We announced our books and records of 2025 earlier this week, in no particular order, but now we're proud to reveal our #1 picks: Jesus Christ Kinski by @benjaminmyers76.bsky.social, and Liminal, by Brian Eno and Beatie Wolfe. Sending thanks and love to all authors and artists on the lists!
"Keshed hums with the vitality of lived and hard won experience that only fiction of the most transcendent kind can deliver. Channeling Bukowski, Denis Johnson and Selby Jr in a Yorkshire patois of brutal authenticity......
Limited to 500 copies signed hardback edition of Boyhood @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social comes with a gorgeous art print of the cover shot by legendary photographer Douglas Corrrance. Get in there: geni.us/Boyhood
Had a blast touring Boyhood around our favourite booksellers in Glasgow and Edinburgh over the last few days. Thank you all for bringing the magic and enthusiasm. What a vibe x @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social
Lee Brackstone reflects on how #AndrewWeatherall led bandmates Gary Burns and Jagz Kooner on a determined excursion through the twinkling, psychedelic sonic margins #TheSabresOfParadise - Sabresonic and Haunted Dancehall are tQ's Reissues of the Week buff.ly/ck4saIH
Always a tough afternoon in the David Cameron household I imagine
Delighted to announce a special guest joining us for our BASE NOTES night @thesociallondon.bsky.social, as we celebrate Adelle Stripe's memoir... also appearing will be @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social! 10 Feb, tickets from thesocial.seetickets.com/event/adelle...
The jokey flippant lads down the pub way @bbcradio4.bsky.social Today programme is covering Trump Day One is perhaps the most worrying indication of how the creep of fascism is now officially in the room. Grow up.
I’m going to be doing an event on Saturday with Billy Childish for @citylightsbooks.bsky.social, speaking with the great Guy Picciotto of Fugazi. 11 AM PT/2 PM ET/7 PM GMT. All welcome. Billy Childish & Guy Picciotto: rare meeting of minds…
NEW EVENT JOEL GION: IN THE JINGLE JANGLE JUNGLE 📅 17 Feb Walthamstow In conversation with @willhodgkinson.bsky.social Tickets:🎟️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1156027733... @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social @leebrackstone.bsky.social
Tambourines at the ready people, Joel Gion is heading to Walthamstow... Celebrating his acclaimed book IN THE JINGLE JANGLE JUNGLE in paperback with @rnrbook-club.bsky.social, in conversation with @willhodgkinson.bsky.social + guest DJs Tickets on sale now eventbrite.co.uk/e/joel-gion-...
Judging by my inbox over the past six months, I predict that come July 2025 there will be more books in the market dedicated to Oasis than Shakespeare and The Beatles combined.
Nonfiction to look out for in 2025... Very nice to see Base Notes getting a shoutout here, Adelle Stripe's 'olfactory account of growing up in the north of the 1980s' - out next month www.theguardian.com/culture/2024...
Nonfiction to look out for in 2025
From a river voyage with Robert Macfarlane to Helen Garner’s candid tale of a broken marriage, via Ian Leslie’s analysis of Lennon and McCartney’s complicated kinship, here are the titles you can’t af...
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First epiphany of 2025: find a jacket as cool as Dick Van Dyck’s in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Will be reporting to the Committee for Crimes Against Confectionary in due course
Yes the 1914 Xmas Day football match was an extraordinary thing but nowhere near as big an achievement as getting two teenage girls to join you on a dog walk on Boxing Day
Principal Xmas gifts: a bottle of mescal, three classic albums, and a rowing machine. Will start with the mescal and work my way up. Christmas as a mid-life miniature
I think we can all amicably agree in the spirit of goodwill to all men that the debate about whether Die Hard is a Christmas movie can and should be retired forever now. Thanks and Merry Xmas
We've managed to fit in a bit of reading from beyond WR in 2024, and here are a few of the books we've enjoyed. Sending much love to the authors and publishers who have brought these into the world - hard to pick just 25 and we know there are loads we've forgotten, but it's been a long year...
2024 has been another great year for music, and here - in no particular order - are just some of the many records we’ve been loving this year. We'd love to hear your favourites too... 🎧 And here's a playlist featuring a track from each one: open.spotify.com/playlist/0Jc...
Happy Birthday to The Country Girl. Gone but never forgotten xxx
'I belong to a tradition of creativity. I believe in individual creativity being the heart and soul of mankind. I don’t want to be anything and so I live a wonderful life of freedom.' Resharing this great Billy Childish interview with @tedkessler.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Billy Childish: ‘I idolise myself. I don’t waste my time idolising other things’
The artist talks about old pop stars, not networking, getting lucky as a painter and earning the right to fart at the table
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‘It is dark blood magic that distinguishes fascism from conventional hard right governments’ - one of many on the nose sentences in this excellent and timely book @induct.bsky.social @dorianlynskey.bsky.social @wnbooks.bsky.social
I’m proud to have published Tony White, especially the first book in this radically ambitious series. A writer who rises above genre to create something new with every book; a hybrid of literary pop culture & police procedural with the chops of Michael Moorcock. Bravo @unbounders.bsky.social
Tony White@tonywhite.bsky.social · 2y agoPhantom at the Feast, the follow-up to The Fountain in the Forest, is out November ’25—OFFICIAL! I'm thrilled to be able to share this news at last! Like Fountain it’s a murder mystery combining police procedural, literary games and puzzles, and social history… www.thebookseller.com/rights/unbou...
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It’s here! Never anything less than a total buzz to get the proofs of your new book. @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social
