Home's first books, which appeared between 1988 and 1995, are essentially an outgrowth and elaboration of his earlier "SMILE" writings, though without their fragmentary-aphoristic character and eclectic mix of genres. "The Assault on Culture", written when Home was twenty-five, is an underground art history sketching Home's ultimately personal history of ideas and influences in post-World War II fringe radical art and political currents, and including – for the first time in a book – a tactically manipulated history of post-war culture to make it conclude with Neoism (and which it is sometimes claimed includes character assassinations of individual Neoists) that was continued in the later book "Neoism, Plagiarism and Praxis".