A list of books written by urbs

[Pickman's model]

Following starfish2000's thread about his novel (which everyone should read, the novel rather than the thread) I thought it'd be useful to have thread for books written by urbanites, to have our literary or otherwise output in one place rather than disparate threads

 

[Ax^]

i have a little list by Ax^

not much in plot progression, character development or story

but a lot of names

 

[farmerbarleymow]

The Bible, by Sasaferrato, edited by cupid_stunt

 

[Elpenor]

The Bible, by Sasaferrato contemporaneously, edited by cupid_stunt

Fixed that for you

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Fixed that for you

Pretty sure cupid_stunt is much older, so he was born around 150BCE.

 

[cupid_stunt]

Fixed that for you

Pretty sure cupid_stunt is much older, so he was born around 150BCE.

You can both fuck off, I am still a few years off 60.

 

[Spandex]

Didn't an urb write Crisis? What Crisis? Britain in the 1970s?

I enjoyed that.

 

[WouldBe]

Wasn't it sojourner who had a book of poetry published?

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Wasn't it sojourner who had a book of poetry published?

She has indeed - and many of us have her collection at home (with signed intros calling us fucking cunts ).

Her books are also in the British Library (and I think the Bodleian Library too) so part of the permanent national literature collection which is ace.

Sweary urbanites forever.

 

[emanymton]

You can both fuck off, I am still a few years off 60.

millennia?

 

[The39thStep]

Malatesta did one on Fascism, and then did one on here after using Urban poster's contributions

 

[yield]

Didn't an urb write Crisis? What Crisis? Britain in the 1970s?

I enjoyed that.

Crisis? What Crisis? Urbanite writes damn fine book!

I've just been reading Haller's new book Crisis? What Crisis? and it's great :cool: Tis a history of Britain in the 1970s - brilliantly observed and very funny. Here be a trailer for it on youtube and here's a review of the book by Francis Wheen Francis Wheen [Haller] may be an...

www.urban75.net

 

[SpookyFrank]

Written two novels, one of them fortunately now lost forever, published neither.

 

[Voley]

I've got a few of my photos in this. And my ugly mug graces its pages a couple of times too. Does that count?

Sites of Prehistoric Bodmin Moor eBook : Kennett, Carolyn : Amazon.co.uk: Books

Sites of Prehistoric Bodmin Moor eBook : Kennett, Carolyn : Amazon.co.uk: Books

www.amazon.co.uk

 

[chainsawjob]

My book was published yesterday

It's been a long haul (about three years) but yesterday my book was published. It was great to hold the book in my hands 4 weeks ago, and I'm happy with it, but a day that I thought would be a big one was bit of a damp squib. Surprise surprise the (mainstream) publishers have done bugger all...

www.urban75.net

 

[Sasaferrato]

Pretty sure cupid_stunt is much older, so he was born around 150BCE.

You attended Keith Richards Christening.

When Adam asked who farmerbarleymow was, he was told by God, 'Don't know, he was here when I arrived'.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

You attended Keith Richards Christening.

When Adam asked who farmerbarleymow was, he was told by God, 'Don't know, he was here when I arrived'.

Don't worry - cupid_stunt is definitely older than all of us.

 

[A380]

In 2008/10 I wrote four books which were published defining national doctrine for part of the public sector. Only one of which was deemed unlawful by the ECHR* two years later. So that's 75% of my books that weren't... Result!

(*Some 10 years later a completely unrelated thing that I had significant responsibility for in a central government agency was declared unlawful by the central Court of the European Union. All I need now is a war crimes conviction in the Hague and I have the full set...)

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Just looked at my books from sojourner and the intros typically say (truncated obvs)

'you massive cunt'



I do hope that is preserved in the BL.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

It's awesome that sojourner will have her books in the BL effectively forever - the joint biggest library on the planet.

The British Library: The National Library of the UK - The British Library

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www.bl.uk

 

[WouldBe]

Just looked at my books from sojourner and the intros typically say (truncated obvs)

'you massive cunt'



I do hope that is preserved in the BL.

Should have had that printed as the foreword.

 

[JimW]

I've several translations published, more if you included short fiction in collections, but obviously it wasn't me actually wrote it.

 

[chainsawjob]

Just looked at my books from sojourner and the intros typically say (truncated obvs)

'you massive cunt'



I do hope that is preserved in the BL.

Mine don't

(But do say something I like equally like ).

 

[mojo pixy]

frogwoman has written a couple of dark and dystopian first-person narrative novels (short ones, I forget how long so maybe not quite full novels?)

I can't give a link because I'm not sure if / where they're available and anyway not sure how finished she considers them to be... (I hope she doesn't mind me mentioning them!)

Anyway what's scary is how far down the road towards the Britain she paints, we seem to be. Maybe 10 years to go now till kick off?

 

[Steel Icarus]

Eh, had a load of poems in the U.S. and a few collections of my poems published by various independent U.S. literary presses and one British one; appeared in a couple of anthologies, mostly single poems but one anthology with six other underground poets. All more than 15 years ago now and I'm not particularly keen on linking this online account to my real name, but my ego is sufficiently big that I had to mention it.

 

[frogwoman]

frogwoman has written a couple of dark and dystopian first-person narrative novels (short ones, I forget how long so maybe not quite full novels?)

I can't give a link because I'm not sure if / where they're available and anyway not sure how finished she considers them to be... (I hope she doesn't mind me mentioning them!)

Anyway what's scary is how far down the road towards the Britain she paints, we seem to be. Maybe 10 years to go now till kick off?

Thanks! No worries! I've written 2 full length ones, almost finished the third but have had to change the whole thing because it was literally about Russia invading the UK to save us from fascism

They were available on Wattpad for ages but I took them down a couple of years ago, happy to send them to anyone who wants but they do need editing.


I wrote them in 2014-2016 but had been working on book 1 much longer than that (I think since i was at school tbh). Book 1 is about a Nazi style government taking power in the UK and a few ordinary 20somethings in a shithole town who end up fighting them as partisans almost by accident. Book 2 is about the UK descending even more into civil war and then ISIS get involved to make matters worse. Book 3 was meant to be about how this situation ends but yeah I'm gonna have to redo it all

Kinda given up hope of them being published at all tbh but yeah happy to send a copy of someone wants, they do need to be edited tho

 

[cesare]

Has nobody mentioned marty21 poetry book?

 

[frogwoman]

frogwoman has written a couple of dark and dystopian first-person narrative novels (short ones, I forget how long so maybe not quite full novels?)

I can't give a link because I'm not sure if / where they're available and anyway not sure how finished she considers them to be... (I hope she doesn't mind me mentioning them!)

Anyway what's scary is how far down the road towards the Britain she paints, we seem to be. Maybe 10 years to go now till kick off?

You've also written a leftist themed fantasy series though, it is brilliant, set in a world where some humans left earth long ago (and have decided to come back) though again in various stages of editing!

 

[frogwoman]

I was so annoyed, I'd nearly written a whole book about our heroes having started a new life in Russia and then Russia finally deciding to liberate their homeland from nazis but yeah nah I can't possibly write something like that now, lol

 

[marty21]

Has nobody mentioned marty21 poetry book?

It was a long time ago