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10 best books like Porno (Irvine Welsh): Lord of the Flies, The Soft Machine, Dermaphoria, The Demon, Trainspotting: A Screenplay (Based on the Novel by Irvine Welsh), Blackbox: A Novel in 840 Chapters, Hell's Half Acre, Human Punk, Deadkidsongs, Awaydays

AuthorWilliam Golding
ISBN0140283331
At the dawn of the next world war, a plane crashes on an uncharted island, stranding a group of schoolboys. At first, with no adult supervision, their freedom is something to celebrate; this far from civilization the boys can do anything they want. Anything. They attempt to forge their own society, failing,...
AuthorWilliam S. Burroughs
ISBN0802133290
In Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs revealed his genius. In The Soft Machine he begins an adventure that will take us even further into the dark recesses of his imagination, a region where nothing is sacred, nothing taboo. Continuing his ferocious verbal assault on hatred, hype, poverty, war, bureaucracy,...
AuthorCraig Clevenger
ISBN1596921021
Bailed out of jail and holed up in a low-rent motel, amnesiac Eric Ashworth's only memory is a woman's name: Desiree. With steadily increasing doses of a strange new hallucinogen, Eric finds that the drug allows him to reassemble his past in broken fragments. But as he begins to lose touch with the present,...
The Demon
AuthorHubert Selby Jr.
ISBN0714525995
Harry White is a man haunted by a satyr's lust and an obsessive need for sin and retribution. The more Harry succeeds -- a good marriage, a good corporate job -- the more desperate he becomes, as a life of petty crime leads to fraud and murder and, eventually, to apocalyptic violence.

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AuthorJohn Hodge
ISBN0786882212
Trainspotting, based on the novel by Irvine Welsh


Trainspotting is a phenomenal work that has achieved cult status, provocative, challenging, intriguing, creative, humorous, edgy as it is, the motion picture that has launched the career of a few excellent performers, from Ewan McGregor...
AuthorNick Walker
ISBN0060532246
Cross a road, take a train, or get on an airplane and you put your life in the hands of a stranger -- every bit as screwed up, every bit as fallible and as human as you are. Then the person turns out not to be a stranger at all, and suddenly it's much worse.

In America and Britain and the sky in between,...
AuthorWill Christopher Baer
ISBN1931561826
Kidnapping, snuff films, amputee geeks and a requiem of lost love.Cast adrift after the blood symphony of Penny Dreadful, Phineas Poe is looking for answers in the form of a woman. He tracks Jude to San Francisco, where he finds her involved with John Ransom Miller, a wealthy sociopath with a mysterious...
AuthorJohn King
ISBN2879292875
Qui n'a pas connu l'été 1977 à Slough n'a pas connu la douceur de vivre. C'était l'époque des premières Doc Martens, du punk rock et du reggae, des bastons avec les Teds et des nuits électriques au pub, quand toutes les filles s'appelaient Debbie Harry. Pour Joe, quinze ans, tout s'est terminé...
AuthorToby Litt
ISBN0140285784
With his novels Corpsing and Beatniks, young Brit Lit gunslinger Toby Litt showed he had mastered the essentials of the trendy bestseller. With this poignant, odd, confusing, moving, heartfelt, troubling book he's tried to do an even trickier thing: extend his range and readership upmarket. The...
AuthorKevin Sampson
ISBN0099267977
It's 1979 and in Birkenhead smack and Maggie Thatcher are still less of an issue than Lois jeans and Adidas Forest Hills training shoes.

For Paul Carty, 19, and his mystical, Joy Division-loving mate Elvis, life revolves around The Pack, a mob of violent Tranmere Rovers supporters. Carty and...
AuthorJonathan Coe
ISBN0375713956
Coe writes about frustration - professional, creative, and sexual; frustrations in relationships and a loss of faith amidst the crumbling of personal verities. It can be a little depressing, but it's also cathartic and very, very compelling, with a subtle humor rooted in a very dark sense of irony....
Grits
AuthorNiall Griffiths
ISBN0099285177
In the late 1990s, a group of young drifters from various parts of Britain find themselves washed up together in a small town on the west coast of Wales, fixed between mountains and sea. Here, they both explore and attempt to overcome those yearnings and addictions which have brought them to this place:...
Country Of The Blind
AuthorChristopher Brookmyre
ISBN0349109303
The murder of a media moghul in his country mansion appears to be the result of him disturbing a gang of would-be thieves. The robbers are swiftly caught, but when they are unexpectedly moved to a different prison they escape. Back in Edinburgh, a young solicitor reveals to the press that one of the subjects...
The Search for the Dice Man
AuthorLuke Rhinehart
ISBN0006513913
Paperback. Pub Date: 2000 Pages: 381 Publisher: HarperCollins The sequel to the cult classic The Dice Man this book can also change your life! Larry Rhinehart is the Son of an Infamous father. - the renegade psychiatrist Luke Rhinehart. Otherwise known as the Dice Man.Luke became a cult figure in the...
AuthorDaniel Evan Weiss
ISBN1852423269
When Ira Fishblatt's girlfriend, Ruth Grubstein, moves into his appartment, he cleans up his act and his kitchen much to the repulsion of the hoards of cockroaches who also inhabit his flat. This grubby army who, up until now, had happily existed on the food debris littering his flat, now face a harsh...
AuthorWill Self
ISBN0679750940
What if there is only a limited amount of sanity in the world and the real reason people go mad is because somebody has to? What if a mysterious tribe in the Amazon rainforest turn out to be the most boring people on the earth? What if the afterlife is nothing more than a London suburb, where the dead get new...
AuthorHenry Rollins
ISBN1880985519
Rollins, a singer for the hardcore punk group Black Flag in the '80s, has emerged as a '90s post-punk renaissance man and a prolific writer. This voluminous collection of Rollins' first five books shows the evolution of a man grinding his way through the challenges of the independent music circuit....
AuthorHelen Walsh
ISBN1841954845
• Upon its release in the United Kingdom, British Vogue said “if you want to find out what it is like to be a woman in England today [read] Brass.” Literary circles, critics, students, and readers of all stripes are talking about Brass for its raw, unrelenting, yet compassionate and utterly compelling...
AuthorMichael Marshall Smith
ISBN0006510078
The first ever collection of Michael Marshall Smith's award-winning short stories. The first piece of fiction Smith ever wrote -- a short story called The Man Who Drew Cats -- won the World Fantasy award. It's included here along with many others, some unpublished, which show the incredible versatility...
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