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“There’s just something that doesn’t seem right …”

Sidekick is very pleased to announce the imminent launch of the sinister, hilarious and oddly poignant Angela!

Who can explain the mysterious allure of Angela Lansbury? In this Sidekick Team-Up, Chrissy Williams and Howard Hardiman gaze upon (and into) the many facets of Angela and her most famous fictional counterpart, Jessica Fletcher, as wonderstruck miners might scrutinise a fist-sized diamond freshly cut from the rock. But like a tesseract, Angela seems to exist in four dimensions, beyond Euclidean space, her limits impossible to define through observation alone. Thus, further and deeper must our fearless duo travel, through the televisual glass, past all the iterations of ode and approximation, into the parallel universe that is Angela.

Check out Chrissy’s rather excellent trailer for the launch event, to be held on 16th October at Drink, Shop & Do on Caledonian Road, London, and RSVP here for macabre merrymaking!


Nearest tube: King’s Cross St Pancras

Innuendo-o-meter up to 11, and away we go!

Time to get hot under the collar and weak at the knees, with the launch of bright young publisher The Emma Press’s Anthology of Mildly Erotic Verse!

Gorgeously illustrated, with Audrey Horne-red end papers and choc-full of teasing, tantalisation and tingles, this little minx is going to solve a lot of your Christmas present issues.

It’s all going down tonight (26th September) at the Tea House Theatre in Vauxhall, where Jon and I will be reading at the launch, along with Julia Bird, Hugh Dunkerley, Amy Key, Anja Konig, Ikhda Ayuning Maharsi, Julie Mullen, Richard O’Brien, Emma Reay, Jacqueline Saphra, Stephen Sexton, Ruth Wiggins and Jerrold Yam. (Fact: at least one of these poets has come all the way from Switzerland to mildly eroticise you.)



If you’re busy being unsexy tonight, you have my sympathies. But that’s no problem, for the tingles are going on tour!

We’ll be joining the party on 2nd October and 16th November, but will most assuredly be slinking along to the other dates too.







As The Emma Press themselves put it,

Psst! We’re very happy to be publishing Follow the Trail of Moths: the Best of Wayne Holloway-Smith’s Literary Salons (look, that’s it to the left! Ooh!), featuring a ravishing selection of contemporary poets and storytellers, and art by the very talented Sophie Gainsley, who designed the hand-drawn maps after which the anthology is named.

We are even more happy to furtively whisper to you that Mr H-S will be hosting one final fling to launch the collection and round off his infamous Bacchanalian career, on Friday 20th September 2013 at his abode!

Readers confirmed are: Annie Freud, Jack Underwood, Martha Sprackland, John McCullough, Matthew Caley, Mark Waldron, Inua Ellams and Tim Wells.

All are very welcome, but we need to keep tabs on numbers, so please RSVP to us at contact@drfulminare.com to receive your own piece of entomological cartography (aka your moth map!).

Here are a few more lovely moths, just to whet your appetite: