Man-Eating Typewriter signed paperback edition, published by White Rabbit, 2024.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2023

‘I am an ugly man, a meese meshigena-omi, but a fashionable omi. And soon to be a molto famous omi. Lell my lapper.’

Set at the fag-end of the 1960s and framed as a novel within a novel published by a seedy purveyor of pulp fiction, Man-Eating Typewriter is a homage to the avant-garde counterculture of the 20th century. Told in Polari, it is the story of an anarchist named Raymond Novak and his plan to commit a ‘fantabulosa crime’ in 276 days that will revolt the world. A surrealistic odyssey that stretches from occupied Paris to the cruise-liner SS Unmentionable to lawless Tangier before settling in Swinging London, the book casts Novak as an agitator and freedom fighter - but, as his memoirs become more and more threatening, his publishers find themselves far more involved in his violent personality cult than they ever intended.

Constructed like a hallucinogenic cocktail of A Clockwork Orange, Pale Fire and Jean Genet’s jailbird fantasies, Man-Eating Typewriter is an act of seductive sedition by a writer wth unfathomable literary talent and boldness. Wild, transgressive, erotic and resolutely uncompromising, this marks the return of a writer who is out there on an island of his own making; a book that will be talked about, celebrated and puzzled over for decades.

‘Outrageous, audacious and shameless, Man-Eating Typewriter is a brilliantly constructed murderous lark. Like A Clockwork Orange adapted by John Waters at his most gleeful’ - John Higgs, author of William Blake vs the World andLove and Let Die

‘Milward has created a very rare beast of a book; one that is propulsive, relevant, outrageous, and often alarmingly beautiful. Here is a novel that lays bare the depravity of human impulse, whilst testing the limits of language and form with masterful ease and reckless glee… Has all the transgressive energy of a cult classic in the making’ - Maddie Mortimer, author of Maps Of Our Spectacular Bodies, judge of Goldsmiths Prize 2023

Apples signed reissue, published by White Rabbit, 2023.

‘We got a McDonald’s the night my mam got lung cancer.’

As a distraction from sleazy male admirers, spiteful classmates and her mother's cancer, Eve's eyes are opened to a multicolour life of one-night stands, drug-fuelled discos and cheap booze. She barely has time to notice the reclusive, obsessive-compulsive Adam. Adam, however, notices Eve.

Narrated alternately by Adam and Eve alongside a cast of delinquents, foetuses and butterflies, Apples is an exploration of the sickly-sweet turmoil of growing up and the hazards of getting 'fucked as quick as you can'.

First published in 2007 and reissued now by White Rabbit, Apples arrived like a meteor on the literary landscape with Milward barely out of his teenage years.

'Funny, tragic and transcendent. If you were ever a teenager, read it' - Lauren Laverne

'If... Bret Easton Ellis had grown up in a North of England housing project, Less Than Zero might have looked a bit like Apples. It's one of the best books I've ever read about being young, working-class and British' - Irvine Welsh

Ten Storey Love Song, signed reissue, published by White Rabbit, 2023.

‘“Hello,” says the wallpaper.’

Spanning one torrential paragraph, Ten Storey Love Song follows Bobby the Artist's rise to stardom and decline into horrific drug psychosis, Johnnie's attempts to stop thieving and start pleasing Ellen in bed, and Alan Blunt, a forty-year-old container driver who spends a worrying amount of time patrolling the grounds of the local primary school. Bobby - the so-called 'love-child of Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat', holed up in a Middlesbrough tower block - works on his canvases under the influence of pills-on-toast, dirt-cheap cider and dream pop.

When Bent Lewis, an art dealer from London appears, Bobby and friends are sent on a breakneck adventure of self-discovery, hedonism and violence, their frayed lives and assorted addictions - sex, money, fame, pick-’n’-mix and, above all, love - bleeding together in one glorious, ferocious slab of technicolour concrete prose.

'Milward is a major talent, and his love for his characters shines through any degrading obstacles he forces them to encounter. When writers are being churned out of creative fiction courses like salmon from fish farms, he possesses that scarcest quality: a highly original and engaging voice' - Irvine Welsh, The Guardian

'Milward has that rare gift of being able to capture and distill an entire generation in a single, simple sentence. Brilliant. Very very funny and utterly original' - Helen Walsh, author of Brass and Once Upon a Time in England

Kimberly’s Capital Punishment, signed reissue, published by White Rabbit, 2023.

‘I found the eyeball fifteen minutes before I found the rest of him.’

Having moved to London with her athletic boyfriend, the sweet-but-stuttering Stevie, she soon tires of him and decides to destroy the relationship from within by being as cruel as is humanly possible. When this tactic leads to Stevie's violent death by his own hand, Kimberly embarks on a determined, but no less disastrous, venture in 'unadulterated altruism'.

Kimberly's soul hangs in the balance - will she ultimately spend eternity in the great TopShop in the sky? Will be be reincarnated as a pampered greyhound or a deadly bacterium? Or will she be cast into the abyss, tormented endlessly by her past demons and her malevolent pet hamster Lucifer?

This is the story of Kimberly's redemption, or possibly her damnation: it's up to you. There are six different endings on offer.

'A modern psychedelic masterpiece... utterly unique' - Russ Litten, author of Scream If You Want To Go Faster

'Sees [Milward] shift effortlessly from thrilling new talent to major literary force to be reckoned with... Milward contemplates the Big Questions in a bittersweet paean to the UK capital in his own inimitable style and does so with his most impressive series of textual experiments, poetic flashes and lip-smacking imagery to date. His punchy, super-smart prose is driven by an irresistible energy and masterful flair' - Camilla Pia, The List

A2 print (420 x 594mm), signed & hand-numbered by Richard Milward (edition of 250)

Inked & painted in 2013, The Rebirth Pool features ten illustrations twisting the hypnotic mandala artwork of Hinduism and Buddhism. A manic merry-go-round of fluorescent cartoon characters, hieroglyphics, surrealism, reanimation, hearts, brains, eyeballs, footballs, Heaven & Hell & everything in between. The original Rebirth Pool illustrations were exhibited at mima & The Tunnel Gallery, Middlesbrough (2013), The Social, London (2013), The House of Blah Blah, Middlesbrough (2015)

This A2 print (420 x 594mm) is signed & hand-numbered by Richard Milward (edition of 250) on 308msg Hahnemuehle matt smooth photo rag paper

A3 print (297 x 420mm), signed & hand-numbered by Richard Milward (edition of 41 with paint flake from original painting)

Inspired by Hieronymus Bosch's triptych, Milward invites the viewer to frolic in his daft Day-Glo Back Garden of Earthly Delights. Slapped directly onto the walls of his studio space at Byam Shaw School of Art, London for his degree show in 2008, visitors were able to enter this strange environment where Heaven and Hell clash, and rub shoulders with such consumerist, hedonistic and dissolute characters as Geoffrey the Giraffe, pigs in habits, Nazi bookies, an E-dealing canary, rubber ducks...

After the exhibition the piece was sanded and whitewashed, but Milward salvaged 41 colourful paint flakes (see images), to be glued to each of these one-of-a-kind limited prints

This A3 print (297 x 420mm) is signed & hand-numbered by Richard Milward (edition of 41) on 308msg Hahnemuehle matt smooth photo rag paper

A3 print (297 x 420mm), signed & hand-numbered by Richard Milward (edition of 250)

Painted at the mighty Byam Shaw School of Art the year Apples came out (2007), Frisky Disco features Eve surrounded by a pack of thirsty creatures. The original acrylic and oil painting was exhibited at Byam Shaw School of Art, London (2007), A.M.U.T.I., London (2007), Felix the Gallery, Middlesbrough (2016)

This A3 print (297 x 420mm) is signed & hand-numbered by Richard Milward (edition of 250) on 308msg Hahnemuehle matt smooth photo rag paper

A3 print (297 x 420mm), signed & hand-numbered by Richard Milward (edition of 250)

Inked & painted in 2013, The Rebirth Pool features ten illustrations twisting the hypnotic mandala artwork of Hinduism and Buddhism. A manic merry-go-round of fluorescent cartoon characters, hieroglyphics, surrealism, reanimation, hearts, brains, eyeballs, footballs, Heaven & Hell & everything in between. The original Rebirth Pool illustrations were exhibited at mima & The Tunnel Gallery, Middlesbrough (2013), The Social, London (2013), The House of Blah Blah, Middlesbrough (2015)

This A3 print (297 x 420mm) is signed & hand-numbered by Richard Milward (edition of 250) on 308msg Hahnemuehle matt smooth photo rag paper

A3 print (297 x 420mm), signed & hand-numbered by Richard Milward (edition of 250)

Inked & painted in 2013, The Rebirth Pool features ten illustrations twisting the hypnotic mandala artwork of Hinduism and Buddhism. A manic merry-go-round of fluorescent cartoon characters, hieroglyphics, surrealism, reanimation, hearts, brains, eyeballs, footballs, Heaven & Hell & everything in between. The original Rebirth Pool illustrations were exhibited at mima & The Tunnel Gallery, Middlesbrough (2013), The Social, London (2013), The House of Blah Blah, Middlesbrough (2015)

This A3 print (297 x 420mm) is signed & hand-numbered by Richard Milward (edition of 250) on 308msg Hahnemuehle matt smooth photo rag paper

A3 print (297 x 420mm), signed & hand-numbered by Richard Milward (edition of 250)

Inked & painted in 2013, The Rebirth Pool features ten illustrations twisting the hypnotic mandala artwork of Hinduism and Buddhism. A manic merry-go-round of fluorescent cartoon characters, hieroglyphics, surrealism, reanimation, hearts, brains, eyeballs, footballs, Heaven & Hell & everything in between. The original Rebirth Pool illustrations were exhibited at mima & The Tunnel Gallery, Middlesbrough (2013), The Social, London (2013), The House of Blah Blah, Middlesbrough (2015)

This A3 print (297 x 420mm) is signed & hand-numbered by Richard Milward (edition of 250) on 308msg Hahnemuehle matt smooth photo rag paper

Signed first edition of US version of Ten Storey Love Song, published by HarperCollins US, 2009

Spanning one dynamite paragraph, Ten Storey Love Song follows Bobby the Artist's rise to stardom and horrific drug psychosis, Johnnie's attempts to stop thieving and start pleasing Ellen in bed, and Alan Blunt, a forty-year-old truck driver who spends a worrying amount of time patrolling the grounds of the local primary school. Bobby - the so-called 'love-child of Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat', holed up in a Middlesbrough tower block - works on his canvases under the influence of pills-on-toast, acid-on-crackers and Francis Bacon. When Bent Lewis, a famous art dealer and mover-shaker from that London appears, Bobby and friends are sent on a sweaty adventure of self-discovery, hedonism and violence involving a 2.5cm-head curved claw hammer. A love song to a loveless Teesside, Ten Storey Love Song is a ferocious slab of concrete prose peppered with beauty and delivered with glorious abandon

'Milward is a major talent, and his love for his characters shines through any degrading obstacles he forces them to encounter. When writers are being churned out of creative fiction courses like salmon from fish farms, he possesses that scarcest quality: a highly original and engaging voice' - Irvine Welsh, The Guardian

Signed first edition of Ten Storey Love Song adapted by Luke Barnes, published by Oberon Books, 2016

Ten Storey Love Song follows Bobby the Artist's rise to stardom and horrific drug psychosis, Johnnie's attempts to stop thieving and start pleasing Ellen in bed, and Alan Blunt, a forty-year-old truck driver who spends a worrying amount of time patrolling the grounds of the local primary school. A love song to a loveless Teesside, Ten Storey Love Song is a ferocious slab of concrete prose, peppered with beauty and delivered with glorious abandon