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The Decadent Handbook
Author: James Doyle, Amelia Hodsdon, Rowan Pelling
Cover design: Jonathan Barker
Cover illustration: Aubrey Beardsley
The ultimate lifestyle guide for the people who want to transform the spirit of the age, or failing that, ignore it altogether. Featuring contributions by the bad, dangerous and eccentric free spirits of contemporary society, The Decadent Handbook will become the bible for the modern libertine. Contributors include Hari Kunzru,Tom Holland,Salena Godden,Michael Bywater, Lisa Hilton, Helen Walsh, Michael Bywater, Vanora Bennett, Medlar Lucan, Andrew Crumey, Durian Gray,Nicholas Royle,Mark Mason, Alan Jenkins and Robert Irwin.
Guest contributors include the J.K.Huysmans, Pieyre de Mandiargues, Octave Mirbeau and Sebastian Horsley. The contributors( that is those who are still alive by the time of publication )have chosen to be remunerated with La Fee Absinthe.
Reviews
- Alexander Larman in The New Statesman
- BL in Buzz Magazine
- Kelly Salter in The Big Issue
- Joe Cushley in What's On in London
- Oliver Duff in The Independent
- Duncan Fallowell in The Daily Telegraph
- Timon in The Erotic Review
- Lorne Jackson in The Sunday Mercury
- Laura Tennant in The FirstPost
- The Oldie
- James Sebright in The Crack
- Jon Barnes in The Times Literary Supplement
- Carrie O'Grady in The Guardian's Christmas Books
- John Walsh in The Independent
- Alex Clark in Red Magazine, Christmas Issue
- Rowan Pelling in The Daily Mail
- Rosie Birkett in Leeds Guide Books of the Year
- James Harkin in The Financial Times
- Machenalia
- Judas Angels in QX International
- The Flaneur
- Rosie Birkett in The Leeds Guide
- Katy Guest in The Independent
- Dogmatika
- Jo Littler in The Guardian
- Jade Everingham in The Daily Telegraph
- David Sinclair in Tribune
RRP: £9.99
No. of pages: 372
Publication date: 10 October, 2007
Re-print date: unspecified
Catalogue/ISBN no: 978 1 903517 64 2
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Rights sold; Romania(Vremea), Turkey(Okuyan Us).
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