Wild & woolley

Novelist and critic Michael Wilding's rollicking account of the heady bohemian days in the 1970s and 80s, charting the growth, the experiments, and the decline of an innovative small press against a background of social upheaval and cultural change in Australia. This memoir is peppered with comic anecdotes and offers vivid portraits of important literary figures of the time, as well as insights into the industries and the economies in which small publishers operate. This insider's view on small-press and alternative publishing in Australia is very timely in view of the current debates on the future of the book and publishing in the digital age.