David Bowker
From Stockport with Love
Pbk published November 1999 by Sceptre at £6.99
ISBN: 0340738545
On the eve of his son's birth, reluctant father John Bryce, a lifelong Bond obsessive, goes to see Goldeneye. But when hours later his baby is born ill, Bryce is confronted with a problem not even his most extreme fantasy has prepared him for - how to cope with reality.
Heartache, Fatherhood, killing for the Establishment, S.M.E.R.S.H and New Man merge in David Bowker's story as he writes about a father's struggle to feel what he cannot feel and face what he dare not face.
David Bowker is the author of the novel The Secret Sexist, which is soon to be filmed. He writes a weekly column in The Times.
James St James
Disco Bloodbath
Pbk published November 1999 by Sceptre at £7.99
ISBN: 0340748400
He came, he partied, he killed. The true tale of glamour, hedonism and murder in the New York Club Scene.
Set in the post-Warhol clubland of the 1980s, Disco Bloodbath chronicles the astonishing rise and fall of Michael Alig 'King of the Club Kids'.
In a kitsch-carnival existence, a cartoon world of crazed hedonism, decadent drug taking, glittering parties and unimaginable debauchery, the Club Kids flirted with fetishism and androgyny, creating their own reality, a 'surreality' without rules. But the charming freedom of their world soon mutated into something darker, a world in which getting away with murder would prove to be the ultimate thrill...
James St James was a central character of the Club-Kid scene, friend and sometime enemy of Michael Alig. He now lives in Hollywood. This is his first book.
