"The Image Kills"
PORKY'S PARADISE
by Jeremy Seymour
Redolent of the 1960s, when it was easier to be a crook than a homosexual, Porky's Paradise follows the ruthless pursuit of wealth and status by Porky Snut after the death of his enigmatic lover, Melia Tope. But Porky wasn’t the only one in Melia s life and currents of love and hate came together at a party held in the cellars of the hotel they called "Paradise". When incriminating photos reach Porky, they threaten his thriving rackets. He has to find out which of those old friends from Paradise took those pictures.
Porky's Paradise is a novel on many levels, all of them exciting, thrilling, even at times terrifying. It has been compared with Last Exit to Brooklyn, but the human interactions have added subtle dimensions.
"Good." WILLIAM BURROUGHS
"Gripping, Readable... I admire it." EDWARD LUCIE SMITH
"This strangeness, the almost timeless, placeless feel..."
DULAN BARBER
"It is very good indeed." TONY RICHARDSON
ISBN: 190073723X £9.00
ARIELE'S KIND
by Jeremy Seymour
Ariele's Kind is about a world in which only seven people exist, their world is exclusive and sealed, without ideology, without politics and without ethics except those emanating from sexual loyalties. Within walls as sturdy and impenetrable as those of a pressure cooker, Seymour builds up steam.
"The players are motivated by lust, greed, love, revenge and a mandatory pursuit of status and power - Seymour gives his characters cartoon names because he knows that cartoons are stereotypes, and stereotypes are archetypes, and archetypes are epic and mythological in significance and power. They are as free as Odysseus, Oedipus or Orpheus to behave like gods. Seymour can have them intertwine their lives in a fast-moving, pungently written sequence of scenarios that escape the pornographic only by the brooding convulsive depth with which they are envisaged." JEFF NUTTALL
ISBN 1900737256 £8.00
TRIXIE'S PICTURE
by Jeremy Seymour
Matthew 18, verse 6
"But whoso shall offend one of these little ones it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea."
This is Jesus's stark warning which is reproduced on the cover of Trixie's Picture, the third and final book in the dark and disturbing literary trilogy "The Image Kills" .
Trixie's Picture is set in the seedy Islington of the 1960s. "It was a time of tearing down houses all over England, smashing tight-knit communities and levelling individual and dignified homes to erect in green deserts, where no ball games were allowed, towering edifices of rotting concrete and badly cast aluminium, where people pined and the children became apaches of the corridors and lifts. Millions were dispossessed without a shot being fired."
Against this backdrop, the lascivious and their victims, the scoundrels and their victims, the paedophiles and their victims, move inexorably toward one murderous ending.
Trixie's Picture is an extremely disturbing novel. Its style is minimalist, and the writing is exceptionally fine.
ISBN 900737299 £8.00