My first novel, The Old Lady Who Invented Goth, is the fictional tale of a vibrant life lived by an explosive woman. Hermione Lee, a woman out of time and ahead of it, ached for creative darkness while surrounded by luminaries representing a far duller ambition. Accompany her through the decades, through two world wars and all emerging youth lifestyle cults, until she relishes the birth of Goth itself.

Mick Mercer started writing in 1976 with his Punk fanzine Panache, and went on from there to a long career in music journalism, during which he edited various magazines and has had five books published, prior to making his own works available online.