Repeater’s Favourite Reads in 2020
As the year draws to a close, Team Repeater consider the state of their bookshelves and survey the year through their favourite reads.
HALLOWEEN FLASH SALE! 50% off selected titles
To celebrate the haunting season we are offering 50% off our selected titles for the next 48 hours. What a better way to get into the Halloween spirit than reading about pessimism in Western philosophy (Infinite Resignation) or discovering the
Destination Docklands: The Story Of Jean-Michel Jarre’s 1988 London Spectacle
On October 10th thirty years ago, London witnessed one of the most remarkable and intriguing cultural events of its modern history. A concert which used massive buildings as a stage-set, relentless fireworks that could be seen across the city, an
Altered Grammar: Re-reading Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four in the Time of Trump
Darren Ambrose, editor of k-punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher (2004-2016), on Orwell, through Pynchon, in the age of Trump. There is a terrifying moment in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four just after Winston and Julia have spent their final stolen
Listen to Daniel Spicer’s Turkish psych compilation!
In anticipation of the release of Daniel Spicer's new book The Turkish Psychedelic Music Explosion: Anadolu Psych (1965-1980) next week, have a listen to a Turkish psych compilation Dan compiled for The Wire's primer series in 2011. Listen to it here. The book is released
A Splutter of Musketry – Britain and America’s Destruction of Iranian Democracy (Part Two)
In the second part of his essay on the role of MI6 and the CIA in the Iranian coup of 1953, No Less Than Mystic author John Medhurst covers the coup itself and its aftermath. The response of the AIOC to
Say hello to Jon, our new US/Canada publicist
All of us at Repeater Books would like to welcome our new US/Canada publicist, Jon Maunder. As an introduction to Jon, we'd like to share with you this article he wrote last year for the Chicago Review of Books on Chicago's literary
A Splutter of Musketry – Britain and America’s Destruction of Iranian Democracy (Part One)
How did the CIA and MI6 orchestrate a coup d'etat in Iran in 1953? In this new, two-part essay, No Less Than Mystic author John Medhurst looks at how Britain and the USA destroyed democracy in Iran to protect their own economic
Read an extract from A Threat of the First Magnitude
You can now read an extract from Aaron J Leonard and Conor A Gallagher's A Threat of the First Magnitude - FBI Counterintelligence and Infiltration from the Communist Party to the Revolutionary Union 1962-1974 on Truthout! In their new book, A Threat of the First
“A hell of a performance”—Warren Ellis reviews No Less Than Mystic
We were delighted to discover this wonderful review of John Medhurst's No Less Than Mystic in the newsletter of Warren Ellis (graphic novelist, writer, author of Normal, Gun Machine, Transmetropolitan, Red and much more). He's kindly given us permission to reprint