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...

Need this, thanks

Coming April 2026... WHERE THE MUSIC HAD TO GO, a captivating new dual biography of two titans of music, as Jim Windolf dives into the surprisingly supportive, occasionally rivalrous, always fertile relationship between Bob Dylan and the Beatles geni.us/WhereTheMusicHadToGo

Announcing a very long-overdue definitive biography of a music and spiritual visionary… COSMIC MUSIC: The Life, Art and Transcendence of ALICE COLTRANE by @andybeta.bsky.social Coming 19 March 2026: geni.us/CosmicMusic

New book delivery week! Four drops landed and I’m buzzing, fresh @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social , new Velocity Press, Rick Rubin’s paperback, plus the gorgeous Chuck D book that sparked our collab. All on shelves 12–5pm. Best selection in the Southside (maybe Glasgow!). Come say hi 🌞

Tickets for our LYNCHIAN event with John here: thegraystonunity.co.uk/event/lynchi... @thegraystonunity.bsky.social

We were saddened to hear that legendary record business figure Andrew Lauder passed away earlier this week. He was great company and a compelling raconteur. His spirit lives on in hundreds of records that have changed the lives of so many and in the stories he left us in his book Happy Trails.

FINLAND FAB 3! Had a wonderful adventure to Turku University to deliver a keynote speech..... This Ain't Rock 'n' Roll A @roughtraderecords.bsky.social & Resident Book of the Year! geni.us/ThisAintRock...

This is what I’ve been working on for the last six years. So excited to be able to share it.

Sinatra & Elvis Bowie & Turner Madonna & Tupac Announcing FAMOUS: Ego, Envy and Ambition in Pop, Rock and Hip-Hop, coming March 2026 from Matt Thorne (@8minutesidle.bsky.social) Exploring seven moments in music when huge stars have come together - and the resulting reverberations. geni.us/Famous

The paperback edition of Base Notes is almost ready to go @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social. Fit new cover by Ola Galewicz w/ ‘Clive Loves Dawn’ number plate. Signed dedications are now available to pre-order at Forum Books (who can post a copy out to you) >> www.forumbooksshop.com/product/base...

JUST IN! 'The Complete Johnny Cash - Lyrics from a Lifetime of Songwriting' by Mark Stielper & Johnny Cash Comprehensive 800-page book featuring lyrics, notes, and annotations from fifty-five years of the Man In Black’s career. @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social www.normanrecords.com/records/2096...

Thank you @resident-music.com for selecting 168 SONGS OF HATRED AND FAILURE by @keithcameron2.bsky.social as your #1 book of the year! And for choosing @danielrachel.bsky.social, @audreyjgolden.bsky.social, @liaminscoejones.bsky.social, @reversediorama.bsky.social + Budgie on the best of 2025 list 🙏

Also put together a bit of an accompanying playlist for the book. 30 tracks is peanuts in the grand scheme of things to reflect 60+ years, and a few bits also not on Spotify, but hopefully a nice taster and one that I may expand upon a bit over the coming months.

Weekend listening: @danieldylanwray.bsky.social's essential Sheffield playlist - 30 key tracks to get you in the mood for his book, GROOVY, LAIDBACK AND NASTY, which we announced yesterday. Thank you to everyone who has already helped spread the word! 🎧 open.spotify.com/playlist/1Vr...

Didn’t get chance to properly post yesterday, as a bit full on, but I have written a book. On the history of music in Sheffield. Out in May via the excellent @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social. Pre-order available now and full PR spiel here. Thanks for the love so far www.thebookseller.com/rights/white...

RESIDENT BOOK OF THE YEAR @keithcameron2.bsky.social 168 Songs Of Hatred And Failure: A History Of Manic Street Preachers @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social 📖Resident End of Year Edition Hardback Book with Exclusive *Signed* 'Covers' Zine Pick up your copy here: www.resident-music.com/product/came...

One of the best bits of my job @thequietus.com is asking @danieldylanwray.bsky.social to write about Sheffield & its music & this is going to be such a brilliant book on a fertile city (arguably one under-celebrated compared to certain places across the Pennines that never shut up about themselves)

Cannot wait to read this, was just going through pre-release catalogues yesterday and it instantly stood out as an essential looking book

Already know this is going to be great. @danieldylanwray.bsky.social is so good at getting great tales from people. Gonna re-read his Mark E Smith piece from 2019. www.vice.com/en/article/t...

This is guaranteed to be amazing

Holy shit. Going to be smashing that pre-order button come pay day.

An incredible effort from @danieldylanwray.bsky.social on this. 150+ interviews, covering nearly 70 years, this is THE book on one of THE great cities for music. Very proud to be Dan's publisher 👊 #SHEFFIELD

I was born in Sheffield. Will check this out.

👏👏 Great to see this announced - have been looking forward to reading it ever since @danieldylanwray.bsky.social told me he was working on it a few years back. I have no doubt it will be very special. Big up the Steel City!

Yes! 🙏

More Sheffield business. This will, of course, be excellent

This - finally - is the definitive musical history Sheffield so richly deserves. GROOVY, LAIDBACK AND NASTY is @danieldylanwray.bsky.social's authoritative and hugely entertaining story of the city, told through its independent artists, scenes and spirit. Coming May 2026 geni.us/GroovyLaidba...

If you fancy winning a copy of Paul Gorman's Granny Takes a Trip, about the original rock 'n' roll boutique, and the @weare1of100.bsky.social collab tee, head over to our Instagram... 📸 www.instagram.com/p/DRPFBucCBxH/

New arrivals ✊🏻 Looking forward to reading these. #booksky #books @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social

Tomorrow 👀 See you at our Launch Event… RSVP here if you haven’t already: link.dice.fm/A8269d2e9ac1...

📰| Manic Street Preachers' Nicky Wire is interviewed on confronting the band's past in @keithcameron2.bsky.social's '168 Songs Of Hatred And Failure' in the new issue of MOJO Magazine (January 2026), out now. Order: www.mojo4music.com/magazine/lat... #ManicStreetPreachers

A reminder that Budgie will be appearing at Waterstones Gower Street tomorrow night, in conversation with Travis Elborough about his acclaimed memoir The Absence. He'll be signing copies afterwards too, so come down and meet a legend... www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...

Incredible reaction to the announcement of @reversediorama.bsky.social’s new novel BOYHOOD, and the first quote is in - and what a quote it is. Thank you @irvinewelsh.bsky.social 🙏 #whatafuckingbook COMING APRIL 2026 geni.us/Boyhood

On Monday we gathered @thesociallondon.bsky.social for a special night of conversation, poetry and music, in collaboration with Leeds heroes Small Distractions Club. Thank you Rhiannon, all the performers and everyone who came along.

Congratulations to @danielrachel.bsky.social on the launch of his timely, eye-opening new book THIS AIN'T ROCK 'N'ROLL, exploring how some of music's most celebrated figures have associated themselves in deeply disturbing ways with the aesthetics and even ideology of Nazism. geni.us/ThisAintRock...

We're thrilled to see four of our authors on the Rough Trade Books of the Year picks, on a list of 20 brilliant reads... 1. Budgie 3. @keithcameron2.bsky.social x Manics 12. @audreyjgolden.bsky.social 18. @danielrachel.bsky.social See the full countdown ➡️ blog.roughtrade.com/gb/books-of-...

I’m at Waterstones Gower Street in London WC1 on Thurs November 13, discussing my book 168 Songs Of Hatred and Failure with the brilliant @victoriasegal.bsky.social. Tickets: www.waterstones.com/events/168-s...

Tonight @thesociallondon.bsky.social with Small Distractions is SOLD OUT. See you down there...

For the weekend crowd, if you somehow missed this week’s announcement… BOYHOOD, the new novel from @reversediorama.bsky.social COMING APRIL 2026 geni.us/Boyhood