This is just a quick update to let you know that Jennifer Gibbons's riotous novel Discomania is shipping now.
All paperback pre-orders were dispatched yesterday and should be arriving with you shortly. Hardbacks will be heading out shortly after... please watch your emails (and spam folders) for tracking.
There are still a few limited edition hardbacks available, but these are strictly limited to 300 copies and won't be reprinted.
All the best, and as always, thanks for your support!
Jamie, Mark & Rebecca
Discomania Jennifer Gibbons
Limited edition hardback, 300 copies only Unlimited paperback edition 208 pp. | 124 x 191 mm £35 / £16.99
Available 23 March from SAP and mid-May from all good booksellers.
The hardback limited edition is printed on archive quality paper, with coloured edges and debossed boards. All hardback copies come with a bookplate signed by Jennifer and June Alison Gibbons, a risograph print by Error Press and a button badge.
The place was full of swarming, pugnacious, dangerous missellneous reptile’s… Teenager’s everywhere pounded their way on top of each other crazily strangling, biting and slashing each other’s with broken glass, smashed records or sharpened blades…
16-year-old Jennifer Gibbons (1963–1993) wrote Discomania in 1980, alongside her twin sister June-Alison, who was writing her own novel, The Pepsi-Cola Addict (published by SAP in 2023), in the bedroom that they shared.
Jennifer offered Discomania to the same English vanity press who would publish June-Alison’s book, but Discomania was turned down for being “too violent, too sexual, and too futuristic.”
Long thought to have been lost or destroyed, June-Alison had in fact preserved the typescript of this unique, furious, funny, and strange novel, which we present with Jennifer’s and June-Alison’s blessings.
With an afterword by David Tibet and Ania Goszczyńska.
