John Tottenham | Service Italian Combining decades of analytical brilliance

Combining decades of analytical brilliance and lessons from organising both inside and beyond prison walls

While its leaders justify bombing campaigns exceeding the worst atrocities of World War 2 and a spiralling humanitarian catastrophe in the Gaza Strip

and an Igbo woman standing up to a powerful spirit

in the vast edifice of Perdido Street Station

No words of praise are too strong

John Tottenham | Service Italian Combining decades of analytical brilliance9781805227021 06 11 25 PB 336 pages LFD Book Club pick, June '26 Life at a bookstore in LA through the eyes of a cynical English bookseller irascible, witty and darkly humourous at his own expense and that of his unfortunate customers 'John Tottenham writes with a rare comic intensity' COLM TIBN 'My favourite nihilistic romantic' RACHEL KUSHNER 'A brutally honest, insightful, intelligent and absolutely hilarious novel' MICHAEL IMPERIOLI What's this