E M Crisp: 9 books

From the eyes of the Savage Saxon, we see the world as it was many hundreds of thousands of years ago, as primates became hunter-gatherers and came into possession of immovable wisdom. Tao and Empire is a series of new interpretations of the Dao De Jing, the ancient Chinese philosophical text,...

This is the second volume of the Tao and Empire series. The series aims to recount the rise and fall of Western morals using as a basis an ancient Eastern philosophical text. In so doing, it strives to use this text as a constant, allowing the distortion of so-called conservative values for progressive...

This second volume of poetry exposes Vil's general perspective on life. Inside insight delves into his outlook on matters of personal life, world view and the human condition, far removed from the focused works of Buenos Aires and the Origins of Sausse. Divided into four parts, this volume adopts...

The short-story format is one that is often overlooked, but nonetheless essential in the development of creative writing. It embodies the ideas of relevancy to plot and concision in description. There is also a lot to be learned in the use and deployment of time frames. This collection of short stories...

If you thought you could escape Mel Vil's vitriolic poetry, it's because he's been busy lately... sharpening his sword. And so you're wrong. His latest regurgitation of hatred is here, and it ups the ante by addressing the broader issues of today's rotten society. 'Neocon Hard-on' is the acid reflux...

Buenos Aires and the Origins of Sausse is a collection of poetry. The main theme is the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina, around the early noughties (2000s). At that time, the city was rocked not only by the crisis that engulfed the country’s economy, but also by a wave of euphoria, a feeling of...

In the midst of a muggy and racially charged summer, Sammy narrowly escapes falling victim to a band of urban hustlers. Still enraged from the ordeal, he days later enacts his vengeance, only to start his descent along a slippery slope of lies and deceit that will eventually entangle him with his...

"[I]f you want to know about the glory days of partying in a place like this.. this is your book" Joshua (5* review) "Ever fall in love with a foreign place because of stories someone told you? [Mel Vil]'s Buenos Aires in a book..." @bravenewlady Three friends stand...

Sal is an over-privileged rugby player, and he's struggling to recover from the injury that ended his career. Having assumed that his future was set, he had never bothered to learn how to treat people. Now he begins clinging at straws. The first is a Latin beauty, who soon disappears from his life....