Welcome to Dean Kyte’s bookstore!
From poetry to artisanal pulp fiction, Dean Kyte’s literary œuvre ranges wide—and so does his style.
But as a dandy-flâneur who makes a sharp visual statement in the streets of Melbourne, Dean Kyte’s unique personal style carries into his prose: the quintessence of this versatile writer’s style is Dean’s love of language—the abstract beauty of words on the page.
The Melbourne Flâneur is a poet in prose.
Dean Kyte’s audiobook, The Spleen of Melbourne (2021), demonstrates the cred he has gained online as a specialist in French culture and literature through his blog, The Melbourne Flâneur, investigating the Parisian æsthetic lifestyle philosophy of flânerie in a distinctly Melburnian context.
An Australian writer with a Jamesian feel for Europe, with his flâneurial eye and the lens of the beautiful French language filtering his English, Dean Kyte engages the cultural specificities of the contemporary local scene with an ironical distance that has universalized his prose poems and literary noir fiction, bringing them to the attention of audiences in the U.S., Canada, and England.
As many readers and listeners attest, it’s all in Dean’s delivery.
Whether he is weaving dense, epic paragraphs full of multilingual neologisms or sharp, staccato sentences bristling with hardboiled argot, both on the page and in his spoken word tracks, Dean’s distinctive voice comes over loud and clear as an evocative literary voice-over.
Print and audiobooks purchased in this bookstore ship worldwide and come to you personally autographed and wax-sealed by Dean Kyte as your guarantee of the work’s artistic authenticity.
Enriching the bespoke intimacy of the artisanal connection between the author and his patron, every book and CD that Dean sends you comes lovingly hand-wrapped and contains a thoughtful, handwritten message to you, enhancing the value of your personal copy—and your reading or listening experience.
From Australian flâneries to Parisian flâneries, from poetry in translation to audio noir, browse the books, eBooks, and audiobooks in Dean Kyte’s online bookstore by exploring the titles below.
You can also download free brochures showcasing Dean’s print books and eBooks, and his CD audiobooks and downloadable audio tracks at the bottom of this page.
The Melbourne Edition of the Collected Works of Dean Kyte
With fifteen years experience in Artisanal Desktop Publishing, The Melbourne Edition of the Collected Works of Dean Kyte represents the culmination of Dean’s art—not merely as an homme littéraire, but as an all-around ‘man of the book’, a craftsman of fine literature.
Coming in 2025 as part of The Melbourne Edition
And in October 2025, stepping fully into his rôle as the most trusted interpreter and explicator of Charles Baudelaire to the Anglosphere, Dean Kyte will deliver a new book of translations, Maledictions, Blasphemies, Laments: Selections from Toxic Blossoms & Parisian Spleen.
Audiobooks in The Spleen of Melbourne project
The Melbourne Flâneur zine
Australian Flâneries
Poetry in translation
Parisian Flânerie
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