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Britpop!: Cool Britannia And The Spectacular Demise Of English Rock by John Harris 9780306813672
Booksplease Price: $43.05Beginning in 1994 and closing in the first months of 1998, the UK passed through a cultural moment as distinct and as celebrated as any since the war. Founded on rock music, celebrity, boom-time... -
Breaking Up Britain: Four Nations After a Union by Mark Perryman 9781905007967
Booksplease Price: $38.18May 2009 will be the tenth anniversary of the first elections to the Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly. This was the beginning of a decade of change - which now includes the restoration of... -
How Do You Spend? A Moneybunny Book by Cinders McLeod 9780593529638
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $28.90Celebrate the many different ways a little bunny can spend her savings, and learn about opposites too!Bun has been saving her carrots, and now it's time to spend some-but HOW will she spend them?... -
A Class Act by Chip Hamer
RRP: $12.58Booksplease Price: $9.60As the opening poem of this debut, Death of a Pie 'n Mash Shop, attests: Chip Hamer is not your typical man of letters. A founding member of the Poets on the Picket Line squad, his poems have been... -
Quadrophenia and Mod(ern) Culture by Pamela Thurschwell 9783319647524
Booksplease Price: $236.08This collection explores the centrality of The Who's classic album, and Franc Roddam's cult classic film of adolescent life, Quadrophenia to the recent cultural history of Britain, to British... -
Uncle Sam: Special Election Edition Steve Darnall 9781419777684
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $29.15Out of print for over a decade, the long-awaited reissue of the classic Vertigo miniseries Uncle Sam by Steve Darnall and Alex Ross is a sharp political fever dream praised by Kirkus as a "truly... -
Political Rock by Kristine Weglarz
RRP: $117.58Booksplease Price: $110.12Political Rock features luminary figures in rock music that have stood out not only for their performances, but also for their politics. The book opens with a comparative, cultural history of artists... -
Glastonbury by Crispin Aubrey 9780091897635
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $26.19This is the remarkable story of how the Glastonbury Festival, that started as a party in a Somerset field in the 1970s, went on to become one of the world's most famous music festivals. The tales are... -
Popular Music and Human Rights: Volume I: World Music by Professor Ian Peddie
Booksplease Price: $108.82Popular music has long understood that human rights, if attainable at all, involve a struggle without end. The right to imagine an individual will, the right to some form of self-determination and... -
New Model Island: How to Build a Radical Culture Beyond the Idea of England Alex Niven 9781912248254
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $11.03From Orwell-reading centrists to right-wing extremists, there have been countless attempts in recent decades to reimagine the feudal nation that was once England. But there is a strong case for... -
Popular Music and Human Rights: Volume II: World Music Ian Peddie 9781409464051
RRP: $104.98Booksplease Price: $97.63Popular music has long understood that human rights, if attainable at all, involve a struggle without end. The right to imagine an individual will, the right to some form of self-determination and... -
Rebel Sounds: Music as Resistance Joe Mulhall 9781804442241
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.84'Empathy is the currency of all music and Joe Mulhall does a great job of explaining how that quality has been used to generate solidarity for the struggle and sympathy for those who suffer... -
Popular Music and Human Rights: Volume I: World Music by Professor Ian Peddie 9781409464044
RRP: $71.38Booksplease Price: $69.07Popular music has long understood that human rights, if attainable at all, involve a struggle without end. The right to imagine an individual will, the right to some form of self-determination and... -
The Wild World of Barney Bubbles: Graphic Design and the Art of Music by Paul Gorman
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $46.41A celebration of a graphic design genius, published to mark what would have been his 80th birthday. The Wild World of Barney Bubbles celebrates the graphic design genius whose work linked the... -
Gogglebook: The Wit and Wisdom of Gogglebox by Gogglebox 9781509809301 [USED COPY]
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $6.22Channel 4's Gogglebox is one of the most loved shows on TV. Every week, more than 7 million of us tune in to watch the nation's favourite telly fanatics as they laugh and cry along with the TV. In... -
Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain by Fintan O'Toole 9781789540994 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $4.75'A wildly entertaining but uncomfortable read... Pitilessly brilliant' JONATHAN COE. 'There will not be much political writing in this or any other year that is carried off with such style' The Times... -
Rebel Footprints - Second Edition: A Guide to Uncovering London's Radical History by David Rosenberg 9780745338569
RRP: $178.50Booksplease Price: $146.03The radical response to conservative heritage tours and banal day-tripper guides, Rebel Footprints brings to life the history of social movements in the capital. Transporting readers from well-known... -
Dark Light: Engines of Light: Book Two by Ken MacLeod 9781841491097
Booksplease Price: $39.88'A modern-day George Orwell' - SFX'A hectic ride, through slaloms of audacious complexity, irreverent ingenuity and paradox as purposeful as it is playful' - GUARDIANThe Second Sphere is thousands of... -
Rebel Footprints: A Guide to Uncovering London's Radical History David Rosenberg 9780745338552
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $26.31The radical response to conservative heritage tours and banal day-tripper guides, Rebel Footprints brings to life the history of social movements in the capital. Transporting readers from well-known... -
Save It! by Cinders McLeod 9780593406212
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $12.83A charming introduction to simple money concepts in which a little bunny learns about the power and satisfaction that come with saving money.Honey earns two carrots a week for taking care of her... -
Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain by Fintan O'Toole
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.23'A wildly entertaining but uncomfortable read... Pitilessly brilliant' JONATHAN COE. 'There will not be much political writing in this or any other year that is carried off with such style' The... -
Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain by Fintan O'Toole 9781789540987 [USED COPY]
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $6.78'There will not be much political writing in this or any other year that is carried off with such style' The Times. A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR. 'A quite brilliant dissection of the cultural roots of... -
The Cassini Division: Book Three: The Fall Revolution Series by Ken MacLeod 9781857237306
Booksplease Price: $39.46'Science fiction's freshest new writer...MacLeod is a fiercely intelligent, prodigiously well-read author who manages to fill his books with big issues without weighing them down.' - SALON'Engaged,... -
Walls Come Tumbling Down: The Music and Politics of Rock Against Racism, 2 Tone and Red Wedge by Daniel Rachel
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.05Walls Come Tumbling Down charts the pivotal period between 1976 and 1992 that saw politics and pop music come together for the first time in Britain's musical history; musicians and their fans... -
The Star Fraction: Book One: The Fall Revolution Series by Ken MacLeod 9781857238334
Booksplease Price: $43.47'He is writing revolutionary science fiction. A nova has appeared in our sky.' - Kim Stanley Robinson'Engaged, ingenious, and wittily partisan, Ken MacLeod is a one-man revolution, SF's Billy Bragg'... -
This Ain't Rock 'n' Roll: Pop Music, the Swastika and the Third Reich by Daniel Rachel 9781399635721
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $37.59WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY BILLY BRAGGOver the last seven decades, some of rock 'n' roll's most celebrated figureheads have flirted with the imagery and theatre of the Third Reich. From Keith Moon and... -
Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff: A Novel by Sean Penn 9781501189050
RRP: $33.60Booksplease Price: $21.04Bob Honey has a hard time connecting with other people, especially since his divorce. He's tired of being marketed to every moment, sick of a world where even an orgasm isn't real until it is turned... -
Peggy Seeger: A Life of Music, Love, and Politics by Jean R. Freedman
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $29.11Born into folk music's first family, Peggy Seeger has blazed her own trail artistically and personally. Jean Freedman draws on a wealth of research and conversations with Seeger to tell the life... -
The Clash: The Only Band That Mattered by Sean Egan 9780810888753
Booksplease Price: $108.59When considered in a broader social context, The Clash stand as one of the most important musical acts in rock history. Original punks who transcended the music's minimalist origins, The Clash lived... -
Peggy Seeger: A Life of Music, Love, and Politics by Jean R. Freedman 9780252040757
RRP: $50.38Booksplease Price: $44.50Born into folk music's first family, Peggy Seeger has blazed her own trail artistically and personally. Jean Freedman draws on a wealth of research and conversations with Seeger to tell the life... -
Glastonbury 50 Emily Eavis 9781409183938
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $38.39THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA BOOK OF THE YEAR PICK IN THE TIMES: 'Captivating'A ROUGH TRADE BOOK OF THE YEAR: 'In-depth and inspiring''Beautifully compiled ... the perfect festival experience' SUNDAY... -
Sixty-Six Books: A Contemporary Response to the King James Bible by Various 9781849432276
Booksplease Price: $46.70The King James Version of the Bible (KJV) is a foundation stone of the English language. The KJV was composed as a collective project and written to be spoken. Sixty-Six Books has been created, in... -
Let's Do It: The Birth of Pop by Bob Stanley
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $50.06The prequel to Bob Stanley's universally acclaimed Yeah Yeah Yeah, Let's Do It is the only book that brings together all genres to tell the definitive story of the birth of Pop, from 1900 to the... -
Let's Do It: The Birth of Pop by Bob Stanley 9780571372201
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $25.18The prequel to Bob Stanley's universally acclaimed Yeah Yeah Yeah, Let's Do It is the only book that brings together all genres to tell the definitive story of the birth of Pop, from 1900 to the... -
Playing to the Crowd: Musicians, Audiences, and the Intimate Work of Connection by Nancy K. Baym
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $49.31Explains what happened to music-for both artists and fans-when music went online. Playing to the Crowd explores and explains how the rise of digital communication platforms has transformed... -
The Popular Wobbly: Selected Writings of T-Bone Slim T-Bone Slim 9781517914967
RRP: $48.28Booksplease Price: $42.25The first critical edition of the writings of the prolific radical workers' newspaper columnist and musician who rode the rails during the Great DepressionThe Popular Wobbly brings together a wide... -
The Popular Wobbly: Selected Writings of T-Bone Slim T-Bone Slim 9781517914950
RRP: $201.60Booksplease Price: $163.15The first critical edition of the writings of the prolific radical workers' newspaper columnist and musician who rode the rails during the Great DepressionThe Popular Wobbly brings together a wide... -
Playing to the Crowd: Musicians, Audiences, and the Intimate Work of Connection by Nancy K. Baym 9781479896165
RRP: $165.90Booksplease Price: $134.65Explains what happened to music-for both artists and fans-when music went online. Playing to the Crowd explores and explains how the rise of digital communication platforms has transformed... -
Red Threads: A History of the People's Flag Henry Bell 9780745347691
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $39.12'I loved this book ... this is a history we can all connect with and be inspired by' - Josie Long, comedian 'The epic story of this universal symbol, told with passion and erudition' - Liz... -
Too Much Too Young: The 2 Tone Records Story: Rude Boys, Racism and the Soundtrack of a Generation by Daniel Rachel 9781399607506
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.05#2 UNCUT BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023In 1979, 2 Tone exploded into the national consciousness as records by The Specials, The Selecter, Madness, The Beat, and The Bodysnatchers burst onto the charts and a...