Experimentalists

<i>The Experimentalists</i> is a collective biography capturing the life and times of the British experimental writers of the swinging 1960s. A decade of research including as-yet unopened archives and interviews with the writers' colleagues is brought together to produce a comprehensive history of this ill-starred group of renegade writers. Whether the bolshie B.S. Johnson the globetrotting Ann Quin the cerebral Christine Brooke-Rose or the omnipresent Anthony Burgess these writers each brought their own unique contributions to literature at a time uniquely open to their iconoclastic message. The journey connects historical moments from Bletchley Park to Paris May '68 to terrorist groups of the 1970s. A tale of love loss friendship and a shared vision this book is a fascinating insight into a bold provocative and influential group of writers whose collective story has gone untold until now.