Subcultures & Counterculture

Stephanie Lombard Softcover | 14 x 1.93 x 18.5 cm | 173 pp Lannoo | 2020 | 9789401469821 Experience Paris from a unique point of view and explore the city through its famous street art. In this handy guide, ten interesting walking tours take you...

Carl Zimmer & Mary Roach Softcover | 15.24 x 1.91 x 21.59 cm | 288 pp Sterling | 2014 | 9781454912408 Body art meets popular science in this elegant, mind-blowing collection, written by renowned science writer Carl Zimmer. Showcasing hundreds of eye-catching tattoos that pay...

Matt Loder Softcover | 15.2 x 2.5 x 23.2 cm | 340 pp William Collins Books | 2022 | 9780008402075 In 1881, a writer in the Saturday Review called tattooing 'an art without a history'. 'No-one', it went on, 'has made it the business...

Dylan Jones Hardcover | 16.6 x 3.8 x 23.6 cm | 400 pp White Rabbit | 2023 | 9781538756560 Rebellion always starts somewhere, and in the music world of the transgressive teen whether it be the 1960s of the 2020s, The Velvet Underground represent ground...

Hardcover | 24.89 x 2.29 x 34.29 cm | 192 pp Thames & Hudson | 2017 | 9780500519356  The first visually led exploration of androgyny, the combination of female and male characteristics, from representations in antiquity to its current prevalence in the fashion world...

Chris Roberts Hardcover | 13.34 x 2.29 x 21.59 cm | 192 pp Palazzo Editions | 2022 | 9781786751133 Over half a century since they exploded inevitably onto New York’s underground music and art scenes, the legacy and mythology of The Velvet Underground continues to...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Hugh Belsey & Christopher Wright Softcover | 17 x 0.3 x 24.4 | 40 pp Paul Holberton Publishing | 2002 | 9781903470084 Rare edition This books looks at how Gainsborough's pictures have been disseminated throughout popular culture as manifest in consumer products from the...

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...

Hardcover | 24 x 2 x 34 cm | 176 pp ACC Art Books | 2024 | 9781788842532 This definitive collection of Derek Ridgers London youth portraits is a stunning archive of style and subculture in 1980s England. Between 1978 and 1987, Ridgers captured...

Philip Oltermann Softcover | 15.3 x 1.6 x 23.4 cm | 304 pp Faber & Faber | 2022 | 9780571373338 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...

Kathleen Hanna Hardcover | 15.9 x 3 x 24 cm | 304 pp William Collins Books | 2024 | 9780008365349 This is an electric, searing memoir by the original Riot Grrrl and legendary front-woman of Bikini Kill and Le Tigre. Kathleen Hanna’s rallying cry to...

Nick Rennison Hardcover | 13.79 x 2.39 x 22 cm | 256 pp Oldcastle Books | 2025 | 9780857306074 The only power otherwise powerless people possess lies in their numbers. Riots and Rebels is an examination of how people have exercised that power in England, Scotland...

Mick Farren Softcover | 18.42 x 0.64 x 23.5 cm | 144 pp Plexus | 2008 | 9780859654104 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...

Kirk Field Hardcover | 14 x 3.1 x 22 cm | 368 pp Nine Eight Books | 2023 | 9781788707701 As a humble barman at the M25 Orbital raves, Kirk Field witnessed the moment acid house exploded. Inspired by media lies to start writing the...

Florence Ostende Hardcover | 21.59 x 2.26 x 27.46 cm | 240 pp Prestel | 2020 | 9783791359847 Hailed as 'British dance's true iconoclast', Michael Clark is a defining cultural figure in the contemporary dance world. Since emerging in the early 1980s as a prodigy...