LITTLE BLUE BOOK club
small but mighty masterpieces
NEW YORK
8am
LONDON
1pm
SYDNEY
11pm
A mixture of fiction, non-fiction and poetry.
A book club for the time and concentration poor who are craving intellectual stimulus, variety and community during these uncertain times.
TELEVISION WAS A BABY CRAWLING TOWARD THAT DEATHCHAMBER
BY ALLEN GINSBERG
Profane and prophetic verses about sex, death, revolution and America by the great icon of Beat poetry.
THE BREAKTHROUGH
BY DAPHNE DU MAURIER
On the windswept coast of rural Suffolk, a deranged scientist attempts to extract the essence of life itself.
THE CUSTARD HEART
BY DOROTHY PARKER
Wise-cracking and heartbreaking, these tales of women on the edge by the legendary wit Dorothy Parker show the darkness beneath the surface of the Jazz Age.
THREE JAPANESE SHORT STORIES
BY UNO, NAGAI & AKUTAGAWA
Beguiling, strange and hair-raising tales from early 20th century Japan: Nagai's Behind the Prison, Uno's Closet LLB and Akutagawa's deeply macabre General Kim.
THE VEILED WOMAN
BY ANAÏS NIN
Transgressive desires and sexual encounters are recounted in these four pieces from one of the greatest writers of erotic fiction.
NOTES ON NATIONALISM
BY GEORGE ORWELL
Biting and timeless reflections on patriotism, prejudice and power, from the man who wrote about his nation better than anyone.
FOOD
BY GERTRUDE STEIN
From apples to artichokes, these glittering, fragmented, painterly portraits of food by the avant-garde pioneer Gertrude Stein are redolent of sex, laughter and the joy of everyday life.
THE THREE ELECTROKNIGHTS
BY STANISLAW LEM
From a giant of twentieth-century science fiction, these four miniature space epics feature crazy inventors, surreal worlds, robot kings and madcap machines.
THE GREAT HUNGER
BY PATRICK KAVANAGH
By turns comical, grouchy and exalted, and including his tragic masterpiece 'The Great Hunger', some of the key poems by the writer who transformed Anglo-Irish verse.
THE LEGEND OF THE SLEEPERS
Sleepers awake in a remote cave and the ancient mystic Simon Magus attempts a miracle, in these two magical, otherworldly tales from one of the greatest voices of twentieth-century Europe.
THE BLACK BALL
BY RALPH ELLISON
Belonging and estrangement intertwine in these four lyrical short stories from the author of Invisible Man.
TILL SEPTEMBER PETRONELLA
BY JEAN RHYS
In stories that span the course of a lifetime - from childhood in the Caribbean to adolescent modelling in Paris; lonely adulthood to old age.
INVESTIGATIONS OF A DOG
BY FRANZ KAFKA
How does a dog see the world? How do any of us? In this playful and enigmatic story of a canine philosopher, Kafka explores the limits of knowledge.
DAYDREAM & DRUNKENNESS OF A YOUNG LADY BY CLARICE LISPECTOR
Tales of desire and madness from this giant of Brazilian literature.