Popular Culture & Subcultures (£5 or Less)

Nicole Trevillian Softcover | 15.24 x 0.64 x 20.96 cm | 112 pp Edizioni Charta | 2009 | 9788881587513 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...

Carmen Maria Machado & J Robert Lennon Softcover | 13.4 x 1.8 x 21.2 cm | 256 pp Serpent's Tail | 2023 | 978180081452 Whether you're an avid gamer, a Twitch subscriber, or just an incidental Subway Surfer, video games have changed the way you...

Elena Dorfman Softcover |  21 x 2.3 x 28 cm | 144 pp Aperture | 2007 | 9781597110358 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...

Pamela Klaffke Softcover | 20.07 x 1.02 x 20.07 cm | 168 pp Arsenal Pulp Press | 2011 | 9781551524726 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...

Betty May Softcover | 12.9 x 1.37 x 19.81 cm | 256 pp Duckworth Books | 2023 | 9780715654910 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...

Robert Inchausti Softcover | 13.97 x 1.52 x 21.84 cm | 208 pp Shambhala Publications | 2018 | 9781611804171 The Beat writers stand out as prophets who made a valiant effort to speak the truth in the face of the establishment values of the American...

Norman Oliver Softcover | 13 x 1.9 x 19.8 cm | 240 pp Atlantic Books | 2025 | 9781838953607 Revealing the hidden connections between the Nazis and the CIA's notorious brainwashing experimentation programme - MKUltra, Tripped is a wild, secret history that shows how the quest...

Joshua Paul Dale Hardcover | 14.2 x 3.4 x 21.8 cm | 288 pp Profile Books | 2023 | 9781788162388 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...

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...

Softcover | 21.08 x 1.78 x 27.94 cm | 160 pp Damiani | 2015 | 9788862084437 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...

Hugh Belsey & Christopher Wright Softcover | 17 x 0.3 x 24.4 | 40 pp Paul Holberton Publishing | 2002 | 9781903470084 Rare edition Gainsborough's pictures through the popular imagination as manifest in objects and consumer products - ceramics and cigarette cards to fiction,...

Mark Ferem Softcover | 16.92 x 1.35 x 19.3 cm | 160 pp Mark Batty | 2007 | 9780977282746 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...

Hardcover | 16 x 2.7 x 21 cm | 192 pp Gestalten | 2005 | 9783899550733 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...