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Beat Generation Books
William S. Burroughs, A Life
UK Edition - I have been working on the research for Call Me Burroughs for some time... The idea is to publish it on February 5, 2014, the 100th anniversary of Bill’s Read more...
Call Me Burroughs, A Life
US Edition - I have been working on the research for Call Me Burroughs for some time... The idea is to publish it on February 5, 2014, the 100th anniversary of Bill’s Read more...
The Beat Hotel
The Beat Hotel is the story of last great bohemian hotel in Paris and describes an overlooked part of the story of the Read more...
Charles Bukowski
All through the sixties one of the strongest voices in the little literary magazines that I sold at Better Books, then later at Indica Books, was Charles Bukowski Read more...
Jack Kerouac: King of the Beats
Having written books about Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs, it seems obvious that the next Beat biography should be of Jack Kerouac Read more...
William Burroughs: El Hombre Invisible
Bill Burroughs seemed the logical book to do after my Allen Ginsberg biography as I knew him and I had only just finished researching the basic Beat Generation story Read more...
Allen Ginsberg: Beat Poet
In 1983 I was hanging around in New York with my friend Victor Bockris and through him got to know his friend Andrew Wylie; they wrote articles and books together Read more...
Counter-culture Books
In the Sixties
This is a new heavily illustrated and slightly enlarged edition of In The Sixties. Read more...
The British Underground Press of the Sixties
This is the catalogue of an exhibition that James Birch and I put on at James’s Gallery A22 in October 2017. Read more...
In the Seventies
In the Seventies follows on from my In the Sixties, beginning with the Weathermen explosion in Greenwich Village Read more...
London Calling
London Calling is the story of the counter-culture from the end of the Second World War until the end of Read more...
Hippie
This was always conceived as an illustrated book, with the pictures telling the story of the youth counter-culture of Read more...
In the Sixties
In 1970, Allen Ginsberg, who loved gossip, kept telling me to write down all the stories about my life in the Sixties Read more...
Peace
This was a commissioned book, but one that was of great interest to me as I was a very active member of CND in the Read more...
Rock ‘n’ Roll Books
The Zapple Diaries
The Zapple Diaries, published November 2015, was an idea put to me by Will Steeds, the head of Elephant Books, a packaging company. Read more...
The British Invasion
‘Rock ‘n’ roll had died in 1958, was resurrected in 1963 in Britain, and returned to the States in a different form. It had the same Read more...
Zappa: A Biography
My publisher suggested this, knowing that I used to know Zappa. I first met him in New York in 1967 when Ken Weaver Read more...
Pink Floyd: The Early Years
All the through the late seventies and the eighties, I produced dozens of rock ‘n’ roll books for Omnibus Read more...
Paul McCartney: Many Years From Now
Andrew Wylie, my agent, suggested Paul McCartney as the subject of my next book, ‘but it has to be authorised,’ Read more...