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Jon Savage 1966- The Year The Decade Exploded
- Book £6.99
- Book - signed copy £12.99
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Jon Savage 1966- The Year The Decade Exploded
- Book £6.99
- Book - signed copy £12.99
Award-winning, Sunday Times bestselling author Jon Savage’s monument to the year that shaped the future of global pop cultural history.
Label
faber
Released
4 Jun 2021
Sam Knee A Scene In Between (revised edition)
- Book £17.99
Sam Knee A Scene In Between (revised edition)
- Book £17.99
This is the final part in Sam Knee’s incredible series of books which have documented the relationship between music and style in 1980s Britain
Label
Cicada Books
Released
14 Oct 2021
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Jeannette Lee and Don Letts Acme Attractions
- Slimline Book £2.99
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Jeannette Lee and Don Letts Acme Attractions
- Slimline Book £2.99
Acme Attractions tells the story of a place, and its people, that found themselves at the heart of one of the country’s great cultural moments.
Label
Rough Trade Editions
Released
11 Feb 2021
Marcel Theroux An Unexpected Gift: 3 Christmas Stories
- Slimline Book £2.99
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Marcel Theroux An Unexpected Gift: 3 Christmas Stories
- Slimline Book £2.99
ROUGH TRADE EDITIONS No.26
Label
Rough Trade Books
Released
10 Dec 2018
David Keenan and Sophy Hollington Autonomic Tarot

Sophy Hollington & David Keenan—Autonomic Tarot, 30 card deck and instruction booklet
Label
Rough Trade Books
Released
5 Feb 2022
Robin Turner Believe In Magic: Thirty Years Of Heavenly Recordings
- Book + Saint Etienne Spring 7" single + Herb Lester map. £15.00
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Robin Turner Believe In Magic: Thirty Years Of Heavenly Recordings
- Book + Saint Etienne Spring 7" single + Herb Lester map. £15.00
Robin Turner authored, Paul Kelly designed book on Heavenly Recordings and their official / unofficial world.
Label
White Rabbit
Released
9 Nov 2020
Michael Pedersen Boy Friends
- Hardback book (signed) £14.99
Michael Pedersen Boy Friends
- Hardback book (signed) £14.99
Michael has a beautiful way with words. Boy Friends is his love letter to his best pal, Scott Hutchison, and other important friends in his life.
Label
Faber & Faber
Released
7 Jul 2022
Stephen's Pick
Benjamin Berton Dreamworld (english edition) The fabulous life of Daniel Treacy and his band Television Personalities
- Book £19.99
Benjamin Berton Dreamworld (english edition) The fabulous life of Daniel Treacy and his band Television Personalities
- Book £19.99
London 1977: Daniel Treacy drops out of school, bored to death. With friends, he records a few songs thanks to a few pounds sterling lent to him...
Label
Ventil Verlag Book
Released
22 Sep 2022
Staff Pick
Martyn Ware Electronically Yours: My Autobiography
- Book - Signed Standard Hardback £20.00
Martyn Ware Electronically Yours: My Autobiography
- Book - Signed Standard Hardback £20.00
Signed Autobiography of a true synth pop pioneer who crashed into - and shaped - the mainstream.
Label
Constable
Released
25 Aug 2022
Staff Pick
David Keenan and Sophy Hollington Empty Aphrodite: An Encyclopaedia of Fate
- Slimline Book £7.99
David Keenan and Sophy Hollington Empty Aphrodite: An Encyclopaedia of Fate
- Slimline Book £7.99
An alphabetic poetic sourcebook that combines magic and inspiration in a series of channelled surrealist portraits of the powers of now.
Label
Rough Trade Editions
Released
15 Feb 2021
Alasdair MacLean Exhaust Fumes, Magnolias & Light: Selected Lyrics 1997-2021
- Book £15.00
Alasdair MacLean Exhaust Fumes, Magnolias & Light: Selected Lyrics 1997-2021
- Book £15.00
Elegant volume of Clientele lyrics and other writings, sketches and fragments by Alasdair MacLean.
Label
Edge Of The Lane Press
Released
12 Sep 2022
Staff Pick
Nick Cave & Sean O'Hagan Faith, Hope And Carnage
- Signed Hardback £19.99
Nick Cave & Sean O'Hagan Faith, Hope And Carnage
- Signed Hardback £19.99
Faith, Hope and Carnage is a book about Nick Cave‘s inner life. Created from over forty hours of intimate conversations with Sean O’Hagan, [...]
Label
Canongate
Released
20 Sep 2022
Just In
Miki Berenyi Fingers Crossed: How Music Saved Me From Success
- Signed Hardback £22.00
Miki Berenyi Fingers Crossed: How Music Saved Me From Success
- Signed Hardback £22.00
The extraordinary and searingly honest personal story of musician Miki Berenyi, revealing the highs and lows of navigating the madness of the ’9 [...]
Label
Nine Eight Books
Released
29 Sep 2022
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David Keenan For The Good Times
- Book £8.99
David Keenan For The Good Times
- Book £8.99
Based on apocryphal stories he was told by his family, For The Good Times plunges the reader into the dark night of Belfast in the 1970s
Label
Faber & Faber
Released
28 Aug 2020
Monorail Exclusive
Paul Morley From Manchester with Love: The Life and Opinions of Tony Wilson
- Book £10.00
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Paul Morley From Manchester with Love: The Life and Opinions of Tony Wilson
- Book £10.00
Signed edition with limited edition Collectus fanzine
Label
faber
Released
26 Nov 2021
Simon Dell From The Port To The Bridge: The story of Robert Rental and Thomas Leer
- Booklet £4.00
Simon Dell From The Port To The Bridge: The story of Robert Rental and Thomas Leer
- Booklet £4.00
Thomas Leer and Robert Rental's ground-breaking music in the late 70s helped create the template for indie post-punk & 80s synth. This is their story
Label
Dell
Released
25 Feb 2022
Staff Pick
Amy Rigby Girl To City: A Memoir
- Book £12.99
Amy Rigby Girl To City: A Memoir
- Book £12.99
FROM THE SINGER-SONGWRITER ACCLAIMED FOR HER HONEST, INSIGHTFUL LYRICS AND ROCK & ROLL SPIRIT, A POIGNANT AND UNFLINCHING STORY ABOUT COMING OF AGE
Label
Southern Domestic
Released
26 Aug 2021
Saskia Holling Girlsville: The Story Of The Delmonas and Thee Headcoatees
- Book £5.00
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Saskia Holling Girlsville: The Story Of The Delmonas and Thee Headcoatees
- Book £5.00
The untold story of two seminal UK garage groups from the Medway Delta
Released
7 Jan 2022
David Keenan Industry Of Magic & Light
- Signed Hardback £18.99
- Signed Book + Poster Bundle £30.00
David Keenan Industry Of Magic & Light
- Signed Hardback £18.99
- Signed Book + Poster Bundle £30.00
The prequel to the award-winning This is Memorial Device, available in a Monorail Exclusive with Airdrie and Environs Music Family Tree A2 Poster.
Label
White Rabbit
Released
25 Aug 2022
Monorail Exclusive
Bill Brewster, Frank Broughton Last Night A DJ Saved My Life
- Book - standard hardback £30.00
Bill Brewster, Frank Broughton Last Night A DJ Saved My Life
- Book - standard hardback £30.00
This classic book is the whole unruly story of dance music in one volume. New expanded hardback edition.
Label
White Rabbit
Released
7 Jul 2022
Bob Stanley Let's Do It: The Birth Of Pop
- Book - signed copy £15.00
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Bob Stanley Let's Do It: The Birth Of Pop
- Book - signed copy £15.00
Bob Stanley’s anticipated prequel to Yeah Yeah Yeah, Let’s Do It is an illuminating celebration of the pre-rock roll era.
Label
faber
Released
5 May 2022
Ian Preece Listening To The Wind
- Book £5.00
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Ian Preece Listening To The Wind
- Book £5.00
A comprehensive surveying of the state of the independent label in today's messed up world.
Label
Omnibus
Released
18 Sep 2020
Ana da Silva Love, oh love
- Slimline Book £2.99
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Ana da Silva Love, oh love
- Slimline Book £2.99
A collection of drawings from the pencil of Ana da Silva, songwriter and musician in the legendary group The Raincoats.
Released
14 Aug 2018
Herb Lester Metal Mappa Mundi
- Slimline Book £4.00
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Herb Lester Metal Mappa Mundi
- Slimline Book £4.00
This is the Metal Mappa Mundi; it’s a metal world, we just live in it.
Label
Herb Lester
Released
19 Mar 2021
David Keenan Monument Maker
- Book with chapbook / fanzine £25.00
- Book £25.00
David Keenan Monument Maker
- Book with chapbook / fanzine £25.00
- Book £25.00
Monorail Exclusive Signed Edition
Label
White Rabbit
Released
9 Aug 2021
Monorail Exclusive
Warren Ellis Nina Simone's Gum
- Book £20.00
Warren Ellis Nina Simone's Gum
- Book £20.00
We’ve been looking forward to this. Nina Simone’s Gum, the first book from award-winning musician and composer Warren Ellis, featuring an [...]
Label
Faber & Faber
Released
13 Sep 2021
Jenn Pelly & Priests Nothing Feels Natural Interviews 2016
- Slimline Book £2.99
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Jenn Pelly & Priests Nothing Feels Natural Interviews 2016
- Slimline Book £2.99
Nothing Feels Natural is an abridged edition of the zine that originally accompanied Priests' debut LP of the same name in 2017.
Label
Rough Trade Books
Released
21 Aug 2018
Katherine Spielmann Now Is The Time To Invent! Reports From The Indie-Rock Revolution 1986-2000
- Book £9.99
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Katherine Spielmann Now Is The Time To Invent! Reports From The Indie-Rock Revolution 1986-2000
- Book £9.99
Puncture was one of the greatest zines of the 80s and 90s -More than 50 profiles and essays from the magazine’s history are anthologised here
Label
Verse Chorus Press
Released
6 Nov 2020
Hannah Peel & Marcel Dzama & Sufjan Stephens Pink Moon
- Book + 7" £31.99
Hannah Peel & Marcel Dzama & Sufjan Stephens Pink Moon
- Book + 7" £31.99
This special edition includes a 7" picture disc featuring compositions by Sufjan Stevens and Hannah Peel both covering Nick Drake's "Pink Moon"
Label
Rough Trade Books
Released
7 Jan 2022
Staff Pick
Cosey Fanni Tutti RE-SISTERS: The Lives and Recordings of Delia Derbyshire, Margery Kempe and Cosey Fanni Tutti
- Book - Signed Deluxe Edition £150.00
- Signed Hardback £18.99
- Signed book + ticket £28.99
- Event Ticket Only £10.00
Cosey Fanni Tutti RE-SISTERS: The Lives and Recordings of Delia Derbyshire, Margery Kempe and Cosey Fanni Tutti
- Book - Signed Deluxe Edition £150.00
- Signed Hardback £18.99
- Signed book + ticket £28.99
- Event Ticket Only £10.00
From the acclaimed author of Art Sex Music comes a vital meditation on womanhood, creativity and self-expression.
Label
Faber & Faber
Released
18 Aug 2022
Staff Pick
Tony D Ripped And Torn
- Book £25.00
Tony D Ripped And Torn
- Book £25.00
With limited print signed by Thurston Moore and Tony.
Label
Ecstatic Peace Press
Released
20 Feb 2019
Rob Halford Rob Halford's Heavy Metal Scriptures
- Signed Book £25.00
Rob Halford Rob Halford's Heavy Metal Scriptures
- Signed Book £25.00
LOVE YOU ROB -MK
Label
Hatchette
Released
1 Nov 2022
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Herb Lester / Richard Littler Scarfolk & Environs
- Slimline Book £5.00
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Herb Lester / Richard Littler Scarfolk & Environs
- Slimline Book £5.00
Scarfolk & Environs: Road & Leisure Map For Uninvited Tourists is a large format map that comes in a bespoke folder, with extras.
Label
Herb Lester
Released
19 Mar 2021
Joe Thompson Sleevenotes
- Book £4.99
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Joe Thompson Sleevenotes
- Book £4.99
Joe Thompson and Hey Colossus have been part of the European underground scene since 2003.
Label
Pomona
Released
13 Jul 2019
P.P. Arnold Soul Survivor
- Book £22.00
P.P. Arnold Soul Survivor
- Book £22.00
This is the long-awaited memoir of a true soul survivor.
Label
Bonnier Books
Released
7 Jul 2022
Stuart Braithwaite Spaceships Over Glasgow
- Event Ticket Only £8.00
- Signed Hardback + Event Ticket £25.00
- Indie Stores Deluxe Edition, signed + Mix CD £50.00
- STD Hardback, Signed + Mix CD £20.00
Stuart Braithwaite Spaceships Over Glasgow
- Event Ticket Only £8.00
- Signed Hardback + Event Ticket £25.00
- Indie Stores Deluxe Edition, signed + Mix CD £50.00
- STD Hardback, Signed + Mix CD £20.00
We're all incredibly excited about our friend of the shop, Stuart Braithwaite's fantastic debut memoir.
Label
White Rabbit
Released
29 Sep 2022
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Jon Savage Teenage (2021 Edition), Signed
- Book £12.99
Jon Savage Teenage (2021 Edition), Signed
- Book £12.99
The acclaimed history of the century and a half of ferment, folly and angst that resulted in the arrival of ‘the teenager’ in 1945, from award-winning
Label
faber
Released
4 Jun 2021
Jonny Trunk The A Z Of British Record Shop Bags
- Book £24.99
Jonny Trunk The A Z Of British Record Shop Bags
- Book £24.99
RECORD STORE DAY 2022
Label
Trunk
Released
23 Apr 2022
Richard King The August Fawn
- Slimline Book £2.99
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Richard King The August Fawn
- Slimline Book £2.99
In the late summer of 1978, Allen Ginsberg and Arthur Russell left the building they shared in New York City to spend a week together.
Label
Rough Trade Books
Released
28 Sep 2018
Jude Rogers The Sound Of Being Human
- Book - signed copy £16.99
Jude Rogers The Sound Of Being Human
- Book - signed copy £16.99
A book about how music shapes every emotional stage of our lives from one of the most high-profile female pop writers in the UK today.
Label
White Rabbit
Released
28 Apr 2022
David Keenan This Is Memorial Device
- Book £9.99
David Keenan This Is Memorial Device
- Book £9.99
The place is Airdrie. The year is 1983. Memorial Device, the best band that ever existed, are about to change everyone's lives forever. Signed copy
Label
Faber & Faber
Released
18 Jan 2021
Monorail Exclusive
Kim Gordon & Sinead Gleeson This Woman's Work
- Book £20.00
Kim Gordon & Sinead Gleeson This Woman's Work
- Book £20.00
THIS WOMAN'S WORK is a collection of essays by 16 female writers
Label
White Rabbit
Released
7 Apr 2022
Archive of the Week
David Keenan and Sophy Hollington To Run Wild In It: A Handbook Of Autonomic Tarot
- Book - signed copy £7.99
David Keenan and Sophy Hollington To Run Wild In It: A Handbook Of Autonomic Tarot
- Book - signed copy £7.99
Slimline signed copy
Label
Rough Trade Books
Released
19 Apr 2021
Vashti Bunyan Wayward (Signed By The Author)
- Book £16.99
Vashti Bunyan Wayward (Signed By The Author)
- Book £16.99
So good. No hype, just uncontrived outsiderness and vivid adventure. She's a total original. Signed copies.
Label
White Rabbit
Released
25 Mar 2022
Stephen's Pick
Nige Tassell Whatever Happened To The C86 Kids?
- Signed Hardback £20.00
Nige Tassell Whatever Happened To The C86 Kids?
- Signed Hardback £20.00
Mapping the past into now. Includes interviews with Tim Gane, David Keegan, Sushil Dade, Stephen Pastel...
Label
Bonnier
Released
18 Aug 2022
Staff Pick
Gordon King When Does The Mind-Bending Start? The Life And Times Of World Of Twist
- Book £20.00
Gordon King When Does The Mind-Bending Start? The Life And Times Of World Of Twist
- Book £20.00
Welcome to World of Twist: the greatest lost band of all time.
Label
Bonnier Books
Released
21 Jul 2022
David Keenan Xstabeth / The Towers The Fields The Transmitters
- Book £8.99
David Keenan Xstabeth / The Towers The Fields The Transmitters
- Book £8.99
Signed paperback edition with prequel story, The Towers The Fields The Transmitters.
Label
White Rabbit
Released
28 Jan 2022
Monorail Exclusive

Jon Savage 1966- The Year The Decade Exploded

Jon Savage 1966- The Year The Decade Exploded

Sam Knee A Scene In Between (revised edition)

Sam Knee A Scene In Between (revised edition)

Jeannette Lee and Don Letts Acme Attractions

Jeannette Lee and Don Letts Acme Attractions

Marcel Theroux An Unexpected Gift: 3 Christmas Stories

Marcel Theroux An Unexpected Gift: 3 Christmas Stories

David Keenan and Sophy Hollington Autonomic Tarot

David Keenan and Sophy Hollington Autonomic Tarot

Robin Turner Believe In Magic: Thirty Years Of Heavenly Recordings

Robin Turner Believe In Magic: Thirty Years Of Heavenly Recordings

Michael Pedersen Boy Friends

Michael Pedersen Boy Friends

Benjamin Berton Dreamworld (english edition) The fabulous life of Daniel Treacy and his band Television Personalities

Benjamin Berton Dreamworld (english edition) The fabulous life of Daniel Treacy and his band Television Personalities

Martyn Ware Electronically Yours: My Autobiography

Martyn Ware Electronically Yours: My Autobiography

David Keenan and Sophy Hollington Empty Aphrodite: An Encyclopaedia of Fate

David Keenan and Sophy Hollington Empty Aphrodite: An Encyclopaedia of Fate

Alasdair MacLean Exhaust Fumes, Magnolias & Light: Selected Lyrics 1997-2021

Alasdair MacLean Exhaust Fumes, Magnolias & Light: Selected Lyrics 1997-2021

Nick Cave & Sean O'Hagan Faith, Hope And Carnage

Nick Cave & Sean O'Hagan Faith, Hope And Carnage

Miki Berenyi Fingers Crossed: How Music Saved Me From Success

Miki Berenyi Fingers Crossed: How Music Saved Me From Success

David Keenan For The Good Times

David Keenan For The Good Times

Paul Morley From Manchester with Love: The Life and Opinions of Tony Wilson

Paul Morley From Manchester with Love: The Life and Opinions of Tony Wilson

Simon Dell From The Port To The Bridge: The story of Robert Rental and Thomas Leer

Simon Dell From The Port To The Bridge: The story of Robert Rental and Thomas Leer

Amy Rigby Girl To City: A Memoir

Amy Rigby Girl To City: A Memoir

Saskia Holling Girlsville: The Story Of The Delmonas and Thee Headcoatees

Saskia Holling Girlsville: The Story Of The Delmonas and Thee Headcoatees

David Keenan Industry Of Magic & Light

David Keenan Industry Of Magic & Light

Bill Brewster, Frank Broughton Last Night A DJ Saved My Life

Bill Brewster, Frank Broughton Last Night A DJ Saved My Life

Bob Stanley Let's Do It: The Birth Of Pop

Bob Stanley Let's Do It: The Birth Of Pop

Ian Preece Listening To The Wind

Ian Preece Listening To The Wind

Ana da Silva Love, oh love

Ana da Silva Love, oh love

Herb Lester Metal Mappa Mundi

Herb Lester Metal Mappa Mundi

David Keenan Monument Maker

David Keenan Monument Maker

Warren Ellis Nina Simone's Gum

Warren Ellis Nina Simone's Gum

Jenn Pelly & Priests Nothing Feels Natural Interviews 2016

Jenn Pelly & Priests Nothing Feels Natural Interviews 2016

Katherine Spielmann Now Is The Time To Invent! Reports From The Indie-Rock Revolution 1986-2000

Katherine Spielmann Now Is The Time To Invent! Reports From The Indie-Rock Revolution 1986-2000

Hannah Peel & Marcel Dzama & Sufjan Stephens Pink Moon

Hannah Peel & Marcel Dzama & Sufjan Stephens Pink Moon

Cosey Fanni Tutti RE-SISTERS: The Lives and Recordings of Delia Derbyshire, Margery Kempe and Cosey Fanni Tutti

Cosey Fanni Tutti RE-SISTERS: The Lives and Recordings of Delia Derbyshire, Margery Kempe and Cosey Fanni Tutti

Tony D Ripped And Torn

Tony D Ripped And Torn

Rob Halford Rob Halford's Heavy Metal Scriptures

Rob Halford Rob Halford's Heavy Metal Scriptures

Herb Lester / Richard Littler Scarfolk & Environs

Herb Lester / Richard Littler Scarfolk & Environs

Joe Thompson Sleevenotes

Joe Thompson Sleevenotes

P.P. Arnold Soul Survivor

P.P. Arnold Soul Survivor

Stuart Braithwaite Spaceships Over Glasgow

Stuart Braithwaite Spaceships Over Glasgow

Jon Savage Teenage (2021 Edition), Signed

Jon Savage Teenage (2021 Edition), Signed

Jonny Trunk The A Z Of British Record Shop Bags

Jonny Trunk The A Z Of British Record Shop Bags

Richard King The August Fawn

Richard King The August Fawn

Jude Rogers The Sound Of Being Human

Jude Rogers The Sound Of Being Human