Pure Mania is set in an almost fictional anarcho-punk milieu around the squats and council estates of East London. This trashy adventure story takes the form of a blatantly falsified tour of eighties youth trends. It's a pastiche of the fiction published by New English Library during the 1970's. MARX CHRIST AND SATAN UNITED IN STRUGGLE * * Pure Mania is a pulp tragicomedy set in London's punk and skinhead scene at a time when both ready to blow the British Isles to hell * * SEXUAL PERVERSION AT ITS VERY WORST * * PURE MANIA is published in Hardback 9781914090660 / Original paperback 9781914090776 / and quality eBook 9781914090943

Stewart Home is the internationally-acclaimed author of Red London, 69 Things to Do with a Dead Princess (Canongate, 2002), Down and Out in Shoreditch and Hoxton (Do-Not Press, 2004) and Tainted Love (Virgin Books, 2005), among others. His new book, Memphis Underground, documents his obsessions with Soul music and the theory and practice of art while marking another step up in his progress as one of the country's most fascinating avant-garde writers.

This year award-winning children's illustrators join Discworld favourites like Paul Kidby and David Wyatt with their own interpretations of Terry Pratchett's phenomal Discworld. Each full-page illustration also appears on the back; there are biographies of the artists as well as the author on the inside front page. The calendar dates are exhaustively researched and include major real-time calendrical data for the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United States. Artists briefed include Sandy Nightingale, Chris Riddell, David Frankland, Mark Edwards, Angelo Rinaldi, Mel Grant, Stephen Player, David Wyatt, Gino D'Achille, Stuart Williams, Jackie Morris and James Mayhew.