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From the esoteric to the sonic, tQ’s bookshelf revealed
In his new book, Retreat, Matthew Ingram explores the legacy left by the counterculture of the 60s and 70s upon our very modern obsession with health and well-being. Here he shares some of the stranger tomes he read in the course of researching it
From writing for New Worlds in the 60s to his unfair contemporary reputation as a ‘writer’s writer’, M. John Harrison has consistently pushed at the margins of literature. Calum Barnes reads the English author’s latest novel and a new career-spanning collection of short stories from Comma Press to uncover a writer that few can match
Written on a typewriter in the fever dream of high lockdown, Ryan Diduck’s new book for Repeater, *The Limits of Control*, is a restless meditation on discipline and mediation. In this exclusive extract he recalls Ronnie O’Sullivan’s record break at the World Snooker Championship on 21 April 1997
The English statesman and philosopher Francis Bacon wrote his utopian tale New Atlantis at the very end of his life in the early 17th century. Three centuries later it was heralded by Daphne Oram and others as a prophecy of modern electronic music. In an exclusive extract from his introduction to a new edition of the book for Repeater Books, tQ's books ed Robert Barry explains why
"A staggeringly ambitious and original work of political science fiction," (according to our review today), Carl Neville's Eminent Domain imagines a socialist utopia in the "People’s Republic of Britain". Here, the author picks the tracks that accompanied its writing
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