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UPCOMING TITLES
This book started as an exploration of contemporary drug culture but it morphed into an autobiography of my friends and me. From our formative years in the eighties, through our teen years in the nineties and into the first decade of the new millenium. When the music was still analogue, the radio was pirate and the heartbeat of the city was Drum & Base, Indie and Garage.
From the highest highs to long dark nights of the soul, our journey took us across London and Europe. A journey that started with my first taste of alcohol at six and led to sacramental herbs, techno shamanism, noxious chemicals and getting mixed up in London’s most expensive drugs raid.
This book also contains a cultural and historical exploration of London’s nightlife and into the next day. From riots at illegal squat raves to fetish clubs in churches, joy rides in pink tanks and much much more.
Drugs are gateways that opened up to reveal people, places and experiences that would never have been part of our story otherwise. Adventures that took us from middle-class cannabis soirees to cracked out council flats, the country estates and swimming pools of the landed gentry, hospital emergency rooms and through the veil of consensus reality to discover the true nature and meaning of life itself.
The first half of this book is a real life coming-of-age story that plays out amid one of the most decadent and exciting eras in British history. Filled with friendship, tragedy and humour, it’s also a love letter to a city that no longer exists. True, when I look back on that time it’s through a smokey haze and the bottom of a glass, but it all happened. For the second half I broaden the scope to include the story of some of the key players in Rave culture, a complete history of Soho and its cultural impact, the evolution of dance music, the wonders of Worthing, Manchester’s maddest moments and so much more. Whether you were there and want to relive it, or wish you had been, this is the book for you.
A young man living a minimum wage life, struggling to keep hold of his mental health, snaps while trying to escape the grind of London for some peace and quiet and finds himself sitting in a jail cell. But a figure from his past appears and offers him the chance to step out of his cell, step through the looking glass and become a frontline soldier on a battlefield of orgies and intrigue where information is a weapon. What starts as a decadent, erotic journey into the upper echelons of the entertainment industry, the financial elite and the 1% that controls your lives, becomes a brutal, high adrenaline, reality-bending action adventure where mind control, sexual fetishism, myth and magic, global conspiracies, extra terrestrials and the true nature of the structure and meaning of reality crash together in a swirling mix of violence, satirical comedy, metaphysics and an eternal bond of true love that transcends space and time.
A kaleidoscopic blend of espionage, action, psychedelia, humour and supernatural sci-fi. With influences drawn from a diverse range of sources including Cold War spy-fi, Gonzo journalism and stand-up comedy, Dichotomy is the first book in The Liminal Series which sets the trilogy off with a bang and lots of smoke and mirrors.
