GORILLA GUERRILLA A NOVEL BY NICK TAUSSIG Hardback Edition out August 1st 2008. £10 in all good bookshops.
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In an African country, while a civil war rages, Kibwe and Zuberi meet. Both are twelve years old, both are orphans; Kibwe’s parents killed in the name of war and Zuberi’s in the name of trade. Kibwe is a boy and Zuberi a gorilla. They are on the run: Kibwe, from the horrors he has committed as a child soldier, and Zuberi, from the violent hand of man. The former is desperate to reclaim his humanity; the latter, determined to have a family once more. Can they help one another get back what each of them has lost? In this, his third novel, Nick Taussig constructs two parallel yet contrasting storylines - one with a young boy soldier as narrator and the other a gorilla, a young silverback - in order to explore the best and worst of human nature in the light of our ape inheritance. These two strands gradually come together to produce a gripping, moving and provocative book. His most ambitious novel to date, this work has a timelss and apocalyptic feel. www.nicktaussig.com Click here to buy |
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EDDIE KRUMBLE IS THE CLAPPER A CLEVER SATIRE ABOUT FAME, CONSUMPTION AND REALITY TV Paperback Edition out April 18 2008. £7.99 in all good bookshops.
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From the author and director of A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints (Dito Montiel) comes a clever satire about fame, consumption and reality TV. Meet Eddie Krumble. He's a relatively happy guy. Content-ish. Fresh to Los Angeles, Eddie and his friend Chris Plork land their first gig: clapping as paid audience members for infomercials and sitcoms so heinous that tourists won't even attend. Eddie spends long days clapping, laughing, and hissing - on cue, of course - and his life slowly takes shape as a relationship with Judy, a gas station attendant, begins to brew. Suddenly it's all turned on its head when Jay Leno, in one of his nightly rants, unveils two stills of Eddie as audience member for two different infomercials. Eddie is singled-out as clapper for hire, causing his career to come to a halt, and Leno turns his discovery into a recurring segment on his show. "Who is THE CLAPPER?" takes the public by storm, and Eddie's face appears on TVs and billboards throughout the nation. An uproarious satire, EDDIE KRUMBLE IS THE CLAPPER is sure to mark the beginning of Montiel’s long literary career in fiction. Using case studies such as Moazzem Begg, 7/7 survivor Rachel North and David Bermingham of the NatWest 3, Taking Liberties proves that the popular cry - ‘if you’ve done nothing wrong, you’ve got nothing to fear’ - just doesn’t stand anymore. Whilst Atkins’ tone is alternately humorous and acerbic, his point is unequivocal: we need to act before we lose our basic human rights. Click here to buy |
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MY BROTHER IS AN ONLY CHILD NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE Paperback Edition out April 4 2008. £7.99 in all good bookshops.
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Translated from the Italian best-seller 'Il Fasciocomunista', and now a multi-award winning film, 'My Brother Is An Only Child' is an unforgettable coming-of-age story of love, family and politics.
Accio is a trouble-maker. Impulsive and explosive, he forever causes his parents despair. His brother, Manrico, is handsome, charismatic, and loved by all, but just as dangerous... In the Italian small-town life of the 60s and 70s, the two brothers with their opposing political beliefs fall in love with the same woman and are drawn apart. 'My Brother Is An Only Child' is a story about growing up, where fifteen years of Italian history pass by as we experience the adventures of Accio and Manrico, two brothers, very different, yet so alike... Click here to buy |
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TAKING LIBERTIES THE BOOK OF THE MOST IMPORTANT FILM OF THE DECADE Paperback Edition out now. £7.99 in all good bookshops.
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A wake-up call for a sleepwalking nation, Taking Liberties is a gripping exploration of New Labour’s Orwellian legacy. In anticipation of Tony Blair’s stand down this summer Taking Liberties examines the government’s systematic erosion of our civil liberties since 1997 through sometimes shocking, always true, real life stories. Taking Liberties takes the reader on a journey from the initial euphoria of New Labour’s victory over the Tories to the New Labour of today with its bloodied hands and soiled reputation. Dealing with the spectres of torture, detention without trial, rendition and the gradual erosion of our democratic rights, Taking Liberties examines Blair’s legacy through the magnifying glass of particular events including September 11th and the more every day, but no less pervasive, ASBO. The book includes expert contributions from the likes of Shami Chakrabarti of Liberty, Kate Allen of Amnesty International and QCs Philippe Sands and Michael Mansfield and commentary from senior political commentators - including Boris Johnson and Clare Short. Through these and further contributions from ordinary members of the public who have felt the increasingly heavy hand of the law, Taking Liberties questions the strength of New Labour’s democratic vision and illustrates the country’s growing disillusionment in the government. Using case studies such as Moazzem Begg, 7/7 survivor Rachel North and David Bermingham of the NatWest 3, Taking Liberties proves that the popular cry - ‘if you’ve done nothing wrong, you’ve got nothing to fear’ - just doesn’t stand anymore. Whilst Atkins’ tone is alternately humorous and acerbic, his point is unequivocal: we need to act before we lose our basic human rights. www.noliberties.com Click here to buy |
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A GUIDE TO RECOGNIZING YOUR SAINTS THE OUTSTANDING DEBUT FROM DITO MONTIEL Paperback Edition out now. £6.99 in all good bookshops.
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A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints is the quintessentially American story of a young man’s hunger for experience, his dawning awareness of the bigger world across the bridge, and the loyalties that bind him to a violent past and to the flawed and desperate saints that have guided him. The memoir chronicles Dito, as he grows wild in the streets of Astoria, Queens, pulling pranks for gangsters and confessing at church, gobbling hits of purple mescaline and Olde English, sneaking into Times Square whorehouses – “kids from nowhere going nowhere”. Dito tasted short-lived notoriety as a model for Versace and Calvin Klein, and as the leader of Gutterboy, a fifteen-minute darling signed to Geffen for a then unprecedented one million dollar advance. But this book is about the saints: Dito’s father, Antonio, Bob, Semen, Frank the dog walker, Jimmy Mullen, Cherry Vanilla, Ginsberg and all the others, the drunks, coke-heads, junkies, and the insaniacs… "A series of brilliant vignettes" - Robert Downey Jr. www.saintsthemovie.com Click here to buy |
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DON DON THE SECOND NOVEL FROM NICK TAUSSIG Paperback Edition out 16 March 2007. £7.99 in all good bookshops.
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In this, his second novel DON DON, Nick Taussig provides a meditation on death from two very different and interconnected perspectives. There is the immortal, rapacious American millionaire Don Holmes, for whom death comes as an affront, and there is the noble and benevolent Thai Buddhist monk Ajahn Dohn, for whom death comes as the fate of all that lives. Once both men know that they are dying, they set out on contrasting journeys. Don Holmes descends into hedonism and excess before seeking spiritual renewal and making a dignified attempt to reconcile himself with those he'll leave behind, whereas Ajahn Dohn journeys from the temple to the city, moving from a quiet acceptance of his imminent death to a rousing need to re-immerse himself in the material and sensual world. These comparative stories vary and diverge throughout, before finally knitting back together to give the novel a neat figure-of-eight shape. Though the two men at first seem so diametrically opposed in outlook and again at their first fractious meeting, by the end they have almost merged into one. www.dondonthenovel.com www.nicktaussig.com Click here to buy |
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MARRIAGE & HOW TO AVOID IT THE TRULY CYNICAL GUIDE Paperback Edition out now. £6.99 in all good bookshops.
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A cheeky, witty, well-informed and provocative look at an age-old institution that is (supposedly) one of the building blocks of modern society; this book is a light-hearted look at our intended destination. But buried in a shallow grave under the humorous text are deeply dark undertones that seem to make an awful lot of sense. Marriage: is it worth it? Is it necessary? Is it outdated? Is it just another item on the shopping list of life? This book will touch you whether you’re ‘a true romantic’ or ‘an intolerable cynic’, and should leave you with a big smile on your face, or at the very least, a rather worried grin. www.marriageandhowtoavoidit.com www.guyblews.com Click here to buy |
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VICE THE VICE GUIDE TO SEX AND DRUGS AND ROCK AND ROLL Paperback Edition coming soon. £12.99 in all good bookshops.
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What started out as a few drug addicts scamming welfare benefits back in Montreal in 1994 has become a global empire of hedonism known simply as VICE. From a 16-page newspaper about punk bands and violence to offices and editions all over Britain, Europe, japan and Australia, VICE films, VICE TV, VICE Records, a clothing line and viceland.com, VICE has become much more than a way for its employees to get laid. It's become a lifestyle, a degrading and disgusting lifestyle of sex and drugs and rock and roll and death. This book is a collection of the irreverent, hilarious and downright scary gonzo journalism that's made VICE the fastest-growing magazine brand in the world and has transported its makers from the slums to the deluxe apartments of New York, London and Tokyo. "The brutally honest, low-rent art-and-culture zine... entices Jack Black and Mike Myers, and its fashion DOs and DON'Ts page is a riot" - Entertainment Weekly "Vice reads like Eminem, only angrier" - The Independent on Sunday "A hipster's bible" - Rolling Stone Magazine Click here to buy |
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LOVE AND MAYHEM THE ACCLAIMED DEBUT NOVEL FROM NICK TAUSSIG Paperback Edition coming soon. £7.99 in all good bookshops.
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The novel tells the story of the love affair between Jack Stoltz and Catherine Ramirez. A rather shy, intense and introspective man, his desire for her is strong and abrupt. She, his opposite, is wild, sensual and mercurial. Theirs is an obsessive love, ardent and intense while dangerously self-destructive in its all-consuming design. When at last their love is realised, it exists as a delicate and fragile entity, constantly threatening to be consumed by its own excess and their own deeply buried but explosive anxieties. Jack’s encounter with a destitute and desperate stranger – a man who believes there’s no purpose in looking for love in a selfish, violent and hypocritical world – threatens to destroy not only Jack and Catherine’s love for one another but their very identities. >> View The TV Trailer Click Here To Buy www.nicktaussig.com |
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RICHARD PRYOR: PRYOR CONVICTIONS IN HIS OWN WORDS: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE FUNNIEST M*THERF**K*R ON THE PLANET! Red Paperback Edition out now. £8.99 in all good bookshops.
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The eagerly anticipated, turbulent memoirs of the most revolutionary and influential comic performer of the last twenty-five years have arrived. Pryor's is a tale of tragedy to triumph and back again. Frank, courageous, profane, incisive, urgent – but above all, possessed by luminous humour – Pryor takes us from his childhood in the whorehouses, bars and pool halls of the black neighborhood, to his astonishing ascendance as the most powerful and honest comedian of the 1970s. Learn first hand about the legendary performances, the movies, the money, the women, the cocaine addiction, the seven marriages, the quadruple bypass surgery and multiple sclerosis. Despite all this, Richard Pryor has earned his legendary status because of his talents as a masterful storyteller, a multi-talented entertainer, a comic of acerbic wit, and a survivor with no self-pity. As Richard Pryor likes to say, “I ain’t dead yet m*therf@ck%r!” "Richard Pryor is truly one of the great artists of our time. His comic genius and influence remain unparalleled." Eddie Murphy "Pryor delivered comedy like a musician delivers jazz" The Guardian "The Godfather of stand-up comedy at his best" FHM Click here to buy |
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RICHARD PRYOR: PRYOR CONVICTIONS IN HIS OWN WORDS: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE FUNNIEST M*THERF**K*R ON THE PLANET! Hardback Edition out now.
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The eagerly anticipated, turbulent memoirs of the most revolutionary and influential comic performer of the last twenty-five years have arrived. Pryor's is a tale of tragedy to triumph and back again. Frank, courageous, profane, incisive, urgent – but above all, possessed by luminous humour – Pryor takes us from his childhood in the whorehouses, bars and pool halls of the black neighborhood, to his astonishing ascendance as the most powerful and honest comedian of the 1970s. Learn first hand about the legendary performances, the movies, the money, the women, the cocaine addiction, the seven marriages, the quadruple bypass surgery and multiple sclerosis. Despite all this, Richard Pryor has earned his legendary status because of his talents as a masterful storyteller, a multi-talented entertainer, a comic of acerbic wit, and a survivor with no self-pity. As Richard Pryor likes to say, “I ain’t dead yet m*therf@ck%r!” "Richard Pryor is truly one of the great artists of our time. His comic genius and influence remain unparalleled." Eddie Murphy "Pryor delivered comedy like a musician delivers jazz" The Guardian "The Godfather of stand-up comedy at his best" FHM Click here to buy |
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THE LITTLE BOOK OF BLEEPS THE ESSENTIAL COMPANION TO THE HIT FILM, WHAT THE BLEEP DO WE KNOW!?
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From the year’s most awe-inspiring movie comes the perfect collection of reality expanding quotations, theories and images. This guide has been created to take you right back into the heart of the magic. What the Bleep Do We Know!? is a deftly woven, entertaining, enlightening and unique tapestry of live action drama, interviews and visionary animation. Academy Award Winner Marlee Matlin plays Amanda, an unhappy woman who embarks on an Alice-in-Wonderland-like journey into the meaning of existence and into the depths of her soul… Click here to buy
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LOVE AND MAYHEM THE ACCLAIMED DEBUT NOVEL FROM NICK TAUSSIG Hardback Edition out now.
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