Highly personal and uncompromising, Notebooks of a Naked Youth is narrated by one William Loveday, an acned youth, possessed of piercing intelligence, acute self-loathing and great personal charm. Over the course of the novel, he leads us through a series of encounters and adventures from industrial North Kent to the sleazy sex clubs of Hamburg's Reeperbahn.

Notebooks of a Naked Youth

Childish, Billy

Biographies & Memoirs

Virgin Books

A nightmarish voyage through a childhood blighted by mental and sexual abuse stumbles onward into adolescense, laying bare a young man's desperate attempts to make sense of a world distorted by alcohol, bullies and yes men. At turns hilarious and harrowing.

My Fault

Virgin Pub

Fiction. By daring to give everything of himself, his most painful and secretive thoughts, Billy Childish has broken through to a whole new expression never before seen in English writing. Highly personal and uncompromising, NOTEBOOKS OF A NAKED YOUTH is narrated by one William Loveday, an acned youth, possessed of piercing intelligence, acute self-loathing and great personal charm. Haunted by sexual desires, William Loveday leads us on a naked odyssey from the "rust belt" of industrial North Kent to sleazy sex clubs of Hamburg's Reeperbahn--a twilight world of murderous pimps and tattooed hermaphrodites--and a final descent into an expressionist hell. Childish's "fantastic biography" achieves what only the most foolhardy would ever attempt: the unholy union of punk rock, Knut Hamsun and Celine. The result is a hilarious, drunken, un- English voyage into the human shadow--the ultimate antidote to the Oxbridge pretenders and mindless hype of drug culture. One thing separates Childish's voice from all those of his contemporaries: he can write like the devil!

Literature & Fiction

Sun Dog Press

A numbered edition, signed by Billy Childish.

Notebooks of a Naked Youth: The Continuing Saga of Chatham Jack

Sun Dog Pr

Hunger at the moon

Sympathetic Press

Beautifully produced collectable hardback title, poetry by Billy Childish.

Big hart and balls: Poems and drawings

Hangman Books

First in a series of in-depth interviews by pop culture icon V. Vale: Four leading figures in social movements discuss the state of Western culture and what led to its demise, with firsthand accounts of their own experiences, including subjects that concern every creative artist and thinker: The Internet and social change; why everyone must paint(!); mind control, marketing, branding and consumerism; corporate chain stores and the problem of Amazon; punk rock history; the rise of Do-It-Yourself (D-I-Y) culture production; fame and its downside; sex and relationships.

Real Conversations, No. 1

Politics & Social Sciences

FERLINGHETTI, LAWRENCE

Biafra, Jello

Rollins; Henry

Social Sciences

V/Search

CODEX

7elected from over thirty-five collections, this new compendium brings together a life-time's work of one of the most remarkable and unorthodox voices of the late twentieth century. "Terse, gutsy and powerfully humane" - Time Out "A seething, dyslexic, better-looking British Bukowski" - The Observer "Perhaps the most prolific artist of his generation" - The Observer "Billy Childish is legendary, an English recalcitrant" - i-D

"I'd Rather You Lied": Selected Poems 1980-1998

Poetry

Codex Books

"After a childhood of abuse at the hands of family and teachers, I couldn't be 'shut up' any more...My anger was such that if My Fault hadn't been written then, quite seriously, I would have killed." After being expelled from St Martins School of Art in 1981, for publishing what was described as "the worst type of toilet wall humour," Billy Childish moved back to his home town of Chatham and started writing a novel to explode the "lie of my family." This timely publication of Childish's first novel re-establishes him as the enfant terrible of the dispossessed, the 'amateur' who has influenced a generation of confessional writers, musicians and artists.

Literary

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Notebooks of a Naked Youth

My Fault

Notebooks of a Naked Youth

Notebooks of a Naked Youth: The Continuing Saga of Chatham Jack

Hunger at the moon

Big hart and balls: Poems and drawings

Real Conversations, No. 1

My Fault

"I'd Rather You Lied": Selected Poems 1980-1998

My Fault