THIS IS NOT A BOOK LAUNCH A celebration of @reversediorama.bsky.social and his new novel BOYHOOD Performing live: DEEPLY ARMED SAUL ADAMCZEWSKI DÖLPHIN Plus DJs: TIA COUSINS MANIFESTO OF BLISS + more Fri 10 April @thesociallondon.bsky.social - TICKETS: thesocial.seetickets.com/event/this-i...

David Keenan’s new book ‘Boyhood’ is astonishingly good and I’m VERY excited to be in conversation with him on Monday 13 April at Liverpool Waterstones. Come! @reversediorama.bsky.social @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social @waterstoneslpl.bsky.social DETAILS: www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...

Here’s @danieldylanwray.bsky.social with an early copy of his book Groovy, Laidback & Nasty. With over 150 original interviews, it's the first ever truly definitive history of Sheffield music and the city’s incredible array of artists, movements and moments. Out 7 May: geni.us/GroovyLaidba...

These are going to be like gold dust: extremely limited edition proofs of still in a dream by @simonreynolds.bsky.social, out in June... geni.us/StillInADream

Finished copies of the paperback edition of Volcanic Tongue, which collects the best of my music writing, just touched down today and look amazing. So psyched. Big thanks to all the true believers @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social Publishing next month x

Thank you so much to @thequietus.com and @hayleyscott.bsky.social for this absolutely incredible review of SHOUTING OUT LOUD! 🖤 @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social

NEW @mrrichardnorris.bsky.social Strange Things Are Happening 19 March, The Ivyhouse Nunhead www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1983156775... @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social

The Observer's Paperback of the Week: BASE NOTES by @adellestripe.bsky.social 'It’s Stripe’s willingness to acknowledge the more unpalatable aspects of life, and herself, that makes her memoir so compelling' observer.co.uk/culture/book...

Not one of ours but highly recommended... Congratulations to good friend of WR @stuhennigan.bsky.social on the launch of his novel Keshed, and kudos to @ortacpress.bsky.social for the way they've published it 👊

Two very different but equally extraordinary memoirs move into WR paperback today, from two stars of countercultural creativity. Strange Things Are Happening by @mrrichardnorris.bsky.social Base Notes by @adellestripe.bsky.social Sending much love to Richard and Adelle on paperback launch 🙌

Base Notes by @adellestripe.bsky.social Published in paperback on Feb 12th 2026 by @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social When I first met Adelle in 2006 (we were sending each other bits of our writing before we ever met) I said "Maybe you should write a memoir?" And a mere 20 years later, here it is!

Little happy face. Base Notes paperback has landed in the office. It’s out in the shops this week. Published by @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social. Signed / dedicated copies are now available to order @forumbooks.bsky.social Over and out x www.forumbooksshop.com/product/base...

It's happening! @reversediorama.bsky.social is coming to town! Boyhood is a literary trip in more ways than one, and it's his most autobiographical work yet. Join us on Thursday 9th April for an unforgettable evening with someone who really can claim to be a cult author! @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social

Paperback goodness heading your way this month: @mrrichardnorris.bsky.social's acclaimed memoir Strange Things Are Happening - a celebration of collaboration, curiosity and community, and the story of life lived at the frontline of so many countercultural revolutions. 👁️ geni.us/StrangeThings

Across the world, people have woken up wondering “Who are this exciting new band The Cure who won two Grammy Awards last night? I'd better find out all about them.” Boy, have I got the book for you. geni.us/Curepedia @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social

We’ve been eagerly racing through the proof pages of Andy Beta’s Cosmic Music: The Life, Art & Transcendence of Alice Coltrane If you’ve wandered into our shop on a Sunday morning, there’s a good chance you’ve heard either Journey in Satchidananda or World Spiritual Classics: Volume I on the stereo

My new book Still In A Dream: Shoegaze, Slackers, and the Reinvention of Rock, 1984-94 is out in June on @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social . It's a love letter to the music of my youth and a flashback to the most exciting time of my writing life. Pre-order geni.us/StillInADream

Another @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social future classic. Simon Reynolds is a fucking brilliant writer.

This will obviously be unreal

PREORDER: 'Still in a Dream: Shoegaze, Slackers and the Reinvention of Rock, 1984–1994' by Simon Reynolds The acclaimed writer returns with a book focusing on the blissful fuzz-heavy sounds of the UK/Irish and US indie underground. @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social www.normanrecords.com/records/2138...

Announcing the new book from one of the greatest music writers of his generation, @simonreynolds.bsky.social Still in a Dream, out this June, is the definitive story of the slackers and shoegazers who reinvented rock, as the music they created reverberated through the late 80s into the early 90s.

SIMON REYNOLDS Still in a Dream: Shoegaze, Slackers & the Reinvention of Rock, 1984–1994 *Signed* Paperback + Bonus Zine Preorder: resident-music.com/product/reyn... @simonreynolds.bsky.social (slow)dives into the era which saw the likes of mbv, Sonic Youth & Cocteau Twins emerge in a hail of reverb

Big up comrade @adellestripe.bsky.social who's got Keshed in some fabulous company on this list. Paperback of Adelle's stellar memoir Base Notes imminent from the always great @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social, get it on your radar! 📚 uk.bookshop.org/lists/cream-...

MICHAEL SMITH Strangers on the Shore *Signed* Paperback Preorder: resident-music.com/product/smit... The “acid house Montaigne” relocates to “a drinking town with a fishing problem” to discuss dystopian Britain, middle age precarity, & fatherhood's transcendent beauty @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social

Reintroducing Michael Smith - beloved cult author of The Giro Playboy and revered by Andrew Weatherall as ‘the acid house Montaigne’. Strangers on the Shore is part-memoir, part auto-fiction exploring the strange poetry of starting over, fatherhood, and the disarming grief of leaving youth behind.

The SMOKING HOT new paperback edition of Base Notes @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social is almost ready to fly. If you’d like a signed / dedicated copy, those lovely people @forumbooks.bsky.social are now taking pre-orders. Sink your teeth... www.forumbooksshop.com/product/base...

Always an honour to see our books on the Penderyn Prize longlist, celebrating the very best in music writing. Another stellar year, and congratulations to all authors and publishers on there - and especially to our own @danielrachel.bsky.social, @keithcameron2.bsky.social, Budgie & Peter Guralnick!

@danielrachel.bsky.social Full house for This Ain’t Rock ‘n’ Roll event Walthamstow Trades Hall with Emma Forrest and Caroline Coon @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social

Join us at Foyles, Charing Cross Road, on Wednesday 11th February to hear Paul Gorman in conversation with Michael Bracewell. Two of the most revered and celebrated pop culture writers discussing Paul's latest books, + Q&A and book signing 🎟️ www.foyles.co.uk/events/paul-...

Thursday, Walthamstow event #1 2026 📚 🎟️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1977486173...

Really looking forward to this.

Delighted to have signed copies of Michael Bracewell's unconventional account of how one man's life was forever changed by The Smiths. Pre-order here: monorailmusic.com/product/the-... @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social

𝑰 𝒂𝒎 𝒔𝒖𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝑰 𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒎𝒃𝒆𝒓 𝒊𝒔 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒏𝒆𝒄𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒍𝒚 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒖𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒅, 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝑰 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒐𝒏𝒍𝒚 𝒘𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝑰 𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒎𝒃𝒆𝒓. Coming June 2026: the wildly inventive, magnificently surreal story of the impact of a pop group on one man's life, from Michael Bracewell - a writer unlike any other. geni.us/TheSmiths

I wonder if any keen reader ever gets close to thinking “well, I’ve read all the books I want to read”. Personally I am miles away from this point, and the superb stuff regularly offered by the likes of @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social and @newmodernbooks.bsky.social takes me further away!

From @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social, the first full-length biography of Alice Coltrane, the jazz musician + spiritual leader who laid the groundwork for new age, ambient and electronic music. So ready for this. Hardback signed by author Andy Beta up for pe-order now: monorailmusic.com/product/the-...

A reminder of some of the new books we’ve announced we’ll be publishing in the first few months of 2026. Still more to come (keep an eye out), as well as some of our existing favourites moving into paperback, so there’s plenty to look forward to…

Celebrating SOUVENIR, Michael Bracewell's cult classic... An exhibition, performance and events series at Fitzrovia Chapel begins today, and includes Michael in conversation with Lias Saoudi next Tuesday. See the full line-up and book tickets at bit.ly/m/FitzroviaC...

Very excited to hear that this is coming in March from @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social store.whiterabbitbooks.co.uk/products/cos...

Big love and thanks to all the bookshops, record stores, venues, promoters, hosts, festivals and friends we worked with in 2025 over another packed year of events. Sending all the best for the new year, and looking forward to doing it all again in 2026… 🙏

2025 marked five years of WR, and in March we celebrated with a massive party in our spiritual home: @thesociallondon.bsky.social. Totally sold out, great music, great vibes. Thank you to everyone who has been to one of our events over the years in that beautiful basement where magic happens 🩶

Wishing a very Merry Christmas to all our followers and friends, authors and readers, colleagues and collaborators. Sending much love to you all x

One final announcement before the end of the year... DOCUMENT AND EYEWITNESS: An Intimate History of Rough Trade Neil Taylor's classic story of the label, fully updated for their 50th anniversary and with a new foreword by Morrissey. Coming Feb 2026 geni.us/DocumentAndE...

We announced our books and records of 2025 earlier this week, in no particular order, but now we're proud to reveal our #1 picks: Jesus Christ Kinski by @benjaminmyers76.bsky.social, and Liminal, by Brian Eno and Beatie Wolfe. Sending thanks and love to all authors and artists on the lists!

NEW 📕 🗣️ 🎶 22 JANUARY @danielrachel.bsky.social 🎟️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1977486173... @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social

This is very kind and unexpected to say the least: in the company of hellraisers @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social @damianbarr.bsky.social & Ozzy Osbourne, what more can one ask?

Thank you to @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social & @leebrackstone.bsky.social for choosing Maybe I'm Amazed as one of their books of the year, esp in such great company

Presenting White Rabbit's Books of 2025... A list of 33 nominated by our colleagues and friends - we hope you'll find something new to add to your reading pile. And if something does catch your eye you can find it from our friends at @resident-music.com www.resident-music.com/collection/w...

'An astute study of some of the key songs from the Manics’ four-decades-spanning catalogue... solidifies their status as one of the best, most idiosyncratic bands of their generation' @bigissue.com review of 168 SONGS OF HATRED & FAILURE | @keithcameron2.bsky.social www.bigissue.com/culture/musi...

Presenting White Rabbit's Records of 2025... Some you'll know, hopefully some will be new to you, but all 33 are excellent. Big thanks to everyone who contributed to this list. And you can of course order these from our friends @resident-music.com www.resident-music.com/collection/w...

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