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Featured book: The Warlock of Love

Featured book: The Warlock of Love

Also from 1969, but not quite the cutting edge masterpiece that was Slaughterhouse-Five, The Warlock of Love is Marc Bolan’s only book of poetry. It has, somewhat surprisingly given Bolan’s subsequent fame, never been reprinted. Bolan was twenty-two at...
Featured book: Slaughterhouse-Five

Featured book: Slaughterhouse-Five

Published in the same year as Portnoy’s Complaint, in 1969, Slaughterhouse-Five is another comic (but much darker) masterpiece. Kurt Vonnegut’s genre-defying, time-hopping and utterly unique novel was based on his distressing experience as a pilot at the...
Featured book: Portnoy’s Complaint (Signed)

Featured book: Portnoy’s Complaint (Signed)

Portnoy’s Complaint (1969) turned Philip Roth from a promising young writer into a literary superstar and celebrity. Gone were the literary constraints from his previous work and the influence of Henry James: this book was written to make us roar with laughter...
Featured book: The Eye

Featured book: The Eye

The writer Nabokov is almost synonymous with his masterpiece Lolita, but he’s written many other fantastic books. Before he started writing in English (around 1940) Nabokov had published nine novels in his native Russian. After the enormous commercial success...
Featured book: The World

Featured book: The World

The infamous Manhattan nightclub The World operated largely outside the law from the early 1980s until 1991 when its owner was found dead on the premises. This amazing and scarce book (published in 1988) consists of photographs by Stephan Lupino of the regulars and...