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All titles should also be available physically and online through our pals at Good Press


4.
LEUUD, IDLE, FROWARD AND VNCONSTANT 
by Ruby Conner


27 pages. Stapled, A5 booklet.

A FAMILY OF CHIMPS RESIDED IN A CORRUGATED TIN SHACK THE CHIMP FAMILY CONSISTED OF MOTHER CHIMP FATHER CHIMP AND BABY CHIMP FATHER CHIMP BELIEVES HE IS AT THE BECK AND CALL OF MOTHER AND BABY CHIMP IT PERPETUATES HIS DRINKING HABIT

Ruby Conner is from Stockport and currently living in Glasgow. Leuud, Idle, Froward, and Vnconstant was birthed after spending nine months living in the foothills of the High Peak area. This publication attempts to brings overlooked, uneventful aspects of life and absurd social situations into visibility through prose and childhood drawings.

“ Skid marks from an upset typewriter and children’s brains spill off the page like cold tea. Your kitchen table is forever stained with the guilt of someone else’s stupid evening...” - Tim Bishop

https://valentinalamour.co.uk/


3.
PICTURE THE SCENE:
A RUSSELL WALKER READER
by RUSSELL WALKER

225 pages. Perfect bound, A6 book.

I’VE SEEN YOU OFFER RANDOM WOMEN FLAPJACKS

Russell Walker has been writing and performing since the early naughties.

The novella, When New Towns Act Tough, appeared in 2016 and introduced his alter ego Rob Fairbrass to the reading public.

Picture The Scene features several more texts from this series, as well as other fiction, prose and song lyrics taken from the following releases:

  • The Lloyd Pack - I Bet You’ve Got Some Good Stories
  • The Bomber Jackets - Kudos to the The Bomber Jackets
  • False Face Society - Half Time 1916
  • Pheromoans - Art Mist
  • Pheromoans - County Lines
  • Russell Walker - The Lotus Eaters
  • Walker / Melchior - In Durham
  • The Lloyd Pack - At Home With...
  • Russell Walker - Blues Mist 
  • Charcoal Owls - Tin Roof
  • Charcoal Owls - The Coventry Campbell
  • Russell Walker - Funerals Til I Die

Completely unedited,  straight from Russell’s computer to Very Bon, to the printers, just like GOD intended.

Head on down to Cafe Oto in London on Sunday, 24th July for a launch of sorts, featuring: Russell Walker + Ash Reid & Jackson Burton + Ian Murphy



2.
DREAMING ABOUT WORMS AGAIN
by MSR FCJ 



128 pages in an A6 perfect bound book with a hand stamped cover.

A WORM DREAMT IT WAS A HUMAN AND LOVED IT BUT NOW THE DREAM IS OVER AND THE WORM IS AWAKE

“Collaborative earthlings Mike S Redmond and Faye Coral Johnson (MSR FCJ) are the duo behind collections that dare to explore all manner of odd but enchanting circumstances.

Through an experimental exchange, somewhere between the chaos and harmony of melding visual ideas, themes of unbridled romance, mild horror, biting humour and plain weird fantasy unfold.”

Dreaming About Worms Again is ‘a device to regulate waste’, an experimental comic navigating/regurgitating worm dreams and rooms on loop, hidden characters, passages filled with concrete, flapping skin, ducks in the street, etc. 

SUT ROOM, HOUSE WITHIN A HOUSE, F IS AN S, OBJECTS, SLAB.TV and I KISSED THE NAPE OF MY NECK IT WAS IN MY BUTT BC I WAS AN ALIEN.








Released May 1st, 2021

MSR FCJ

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SEAGULLS
by Edwin Stevens



276 pages in an A6, Perfect Bound book with a hand stamped cover designed and laid out by Matthew Walkerdine.

A novel of fourteen stories revolving around a fake North Wales Holiday Park.

One of Dennis Cooper’s favourite fiction books of 2020.

Also featured here on four books he read recently and loved.

“Seagulls is Stevens’ debut novel, a sordid glimpse of an imagined North Walean life, depressing and disgusting but somehow magical, and a version of Pontins quite unfamiliar to that place you may have visited as a child. While I was reading I picked a scab on my ear until it bled and got blood on page 74. It seemed quite fitting. Bumming, wrestling, circumcision, pubey chips, Crosby, Stills, and Nash – it really has it all. Stevens’ capacity for evocative description and dreamlike scene-setting is impeccable. By the end, I was part-aroused, part-nauseated, part-wistful, part-drunk with excitement for his next work. Stevens is my favourite scumbag angel, his first book a perfect flash of his gross, rotting, and beautiful head, and I hope that his hilarious and vivid voice will soon be in your head, too.” – Blair James

"A new major work from Glasgow’s Edwin Stevens. From behind the myth of musical outputs of Irma Vep, Yerba Mansa and countless other fine acts, Edwin has graced us with a piece of fiction which is stated as ‘NSFW’. Local regional stuff which is character driven, funny-not-funny- and funny again, add a little bit of dark. This comes extremely highly recommended. The first book from new Glasgow publisher Very Bon." - Good Press

"Don't be fooled by the slick cover there's all sorts of sick stuff inside and with that, glimpses of love stories, friendship and sweet delusions. It's truly good as you'd expect from Edwin...14 unreliable stories revolving around a fake holiday park in North Wales...disgusting and funny and sometimes even sweet."



Released October 15th, 2020.

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