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NRC 26/06 - ​BOOKS!

Here is a big list of upcoming and recently released music titles. Often we can get signed copies as well, especially for pre-orders.

JUNE

Mike Joyce 'The Drums' Paperback (New Modern) £11

Robert Pollard 'Eat 22' Book (Guided By Voices. Inc) £21.5

John Robb 'Punk Rock Ruined My Life..And Other Stories' Book (Louder Than War Books) £18

JULY

David Katz 'Dub Revolution: Jamaica’s Sonic Innovators and the Birth of Remix Culture' Hardback (White Rabbit) £21.5

Robyn Hitchcock 'Stranded in the Future' Hardback (Little Brown Book Group) £21

Budgie 'The Absence: Memoirs of a Banshee Drummer' Paperback (White Rabbit) £12.5

Debsey Wykes 'Teenage Daydream: We Are The Girls Who Play In A Band' Paperback (New Modern) £11

AUGUST

Roland Orzabal 'Welcome to Your Life: Love, Death and Tears for Fears' Hardback (Little Brown Book Group) £21

Kimon de Greef 'The Ego Trip: Psychedelic Toads, A Trail of Deaths and The Guru Who Peddled Transcendence' Hardback (White Rabbit) £19.5

David Gedge 'What Have I Said Now? Tales From The Wedding Present Volume 3' Book (Scopitones Books) £21

Ashley Kahn 'Days of Miracle and Wonder: Paul Simon and the Trials and Triumphs of Graceland' Hardback (White Rabbit) £19.5

Nige Tassell 'Truly Gifted Kids: A Book About A Band Called Prefab Sprout' Hardback (New Modern) £18

Rodge Glass 'As One: Remaking Suede' Hardback (New Modern) £18.5

Stephanie Phillips 'We Were Here: A History of Black People and Alternative Music' Hardback (Faber & Faber) £27

SEPTEMBER

Clint Boon 'The Manchester Chronicles True Tales of Music, Madness and Mayhem 1976 - 2006' Hardback (Octopus) £21

Janine Warren (Introduction by Alex Kapranos) 'The World Was a Mess But His Hair Was Perfect: The Last Indie Music Scene 2000-2010' Hardback + zine (Omnibus) £15

Jamie Fisher 'Nobody Broke Your Heart: An Intimate Biography of Elliott Smith' Hardback (Faber & Faber) £27

John Einarson 'Take Me For A Walk In The Morning Dew: The Life And Times Of Bonnie Dobson And The Story Of Her Iconic Song' Paperback (Jawbone Press) £15

Marco Pirroni 'Your Money or Your Life' Hardback (New Modern) £18

Grandmaster Flash 'Birth of a Culture' Hardback (New Modern) £18

Bob Stanley 'The Shadows: The Definitive Story' Hardback (New Modern) £18

David Katz 'People Funny Boy: The Genius of Lee 'Scratch' Perry' Paperback (White Rabbit) £15

Michael Cragg 'Can't Get You Out Of My Head: In Search of Kylie' Hardback (Faber & Faber) £33

Robert Hilburn 'Johnny Cash: The Life' Paperback (White Rabbit) £15

OCTOBER

Emily Lordi 'Holding Lightning: The Life, Loves and Art of Whitney Houston' Hardback (White Rabbit) £21

Richard Bienstock, Tom Beaujour 'Lollapalooza The Uncensored Story of Alternative Rock's Wildest Festival' Paperback (Melia) £16

Alice Cooper 'Devil On My Shoulder' Hardback (Penguin Random House UK) £22.5

David Byrne 'Sleeping Beauties: Why Good Ideas Go Dormant and How They Wake Up' Hardback (Canongate) £34

Liam Inscoe-Jones 'Songs In The Key of MP3: The New Icons of the Internet Age' Paperback (White Rabbit) £14

Richard Evans (With a foreword by Moby) 'Looking Backwards Towards the Future: The Story of Ultravox' Hardback (Omnibus) £18

Robert Elms 'Blitz: The Club That Created the Eighties' Paperback (Faber & Faber) £18.5

Nicko McBrain (Iron Maiden) 'Hello Boys and Girls' Hardback (Harper Collins) £20

Bob Stanley 'The Twelve Songs of Christmas' Hardback (White Rabbit) £14

Daniel Rachel 'This Ain't Rock 'n' Roll: Pop Music, the Swastika and the Third Reich' Paperback (White Rabbit) £12.5

Gilles Peterson 'Now is the Time!: 21st Century British Jazz' Paperback (Thames & Hudson) £32

Grace Slick 'Somebody to Love?: A Rock 'n' Roll Memoir' Paperback (White Rabbit) £14

Jean Michel Jarre 'Machines: A History of Electronic Music' Hardback (Thames & Hudson) £39

Kyle Maclachlan 'Fictional Selves: A Memoir' Hardback (Penguin Random House UK) £22.5

LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka) 'Black Music' Paperback (White Rabbit) £14

Rick Wakeman 'The Wizard of Prog: The Truth and Something Like The Truth' Hardback (Penguin Random House UK) £20

NOVEMBER

Owen Cutts 'Have You Ever Heard Old Music?: 52 Essential Records You Need in Your Life' Hardback (White Rabbit) £16.5

Willie Nelson 'The Last Leaf: Reflections on Late-Life Creativity and My Longest Love Affair' Hardback (Canongate) £27

Melissa Auf der Maur 'My ’90s Rock Photographs' Hardback (Del Monico) £36.5

Sam Tallent 'Brut' Paperback (White Rabbit) £19.5

Jane Wiedlin 'TMI Memoirs of a Go-Go' Hardback (Da Capo) £23

OUT NOW!

Adele Bertei 'No New York: A Memoir of No Wave and the Women Who Shaped the Scene' Hardback (Faber/Alliance) £27

Alexander Hacke 'Blast Distorted Memories – From Einstürzende Neubauten to Symphonic Drone' Book (Ventil Verlag) £19.5

Alexander Larman 'Lazarus: The Second Coming of David Bowie' Hardback (New Modern) £18

Andy Beta 'Cosmic Music The Life, Art and Transcendence of Alice Coltrane' Hardback (White Rabbit) £24.5

Arthur Baker 'Looking for the Perfect Beat: Remixing and Reshaping Hip-Hop, Rock and Rhythms' Paperback (Faber/Alliance) £18.5

Brian Cullman 'How To Prepare For The Past: Travels In Music And Time' Paperback (Omnibus) £13

Casey Rae 'William S. Burroughs and the Cult of Rock 'n' Roll' Paperback (White Rabbit) £12.5

Dan Jennings 'Paul Weller: Dancing Through the Fire The Authorised Oral History' Paperback (Little Brown Book Group) £14

Dan Treacy (Television Personalities) 'If I Could Write Poetry' Book (Ventil Verlag) £16

Daniel Dylan Wray 'Groovy, Laidback and Nasty - A History of Independent Music in Sheffield' Hardback (White Rabbit) £21

David Hepworth 'Hope I Get Old Before I Die: Why rock stars never retire' Paperback (Penguin Random House UK) £11.5

David Keenan 'Boyhood' Hardback (White Rabbit) £19.5

Dean Van Nguyen 'Words for My Comrades: A Political History of Tupac Shakur' Paperback (White Rabbit) £14

Dream Theater 'Parasomnia' Book (Z2 Comics) £22

Graeme Thomson 'In Another World: The Four Seasons of Talk Talk' Hardback (New Modern) £18

Jim Windolf 'Where the Music Had to Go - How Bob Dylan and The Beatles Changed Each Other – and the World' Hardback (White Rabbit) £21

Jodie Harsh 'You Had to Be There: An Odyssey Through Noughties London Clubland' Paperback (Faber/Alliance) £16

Jon King 'To Hell With Poverty! A Class Act: Inside the Gang of Four' Paperback (Constable) £12.5

Lally MacBeth 'The Lost Folk: From the Forgotten Past to the Emerging Future of Folk' Paperback (Faber/Alliance) £18.5

Lauren Elkin 'Vocal Break: On Women, Music & Power' Hardback (Penguin Random House UK) £20

Mark Blake 'Pink Floyd Shine On: The Definitive Oral History' Hardback (New Modern) £18

Matthew Collin 'Altered State: The Story of Ecstasy Culture and Acid House' Paperback (White Rabbit) £14

Max Dax, Kim Gordon 'Raymond Pettibon: Nervous Breakdown' Hardback (Thames & Hudson) £32

Michael Bracewell 'The Smiths: A Novella' Hardback (White Rabbit) £14

Michael Smith 'Strangers on the Shore' Paperback (White Rabbit) £19.5

Mike Campbell 'Heartbreaker - A Memoir' Paperback (Constable) £12.5

Mike Joyce 'The Drums' Hardback (New Modern) £18

Molly Tie 'Rebel Grrrls: The Real Story of Women and Punk' Hardback (Omnibus) £16

Neil Tennant 'One Hundred Lyrics and a Poem' Paperback (Faber/Alliance) £16

Paul Vallely 'Live Aid: The Definitive 40 Year Story with a foreword by Sir Bob Geldof' Paperback (New Modern) £14.5

Richie Unterberger 'Do What You Fear Most: The History of the Velvet Underground' Hardback (Omnibus) £25

Sam Tallent 'Running the Light: The best novel I've ever read about comedy' Megan Nolan' Paperback (White Rabbit) £11

Scott Rowley 'Stay Alive: The Life and Death of Stuart Adamson' Hardback (New Modern) £18

Simon Reynolds 'Still in a Dream: Shoegaze, Slackers and the Reinvention of Rock, 1984–1994' Paperback (White Rabbit) £19.5

Smokin Jo 'You Don't Need a Dick to DJ' Paperback (White Rabbit) £12.5

Steve Mason 'Failure Is Always An Option: Glorious Adventures On The Beta Band Front Line And Other Tales' Hardback (New Modern) £18

Stuart Deabill, Nicky Weller, Steve Rowland 'In The Shadow Of The Sun: Paul Weller In The Nineties' Book (Soul Deep) £47.5

The Jam 'Retrospective – A Visual History' Book (Retro Publishing) £11.5

Tom Doyle 'Ringo: A Fab Life' Hardback (New Modern) £18

We Jazz Magazine 'Space Time' Magazine (We Jazz) £15.5

Posted on June 25th, 2026