel within a novel published by a seedy London purveyor of pulp fiction, Man-Eating Typewriter is a homage to the avant-garde counterculture of the 20th century. Told in Polari, it is the story of an anarchist named Raymond Novak and his plan to commit a ‘fantabulosa crime’ in 276 days that will revolt the world.
Wild, transgressive, erotic and resolutely uncompromising, this marks the return of an author who is out there on an island of his own making; a book that will be talked about, celebrated and puzzled over for decades.
‘It doesn’t get more exciting. In literary terms, he’s right up there with the best this country has to offer’ Rupert Thomson
‘Man-Eating Typewriter is a disgusting and depraved book… I thoroughly enjoyed it’ Daily Telegraph
‘This farcical tale of freedom and ecstasy - told in fruity Polari slang - reads as if Jean Genet and Vladimir Nabokov had joined the writing team of the Carry On films’ Boyd Tonkin, Financial Times
Pre-order the paperback from White Rabbit HERE