Pure Mania
Set in an almost fictional anarcho-punk milieu around the squats and council estates of East London the cult pulp novel takes the form of a blatantly falsified tour of eighties youth trends and is a fearless exploration of the sexual underground.
by Stewart Home
Limited Edition Hardback
- 250 copies
- Signed by the author
- Free original 1999 NECROCARD
- Author Interview
A Writer You Can Trust
STEWART HOME was born in South London in 1962. He is author of seventeen novels and eighteen non-fiction books including The Assault On Culture: Utopian Currents from Lettrisme to Class War, Re-Enter The Dragon: Genre Theory, Brucesploitation & the Sleazy Joys of Lowbrow Cinema and was editor of Smile (The International Magazine of Multiple Origins) and an organiser of, and contributor to, the International Festivals of Plagiarism.
Pure Mania
Hardback Edition
Situationist fun and anarcho-punk adventure à la Jamie Reid meets Cockney Red street violence, Pure Mania by Stewart Home was first published by Polygon Books in 1989.
There are new editions of the novel; a mass-market paperback available on the streets for £8.99; an eBook as Pure Mania is now in digital distribution for the first time; and a limited hardback.
The hardback features a new interview and author photographs. A limited number of hardbacks are available signed by the author and with a provocative Stewart Home necrocard from 1999.
250 Signed Hardback Limited Editions with an original 1999 necrocard!
Signed hardback new edition of PURE MANIA with a free Stewart Home necrocard. Reserve one here.
Read the essay ON THE NECROCARD: ANYONE FOR SEX AFTER DEATH? by Stewart Home.
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How Pure Mania stacks up
Stewart Home Novels | Hardcore Political | Plagiarism and | Offensive to | Polymorphous |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Pure Mania | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Art School Orgy | ✓ | ✓ | ||
She's My Witch | ✓ | ✓ | ||
Red London | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
The Nine Lives of Ray 'The Cat' Jones | ✓ |
Introducing
necrocard
"A good deal of sexual bigotry is still sanctioned by law. It should go without saying that consent is only possible when all those partaking in a sexual act enjoy social equality."
Stewart Home
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STEWART HOME
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Necrocard
London, Neoist Alliance, (1999)
A 7 x 10cm 2pp blue and red card which “supports sexual liberation” and gives permission for others to use the owner’s body for sexual activity after death. 1999 originals packaged with signed hardback edition. See the video. Opens in a new Window.
Political Solutions You Can Trust
Stewart Home was there in the London's filthiest dives that masqueraded as music venues during punk. He did a fanzine DOWN IN THE STREET and later hung around east London squats with the Hackney Hell Crew and anarcho-revolutionary punk band THE APOSTLES.
Try before you buy! Listen to Stewart Home reading from PURE MANIA!
in Hardback
A new edition of the novel in hardback with an exclusive new author interview and Stewart Home.
Pure Mania is set in an almost fictional anarcho-punk milieu around the squats and council estates of East London. This trashy adventure story takes the form of a blatantly falsified tour of eighties youth trends. It's a pastiche of the fiction published by New English Library during the 1970's.
MARX CHRIST AND SATAN UNITED IN STRUGGLE
Pure Mania is a pulp tragicomedy set in London's punk and skinhead scene at a time when both ready to blow the British Isles to hell.
SEXUAL PERVERSION AT ITS VERY WORST
Pure Mania is a Trotskyist triangle tale of politics and love between two men and one woman. Tracy is a militant vegan who is willing to sacrifice everything to save the third world. And in order to get her Paul gives up coffee and other women and Edward gives up his Nazi uniform and other men.
¡ SEX AND ECO-TERRORISME !
Order a signed-by-the-author copy of the hardback from Leamington Books by placing a deposit of £2 and receive a Stewart Home Necrocard.
in Paperback
The legendary novel Pure Mania is back on the streets in its original form.
‘Let us not forget, ladies and gentlemen,’ Chickenfeed announced as Christine mounted her man, ‘that fiction has played an important role in the development of Western sexuality. Among other things, the terms Sadism and Masochism are derived from the names of men who wrote pornographic novels.’
Pure Mania is set in an almost fictional anarcho-punk milieu around the squats and council estates of East London. This trashy adventure story takes the form of a blatantly falsified tour of eighties youth trends. It's a pastiche of the fiction published by New English Library during the 1970's.
Situationist fun and anarcho-punk adventure à la Jamie Reid meets Cockney Red street violence, Pure Mania by Stewart Home was first published by Polygon Books in 1989.
If you can't be arsed with the hardback then order this mass market paperback original copy of Pure Mania for only £8.99 ('street' price)
in eBook
The legendary novel Pure Mania has been stripped to the spine and undergone Optical Character Recognition and been scanned to within an inch of its fucking life.
Now availbe in eBook
Pure Mania is set in an almost fictional anarcho-punk milieu around the squats and council estates of East London. This trashy adventure story takes the form of a blatantly falsified tour of eighties youth trends. It's a pastiche of the fiction published by New English Library during the 1970's. Avaialble for the first time in dirt-cheap eBook for any device including Kindle.
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Paying us £2 today will reserve your signed and numbered limited edition hardback of Pure Mania by Stewart Home (ISBN 9781914090660) and be discounted from the full payment of £30 (plus £4.45 p&p in the UK international rates apply) you will make to get your copy of the book in February 2024.
Stewart Home will sign 250 editions of the hardback book in London in February 2024.
The £2 is only refundable against the purchase of the book, and will not be repaid if you chose to not purchase the hardback in February 2024. More details @leamingtonbooks and Facebook @leamingtonbooks.
There are 250 of this £2 deposit offer available and each non-refundable deposit of £2 will entitle you to an original 1999 Stewart Home necrocard with your signed hardback book. Payment is made via the webform at this web address and is payable to Leamington Books CIC. This offer will end on February 14th 2024 at midnight or else when 250 deposits of £2 have been placed and all the copies of the 250 signed hardback and Necrocards available have been reserved.