No doubt the full selection will have many of you sighing and reaching for dictionaries incredulously. But right there’s the problem. Exactly how do you define cult fiction? With even the most uncontroversial gathering of cult practitioners, it is difficult to identify the critical unifying ingredient. Perhaps the adolescent angst and rebellion of Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye? The hippy drippy platitudes of Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet? Maybe the postmodern intertextuality of Italo Calvino’s If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller? Or the sexual ‘autogeddon’ of J.G. Ballard’s Crash?

What links these books? If there’s anything, it is the relationship between the text and your outlook ... the seismic shift in worldview that's brought about by the book. But that’s a subjective test … and one which could be applied to a very broad range of titles. So, yes, there may be some indignant huffing, as much for what is included as left out. By all means, post your objections.

The Cult Fiction theme will run through May and June.  Featured books are available through auction and Buy it Now.  Most of the items are paperback and will be dispatched fully protected in bubblewrap, with a card stiffener and in altered envelopes which fit like a bespoke jacket to prevent the book from moving about.  

Happy reading,

dene october