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BPC Publishers has so far brought out 2 non-fiction books: Psychedelic Tricksters (2020) and L*D Underground (2022)

12/09/2025
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05/09/2025

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David Black is a freelance writer and reporter, specializing in the analysis of covert action by the secret services. He has contributed to Rolling Stone and...

Lyndal Roper's book, Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants' War, is the product of decades of scholarly research...
22/08/2025

Lyndal Roper's book, Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants' War, is the product of decades of scholarly research, including treks all over Germany to trace the events and places she writes about. Her approach is 'to understand the world the peasants inhabited through uncovering the rich details of their daily lives, and to reconstruct their beliefs…'

11/10/2024

Memories of Musical Subversion

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23/08/2024

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David Black is a freelance writer and reporter, specializing in the analysis of covert action by the secret services. He has contributed to Rolling Stone and...

Jack Hilton’s Caliban Shrieks, now back in print after 90 years, is a forgotten ‘modernist’ classic. Breaking the mold o...
19/04/2024

Jack Hilton’s Caliban Shrieks, now back in print after 90 years, is a forgotten ‘modernist’ classic. Breaking the mold of the ‘working class novel’ (such as Walter Greenwood’s Love on the Dole, published in 1933), Hilton’s narrative cracks along without any dialogue between characters and with no character development apart from the protagonist’s own and his circumstances. As George Orwell put it, the book ‘deals with its subject from the inside, and consequently it gives one, instead of a catalogue of facts relating to poverty, a vivid notion of what it feels like to be poor.’

Review: Jack Hilton’s Caliban Shrieks In a previous post about the publication of the new Penguin edition of Caliban Shrieks by Jack Hilton, I ran George Orwell’s Adelphi review in 1935, which described it as ‘witty and unusual’ presentation of ‘a genuinely working-class outlook… exceedi...

31/03/2024

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