1,359 words
Jonathan Bowden
Apocalypse TV
London: The Spinning Top Club, 2007
Apocalypse TV was published in August 2007 by the Spinning Top Club. It runs to 239 pages and contains a pencil sketch of the author in the frontispiece or prelims by Michael Woodbridge. It is quite different to the other books which I have reviewed by this author — novels and plays, etc. . . . — by being directly non-fictional in character. Read more …
1,033 words
Jonathan Bowden
Al-Qa’eda MOTH
London: The Spinning Top Club, 2008
This picaresque novel was published in August 2008 by the Spinning Top Club in England. Read more …
907 words
Jonathan Bowden
Kratos and Other Works
London: The Spinning Top Club, 2008
The book Kratos was published by the Spinning Top Club in very early 2008. It extends over 157 pages. It consists of four independent stories of around the same length.
916 words
Jonathan Bowden
The Fanatical Pursuit of Purity
London: The Spinning Top Club, 2008
This book was published in 2008 by the Spinning Top Club in London. It is a Gothic or picaresque novel of 178 pages. This book can be considered in two basic ways. The first revolves around purely literary considerations. These have to do with an external or diachronic quality which Wyndham Lewis first explicated in the ‘twenties or before. Read more …
1,086 words
Jonathan Bowden
A Ballet of Wasps
London: The Spinning Top Club, 2008
A Ballet of Wasps is a collection of four short stories and a play. Read more …
878 words
Jonathan Bowden
Louisiana Half-Face
London: The Spinning Top Club, 2010
Louisiana Half-Face was published in the first half of this year (2010). Read more …
896 words
Jonathan Bowden
Lilith Before Eve
London: The Spinning Top Club, 2009
This book contains four plays which are more likely to be read than played in the theatre. Read more …
1,018 words
Jonathan Bowden
Goodbye, Homunculus!
London: The Spinning Top Club, 2009
This volume consists of four stories of approximately equal length. Their titles are “Goodbye, Homunculus!,” “Iron Breath,” “Armageddon’s Village,” and “Noughts are Crosses.” Each one of them deals with extreme takes on the imagination, and the entire book teeters on the edge of various genres. Read more …
