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A tightly woven epistolary novel set during France's Covid lockdowns as its small cast of characters communicate via emails, Instagram messages, blogs and texts. A perfect encapsulation of our times, touching on gender, addiction, sexuality, consent, #MeToo, feminism, toxic masculinity, ageing, entitlement and privilege.

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Drawing from personal experience, Despentes shatters received ideas about rape and prostitution, and explodes common attitudes about sex and gender. King Kong Theory is a manifesto for a new punk feminism, reissued here in a brilliant new translation by Frank Wynne.

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Vernon Subutex: the man, the myth, the punk-lit sensation.

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The hunt for Virginie Despentes' enigmatic hero continues in the second title in her bestselling trilogy.

(Hardback)

A novel of rage, irreverence and vulnerability, exploring ageing, gender, privilege, addiction and consent, Dear Dickhead is an excoriating encapsulation of our times - by the queen of French punk literature

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The final volume of Virginie Despentes' searing trilogy of urban life in a time of turmoil and uncertainty.