Repeater Books is a publishing imprint based in London, founded in 2014 by
Tariq Goddard and
Mark Fisher
Mark Fisher (11 July 1968 – 13 January 2017), also known under his blogging alias k-punk, was an English writer, music critic, political and cultural theorist, philosopher, and teacher based in the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsm ...
, formerly the founders of radical publishers
Zero Books
John Hunt Publishing is a left-wing publishing company founded in the United Kingdom in 2001, initially named O Books. The publisher has 24 active autonomous imprints, with the largest of these being the Zero Books imprint (styled Zer0 Books) fou ...
, along with
Etan Ilfeld
Etan Ilfeld is a London-based entrepreneur and the founder of Tenderbooks, Tenderpixel gallery, Watkins Mind Body Spirit Magazine, Watkins Wisdom Academy, PlayStrategy.org, co-founder of Repeater Books, and the owner and managing director of Wat ...
, Tamar Shlaim, Alex Niven and Matteo Mandarini.
Formation
In 2014, after disagreements with their parent company John Hunt Publishing, Zero Books founders Tariq Goddard and Mark Fisher, as well as Matteo Mandarini, editor
Alex Niven
Alex Niven (born 18 February 1984, Hexham, Northumberland) is an English writer, poet, editor, and former musician.
He is a also currently a Lecturer in English Literature at Newcastle University and an editor at Repeater Books.
Early life and ...
and publicist Tamar Shlaim, resigned, and formed the new imprint Repeater Books.
In 2015, Repeater Books published its first two titles: ''The Isle of Minimus'', an experimental novel by M. K. L. Murphy; and ''Lean Out'', a feminist polemic by the journalist
Dawn Foster
Dawn Hayley Foster (12 September 1986 – 9 July 2021) was an Irish-British journalist, broadcaster, and author writing predominantly on social affairs, politics, economics and women's rights. Foster held staff writer positions at ''Inside Housi ...
. They have since published books by
Mark Fisher
Mark Fisher (11 July 1968 – 13 January 2017), also known under his blogging alias k-punk, was an English writer, music critic, political and cultural theorist, philosopher, and teacher based in the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsm ...
,
David Stubbs
David Stubbs (born 13 September 1962 in London) is a British music journalist. He grew up in Leeds and in the early Eighties was a student at the University of Oxford where he was a close friend of Simon Reynolds. The two were part of the Oxfor ...
,
Graham Harman
Graham Harman (born May 9, 1968) is an American philosopher and academic. He is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles. His work on the metaphysics of objects led to the developm ...
,
Mat Osman
Mathew David Osman (born 9 October 1967) is an English musician and author, best known as the bassist in the rock band Suede. Osman and singer Brett Anderson are the only remaining founding members left in Suede, and along with the drummer Sim ...
,
Steven Shaviro, Leila Taylor,
Claire Cronin, and
Eugene Thacker
Eugene Thacker is an American philosopher, poet, and author. He is Professor of Media Studies at The New School in New York City. His writing is often associated with the philosophy of nihilism and pessimism. Thacker's books include ''In the Dus ...
, amongst others.
Watkins Media
Repeater Books is an imprint within Watkins Media, a publishing organisation owned by entrepreneur
Etan Ilfeld
Etan Ilfeld is a London-based entrepreneur and the founder of Tenderbooks, Tenderpixel gallery, Watkins Mind Body Spirit Magazine, Watkins Wisdom Academy, PlayStrategy.org, co-founder of Repeater Books, and the owner and managing director of Wat ...
, whose imprints also include
Angry Robot
Angry Robot is a British-based publishing house dedicated to producing modern adult science fiction and fantasy, or as they call it “SF, F and WTF?!?”. The Nottingham-based company first released books in the UK in 2009, and since September 2 ...
and Nourish, as well as London's famous esoteric bookshop
Watkins Books
Watkins Books is London's oldest esoteric bookshop. It specialises in esotericism, mysticism, occultism, oriental religion and contemporary spirituality.
The book store was established by John M. Watkins, a friend of Madame Blavatsky, in 189 ...
.
Authors
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Tristam Adams
Tristan (Latin/ Brythonic: ''Drustanus''; cy, Trystan), also known as Tristram or Tristain and similar names, is the hero of the legend of Tristan and Iseult. In the legend, he is tasked with escorting the Irish princess Iseult to wed ...
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Monster Bobby
Monster Bobby (born Robert William Barry, 1981) is an English singer-songwriter, best known as the creator of and guitarist for the indie pop girl group The Pipettes.
Overview
In 2001, when Monster Bobby was just Bobby Barry, he starred in ''W ...
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Grace Blakeley
Grace Blakeley (born 26 June 1993) is an English economics and politics commentator, columnist, journalist and author. She is a staff writer for ''Tribune'' and panelist on TalkTV. She was previously the economics commentator of the ''New State ...
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Gavin Butt
Gavin Butt (born 1967) is a writer and academic based in Brighton, UK
Overview
Gavin Butt is a transdisciplinary scholar working across the areas of performance studies, queer studies, visual culture, and popular music. He received his PhD from ...
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Claire Cronin (singer-songwriter)
Claire Cronin is a singer-songwriter and author. She has released four albums: ''Over and Through'' (2015), ''Came Down a Storm'' (2016), ''Big Dread Moon'' (2019) and ''Bloodless'' (2021).
Biography
Cronin moved from Los Angeles to Athens, Geor ...
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Cynthia Cruz
Cynthia Cruz is a contemporary American poet living in Brooklyn, NY. She is the author of six published poetry collections, and two works of cultural criticism. She currently teaches classes in the Graduate Writing Program at Columbia University. ...
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Kodwo Eshun
Kodwo Eshun (born 1967) is a British -Ghanaian writer, theorist and filmmaker. He is perhaps best known for his 1998 book ''More Brilliant than the Sun: Adventures in Sonic Fiction'' and his association with the art collective The Otolith Grou ...
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Mark Fisher
Mark Fisher (11 July 1968 – 13 January 2017), also known under his blogging alias k-punk, was an English writer, music critic, political and cultural theorist, philosopher, and teacher based in the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsm ...
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Dawn Foster
Dawn Hayley Foster (12 September 1986 – 9 July 2021) was an Irish-British journalist, broadcaster, and author writing predominantly on social affairs, politics, economics and women's rights. Foster held staff writer positions at ''Inside Housi ...
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Eliane Glaser
Eliane Glaser is an English writer, lecturer, radio producer and broadcaster.
Early life and media career
Glaser was educated at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, graduating from Oxford University with a First Class degree in English literature in 1995, ...
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Tariq Goddard
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Graham Harman
Graham Harman (born May 9, 1968) is an American philosopher and academic. He is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles. His work on the metaphysics of objects led to the developm ...
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Owen Hatherley
Owen Hatherley (born 24 July 1981 in Southampton, England) is a British writer and journalist based in London who writes primarily on architecture, politics and culture.
Early life
Hatherley was born in Southampton in 1981, growing up in a 1930s ...
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Aaron J. Leonard
Aaron J. Leonard is an American author with a particular focus on the history of radicalism and state suppression.
Biography
Leonard was born in Herkimer, New York. He has a BA in Social Sciences and History. He graduated, magna cum laude, from ...
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Tom Lutz
Tom Lutz (born March 21, 1953) is an American writer, literary critic and the founder of the ''Los Angeles Review of Books''.
Early life
Lutz grew up in Cedar Grove, New Jersey. He graduated from Greenwich (CT) High School. After working for year ...
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Anna Minton
Anna Minton is a British writer, journalist, and academic. Born 19 April 1970, educated at Queen's College, Oxford, Minton has worked as a foreign correspondent, business reporter and social affairs writer and has won a number of national jou ...
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Alex Niven
Alex Niven (born 18 February 1984, Hexham, Northumberland) is an English writer, poet, editor, and former musician.
He is a also currently a Lecturer in English Literature at Newcastle University and an editor at Repeater Books.
Early life and ...
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Mat Osman
Mathew David Osman (born 9 October 1967) is an English musician and author, best known as the bassist in the rock band Suede. Osman and singer Brett Anderson are the only remaining founding members left in Suede, and along with the drummer Sim ...
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Simon Reynolds
Simon Reynolds (born 19 June 1963) is an English music journalist and author who began his professional career on the staff of ''Melody Maker'' in the mid-1980s. He has since gone on to freelance and publish a number of full-length books on music ...
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Lee Scott (rapper)
Lee Scott is an English rapper, author, producer, and co-founder of record label Blah Records.
He has been making hip hop since 2003, and started Blah in 2006. As well as Blah artists, Lee has worked with veteran rapper Jehst on his label YNR ...
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Steven Shaviro
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Christiana Spens
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Terence Stamp
Terence Henry Stamp (born 22 July 1938) is an English actor. Stamp is known for his sophisticated villain roles. He was named by ''Empire Magazine'' as one of the 100 Sexiest Film Stars of All Time in 1995. He has received various accolades inc ...
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David Stubbs
David Stubbs (born 13 September 1962 in London) is a British music journalist. He grew up in Leeds and in the early Eighties was a student at the University of Oxford where he was a close friend of Simon Reynolds. The two were part of the Oxfor ...
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Eugene Thacker
Eugene Thacker is an American philosopher, poet, and author. He is Professor of Media Studies at The New School in New York City. His writing is often associated with the philosophy of nihilism and pessimism. Thacker's books include ''In the Dus ...
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Patrick Wright (historian)
Patrick Wright is a British writer, broadcaster and academic in the fields of cultural studies and cultural history. He was educated at the University of Kent and Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada.
He is Professor (emeritus) ...
References
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Book publishing companies based in London