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Bubble Entendre is published as part of Book Works’ Semina series (No.3) edited by Stewart Home. Printed offset in an edition of 1,000 copies, b/w, 128 pages with a soft cover, and colour dust jacket. Designed by Fraser Muggeridge, 130 x 195 mm.

Semina – where the novel has a nervous breakdown

No. 1 Index by Bridget Penney (2008)
No. 2 One Break, A Thousand Blows! by Maxi Kim (2008)
No. 3 Bubble Entendre by Mark Waugh (2009)
No. 4 Rape New York by Jana Leo (2009)
No. 5 The Dark Object by Katrina Palmer (2010)
No. 6 HOE #999: Decennial Appreciation and Celebratory Analysis by Jarett Kobek (2010)

No. 7 Blood Rites of the Bourgeoisie by Stewart Home (2010)

Bubble Entendre
by Mark Waugh (2009)

1. A terrorist siege at Claridge’s in 2012 replaces the Olympics as end of the world TV spectacle. An en suite novel is curated around a series of subjects forced to strip naked and perform like pornstars for a watching world.

2. Hard-boiled noir meets classic French theory as a zombie author transgresses the outer limits of postmodern fiction. The warped narrative plunges from art house to grindhouse and back again.

3. An insanely unofficial fictional updating of Derrida's ‘Of Grammatology’. Think ‘24 Hour Party People’ as directed by Kenneth Anger after he'd croaked and crawled on all fours through the furthest recesses of hell.

Brazen sadists, high-flying hopheads, invisible strippers and the destiny of objects are just some of the themes tackled by Mark Waugh in Bubble Entendre, a tripartite, literary bender. Dirty, dingy and drug fuelled, Willhelm Reich might have penned this book if he'd been force-fed LSD and subjected to a steady diet of dubstep and grime.

ISBN 978 1 906012 12 0—Price £8.00

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