Peter Parker

Forgotten books worth rediscovering

R.B. Russell bookends his list of neglected works to track down with two entitled The Outsider – by Colin Wilson and Richard Wright

Colin Wilson, c.1960. [Getty Images]

  • Fifty Forgotten Books

    R.B. Russell

    And Other Stories, pp. 255, £12

Most readers have favourite books or authors they feel have been either forgotten or unjustly neglected. R.B. Russell, an assiduous book collector, did something practical about this when in 1990 he co-founded the Tartarus Press in order to bring the works of the once popular Arthur Machen back into print.

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