Philip Ridley – Crocodila

Set in London’s East End in 1982, Philip Ridley’s novel is a masterwork of gay fiction with a glittering, labyrinthine narrative and a firework display of images – a house full of crocodiles, Elvis Presley in a gold Cadillac, a cinema bathed in green neon – not to mention sex scenes of such dizzying eroticism that they take the breath away.

In the years since its first publication in 1988, Crocodilia has become a cult classic, and for this new edition the author has expanded and developed the novel further, presenting it now – for the first time – as it was always intended. Already known as a visionary film director and one of the most original playwrights of his generation, with this new release Ridley confirms his place as one of our most innovative, distinctive, and dazzling novelists.