“I thought the drawing was a skeleton touching a poo,” said Jack Chadwick about the cover of Jack Hilton’s 1934 book Caliban Shrieks – one praised at the time by the likes of George Orwell and WH Auden.
Chadwick, then a 27-year-old bartender, was browsing the Salford Working Class Movement Library in 2021 and came across the book by chance. Intrigued by the cover and then the story, he spent months trying to track down traces of the late Hilton.
