Jonathan Bowden was a paradox: on the one hand, he was an avowed elitist and aesthetic modernist, yet on the other hand, he relished such forms of popular entertainment as comics, graphic novels, pulps, and even Punch and Judy shows, which not only appeal to the masses but also offer a refuge for pre- and anti-modern aesthetic tastes and tendencies.

Western Civilization has suffered an astonishing series of reversals in the last century. On the eve of the Great War, whites controlled virtually the entire globe. Today, whites do not even control their own homelands. A century ago, Western culture as the inspiration and envy of the globe.

Extremists: Studies in Metapolitics collects transcripts of nine of Jonathan Bowden’s most compelling orations: on Thomas Carlyle, Gabriele D’Annunzio, Charles Maurras, Martin Heidegger, Julius Evola, Savitri Devi, Yukio Mishima, and Maurice Cowling, as well as his speech “Vanguardism: Hope for the Future.”

Since the Second World War, “modernism” in the arts has been overwhelmingly associated with the cultural and political Left. But before the War, there was vigorous debate between modernists of the Right and the Left.

This work is a contribution to meta-politics or the theoretical elaboration of political positions. It involves a Platonic dialogue between two voices – one Christian and the other Pagan – over a range of contemporary issues. Modelled on Plato’s Republic, it attempts to achieve a resolution or dialectical power-play between Thrasymachus and Socrates’ more effete companions. Our two collaborators or Dramatis...

An extensive collection of artwork dating from 1980 to 2007.

The Fanatical Pursuit of Purity is a Gesamtkunstwerk or attempt at a total art-work in the Wagnerian tradition. It prefigures a puppet-stage or toy-theatre within which the lead character or marionette, Phosphorous Cool, has his circumference. Into this world other dolls – Mastodon Helix, Heathcote Dervish and Warlock Splendour Thomas – nimbly trip and spin. All of this finds itself punctuated by a third dimension or...

Al-Qa’eda Moth is a western which finds itself divided into a three-pronged attack upon the senses. The first section deals with a nineteenth century narrative that typifies the films of John Wayne. The second strand involves a twentieth century version of the same story line. The third progression on our chess board, however, intellectualises this process and provides a template for dreaming. Using William Gayley Simpson’s <...

KRATOS deals with the subject of psychopathia and is the author’s treatment of this theme. It involves dream sequences, monologue, phantasy and the elaboration of a wolfish purpose. Could it turn out to be a rendering of Lombroso’s theories about crime? It is accompanied by three additional stories. ORIGAMI BLUEBEARD, which concerns love across the generations which freezes into gelignite. GRIMALDI’S LEO has to be an altogether lighter work which...

This volume consists of four short stories and a play. The first, A Ballet of Wasps, deals with a woodsman who offends a vampire with tales of derring-do. Our second story, Golgotha’s Centurion, focuses on the chiaroscuro and ochre tints in Giotto and Cimabue. It also makes use of the same template as Mel Gibson in his Passion of the Christ, but this time to illustrate Lex talionis. The third piece, ...

These amazing yarns provide a critique of dualism or Manichean lore. They are designed to compute a pagan rather than a Christian ethos – whereby morality is seen to be hierarchical rather than a matter of Kierkegaard’s Either/Or.

A volume containing 4 previously published works by Jonathan Bowden, including Kratos, The Fanatical Pursuit of Purity, Al-Qa’eda Moth and A Ballet of Wasps. Jonathan was born in Kent in 1962. He was the author of over thirty books – such as Our Name Is Legion, A Bullet Through Bone, Spiders Are Not Insects, Apocalypse TV and Kratos. A painter of distinction, Jonathan has produced over 200 full-size oil paintings. An orator of great...

Early pop art and graphic novel work (1968-1974). Jonathan was born in Kent in 1962. He was the author of over thirty books – such as Our Name Is Legion, A Bullet Through Bone, Spiders Are Not Insects, Apocalypse TV and Kratos. A painter of distinction, Jonathan has produced over 200 full-size oil paintings. An orator of great power, Jonathan was a regular speaker at various events around the United Kingdom, and with his keen interest in...

This book contains four plays for either the theatre, radio, television or film adaptation. These works are a direct rejoinder to Brechtian or marxist playwrights like Jim Allen, Howard Brenton, Edward Bond, David Edgar, Trevor Griffiths and Arnold Wesker. The first drama, Lilith Before Eve, examines Punch & Judy in a new way or in accordance with a violent dynamic. It proves capable of an Evolian explication, but actually ends with a...

A volume containing 3 previously published works by Jonathan Bowden, including Apocalypse TV, Lilith Before Eve and Goodbye, Homunculus! Jonathan was born in Kent in 1962. He was the author of over thirty books – such as Our Name Is Legion, A Bullet Through Bone, Spiders Are Not Insects, Apocalypse TV and Kratos. A painter of distinction, Jonathan has produced over 200 full-size oil paintings. An orator of great power, Jonathan was a...

This book is an exercise in Gnosticism or a black magic story. It effectively recalls, by the by, those occult fictions of Dennis Wheatley such as They Used Dark Forces, To the Devil – a Daughter!, The Haunting of Toby Jugg or The Ka of Gifford Hillary. The work certainly features a retinue of characters drawn from the Horror genre. These were a Scarecrow (Beady Eyed Tremblake), a Vamp or lemur (Strawberry Wobbler), a Mummy (Boo Wilson), a...

Early pop art and graphic novel work (1967-1974). Jonathan was born in Kent in 1962. He was the author of over thirty books – such as Our Name Is Legion, A Bullet Through Bone, Spiders Are Not Insects, Apocalypse TV and Kratos. A painter of distinction, Jonathan has produced over 200 full-size oil paintings. An orator of great power, Jonathan was a regular speaker at various events around the United Kingdom, and with his keen interest in...

This volume consists of fourteen tales, non-fictions, prose poems, tablets and plays for film. Jonathan was born in Kent in 1962. He was the author of over thirty books – such as Our Name Is Legion, A Bullet Through Bone, Spiders Are Not Insects, Apocalypse TV and Kratos. A painter of distinction, Jonathan has produced over 200 full-size oil paintings. An orator of great power, Jonathan was a regular speaker at various events around the...

The Marquis de Sade (1740-1814) is one of the most controversial characters to have ever drawn breath on this planet. Nor is the author at all blind to de Sade’s perversity or tendency towards the malign. Nonetheless, in this analysis, the obscenity is stripped from the Marquis’ works and they are viewed in a new way.

A new collection of 6 short stories. Jonathan was born in Kent in 1962. He was the author of over thirty books – such as Our Name Is Legion, A Bullet Through Bone, Spiders Are Not Insects, Apocalypse TV and Kratos. A painter of distinction, Jonathan has produced over 200 full-size oil paintings. An orator of great power, Jonathan was a regular speaker at various events around the United Kingdom, and with his keen interest in the arts, his...

This volume consists of 13 tales. Jonathan was born in Kent in 1962. He was the author of over thirty books – such as Our Name Is Legion, A Bullet Through Bone, Spiders Are Not Insects, Apocalypse TV and Kratos. A painter of distinction, Jonathan has produced over 200 full-size oil paintings. An orator of great power, Jonathan was a regular speaker at various events around the United Kingdom, and with his keen interest in the arts, his...

The ghosts of Hobbes, Sade and Stirner haunt Jonathan Bowden’s  unique and captivating experimental study of mortality salience, interpersonal strife, and the emergence of the modern state. Originally released in 1989, Nine-Banded Books is very proud to bring this remarkable book back into print.

Originally released in 1992, Jonathan Bowden’s erudite study of the life and times of the Marquis de Sade is at once work of fevered imagination and a highly original contribution to extant Sade scholarship. “Sade represented the energy a society had girded around its loins.”

Originally published in 1992 prior to Jonathan Bowden’s reactionary political conversion, Aryan is a kaleidoscopic, prose-poetic study of  “Nazism and the twilight of modern man.” This Nine-Banded Books edition has been transcribed with careful fidelity to the original text and represents the final installment of our “Bowden trilogy,” with Mad and Sade preceding. What everyone would put in a book – what no one can jot...

In Demon, Jonathan explores the topic of Jack the Ripper, the brutal serial killer from the foggy and pestilential backstreets of London, who savagely slaughtered and mutilated a string of prostitutes in the late Victorian era, and who later vanished, having never been identified by the police. The book begins with a survey of the different theories as to the killer’s identity from royals to Freemasons and ends with a free-flowing...

Axe begins with the Right and ends with conservatism, but it is largely a commentary on art, literature, and intellectuals on the Left. Bowden begins with a criticism of Wyndham Lewis and then builds a catena of digressions, whose topics include Andrea Mantegna, J. G. Ballard, Stephen King, a foray into personal memoir, Jean Baudrillard, the New Left, Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, and Roberto D’Aubuisson. Throughout his commentary, Bowden...

Blood covers a wide range of topics, including Western Marxism and Louis Althusser, the psychology of Satanism, National Socialism, the conduct of war, virtual reality, the adoption within the art world of Left-wing norms, the Situationist International, Stuart Home, Wyndham Lewis, and the tensions between art and totalitarian politics. The book ends with brief commentaries on then topical events: the Los Angeles Riots of 1992 and the death of...

The first edition of Right appeared in the aftermath of the Maastricht Treaty, the Euro-federalist document signed by the government of John Major that deeply divided the Conservative Party. Jonathan Bowden appeared in the Right-wing fringes of the political landscape around this time, storming the motley array of groups, discussion circles, and clubs that rejected the politics of the Major era, impressing some and dismaying others with his...

Written during the Summer of 1992, Heat is in a question-and-answer format. Bowden poses and answers five questions, yet, as usual, the discussion is much broader, and covers an array of other topics, including, among others, Jack Henry Abbott and his book, In the Belly of the Beast; method acting; the David Mellor affair; Antonin Artaud’s ‘Theatre of Cruelty’ and Georges Bataille; the films Batman Returns and Universal Soldier...

Written during the Spring of 1993, Jonathan begins with a commentary on a Deathlok comic, going vignette by vignette, which leads him onto a prescient discussion of the prospect of resurgent authoritarianism through technology in the liberal state. Deathlok’s world of urban blight then recalls a visit to the Isle of Sheppey, told in cinematic detail. And from there Jonathan dedicates the rest of the volume to a wide-ranging discussion–...

Bowden’s oratorical firepower is on full display in this 2009 interview. Members of the London New-Right put every question to him you ever wanted to ask, letting Bowden hold forth on such topics as race and politics, the EU, Islam, gender roles, paganism and Christianity, modern art, and his own vision of the future. This volume also includes three short reflections on Bowden the man by members of the London New-Right. Far from suggesting a...