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The ultimate lifestyle guide for the people who want to transform the spirit of the age, or failing that, ignore it altogether. Featuring contributions by the bad, dangerous and eccentric free spirits of contemporary society, The Decadent Handbook will become the bible for the modern libertine.

Contributors include bestselling authors Mark Mason , Nicholas Royle, Hari Kunzru, Tom Holland, Belle de Jour and Stuart Napier, leading young authors such as Stuart Kelly, Vanora Bennett, Salena Godden, Louise Welsh and Helen Walsh and literary figures such as Alan Jenkins, Robert Irwin, Andrew Crumey, Anne Billson, Michael Bywater, Medlar Lucan and Durian Gray.