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The Bexhill Missile Crisis • David Gee

07 Mar 2014 / Comments Off / in Books/by

[rating=3]
224 pages • Paradise Press • February 26, 2014 [PB]
David Gee’s The Bexhill Missile Crisis is set at the start of Swinging ’60s, and looks at a crisis that explores how and why they started to swing.

“I do rather wonder if Gee is suggesting that sex and death somehow became inextricably linked in the 1960s as a result of the Crisis. It had certainly been so during the Second World War and there must have been a strong incentive to party like there was no tomorrow.”

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  • The Dropout David Gee book review polari arts and culture online magazine

The Dropout • David Gee

27 Sep 2012 / Comments Off / in Books/by

[rating=4]
307 pages • Matador • September 09, 2012 [PB]

For a bleak book with a high death count, David Gee’s The Dropout is also also witty, clever, insightful and worldly-wise.

“David Gee’s tongue-in-cheek, if dark, social and sexual satire (a sort of cross between David Lodge and Tom Sharpe) leads us through a topsy-turvy world of sexual shenanigans and unconventional relationships.”