Literary Archaeology
The Fifty-Pence Canon: Digging Britain’s Lost Experimental Novelists Out of Charity Shops
Britain’s real avant-garde archive is not in a glass case at the British Library. It is a wobbly shelf near the till in a charity shop, wedged between a broken-spined thriller and a cookbook for people who fear vegetables. This is a field guide to the weird, cheap, out-of-print fiction that still turns up for 50p — and why we should treat the second-hand shelf as a proper literary institution.