Novels
The Bristolian Chronicles
Each Chronicle borrows the architecture of a book Craven admires and subjects it to a modern process of contamination. Characters, institutions, scandals and locations migrate between the books, forming an increasingly elaborate comic sociology.
Novel
Amoeba Dick
In this the inaugural volume of Richard Craven’s Bristolian Chronicles, disreputable Bristolian gym manager Herod swears vengeance against the microbe colony infesting the spa hot tub and blamed for the genital gangrene which has unmanned him. In the pursuit of his vendetta, he recruits a…
77 people · 42 places · 40 chapters
Novel
Pretty Poli
In this second volume of Richard Craven’s Bristolian Chronicles, meet dissipated parrot architect Hawksmoor Perroquet as he arrives in Bristol and promptly succumbs to a ketamine frenzy at the Anarchist Bookfair, during which he sells his wife, brainless budgerigar Arabella Melopsittica, and their egg to…
39 people · 85 places · 57 chapters
Novel
Odour Issues
After a night spent as the front end of a pantomime horse in the Startling Farter, dissolute aristocrat Lord Snatch fails to return home to ... er ... Squattocrat Towers and the loving embrace of his wife, the fragrant poshtitute Kelly Snatch.
48 people · 36 places · 27 chapters
Novel
Helix Folt, the Conservative
Welcome to Craven’s Bristol - a city where every committee becomes a kangaroo court, every philanthropist a pagan oracle, and every cause célèbre an excuse for public indignation.
47 people · 63 places · 54 chapters
Before the Chronicles
Novel (earlier)
Bile
His first novel, written in the 1990s under the name Mark Brand: coarse political satire and speculative fiction, with questions of identity, persistence and personhood.