Released 31st July, 2025 // 168 pages // 978-1-917617-22-2 // RRP: £13.99 / $18.99 / €16.99
 
Richard Skinner’s Undercurrents is a hybrid essay collection that brings together literary criticism, memoir, cultural commentary, and music writing in a loose, associative structure. Moving from Proust’s memory theory to Talking Heads’ Remain in Light, from Renaissance nuns to Eisenstein’s montage, Skinner’s prose is expansive yet precise, attuned to the connective tissue between art forms, ideas, and personal experience. The voice is intimate but critically rigorous, allowing space for reverie, close reading, and autobiographical fragments. The result is a rich, idiosyncratic meditation on narrative, perception, and the patterns that shape a creative life.
 
ABOUT Richard Skinner:
Richard Skinner is a writer working across fiction, life writing, essays, non-fiction and poetry. He has published three novels with Faber and two previous collections of essays, Vade Mecum (Zer0 Books, 2015) and Joiners (Vanguard Editions, 2019). He has also had published eight books of poems. He is Director of the Fiction Programme at Faber Academy and is currently studying mysticism at Sarum Theological College.