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Lucy Alexander & Timothy Meara Softcover with exposed spine binding | 19 x 2 x 24.6 cm | 256 pp Ilex Press | 2019 | 9781781575994 Explore and expand your creative skill set with Central Saint Martins Foundation. Guided by key lessons from college tutors, you'll learn...

Hardcover | 24.77 x 2.54 x 33.66 cm | 187 pp Rare Bird Books | 2023 | 9781644282496 This wonderful body of photographs was created by Syd Shelton for and about the British Rock Against Racism movement (RAR) of 1976–1981. For Shelton, this work...

Justin Sutcliffe Hardcover | 16.2 x 1.4 x 21 cm | 80 pp Unicorn Press | 2024 | 9781916846012 The phenomenon of recognising faces in everyday objects, called face pareidolia, is experienced widely. Once thought of as a symptom of psychosis, it is increasingly understood...

Luke Haines Hardcover | 14.5 x 2.9 x 22.6 cm | 320 pp Nine Eight Books | 2024 | 9781788709347 Musician and author Luke Haines embarks on an odyssey through the ages, exploring how the 'freaks' infiltrated modern culture - and almost won the rock...

Georg Shaw & Colin Wiggins Hardcover | 25.4 x 1.91 x 26.67 cm | 104 pp National Gallery  | 2016 | 9781857096033 Rare & Collectible In 2014, the contemporary painter George Shaw (b. 1966) began a two-year post as associate artist in the National...

Martin Popoff Hardcover in slipcase | 26.64 x 2.49 x 27.13 cm | 176 pp Motorbooks | 2023 | 9780760379271  Take a deep dive into one of the best-selling albums ever with this beautifully produced and authoritatively written slipcased edition. Veteran rock critic Martin Popoff leaves...

Jay McKean Fisher & William S. Lieberman Softcover | 17 x 0.9 x 21.5 cm | 90 pp American Federation of Arts | 2009 | 9781885444387 The catalogue of the first comprehensive exhibition on the printmaking of the great French artist Henri Matisse.  The...

Kris Needs & Alex Patterson Softcover | 15.88 x 2.54 x 23.5 cm | 352 pp Omnibus Press | 2021 | 9781787602335 Always steered by Alex Paterson, The Orb were the mischief-making pioneers of the late 80s acid house revolution. Inventing "ambient house", they took...

London Centre for Book Arts Hardcover | 22.5 x 2.82 x 27.31 cm | 224 pp Ludion | 2021 | 9789493039520 Books are a meeting place. A sum of their many parts and artistic approaches. Form, concept, material and craft are bound together to create something...

Jon Nicholson Hardcover | 18.3 x 1.8 x 23.6 cm | 96 pp Prestel | 2013 | 9783791347301 Anyone who grew up holidaying on England's beaches is familiar with the distinctive features of these historic resorts - not the exclusive, paradisiacal haunts of the rich and...

Rita Isaac Hardcover | 16.89 x 1.65 x 21.59 cm | 128 pp Laurence King | 2020 | 9781786275707  Acrylic is the second book in the popular 'Do More Art' series, which explores the myriad creative possibilities of working with acrylic. Discover everything from basic...

Tony Fletcher & Billy Bragg Softcover | 20.96 x 2.54 x 30.48 cm | 288 pp Omnibus Press | 2021 | 9781913172305  One of Britain’s best-loved and most successful fanzines, Jamming! documented the musical landscape as it evolved between 1977 and 1986. An immensely evocative read...

Alan Draper Softcover | 14.8 x 1 x 21 cm | 176 pp Sonicbond | 2024 | 9781789523089 The On Track series examines an artist’s entire output, track by track – or that within a specified date range – the series brings together expert analysis...

Simon Spence Softcover | 11.1 x 2.3 x 17.8 cm | 204 pp Backstage Books | 2024 | 9781739477936 Available in two editions, with cover photographs by Jill Furmanovsky and Roger Sargent. Feeling Supersonic is a compendium, a celebration and a roadmap to the remarkable...

Simon Spence Softcover | 13.79 x 1.4 x 21.59 cm | 218 pp Backstage Books | 2023 | 9781739477905 "Our attitude towards the business in the UK was 'Fuck Them All', they were all old men." Rolling Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham was the...

Kevan Furbank Softcover | 14.8 x 1 x 21 cm | 192 pp Sonicbond | 2025 | 9781789523409 The On Track series examines an artist’s entire output, track by track – or that within a specified date range – the series brings together expert analysis...

Softcover | 15 x 1.5 x 15 cm  | 176 pp National Portrait Gallery | 2018 | 9781855147461 100 Pioneering Women presents a selection of images of remarkable women, who have defied the expectations of their gender and made extraordinary contributions to British life...

Jian Deleon Hardcover | 12.7 x 1.7 x 19.8 cm | 160 pp Studio Press | 2024 | 9781800789760 This pocket-sized visual history of the ground-breaking and ground-shaking street style brand presents the story of Dr. Martens, from its beginnings in 1901 as a producer...

Magda Keaney Softcover | 14.99 x 1.52 x 14.99 cm | 176 pp National Portrait Gallery | 2019 | 9781855147379 100 Fashion Icons showcases fashion portraits held in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery. The sitters include historic and contemporary fashion icons, fashion...

Alfredo Marcantonio Hardcover | 17.78 x 1.91 x 12.7 cm | 112 pp Merrell | 2007 | 9781858944012 In the mid-1930s, Stephen Mitchell & Son, a cigarette manufacturer based in Scotland, joined the craze for producing cigarette cards. The firm created 'The World of Tomorrow',...