The co-op bookstore for avid readers

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
User avatar

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

10 books
Book Cover for: The Orchid Trilogy: The Military Orchid, A Mine of Serpents, The Goose Cathedral, Jocelyn Brooke

The Orchid Trilogy: The Military Orchid, A Mine of Serpents, The Goose Cathedral

Jocelyn Brooke
Sam Holton BradleySam Holton Bradley

From Anthony Powell’s introduction to Jocelyn Brooke’s ‘The Orchid Trilogy.’

Paperback, 2017

$30.99$15.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Lists icon
Right arrow icon
Book Cover for: Lote, Shola Von Reinhold

Lote

Shola Von Reinhold
Sam Holton BradleySam Holton Bradley

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

$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Lists icon
Right arrow icon
Book Cover for: Complaint!, Sara Ahmed

Complaint!

Sara Ahmed
Sam Holton BradleySam Holton Bradley

Sara Ahmed - Complaint! (2021) https://t.co/CObtcPgCdx

Paperback, 2021

$30.95$15.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Lists icon
Right arrow icon
Book Cover for: A Month in the Country, J. L. Carr

A Month in the Country

J. L. Carr
Sam Holton BradleySam Holton Bradley

@AndyWPhilosophy JL Carr’s ‘A Month in the Country’ - one of the best books in the English language.

Paperback, 2000

$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Lists icon
Right arrow icon
Book Cover for: The Dog at Clambercrown, Jocelyn Brooke

The Dog at Clambercrown

Jocelyn Brooke
Sam Holton BradleySam Holton Bradley

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

$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Lists icon
Right arrow icon
Book Cover for: The Dark Is Rising, Susan Cooper

The Dark Is Rising

Susan Cooper
Sam Holton BradleySam Holton Bradley

@upstaterica Has someone suggested Susan Cooper’s The Dark Is Rising sequence? And/or the Chrestomanci books by Diana Wynne Jones.

Paperback, 2023

$8.99$4.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Lists icon
Right arrow icon
Book Cover for: The Poetics of Cruising: Queer Visual Culture from Whitman to Grindr, Jack Parlett

The Poetics of Cruising: Queer Visual Culture from Whitman to Grindr

Jack Parlett
Sam Holton BradleySam Holton Bradley

@byrninlove Jack Parlett - The Poetics of Cruising: Queer Visual Culture from Whitman to Grindr. I’m having a lot of fun.

Hardcover, 2022

$108.00$83.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
Lists icon
Right arrow icon
Book Cover for: Affinities, Brian Dillon

Affinities

Brian Dillon
Sam Holton BradleySam Holton Bradley

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.

Out of stock

Lists icon
Right arrow icon
Book Cover for: The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon, Tom Spanbauer

The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon

Tom Spanbauer
Sam Holton BradleySam Holton Bradley

@JoeNockles The Man Who Fell In Love With The Moon - Tom Spanbauer.

Paperback, 2000

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Lists icon
Right arrow icon
Book Cover for: How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays, Alexander Chee

How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays

Alexander Chee
Sam Holton BradleySam Holton Bradley

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

$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Lists icon
Right arrow icon