Host an Intimate Evening with ‘Feral Class’ by Marc Garrett

Marc Garrett

“Untamed, Unheard, Unstoppable… a moving memoir about being a working-class artist… Art on the Margins, Life Without Permission”.

Invite me to your home to read my current book, Feral Class, in your own living room.

I have been touring the UK, delivering readings at independent bookshops and art centres this year. Now I want to bring it into your homes, rather than on a stage. The spaces where life daily unfolds: living rooms, kitchens, and sofas, where people eat, argue, and watch the telly.

As a thank-you for hosting me, you’ll receive a signed colour copy of the book, plus a limited-edition folded concertina leaflet featuring 8 images from the book, from an exclusive run of just 100.

What it involves:

  1. Marc will give a 50-minute reading from the book. 
  2. 15-minute discussion afterwards (optional).
  3. All participants bring food and drink (alcoholic and/or non-alcoholic). 
  4. The session will be held for a group of 5 to 20 attendees.

    Please email if interested – marc DOT garrett AT protonmail DOT com

BOOK LAUNCH: FERAL CLASS. Housmans Books, London. Marc Garrett and Cassie Thornton reading her foreword. Wednesday November 19, 2025.

Feral Class is available at the publisher’s Minor Compositions & all bookstores.
https://www.minorcompositions.info/?p=1561

Extracts from Book Reviews.

“The great art institutional swindle is the tacit consensus that conformity is a necessity. Marc Garrett’s Feral Class, a rough-and-tumble memoir of the artist and Furtherfield Gallery co-director’s trajectory from childhood to not-quite-germ-free adolescence, is a defiant two-finger salute to the sanctity of such staid professional orthodoxy.” Morgan Quaintance, Art Monthly. 

“Marc is one of the first people I ever met who could use an invitation to an esteemed institution built on a legacy of wealth, power and exploitation to make a sincere offering that says and means, eat the rich, you cunts, very politely and with elegance. The feral class is an unsynchronised group of people who are not afraid to point out that the water is contaminated if it is obvious that someone has pissed in it.” Cassie Thornton. 

Feral Class reading at the Broadside Space in Glasgow. Saturday the 28th of March. 2026.

BOOK LAUNCH: FERAL CLASS. Housmans Books, London. Marc Garrett and Cassie
Thornton reading her foreword. Wednesday November 19, 2025.

“This is a remarkable book; not only does it recount in sharp and daunting detail the author’s experiences in claustrophobic domestic circumstances, growing up on a council estate in Southend-On-Sea in the 1970s and 80s, but it somehow retains a voice from that time that feels remarkably close to the moment of experience. At times, there is very little distance placed between a reader and the rawness.” Phil Smith.

“Feral Class succeeds because it refuses easy answers. It is funny, painful, odd, and deeply humane. Most importantly, it trusts readers enough to present struggle in all its complexity, without turning it into either spectacle or inspiration. That trust, and the brutal honesty that accompanies it, is what makes the book compelling.” Stevphen Shukaitis.

“This very readable book is an odd and intriguing beast – it’s one part dark and troubling childhood memoir; one part tribute to the healing power of art and music; and one part an urgent manifesto to unleash the power of what Garrett calls ‘the Feral Class’, those outsiders and originals who could, if given a chance, bring energy and vision to our lives. Oh, and it’s very much a tribute to a remarkable mother.” Jim Anderson. 

“The ‘feral class’ is here described as the working class at their most oppressed – people whose lives are riddled with precarity, fear, violence, confusion and anxiety. In locations where traditional forms of working-class communities located in a shared industry have long been shattered.” Stefan Szczelkun.

Links to the above book reviews and more

Feral Class reviewed by Morgan Quaintance. 
Art Monthly. March 2026 | No 494.
https://www.artmonthly.co.uk

Goodreads – Ratings & Reviews
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/246157474-feral-class

I’m not a terrorist, I’m feral class. Book foreword by review by Cassie Thornton.
https://feministecondept.substack.com/p/im-not-a-terrorist-im-feral-class

Book and review on Amazon.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Feral-Class-Marc-Garrett/dp/1570274398

Image references.

Main Image – A big thanks to Alessandra Falbo.
https://www.artsy.net/artist/alessandra-falbo

Marc Garrett and Cassie Thornton present at Housmans Bookshop, 5 Caledonian Rd, London. Nov 19, 2025. https://housmans.com/event/book-launch-feral-class-with-mark-garrett/

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Marc Garrett is co-director and co-founder, with artist Ruth Catlow of the arts collective Furtherfield, beginning on the Internet in 96. Furtherfield has two physical venues, a gallery and a Commons lab, both situated in the park, in Finsbury Park, London. Has curated over 50 contemporary Media Arts exhibitions, projects nationally and internationally. Main editor of the Furtherfield web site. Written for various books and articles about art, technology and social change. Two key Furtherfield publications include co-editing of 'Artists Re:Thinking Games' with Ruth Catlow and Corrado Morgana 2010, and recently on 'Artists Re:thinking the Blockchain' with Ruth Catlow, Nathan Jones and Sam Skinner 2017. Currently in the write up of last year of Phd at the University of London, Birkbeck College. Emerging in the late 80′s from the streets exploring creativity via agit-art tactics. Using unofficial, experimental platforms such as the streets, pirate radio such as the locally popular ‘Savage Yet Tender’ alternative broadcasting 1980′s group, net broadcasts, BBS systems, performance, intervention, events, pamphlets, warehouses and gallery spaces. In the early nineties, was co-sysop (systems operator) with Heath Bunting on Cybercafe BBS with Irational.org. Furtherfield’s mission is to co-create extraordinary art that connects with contemporary audiences providing innovative, engaging and inclusive digital and physical spaces for appreciating and participating in practices in art, technology and social change. As well as finding alternative ways around already dominating hegemonies, thus claiming for ourselves and our peer networks a culturally aware and critical dialogue beyond traditional hierarchical behaviours. Influenced by situationist theory, fluxus, free and open source culture, and processes of self-education and peer learning, in an art, activist and community context.

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