Author photo: Nik Strangelove
Richard Littler
Agent: Juliet Pickering
Assistant: Finlay Charlesworth
Biography: Richard Littler was born in Manchester and has lived in America, Russia, Germany, Ireland and Switzerland. He is the creator of Scarfolk, a cult satirical blog which has spawned two books, DISCOVERING SCARFOLK (Ebury Press, 2014) and THE SCARFOLK ANNUAL 197X (William Collins, 2019), as well as SCARFOLK & ENVIRONS: A Road & Leisure Map for Uninvited Tourists (Herb Lester Associates, 2020).
Scarfolk is now in development for TV with Hare & Tortoise, and Scarfolk merchandising has been released by Saatchi Gallery.
SCARFOLK & ENVIRONS
Hisorical, 1 pgs
Herb Lester Associates, 2020
SCARFOLK ANNUAL
Humour, 136pgs
William Collins, 2019
THE SCARFOLK ANNUAL discovered in a charity shop in the north west of England in August 2018. The shop, and indeed town, do not wish to be identified as they are keen to “discourage the ‘occult-totalitarian tourism’ that as afflicted other areas of Britain” as people hunt for further socio-archaeological traces of the mysterious, missing town of Scarfolk – Britain’s own Brutalist Atlantis.
Apart from the archive of Scarfolk materials which was sent anonymously to the late Dr Ben Motte and formed the basis of the book DISOCVERING SCARFOLK, this children’s annual is, to date, the only complete artefact from Scarfolk ever to be unearthed ‘in the wild’.
It’s clear The Scarfolk Annual was not written to entertain children at Christmastime; its purpose was to indoctrinate young minds; in fact, one might go as far as to say destroy young minds, to an end that has been lost to us.
DISCOVERING SCARFOLK
Humour, 192pgs
Ebury Press, 2014
A massive cult hit online, Scarfolk re-creates with startling accuracy the darkest childhood memories of the 1970s, all in shiver-inducing visual form. It's surreal, clever and extremely funny.