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Secret Satan, 2019
The Feast Day of Saint Quentin of Crisp is already behind us, so it’s high time we got naughty, nice and nasty with our annual seasonal book list. I’m not going to lie – this year Satan’s little...
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Secret Satan, 2019 translation edition
We now turn to a highly subjective selection from the phenomenal wealth of books translated into English that appeared throughout 2019, encompassing a narrower thematic range than our original English...
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20 books for 2020
So December was all about gorging, and January is all about going dry or whatever variety of performative asceticism is congesting your social feeds right now. But it seems strangely appropriate. After...
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Amazon in her prime
Growing up in Australia, Halloween was something I only knew about from American movies rather than a matter of lived experience. As an adult I happened to be in New York at the end of October one...
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Secret Satan, 2020
If you’ve been reading for a while now, you’ll know what to expect – each year around this time I select a bunch of books with a Strange Flowers flavour which you might like to share with intimates who...
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21 books for 2021
As our dire global circumstances keep us away from each other and from communal physical experience, books are among the few cultural artefacts we get to explore in a similar timeframe to our fellow...
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Secret Satan, 2021 part 2
In Berlin, the first snow has fallen and the first Advent candle is lit. I better get a move on. We finished part 1 of our book round-up with Decadence, we begin part 2 with the Father of Decadence...
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Merely real
An anecdote dating from the Belle Époque tells us that one night at the theatre, Count Robert de Montesquiou was greatly struck by a young man he saw in the audience. The stranger bore a startling...
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22 books for 2022
I can’t believe it’s already whatever day it is of whatever year this is. It’s high time we took a look at new titles of a Strange Flowers flavour coming up this year. As much as I look forward to...
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Secret Satan, 2022
Here in Berlin the first snows have been and gone, the first Advent candle is lit and the kitchen smells like Plätzchen. Into this wholesome scene strides a familiar hoofed figure, laden with a sack...
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