Introducing Jeanette

July is here. Could this be the feel-good hit of the summer? Jeanette, by Joe Simpson Walker, is officially released today.

Here is the soundbite:

“Joe Simpson Walker is to kinky boots what William S. Burroughs was to junk.”

We feel confident in saying that you have not read anything like Jeanette before. It is a transgressive novel set in the early sixties, “a time when fetishism, bondage, masochism, transvestism and homosexuality are still condemned as perversions.” Transgressive fiction encompasses works such as Justine, Venus in Furs, The Story of O, Lolita, The Naked Lunch, Last Exit to Brooklyn, the theatre of Joe Orton, and the pseudonymous or uncredited writings of the erotic underground. Jeanette adds something entirely new to this lineage. The longest novel that Chômu has so far published, it nonetheless rattles by at a fair lick. Like a motorbike rider roaring past and snatching the handbag of your preconceptions, Jeanette is a novel that comes out of nowhere and means to cause trouble. Take a ride on the wild side by grabbing your copy here.

Prize Draw for uniquely inscribed copy of Jeanette

We would also like to announce a prize draw for a signed and uniquely inscribed copy of Jeanette, with a customised bookmark. You may know the drill by now, but here it is again: To be entered for this draw, please sign up to our mailing list and send an e-mail with the subject heading ‘kinky boots’ to info at chomupress dot com. If you are already on our mailing list, naturally there is no need to sign up again – simply send an e-mail with the ‘kinky boots’ subject heading to the address mentioned. Only one entry allowed per person. Deadline for draw, the 3rd of August.

Everyone on the mailing list will also soon receive exclusive mini-interviews with our authors, including Brendan Connell, John Elliott and Joe Simpson Walker.