Sam Holton Bradley Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
Sam Holton Bradley on X
KCL PhD. Cruising nature/the inhuman in E. M. Forster, Jocelyn Brooke and Derek Jarman. Writing a novel about watery queers. he/him. insta: sholtonbradley

The Orchid Trilogy: The Military Orchid, A Mine of Serpents, The Goose Cathedral
Jocelyn Brooke
From Anthony Powell’s introduction to Jocelyn Brooke’s ‘The Orchid Trilogy.’
Paperback, 2017
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Lote
Shola Von Reinhold
Had an idle, flu-inspired fancy about planning a module on the ‘queer novel’ and how queerness plays with the novel form - Denton Welch’s ‘In Youth Is Pleasure,’ Shola von Reinhold’s ‘Lote,’ Rita Indiana’s ‘Tentacle’, an Ivy Compton-Burnett, probably ‘Maurice’, but what else?
Paperback, 2022
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Complaint!
Sara Ahmed
Sara Ahmed - Complaint! (2021) https://t.co/CObtcPgCdx
Paperback, 2021
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A Month in the Country
J. L. Carr
@AndyWPhilosophy JL Carr’s ‘A Month in the Country’ - one of the best books in the English language.
Paperback, 2000
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The Dog at Clambercrown
Jocelyn Brooke
This is in reference to Jocelyn Brooke’s 1955 book ‘The Dog at Clambercrown’ in which the narrator has what can only be described as a sadomasochistic sexual encounter with some Kentish woodland.
Paperback, 2017
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The Dark Is Rising
Susan Cooper
@upstaterica Has someone suggested Susan Cooper’s The Dark Is Rising sequence? And/or the Chrestomanci books by Diana Wynne Jones.
Paperback, 2023
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The Poetics of Cruising: Queer Visual Culture from Whitman to Grindr
Jack Parlett
@byrninlove Jack Parlett - The Poetics of Cruising: Queer Visual Culture from Whitman to Grindr. I’m having a lot of fun.
Hardcover, 2022
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Affinities
Brian Dillon
Went to the launch of ‘Affinities’ by @briangdillon at @BurleyFisher last night - an amazing book, and the model of affinity has really informed my current chapter work on botanising and queer kinship with the floral/the growing world.
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The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon
Tom Spanbauer
@JoeNockles The Man Who Fell In Love With The Moon - Tom Spanbauer.
Paperback, 2000
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How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays
Alexander Chee
My favourite season, and reminds me of @alexanderchee being phenomenal on roses in ‘How To Write An Autobiographical Novel.’ https://t.co/vyHSGSK9Q2
Paperback, 2018
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