I CAN’T REMEMBER IF I KILLED HIM OR NOT...

PSYCHOMACHIA


THE DEBUT NOVEL BY KIRSTY ALLISON
(Wrecking Ball Press)

AVAILABLE IN GOOD BOOKSHOPS or PayPal £17.50 (UK only) for a signed and posted edition studio@coldlips.co.uk

“finally, I’ve found the female Burroughs” a reader

“Psychomachia is exhilarating, brazen, devastating and brilliant, hurling readers straight into the visceral bullseye of scuzzy 90s Shoreditch where creative excellence was laced with the ridiculous; all re-animated by Allison’s pulpy memoir-fiction that had my pulse throbbing to the very last word”
SARAH HAY, i-D magazine


“This takes me back to 90s Shoreditch & the choking in their own ennui crowd.  Kirsty Allison is the greatest cultural beacon this planet has produced”
IRVINE WELSH

“a punk novel that makes me nostalgic for life I never knew...but I’d probably have ended up addicted to heroin”
ROB DOYLE

“This book is a TRIP, a head f**k and a symphony of poetic excess that nails '90s London with savage precision. Highly, deeply recommended. It made me gasp, gurn, blanche, howl with laughter and marvel at its brilliance.”  DJ STUART WHOO

“A warrior for writing it like it really was”  GAIL PORTER

“Fantastic - is it about The Libertines?” BILL DRUMMOND

“The most brutal opening words I’ve ever read” GERALDINE BESKIN, ATLANTIS BOOKSHOP

“A devastating elegy to the bacchanalia of 90s Shoreditch & a girl torn apart by sexual violence who went to Hell & didn't come back. This book is big & wide & deep & excoriating to read. Black-comedy-as-erotic-charge-as-modern-myth-as-dionysian-dream-as-part-Kathy-Acker-part-Leonora-Carrington”
RACHEL NEWSOME, former Editor of DAZED & CONFUSED
“THE MODERN PATTI SMITH”
Johny Brown,
Band of Holy Joy
“EFFORTLESSLY ILLUMINATES  WITH ANCIENT OBSIDIAN & THE LYRICAL PRECISION OF WINDS CARVING MOUNTAINS”
Malik Ameer Crumpler
“THE MOST ROCK ‘N’ ROLL & ONE OF THE GREATEST LIVING POETS OF OUR TIME. UP THERE WITH BUKOWSKI, BURROUGHS & CROWLEY”
Kelli Ali
“Sometime during the 90s, behind the hedonism, clothes, music and ambition lurked something truly malignant....Kirsty Allison's debut novel is a superb but often harrowing read.” 
Graham Bendel

“KIRSTY ALLISON’S WRITING TRAVERSES A HAUNTED LANDSCAPE WHERE MAGIC IS ENTWINED WITH THE MUNDANE, ROMANCE EMBRACES HORROR, AND  THE VULGAR CAVORTS WITH THE SUBLIME...a morbid Walk of Fame...the ultimate celebration of the rock n roll death trip, set in 90s indulgence and decadence when Fashion Yin and Rock n Roll Yang had a baby and called it Heroin Chic.” 
Jim Sclavunos, Bad Seed, Mu Magazine
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