This month we look forward to the release of Ken Hollings' Inferno: A Genealogy of 1960s Trash Culture, and invite you to a special launch event hosted by the Horse Hospital in Bloomsbury, London! There will be DJ sets from Cathi Unsworth and Pete Woodhead, Drag Racing footage, readings, snippets of trash media on display, and copies of the book available to purchase at a special launch price - we hope you'll join us in the mire!
Location: The Horse Hospital • Bloomsbury, WC1N 1JD
Date: Tuesday, 18 February
Time: 7:00 pm • 9:00 pm
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INFERNO
A journey deep into the heart of the trash experience: tales from the underground and exploitation movie scene in America during the 1960s. Inferno descends through layers of the abject, the vulgar, and the discarded, in a plunge that even Dante would think twice about embarking upon.
“Trash has always served me well—over the years it has become the outer form and material expression of my dreams: of tomorrow, of life in space, of the blissful alienation from this world that I have always craved.”— from Inferno
Available to order HERE
400pp, Paperback
34 b/w images (approx)
ISBN: 9781907222795
£15.99
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BASS, MIDS, TOPS
Bass, Mids, Tops is an oral history of the UK’s soundsystem culture, featuring portraiture and interviews with Dubmaster Dennis Bovell, Skream, Youth, Norman Jay MBE, Adrian Sherwood, Mala, and many others.
"Muggs finds oblique connections that others would surely miss, sending his subjects down lesser travelled, always revelatory alleyways. Further elevated by David Stevens' exceptional black and white portraiture, Bass, Mids, Tops really should come with its own festival." - MOJO Magazine
500pp (approx), Paperback
Heavily illustrated in b/w
165mm x 221mm
ISBN: 9781907222771
£25.00
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OUR FATAL MAGIC
Our Fatal Magic is a collection of feminist science fiction vignettes by contemporary artist Tai Shani, co-winner of the 2019 Turner Prize.
"Tai Shani has reached deep into the dark powers of gothic literature and science fiction to trace an imaginative, polyvocal and visually sumptuous journey that often defies reason. It is exhilarating to encounter a work of such originality, ambition, depth, humour, eroticism, wit and pathos." – Griselda Pollock
Introduction by Bridget Crone
Paperback
200pp
ISBN: 9781907222818
£12.99
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DEAD FASHION GIRL
Densely illustrated with archival material, Dead Fashion Girl is a heavily researched, darkly curious exposé of London’s 1950s society that touches on celebrity, royalty, the post-war establishment, and ultimately, tragedy.
"A riveting true-crime tale that unfolds in layers, a palimpsest of high and low London lives…this beautifully designed volume is both a page-turning thriller and an unforgettable sociological snapshot of louche London in the 1950s." - Victoria Nelson
148 x 210
PB 440pp
Heavily illustrated
ISBN: 9781907222719
£16.99
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FOREGROUND MUSIC
Foreground Music captures the power of life-changing gigs, whilst tracing the evolution of 40 years of musical movements and subcultures. But more than that, it’s an honest, touching and witty story of friendship, love, creativity and mortality, and a testimony to music’s ability to inspire and heal.
“Foreground Music is an absolute gem. Charming, very funny and often achingly melancholy, Graham Duff’s memoir is suffused with a genuine passion for live music and its (occasionally eccentric) power." —Mark Gatiss
PB 368pp
210mm x 148mm
30 illustrations
ISBN: 9781907222825
£15.99
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LONDON'S LOST RIVERS Vol. 2
London's Lost Rivers is a guidebook that tracks routes recorded on no map, stripping back the layers to reveal London’s veins and arteries.
“Tom Bolton carves out his own channel with some proper hardcore research and a wealth of detail, all beautifully written up into walking routes. He’ll have you looking for dips in the road, listening at drain covers and analysing street names in search of buried water.” - Londonist
Photography by SF Said
Foreword by Tom Holland
PB, 304pp, illustrated
ISBN: 9781907222856
£11.99