Repeater Books is a publishing imprint based in London, founded in 2014 by
Tariq Goddard
Tariq Goddard (born 1975) is a British novelist and publisher. He has written six novels, the first of which ''Homage to a Firing Squad'', was short-listed for the Whitbread Book Award for First Novel. His first three novels were published by Scep ...
and
Mark Fisher, formerly the founders of radical publishers
Zero Books, along with
Etan Ilfeld
Etan Ilfeld is a London-based entrepreneur and the founder of Tenderbooks, Tenderpixel gallery, Watkins Mind Body Spirit Magazine, Watkins Wisdom Academy, PlayStrategy.org, co-founder of Repeater Books, and the owner and managing director of W ...
, Tamar Shlaim, Alex Niven and Matteo Mandarini.
Formation
In 2014, after disagreements with their parent company John Hunt Publishing, Zero Books founders Tariq Goddard and Mark Fisher, as well as Matteo Mandarini, editor
Alex Niven and publicist Tamar Shlaim, resigned, and formed the new imprint Repeater Books.
In 2015, Repeater Books published its first two titles: ''The Isle of Minimus'', an experimental novel by M. K. L. Murphy; and ''Lean Out'', a feminist polemic by the journalist
Dawn Foster. They have since published books by
Mark Fisher,
David Stubbs,
Graham Harman
Graham Harman (born May 9, 1968) is an American philosopher and academic. He is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles. His work on the metaphysics of objects led to the developme ...
,
Mat Osman,
Steven Shaviro
Steven Shaviro (; born April 3, 1954) is an American academic, philosopher and cultural critic whose areas of interest include film theory, time, science fiction, panpsychism, capitalism, affect and subjectivity. He earned a PhD from Yale in 1981 ...
, Leila Taylor,
Claire Cronin, and
Eugene Thacker
Eugene Thacker is an American philosopher, poet, and author. He is Professor of Media Studies at The New School in New York City. His writing is often associated with the philosophy of nihilism and pessimism. Thacker's books include ''In the D ...
, amongst others.
Watkins Media
Repeater Books is an imprint within Watkins Media, a publishing organisation owned by entrepreneur
Etan Ilfeld
Etan Ilfeld is a London-based entrepreneur and the founder of Tenderbooks, Tenderpixel gallery, Watkins Mind Body Spirit Magazine, Watkins Wisdom Academy, PlayStrategy.org, co-founder of Repeater Books, and the owner and managing director of W ...
, whose imprints also include
Angry Robot and Nourish, as well as London's famous esoteric bookshop
Watkins Books.
Authors
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Tristam Adams
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Monster Bobby
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Grace Blakeley
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Gavin Butt
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Claire Cronin (singer-songwriter)
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Cynthia Cruz
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Kodwo Eshun
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Mark Fisher
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Dawn Foster
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Eliane Glaser
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Tariq Goddard
Tariq Goddard (born 1975) is a British novelist and publisher. He has written six novels, the first of which ''Homage to a Firing Squad'', was short-listed for the Whitbread Book Award for First Novel. His first three novels were published by Scep ...
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Graham Harman
Graham Harman (born May 9, 1968) is an American philosopher and academic. He is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles. His work on the metaphysics of objects led to the developme ...
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Owen Hatherley
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Aaron J. Leonard
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Tom Lutz
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Anna Minton
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Alex Niven
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Mat Osman
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Simon Reynolds
Simon Reynolds (born 19 June 1963) is an English music journalist and author who began his professional career on the staff of ''Melody Maker'' in the mid-1980s. He has since gone on to freelance and publish a number of full-length books on musi ...
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Lee Scott (rapper)
Lee Scott is an English rapper, author, producer, and co-founder of record label Blah Records.
He has been making hip hop since 2003, and started Blah in 2006. As well as Blah artists, Lee has worked with veteran rapper Jehst on his label YNR ...
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Steven Shaviro
Steven Shaviro (; born April 3, 1954) is an American academic, philosopher and cultural critic whose areas of interest include film theory, time, science fiction, panpsychism, capitalism, affect and subjectivity. He earned a PhD from Yale in 1981 ...
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Christiana Spens
Christiana Spens is a writer, academic and artist.
Biography
Christiana Spens grew up in Fife, Scotland and was educated at the University of Cambridge in Philosophy, followed by the University of St. Andrews for her master's degree and doctor ...
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Terence Stamp
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David Stubbs
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Eugene Thacker
Eugene Thacker is an American philosopher, poet, and author. He is Professor of Media Studies at The New School in New York City. His writing is often associated with the philosophy of nihilism and pessimism. Thacker's books include ''In the D ...
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Patrick Wright (historian)
Patrick Wright is a British writer, broadcaster and academic in the fields of cultural studies and cultural history. He was educated at the University of Kent and Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada.
He is Professor (emeritus ...
References
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Book publishing companies based in London