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Repeater intends to add its voice to those movements

that wish to enter history and assert control over its currents,

gathering together scattered and isolated voices with those

who have already called for an escape from Capitalist

Realism. Our desire is to publish in every sphere and

genre, combining vigorous dissent and a

pragmatic willingness to succeed.

www.repeaterbooks.com



JUNE

9781914420436

305pp

PB 234 x 153 mm

Mono

£16.99/$20.95

Memoirs / Politics

World rights available

“Breaks through the hidden

silences that still surround

discussion concerning

interventions in theatres of

war.” — Brad Evans, Professor

of Political Violence &

Aesthetics, University of Bath

“Owen has rendered the

intrinsic dilemmas, moral

ambiguities and political

hazards of humanitarianism

in a powerful and poignant

personal memoir of his time

in Somalia.” — Andrew

Thompson, Professor of

Global & Imperial History,

University of Oxford

JULY

9781913462765

348 pp

PB 197 x 130 mm

Mono

£10.99/$14.95

Politics

World rights available

WHEN THE MUSIC’S OVER

Intervention, Aid and Somalia

Gareth Owen

DRINKING UP THE REVOLUTION

How to Smash Big Alcohol and Reclaim Working-Class Joy

James Wilt

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9781914420054

Twelve Cries from

Home: In Search of Sri

Lanka’s Disappeared

Minoli Salgado

In 1993, Gareth Owen volunteered to go to Somalia with an

Irish aid agency as part of Operation Restore Hope.

In this accessible and engaging memoir, Owen, now Humanitarian

Director at Save the Children UK, recounts the entanglement of

violence and humanity at the heart of this notorious peacekeeping

operation. This is a story of human resilience and contradictory

friendships, of loyalty, courage and extraordinary endeavour — but

mostly it is a story about the meaning of human connection in

desperate circumstances.

Part memoir, part history and part politics, When the Music’s

Over sees beyond the criticism of humanitarian intervention and

challenges us to consider the enduring importance of international

solidarity in a world where notions of common humanity and

universal peace are increasingly being abandoned.

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9781912248919

The Melancholia of

Class: A Manifesto for

the Working Class

Cynthia Cruz

Big Alcohol is one of the most powerful and profitable

industries in the world — yet this constellation of massive

corporations, lobby groups, and governments faces almost no

scrutiny for the immense health and social harms it causes.

Drinking Up the Revolution makes the case for smashing this

global alcohol industry. Far from a call for prohibition or

sobriety, it is instead a manifesto for putting alcohol production

and supply into the hands of the working class, facilitating lowerrisk

drinking, reduced harm, and decommodified sources of

relaxation and pleasure.

Above all, this book is a rallying cry to take back power from the

corporations that have commodified our desire for joy and sold

it back to us in a way that harms our health, lives, and the world

around us.

GARETH OWEN has been an aid worker since 1993 and the

Humanitarian Director at Save the Children UK since 2007.

JAMES WILT is a freelance journalist and the author of Do

Androids Dream of Electric Cars? Public Transit in the Age of

Google, Uber, and Elon Musk.

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JULY

9781914420177

270 pp

PB 197 x 130 mm

Mono

£10.99/$14.95

Politics

World rights available

“David Renton is one of

the most consistently

interesting and

imaginative political

writers in Britain today...”

Owen Hatherley

“Urges us to quit seeking

liberation through

legislation, instead

wield our collective

power for change.”

Grietje Baars

AUGUST

9781914420863

345 pp

PB 197 x 130 mm

Mono

£12.99/$16.95

Architecture / Politics

World rights available

AGAINST THE LAW

Why Justice Requires Fewer Laws and a Smaller State

David Renton

ARTIFICIAL ISLANDS

Adventures in the Dominions

Owen Hatherley

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Since 2016, Britain’s populist leaders have promised to expand

democracy and shrink the law by taking back power from the

European Union.

BY THE SAME AUTHOR

Great Britain has just left one Union, after years of bitter

argument and divisive posturing. But what if the island’s future

lies in another Union altogether?

9781913462499

How to Philosophize

with a Hammer and

Sickle: Nietzsche and

Marx for the Twenty-

First Century

Jonas Čeika

Yet what they have actually done is institute a vast increase in new

laws, covering every aspect of our lives. Every year, new criminal

offences are created; new regulations are introduced.

Against the Law dares us to imagine a new world, one in the

which the law plays a smaller part in our lives, where workers are

winning, and ecocide is treated with the urgency that it deserves.

But as Against the Law argues, this world can only be realised if the

movements of the oppressed choose to disengage from the law in

their search for justice.

DAVID RENTON is one of Britain’s leading social justice barristers.

His clients have included Occupy protesters and blacklisted trade

unionists. He writes regularly on law and justice for The Guardian

and The London Review of Books.

9781913462208

Red Metropolis:

Socialism and the

Government of London

Welcome to the strange world of the “CANZUK Union”, the name

for a quixotic but apparently serious plan to reunify the whitemajority

“Dominions” of the British Empire — Canada, Australia

and New Zealand — under the flag of low taxes, strong borders and

climate change denialism.

Artificial Islands tests this idea that Britain’s natural allies and closest

relations are in these three countries in North America and the

Antipodes, through a good look at the histories, townscapes and

spaces of several cities across these settler zones of the former

British Empire: Auckland, Melbourne, Montreal, Ottawa and

Wellington.

OWEN HATHERLEY is one of Britain’s foremost writers on

architecture and the author of several books, most recently Red

Metropolis.

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AUGUST

9781914420405

152 pp

PB 197 x 130 mm

Mono

£10.99/$14.95

Philosophy / Politics

World rights available

“Against the lies and

mystifications of a cynical

‘realism,’ Marcuse insists

on the real basis of utopia

— an insistence we need

today more than ever.”

Jodi Dean

“The essays in his

volume are once again

timely as rising social

conflict on the right

and the left challenges

conventional thinking.”

Andrew Feenberg

SEPTEMBER

9781913462468

128 pp

PB 197 x 130 mm

Mono

£10.99/$14.95

Cultural Studies

World rights available

PSYCHOANALYSIS, POLITICS AND UTOPIA

Five Lectures

Herbert Marcuse, introduction by Ray Brassier

WHICH AS YOU KNOW MEANS VIOLENCE

On Self-Injury as Art and Entertainment

Philippa Snow

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9781913462031

On the Suffering of

the World

Arthur Schopenhauer

Back in print after fifty years and with a new introduction

by Ray Brassier, this overlooked but prescient collection

of Marcuse’s lectures makes an impassioned plea for the

overthrow of capitalism.

Taking in topics like automation, work, postcapitalism, and

technology, Psychoanalysis, Politics, and Utopia excavates the

psychic roots of the current crisis of capitalist civilisation, and gives

us a blueprint for the emancipation of humanity.

In a world reeling from the ongoing collapse of the neoliberal

consensus, coupled with the accelerating pace of catastrophic

climate change, Marcuse’s radical insights in Psychoanalysis, Politics,

and Utopia are as urgently relevant and necessary today as they

were in 1970.

HERBERT MARCUSE (1898-1979) was a philosopher and critical

theorist and author of Eros and Civilization (1955) and One

Dimensional Man (1964). RAY BRASSIER is Professor of Philosophy

at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon.

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9781913462420

Deep Sniff: A History

of Poppers and Queer

Futures

Adam Zmith

In Which as You Know Means Violence, writer and art critic

Philippa Snow analyses the subject of pain, injury and

sadomasochism in performance, from the more rarefied

context of contemporary art to the more lowbrow realm of

pranksters, stuntmen and stuntwomen, and uncategorisable,

danger-loving YouTube freaks.

In a world where violence — of the market, of climate change,

of capitalism — is part of our everyday lives, Which as You

Know Means Violence focuses on those who enact violence on

themselves, for art or entertainment, and analyses the role that

violence plays in twenty-first century culture.

PHILIPPA SNOW is a writer based in Norwich. Her reviews and

essays have appeared in publications including Artforum, The Los

Angeles Review of Books, ArtReview, Frieze, The White Review,

Vogue, The New Statesman, The TLS, and The New Republic. She

was shortlisted for the 2020 Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize.

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OCTOBER

9781914420733

300 pp

PB 197 x 130 mm

Mono

£10.99/$14.95

Cultural Studies

World rights available

NOVEMBER

9781914420306

338 pp

PB 216 x 135 mm

Mono

£12.99/$16.95

Fiction

World rights available

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9781910924914

Shard Cinema

Evan Calder Williams

WE ARE THE MUTANTS

Resistance and Reaction in American Film

from Rosemary’s Baby to Lethal Weapon

Kelly Roberts, Michael Grasso, Richard McKenna

We Are the Mutants is a critical reassessment of what is

arguably the most discussed and beloved stretch of movies in

Hollywood history.

Documenting the period between the arrival of US troops in

Vietnam and the end of President Reagan’s second term, it focuses

on an eclectic selection of films and genres — horror, documentary,

disaster, vigilante action, neo-noir, post-apocalyptic sci-fi — to track

this period’s tumultuous transformation in American life, culture

and politics.

Covering everything from blockbusters to forgotten Bs and cult

classics, We Are the Mutants re-writes not only the history of

modern American cinema, but the history of America itself.

BY THE SAME AUTHOR

9781910924440

Nature and Necessity

HIGH JOHN THE CONQUEROR

A Novel

Tariq Goddard

WESSEX, 2016. Teenagers are vanishing off the council estates

of a small provincial city. A crop of herbs that are said to possess

magical powers which only grow once every fifty years are found in

the woods. A supernatural creature believed to be the guardian of

the herbs is seen in nightmares. Rumours of orgiastic rituals on the

estates of the rich and powerful excite the curious. And the Queen

of England decides to celebrate her 90th birthday with a visit to the

city’s famous cathedral spire.

Into this madness, two ambitious detectives, one with doomed

literary ambitions, seek to solve the mystery, their only lead that

“posh people are taking our children”. Blending mysticism, class war,

societal malfeasance and transcendence, High John the Conqueror

identifies the point in our recent history when the ghosts of our

past become the political monsters of the present.

KELLY ROBERTS is editor-in-chief of We Are the Mutants.

MICHAEL GRASSO is a senior editor at We Are the Mutants.

RICHARD MCKENNA is a senior editor at We Are the Mutants.

TARIQ GODDARD was born in London in 1975. His novels have

been shortlisted for various awards, including the Whitbread (Costa)

First Novel Award, the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize and the

Commonwealth Writer’s Prize. He is the Publisher of Repeater.

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NOVEMBER

9781914420917

78 tarot cards

35-page booklet

Kit and Deck

126 x 87 mm

Colour

£19.99/$24.95

Philosophy / Tarot

Decks

World rights available

DECEMBER

9781913462864

250 pp

PB 197 x 130 mm

Mono

£10.99/$14.95

Cultural Studies /

Politics

World rights available

YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE

9781913462093

The English Heretic

Collection: Ritual

Histories, Magickal

Geography

Andy Sharp

THE PHILOSOPHER’S TAROT

Sereptie

The Philosopher’s Tarot is a mashup of the original classic

Rider-Waite tarot with eminent philosophers, intellectuals and

revolutionaries of history.

Read your spreads in the traditional manner, or delve deeply into

the rich philosophical implications that emerge with every draw.

While every tarot deck seeks to lift the veil from the forces of the

universe, The Philosopher’s Tarot does so by gesturing towards the

wisdom of history’s most notable sages.

With added flair and vibrance, The Philosopher’s Tarot elicits a

mixture of classical interpretations and philosophical inquiry. The

deck comprises mashups of the 22 major arcana with famous

theorists. The minor arcana has also been reworked to highlight

the deck’s convergence with philosophical themes. Includes new

renditions of the traditional 78 tarot cards and a 35-page booklet

that briefly introduces the ideas of thinkers featured in the deck.

SEREPTIE is the moniker of Craig Laubach, producer and host of

the podcasts Acid Horizon and Inner Experience.

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9781910924242

Games Without

Fromtiers

Joe Kennedy

RUNNING OUT OF TIME

Ultrarunning and Endurance in an Era of Climate Collapse

Callum Cant

Running Out of Time asks why running matters, and what its

history of collective struggle can tell us about living in a society

on the verge of climate collapse.

The freedom of running stands in total opposition to the

unfreedom of our modern lives, and shows us a way out — an

acceleration towards a newly designed social world, where we can

chase down the horizons of the possible as fast as our legs will

carry us.

Combining first-hand accounts of running a really long way with a

broader account of human nature, sports science, contemporary

capitalism and nihilism in an era of climate collapse, Running Out

of Time is a running book about how we can, and must, always do

more than we think is possible.

CALLUM CANT is a writer, ultra marathon runner and the author

of Riding for Deliveroo. He is a postdoctoral researcher on

workplace AI at the University of Oxford and was previously head of

communications for Momentum.

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DECEMBER

9781914420849

250 pp

PB 197 x 130 mm

Mono

£10.99/$14.95

Music

World rights available

BACKLIST HIGHLIGHTS

BY THE SAME AUTHOR

HOW WE USED SAINT ETIENNE TO LIVE

Ramzy Alwakeel

The essential guide to veteran British indie favourites Saint

Etienne.

9781913462574

Swan Songs: A Novel

Lee Scott

World Rights Available

9781913462420

Deep Sniff: A History of Poppers

and Queer Futures

Adam Zmith

Rights sold: SPA

How We Used Saint Etienne to Live is the story of how these

veteran crossover favourites have spent three decades making

music out of memories — and how we made memories out of

them. It’s a book about dreams in hearts and records in charts. It’s

a tale that involves tape splicing, town planning, Now compilations

and Saint Etienne’s biggest hit “He’s on the Phone”.

9781910924228

Smile If You Dare:

Politics and Pointy Hats

with the Pet Shop Boys

Using original interviews with all three band members, How We

Used Saint Etienne to Live picks up the problems of nostalgia and

history where their dreamlike 2021 album I’ve Been Trying To Tell

You and their film festival at the BFI left off. It’s packed with facts,

analysis and flights of fancy.

RAMZY ALWAKEEL is a British news journalist and music writer.

His first book, Smile If You Dare: Politics and Pointy Hats with the

Pet Shop Boys, was published by Repeater in 2016.

9781912248919

The Melancholia of Class: A

Manifesto for the Working Class

Cynthia Cruz

Rights sold: ITA

9781913462192

Paint Your Town Red: How Preston Took Back

Control and Your Town Can Too

Rhian E. Jones and Matthew Brown

World Rights Available

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9781913462505

Junglist

Two Fingas, James T. Kirk

World Rights Available

9781913462079

The Repeater Book of the Occult: Tales

from the Darkside

e d. Tariq Goddard and Eugene Thacker

World Rights Available

9781912248834

Eminent Domain

Carl Neville

World Rights Available

9781913462314

You’re History

Lesley Chow

Rights sold: Film/TV

9781913462581

The Sea View Has Me Again: Uwe

Johnson in Sheerness

Patrick Wright

World Rights Available

9781913462482

Postcapitalist Desire: The Final Lectures

Mark Fisher, ed. Matt Colquhoun

Rights sold: ARA, FRE, GER, ITA, JAP, KOR, POR (for

Brazil), POR (for Portugal), RUS, SPA

9781912248285

k-punk

Mark Fisher

Rights sold: CZE, FRE, GER, ITA, JAP,

KOR, RUS, SPA

9781913462567

Whore of New York

Liara Roux

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