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Music. Memoir. History. Fiction. Limited Editions. “Fail we may, sail we must”
Joined July 2019
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Mark Lanegan was a supremely gifted performer, songwriter, artist and author, and we are devastated to hear he has passed away. He will be deeply missed. His art will endure and only grow in stature. This is a colossal loss and our thoughts are with his family at this time.
Our beloved friend Mark Lanegan passed away this morning at his home in Killarney, Ireland. A beloved singer, songwriter, author and musician he was 57 and is survived by his wife Shelley. No other information is available at this time. We ask Please respect the family privacy.
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Happy birthday to a proper pioneer and hero, the mighty Kim Gordon 🖤
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Huge love for Mark Lanegan from Bobby and Primal Scream tonight at Glastonbury 🖤
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It’s official: @marklanegan is now a Sunday Times bestselling author. THANK YOU everyone who has bought a copy and helped make it happen.
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Coming March 2022. We're publishing singer-songwriter Vashti Bunyan's memoir #Wayward, telling the story of her journey from London to the Outer Hebrides in 1968 - an odyssey of discovery and heartbreak - and how that shaped her iconic debut album.
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We are saddened to hear the news that Annie Nightingale has passed away. Without Annie’s taste, evangelism, and her skills as a broadcaster, DJ and journalist, the history of British popular culture in the late 20th century would look very different. (1/3)
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Coming this October. TOO MUCH TOO YOUNG by @DanielRachel69: the definitive story of 2 Tone Records, a label that for a brief, bright burning moment exploded into the national conscience and shaped British culture. ⬛️⬜️.⬜️⬛️.Available to pre-order now.
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One year on from the devastating loss of Mark Lanegan. His legacy only grows stronger. Never forgotten, Old Scratch. 🖤.25/11/1964 - 22/2/2022
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We can't quite believe this huge news: later this year we will be publishing 𝙏𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙠 𝙔𝙤𝙪 (𝙁𝙖𝙡𝙚𝙩𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙢𝙚 𝘽𝙚 𝙈𝙞𝙘𝙚 𝙀𝙡𝙛 𝘼𝙜𝙞𝙣), the memoir from one of the defining musical geniuses of the 20th century: Sly Stone.
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Announcing DEVIL IN A COMA by @marklanegan. Written in vignettes of prose and poetry, it is an unflinchingly brutal yet spectacularly candid account of battling debilitating illness - and the remorse that comes with it. Published 14 December 2021
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🎛️ Announcing the first book in 8 years from Simon Reynolds. 𝗙𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗮 is a celebration of music that feels like a taste of tomorrow and an enthused listening guide to propel readers towards adventures in sound. COMING APRIL 2024 ➡️
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Announcing HUNGRY BEAT by Douglas MacIntyre & Grant McPhee, the definitive oral history of Scottish postpunk and two labels that changed the landscape of British music: Postcard & Fast Product. Available as a record store special edition with exclusive 7"
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Congratulations to @marklanegan, as this weekend he will be White Rabbit's VERY FIRST Sunday Times BESTSELLER. Massive thanks to everyone who has bought a copy and helped spread the word about this incredible book. If you want to read, get it from
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BIG NEWS. This October we will be publishing the first memoir by Bobby Gillespie, in which the @ScreamOfficial leader tells his story up to the recording and release of Screamadelica in 1991. Pre-orders - including exclusive signed editions - from
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The time has come. Announcing PAUSED IN COSMIC REFLECTION, the definitive, official story of The Chemical Brothers, fully illustrated with 30 years of mind-bending visuals. Coming 26 October 2023 and available to pre-order now
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Today's listening: a recently-unearthed Andrew Weatherall set from @bluedotfestival 2017 (with thanks to @thelinosquares). An extraordinary 90 minutes - dive in at
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Today marks the 1 year anniversary of our first book being published, and what a year it's been. Here's the story so far. with a hell of a lot to look forward to in 2021 as well. Cheers to each and every one of you for supporting us and our authors along the way 🐇
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Today, on what would have been his 58th birthday, we're remembering and celebrating the great Mark Lanegan. We sadly lost Mark in February this year, but his incredible body of work lives on and his immense legacy only grows stronger.
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Announcing 𝐍𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑 𝐔𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐎𝐃: The Jesus and Mary Chain by William & Jim Reid. The brothers tell the full story of one of Britain’s greatest guitar bands for the very first time. Coming August 2024, available to pre-order now @TheMaryChain
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This week marks the 2 year anniversary since the very first White Rabbit book was launched. Been a hell of a journey so far with over 25 brilliant books and writers published - and there's so much more to come. Keep an eye out through the week as we celebrate 🍻
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This Blue Monday, we want to tell you just how you should feel today - and that's incredibly excited for @audreyjgolden's upcoming untold story, I Thought I Heard You Speak: Women at Factory Records. You can pre-order now from @RoughTradeBooks
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Sing Backwards and Weep, the brutally honest memoir and Sunday Times bestseller from @marklanegan, was one of our White Rabbit launch titles last year. It's become a notorious classic of the genre, and the paperback edition is out now - available from
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Look at this new arrival. #FUTUROMANIA, the first book in 8 years from @SimonRetromania and a celebration of music that feels like a taste of tomorrow 🎛️. Coming 11 April 2024
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Today marks the official third anniversary of our first book being published back in 2020. What an incredible 3 years of books, events and adventures it’s been - eternal gratitude to EVERYONE who has joined us on this journey so far and become part of the WR community 🙏
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Announcing SPACESHIPS OVER GLASGOW by @plasmatron, founding member of one of the best loved and most groundbreaking post-rock bands of the past three decades: @mogwaiband . Published 1 September in hardback, audiobook + special editions.
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This is a fantastic #GordonBurnPrize longlist, and we're delighted that our own @marklanegan is on there for #SingBackwardsAndWeep. We're raising a glass to all the authors and books longlisted, especially to the great Deborah Orr and our imprint siblings @wnbooks for Motherwell
Oh, we've been so excited waiting on this news. At long last. the #GordonBurnPrize 2020 longlist 🎉🎉. @GoldsmithsPress @BloomsburyBooks @orionbooks @canongatebooks @andothertweets @panmacmillan @scribepub @FaberBooks @dialoguebooks @4thEstateBooks @WhiteRabbitBks @GrantaBooks
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Take a look at these. #ThisWomansWork, edited by @KimletGordon and @sineadgleeson, coming April 2022. Proofs are HERE of this incredible collection of essays about and by pioneering women in music.
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'All the meaningless, stressful bullshit that seems so important when you’re young has ceased to matter. I’m still a deeply flawed person. The difference is, I’m aware of it.'. This @marklanegan interview about his memoir is well worth another read.
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This week marks 2 whole years since we published one of the most acclaimed - and original - music books of recent times, from one of our finest contemporary writers: #MonolithicUndertow by @HarrySword . An epic, immersive exploration of the mighty drone.
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BIG news: we're delighted to welcome one of the great British music writers of his generation, @simon_price01, to White Rabbit - his biography of #TheCure will be launching next August 🐇.
Straight outta Crawley: @WhiteRabbitBks signs @simon_price01's biography of @thecure, with Curepedia: An A-Z of The Cure promising to cover the "mythology, mystique and music of The Cure and please the legions of fans around the world":
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The White Rabbit list launches in April 2020 with the iconic @marklanegan's gritty, gripping and unflinchingly raw memoir Sing Backwards and Weep. Limited SIGNED copies available to pre-order now from @RoughTrade
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Hello everyone, welcome to tonight’s Twitter launch for @marklanegan and his hugely acclaimed memoir SING BACKWARDS AND WEEP, which is published TODAY. We've got some great stuff lined up to mark the occasion, so grab a drink and dive in. #LaneganLaunch
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Announcing HIP-HOP IS HISTORY. This is a book only @questlove could have written: a perceptive and personal reflection on the first half-century of hip-hop. Hip-hop is history, and also *his* history. COMING JUNE 2024. Pre-orders from:
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From @dylanjonesa comes the definitive oral history of The Velvet Underground, celebrating the impact and legacy of the original kings and queens of edge. ✍️Signed copies available to pre-order.📅Coming August 2023.
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Our first memoir announcement for 2024. IN THE JINGLE JANGLE JUNGLE: tambourine hero @realjoelgion's anarchic adventures keeping time with one of the great contemporary American rock and roll bands, @BJM_Band. Coming February 2024 | Pre-orders open now
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Incredible cover. Incredible interview. Incredible man. The one and only Sly Stone speaks to Alexis Petridis about success, addiction, making some of the most influential music of all time - and his new memoir.
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The first White Rabbit release comes in April 2020, and we're incredibly proud to launch with grunge legend @marklanegan’s raw, brutal memoir Sing Backwards and Weep
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🗞️ Coming July 2022. #PaperCuts by @TedKessler1, the inside story of the slow death of the British music press - but also a love letter to it - from the acclaimed music journalist and former editor of Q magazine. Pre-orders from
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This week we announced a new book by @marklanegan, coming this December. WR publisher @leebrackstone: 'DEVIL IN A COMA is the latest work by a master of many forms. this book could not be more visceral and intense if it were written in blood.'.
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Excellent planning meeting with Mr @HarrySword today about the superb #MonolithicUndertow. trust us, this is one to be excited about. Launching Feb 2021, and we'll have very limited edition proofs soon - give this tweet a like if you'd be interested in reading one 🐇
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Today marks 4 years since our very first book was published: Richard Russell's Liberation Through Hearing back in 2020. THANK YOU to everyone who has joined us on this journey so far - buying books, coming to events, supporting our authors and being part of the WR community 🙏
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In case you couldn't tell, we're just a *little* bit proud and excited today to be publishing @audreyjgolden's astounding new history of the legendary Factory Records, I Thought I Heard You Speak. Don't miss this one!
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He doesn’t run this account - and is probably in bed by now - so it’s finally safe to wish WR leader @leebrackstone a happy birthday 🐇
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In perhaps the greatest gatecrashing of the bestseller list we've ever seen, we've just heard that Lias Saoudi & @adellestripe's TEN THOUSAND APOLOGIES will be No.6 in the Sunday Times top 10 this weekend. THANK YOU everyone who has bought a copy, and cheers to Lias & Adelle! 🩸
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To celebrate @marklanegan's SING BACKWARDS AND WEEP being the @RoughTrade No.1 Book of the Year for 2020, take a look at this knockout RT exclusive limited edition, signed by Mark and with a new foreword from @peterhook. Get yours while you can.
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#SONGBOOK is here…. Episode 1 of the White Rabbit podcast is available now, as host @juderogers discusses the classic music book Starlust with our first guest: Brett Anderson!. Find it wherever you listen to your podcasts, including via @ApplePodcasts:
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COMING APRIL 2022. THIS WOMAN’S WORK, edited by @KimletGordon and @sineadgleeson, is a stellar essay collection on pioneering women in music, written by award-winning female creators. #ThisWomansWork. Signed copies are available to pre-order now!
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This is a huge day for us at WR and for music fans around the world: launch day for the memoir from one of the defining geniuses of the 20th century: SLY STONE. 𝙏𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙠 𝙔𝙤𝙪 (𝙁𝙖𝙡𝙚𝙩𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙢𝙚 𝘽𝙚 𝙈𝙞𝙘𝙚 𝙀𝙡𝙛 𝘼𝙜𝙞𝙣) is out NOW.
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Will you see a better looking book this year? We doubt it. Our minds have been well and truly blown by these copies of @HarrySword's #MonolithicUndertow, launching 18 Feb. With tracing paper dust jacket protecting the psychedelic hardback beneath.
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VERY good news. In February 2025 we will publish BASE NOTES, a big-hearted, tragicomic memoir from @adellestripe in which memories are triggered by perfumes as she explores family ties, Northern culture and the pursuit of creativity. Cover and pre-order info coming soon.
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Dylan, Viv Albertine, Keith Richards and our very own Mark Lanegan - 10 of the best music biographies, as chosen by @GuardianBooks. Which books would be in your top 10?.
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We are delighted and very proud to announce that we will be publishing a revised and updated edition of @shirleyeCollins’ singular account of her journey through the American south with Alan Lomax, #AmericaOverTheWater
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Peer Review: Stephen Pastel Interviews David Keenan… And Vice Versa. Two WR heroes interview each other for @theQuietus, celebrating the book that became a play that became an album. @reversediorama @pastels_the
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Coming April 2024. 𝑺𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒆 𝑻𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝑨𝒓𝒆 𝑯𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈. One of the most influential underground musicians of the past thirty years finally tells his funny, improbable and frequently wild story. Welcome to WR, @MrRichardNorris. 👁️
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Here is the unflinching portrait of one of Britain's most prolific and uncompromising creative forces. TO EASE MY TROUBLED MIND: The Unauthorised Authorised History of @ChildishInfo by @TedKessler1, with a foreword by Stewart Lee. Coming 4 July 2024
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'All we usually heard of genres like grunge were the ‘dude stories’. This book is trying to point you towards the women who were an essential part of those times'. WR's best of 2022: @sineadgleeson + @KimletGordon in conversation. #ThisWomansWork
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To celebrate surviving our first year of publishing and our many collaborations x @weare1of100 here’s something of the sartorially psychedelic persuasion we have been working on for summer 2021. Coming soon .
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Only 100 of these deluxe @reversediorama INDUSTRY OF #MAGICandLIGHT proofs exist - and you could get your hands on No.7⃣. Just retweet this for the chance to WIN proof + coveted Industry time capsule. [Closes midnight Sunday, UK only sorry. Full T&Cs:
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We are immensely proud to say we're publishing a true legend this autumn: Robby Krieger, guitarist from @TheDoors. His memoir Set the Night on Fire launches in October and is available to pre-order - including limited SIGNED copies from select retailers
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A very Merry Christmas to all our readers, authors, collaborators and friends. However you’re celebrating today, we’re raising a glass to you all and sending much love. #MAGICISREAL ❄️
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In case you missed our big announcement this week. We're publishing @realjoelgion of @BJM_Band, and his book IN THE JINGLE JANGLE JUNGLE will be out Feb 2024. - With a foreword by @antonnewcombe .- Also available as an audiobook read by Joel himself.
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#SONGBOOK returns! And we're kicking off series 2 of our podcast in style, as @berenyi_miki joins host @juderogers for a chat about Viv Albertine's classic memoir - as well as her experience writing her own acclaimed book, Fingers Crossed. Listen now at
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On what would have been his 61st birthday, we’re giving this incredible Andrew Weatherall mix from @bluedotfestival 2017 another listen this morning… ✊
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Announcing TEN THOUSAND APOLOGIES: @FatWhiteFamily and the Miracle of Failure by @adellestripe and Lias Saoudi, the sordid and thrilling story of the country's most notorious cult band. Not for the fainthearted. COMING FEBRUARY 2022. Pre-order:
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Absolutely incredible response to our Sly Stone announcement this morning - thank you everyone for your enthusiasm and spreading the word 🙏. And the signed deluxe edition is flying out, we only have 500 of these so don't mess around if you want one. ➡️
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🗞️ NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT. In June we publish Access All Areas, the first memoir from music PR legend Barbara Charone - a backstage pass through 50 years of music, from the incredible woman set the cultural agenda in her work with a myriad of stars.
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Beautiful to see the love pouring in for this one.
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We usually do a Friday post rounding up some weekly highlights, but this week has all been about one man. SLY STONE. On Wednesday we announced his memoir 𝙏𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙠 𝙔𝙤𝙪 (𝙁𝙖𝙡𝙚𝙩𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙢𝙚 𝘽𝙚 𝙈𝙞𝙘𝙚 𝙀𝙡𝙛 𝘼𝙜𝙞𝙣) and the response has been extraordinary.
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'For as long as I can remember folks have been asking me to tell my story, [but] I wasn’t ready. I had to be in a new frame of mind to become Sylvester Stewart again to tell the true story of Sly Stone. It’s been a wild ride and hopefully my fans enjoy it too'
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Announcing PEOPLE FUNNY BOY: The Genius of Lee 'Scratch' Perry, the revised and expanded edition of Katz' definitive biography of one of the greatest figures in Jamaican reggae. 'An essential addition to any serious music fan's collection' @DavidRodigan.
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𝑺𝒍𝒖𝒎 𝒆𝒅𝒖𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏, 𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒌𝒊𝒅. Out TODAY: #TenementKid, the memoir from @ScreamOfficial's Bobby Gillespie - the story of a rock and roll apostle from 1960s working class Glasgow through to the release of the iconic Screamadelica.
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'From the opening line to the last you get it all: addiction, poverty, success, misery, redemption. All told with a brutal, raw honesty and a dry, intoxicating realism'.- Nicky Wire (@Manics). NEVER UNDERSTOOD | OUT NEXT THURSDAY
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'Having people think a text is real is a special achievement. Memorial Device is an example of the world of a novel becoming something greater than the individual’s response to the text.'. @WednesdayErskin on the power of @reversediorama's cult classic
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We are thrilled to wish @juderogers a happy publication day!. THE SOUND OF BEING HUMAN is officially out! Exploring why music plays such a deep-rooted role in so many lives, from before we are born to our last days. Out in hardback, ebook and audio:
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Happy birthday to the man, the myth, the king of @thesocial, one half of the great @realmagicbooks, staunch WR ally and all-round legend: Carl
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Announcing our new podcast: #SONGBOOK 🐇. Every week host @juderogers and a special guest discuss a classic music book and celebrate the thrill of great music writing. Ep 1 launches next Thursday - with Brett Anderson. Listen to the trailer + subscribe:
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Sly has started appearing in bookshops… officially out tomorrow 🙌
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Publishing Sly Stone has made @leebrackstone the happiest he’s been since West Ham won the second division in 1981. Such an honour for WR and a massive moment seeing these copies arrive this week 🙏.
Can’t quite believe I’m travelling home with this today: a book I fantasised about publishing for perhaps two decades; an extraordinary first person portrait of a psychedelic artist who changed the pop culture landscape forever @WhiteRabbitBks #ThankYouSly
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Huge day for David Keenan yesterday with the announcement of his new novel INDUSTRY OF MAGIC & LIGHT, and another huge day from him today: it's his birthday!. Have a good one, @reversediorama 🎂💙.
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Out today in paperback. TOO MUCH TOO YOUNG: The 2 Tone Records Story by @DanielRachel69 . 'This feels like the definitive story of 2 Tone. Masterful'. - @billybragg . 'A scintillating read'.- @petepaphides. 'Essential'.- MOJO. ⬛️⬜️
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🔉 Sound the foghorn! 🔉. We are incredibly excited to be publishing the truly unusual and totally unique #TheFoghornsLament by @JenniferLAllan today 🌊. Get your copy here, including a limited number of SIGNED COPIES from @RoughTrade:.
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Unveiling our deluxe edition of #CUREPEDIA, @simon_price01's A-Z of The Cure. This stunning edition of 1000 has been created with celebrated artist and longtime Cure collaborator Andy Vella. Coming November 2023. Pre-orders up now from record stores:
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Sing Backwards and Weep by @marklanegan // Coming 30 April 2020. A White Rabbit launch title, a brutally honest memoir and an essential read for all music fans. Proofs are here and heading out this week.
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The praise keeps rolling in for @marklanegan's memoir, including this from the one and only Bobby Gillespie. Sing Backwards and Weep is published this April - get pre-ordering from
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If you're passing by @thesocial over the next few weeks do call in, grab a drink and check out the new exhibition in the upstairs bar, showcasing a small selection of some of our book covers from the last few years. Cheers to Carl and the team for making it happen, we love it 🙏
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'Having people think a text is real is a special achievement. Memorial Device is an example of the world of a novel becoming something greater than the individual’s response to the text'. We still love this: @WednesdayErskin on @reversediorama's creation.
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Coincidence that this is happening just as we gear up to launch @plasmatron's SPACESHIPS OVER GLASGOW? We couldn't possibly comment. 😉😏 #marketing.
Wow — a meteor appears to have entered the earth’s atmosphere & crashed somewhere north of #Glasgow, along #Scotland’s northwestern coast.
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Thank you to everyone who came down for the MAKING MONUMENT #WhiteRabbitLIVE, an incredibly unique and unforgettable literary event orchestrated by the master @reversediorama and some amazing guests. Cheers to all our speakers and, as always, to @thesociallondon for having us! 💚
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AIRDRIE, 1, REST OF THE WORLD, NIL.
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