King’s book aims to capture both the sense of intellectual and aesthetic possibility and excitement, the cultural ferment of the moment, and the range of forceful, not to say conflicting, personalities in the group, which included both Ezra Pound and Wyndham Lewis, as well as – unusually in these very male-dominated groups - two women: Jessica Dismorr and Helen Saunders. It ought to be both hugely enjoyable and an excellent introduction to a brief but influential cohort of artists and writers.

- Mathew Lyons, The Broken Compass

In <i>‘Our Little Gang’ </i>James King casts appealing new light on Vorticism, the early twentieth-century avant-garde British art movement organized by painter and polemicist Wyndham Lewis. King explores the Vorticists’ commonalities and friendships, their individual differences from Lewis, their multiple rivalries, their grudges and their aesthetic disagreements. King’s lively historiography – and his attention to the importance of the often overlooked female Vorticists – offers a fresh approach to the movement that should interest all aficionados of modernist art.

Scott W. Klein, Professor of English, Wake Forest University, and co-editor of Vorticism: New Perspectives

As well as conveying the radical extremism of the Vorticists’ revolt in art, James King vividly shows just how idiosyncratic they were as feisty personalities.

Richard Cork, author of Encounters with Artists