Popular Culture & Subcultures (£5 or Less)

Nicole Trevillan's London Club is a series of fashion photographs from influential new-music nightclubs in London between 2000 and 2010. The club night Trash, founded in 1997, changed the direction of music experiences in London from ubiquitous mainstream techno to something more special and...

Whether you're an avid gamer, a Twitch subscriber, or just an incidental Subway Surfer, video games have changed the way you interact with the world, and have been part of our lives for over fifty years. Critical Hits is a celebration of play and playfulness, and...

Rare & Collectible In Fandomania, photographer Elena Dorfman examines the pop culture phenomenon of "cosplay," in which participants dress up in costumes and live part of their lives as characters from video games, animated films, and Japanese graphic novels. This exploding subculture flourishes at...

Rare & Collectible Pamela Klaffke, an avid collector of cute since she was a child, takes readers on a rainbow-and-unicorn-filled journey through the world of cute (and sometimes creepy?), from Japan where teenaged girls help drive the "cute" economy, to its many manifestations in...

Dancer, singer, gang member, cocaine addict and artist’s favourite: Betty May – aka ‘the Tiger Woman’ – was a woman like no other. Tiger Woman is her incredible story in her own words, as vivid and extraordinary as the day it was first told....

Why are some things cute, and others not? What happens to our brains when we see something cute? And how did cuteness go global, from Hello Kitty to Disney characters? This is the fascinating cultural history of cuteness, and a revealing look at how...

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 of sturdy work boots to its position as a cultural icon synonymous with individuality and self-expression. Packed with photographs...

Rare & Collectible In 2010, photographer Dan Martensen was introduced to the Angulo brothers by filmmaker Crystal Moselle, who had just begun work on the hit documentary The Wolfpack. Chronicling the lives of the six home-schooled boys who recreated cult-classic films, fashioning props as well...

Rare & Collectible This books looks at how Gainsborough's pictures have been disseminated throughout popular culture as manifest in consumer products from the 1700s through to the late twentieth century. It includes not only physical objects such as ceramics and cigarette cards but also...

We've all been exposed to bathroom graffiti because we've all used public toilets. Often bawdy, funny and clever, sometimes illegible, it is a ubiquitous means of expression found across the world. Do the private, intimate moments in the bathroom provide people the opportunity to...

Boris Hoppek is known as the creator of the Bimbo Dolls series, expressive cloth figures which were featured in Übersee 1 and Pictoplasma 2. This book presents a much wider spectrum of Hoppek’s multi-disciplinary urban art. In addition to humorous new photo installations starring...

In 1982, East Germany's fearsome secret police - convinced that writers were embedding subversive messages in their work - decided to train their own writers, weaponising poetry in the struggle against the class enemy. The Stasi Poetry Circle reveals how a group of soldiers and border guards gathered for...

Ever since a leather-jacketed Marlon Brando slouched across the screen in The Wild One, the jacket’s mixture of animal magnetism, brooding menace, and sexual provocation has made it a must-have for hipsters, rebels, and fashionistas. This book chronicles the leather jacket from its roots among World War...

Cold War Steve aka Christopher Spencer is an artist from Birmingham, England who has been making surreal, satirical and hilarious photomontage since 2016. Enclosed in this esteemed tome you will find a land of hereditary weirdos and despicable world leaders; contemptible party-hosting and disastrous decision-making;...

In 1972 Leo and Philippa Bernard bought Chelsea Rare Books, a small antiquarian bookshop in the King’s Road, Chelsea, advertised for sale in The Times. The Bernards had no previous experience of bookselling, but Chelsea in the 1970s was a lively place. The stock...