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White Rabbit Books @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

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!

Benjamin Myers
Jesus Christ Kinski
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Deranged and mesmerising. For those who have lost faith that the novel can do new things; for those who want to read a novel that is as close to experiencing watching a Herzog film as it is possible to get on the page, Jesus Christ Kinski is a masterpiece of suffocation and an unrelenting trip into the monomania of an unhinged and dangerous and damaged outsider artist. It restored our faith that fiction can still go to places where other art forms fear to tread.

Brian Eno and Beatie Wolfe
Liminal
VERVE

Have we started to take Eno for granted? Perhaps this, the last in a magnificent trilogy
of releases with Wolfe in 2025, has been slightly overlooked because it was the third to arrive, late in the year. Melancholy and elegiac chamber pop of the most haunting kind,
Liminal has echoes of Spacemen 3 in their tender bluesy iteration. Perhaps Eno’s collaboration with the visionary artist Wolfe is his most exciting for almost fifty years, since his work with Cluster. Proof that some of the best avant garde music is affirmative, melodic and completely transcendent.

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Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

"Keshed hums with the vitality of lived and hard won experience that only fiction of the most transcendent kind can deliver. Channeling Bukowski, Denis Johnson and Selby Jr in a Yorkshire patois of brutal authenticity......

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David Keenan @reversediorama.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Limited to 500 copies signed hardback edition of Boyhood @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social comes with a gorgeous art print of the cover shot by legendary photographer Douglas Corrrance. Get in there: geni.us/Boyhood

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David Keenan @reversediorama.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Had a blast touring Boyhood around our favourite booksellers in Glasgow and Edinburgh over the last few days. Thank you all for bringing the magic and enthusiasm. What a vibe x @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social

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The Quietus @thequietus.com · 01/08/2025

Lee Brackstone reflects on how #AndrewWeatherall led bandmates Gary Burns and Jagz Kooner on a determined excursion through the twinkling, psychedelic sonic margins #TheSabresOfParadise - Sabresonic and Haunted Dancehall are tQ's Reissues of the Week buff.ly/ck4saIH

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Brackstone @leebrackstone.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Always a tough afternoon in the David Cameron household I imagine

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White Rabbit Books @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Delighted to announce a special guest joining us for our BASE NOTES night @thesociallondon.bsky.social, as we celebrate Adelle Stripe's memoir... also appearing will be @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social! 10 Feb, tickets from thesocial.seetickets.com/event/adelle...

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Brackstone @leebrackstone.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

The jokey flippant lads down the pub way @bbcradio4.bsky.social Today programme is covering Trump Day One is perhaps the most worrying indication of how the creep of fascism is now officially in the room. Grow up.

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Ted Kessler @tedkessler.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

I’m going to be doing an event on Saturday with Billy Childish for @citylightsbooks.bsky.social, speaking with the great Guy Picciotto of Fugazi. 11 AM PT/2 PM ET/7 PM GMT. All welcome. Billy Childish & Guy Picciotto: rare meeting of minds…

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Rock ‘n’ Roll Book Club @rnrbook-club.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

NEW EVENT JOEL GION: IN THE JINGLE JANGLE JUNGLE 📅 17 Feb Walthamstow In conversation with @willhodgkinson.bsky.social Tickets:🎟️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1156027733... @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social @leebrackstone.bsky.social

Flyer for an author/music event featuring Joel Gion of the Brian Jones Massacre discussing hai memoir In The Jingle Jangle Jungle with Will Hodgkinson. Event is on 17 February at Walthamstow Trades Hall DJs include Jim Jones and Lee Brackstone. Event organised by the Rock ‘n’ Roll Book Club

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White Rabbit Books @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Tambourines at the ready people, Joel Gion is heading to Walthamstow... Celebrating his acclaimed book IN THE JINGLE JANGLE JUNGLE in paperback with @rnrbook-club.bsky.social, in conversation with @willhodgkinson.bsky.social + guest DJs Tickets on sale now eventbrite.co.uk/e/joel-gion-...

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Brackstone @leebrackstone.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Judging by my inbox over the past six months, I predict that come July 2025 there will be more books in the market dedicated to Oasis than Shakespeare and The Beatles combined.

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White Rabbit Books @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Nonfiction to look out for in 2025... Very nice to see Base Notes getting a shoutout here, Adelle Stripe's 'olfactory account of growing up in the north of the 1980s' - out next month www.theguardian.com/culture/2024...

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Nonfiction to look out for in 2025

From a river voyage with Robert Macfarlane to Helen Garner’s candid tale of a broken marriage, via Ian Leslie’s analysis of Lennon and McCartney’s complicated kinship, here are the titles you can’t af...

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Brackstone @leebrackstone.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Gonna watch Groundhog Day. Again.

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Brackstone @leebrackstone.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

First epiphany of 2025: find a jacket as cool as Dick Van Dyck’s in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

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Brackstone @leebrackstone.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Wasn’t it. Solidarity brother x

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Brackstone @leebrackstone.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Will be reporting to the Committee for Crimes Against Confectionary in due course

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Brackstone @leebrackstone.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Nice to see Mopn’s book there mate. I’ll send you the new Keenan early in the New Year

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Brackstone @leebrackstone.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Yes the 1914 Xmas Day football match was an extraordinary thing but nowhere near as big an achievement as getting two teenage girls to join you on a dog walk on Boxing Day

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Brackstone @leebrackstone.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Principal Xmas gifts: a bottle of mescal, three classic albums, and a rowing machine. Will start with the mescal and work my way up. Christmas as a mid-life miniature

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Brackstone @leebrackstone.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

I think we can all amicably agree in the spirit of goodwill to all men that the debate about whether Die Hard is a Christmas movie can and should be retired forever now. Thanks and Merry Xmas

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Richard James Foster @richardjamesfoster.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Here it is - my new book, by @ortacpress.bsky.social - it’s lovely.

Two copies of The Punk Rock Birdwatching Club, by Richard Foster

Two copies of The Punk Rock Birdwatching Club, by Richard Foster. With a postcard of an etching of a tern

Two copies of The Punk Rock Birdwatching Club, by Richard Foster. Showing inner flaps.

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White Rabbit Books @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

We've managed to fit in a bit of reading from beyond WR in 2024, and here are a few of the books we've enjoyed. Sending much love to the authors and publishers who have brought these into the world - hard to pick just 25 and we know there are loads we've forgotten, but it's been a long year...

Jeremy Cooper / Brian

Naomi Wood / This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things

Annie Jacobsen / Nuclear War: A Scenario

Sunjeev Sahota / The Spoiled Heart

Claire Dederer / Monsters: What Do We Do with Great Art by Bad People?

Richard Flanagan / Question 7

Rose Cartwright / The Maps We Carry

Dorian Lynskey / Everything Must Go

Chimene Suleyman / The Chain

Alan Moore / The Great When

Marieke Lucas Reijneveld / My Heavenly Favourite

Hanif Kureishi / Shattered

Jon Savage / The Secret Public: How LGBTQ Performers Shaped Popular Culture

Tom Newlands / Only Here, Only Now

Patrick Clarke / Bedsit Land: The Strange Worlds of Soft Cell

Kristin Hersh / The Future of Songwriting

Lewis Baston / Borderlines

Garth Greenwell / Small Rain

Will Hodgkinson / Street-Level Superstar: A Year with Lawrence

Halle Butler / Banal Nightmare

Jeff Vandermeer / Absolution

Mariana Enriquez / A Sunny Place for Shady People

Olivia Laing / The Garden Against Time

Clive Chijioke Nwonka and Matthew Harle (Editors) / Black Arsenal

Ann Powers / Travelling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell

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White Rabbit Books @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

2024 has been another great year for music, and here - in no particular order - are just some of the many records we’ve been loving this year. We'd love to hear your favourites too... 🎧 And here's a playlist featuring a track from each one: open.spotify.com/playlist/0Jc...

One True Pairing / Endless Rain

Bill Ryder Jones / Iechyd Da

Porridge Radio / Clouds In The Sky They Will Always Be There For Me

The Cure / Songs Of A Lost World

Mabe Fratti / Sentir Que No Sabes

Vampire Weekend / Only God Was Above Us

Shit and Shine / Masters of All this Hell

Vince Staples / Dark Times

Nala Sinephro / Endlessness

070 Shake / Petrichor

Good Looks / Lived Here for a While

Fat White Family / Forgiveness is Yours

Xiu Xiu / 13” Frank Beltrame Italian Stiletto with Bison Horn Grips

Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds / Wild God

Kim Gordon / The Collective

Kahil El'Zabar, Ethnic Heritage Ensemble / Open Me, A Higher Consciousness of Sound and Spirit

Michael Kiwanuka / Small Changes

Waxahatchee / Tigers Blood

St Vincent / All Born Screaming

Tyler, The Creator / CHROMAKOPIA

English Teacher / This Could Be Texas

GNOD / Spot Land

Tierra Whack / World Wide Whack

Rosali / Bite Down

Floating Points / Cascade

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Brackstone @leebrackstone.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Happy Birthday to The Country Girl. Gone but never forgotten xxx

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Brackstone @leebrackstone.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Wouldn’t know mate. We haven’t played there since the late 80s …

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Brackstone @leebrackstone.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Leeds United: Big Club Mentality

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White Rabbit Books @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

'I belong to a tradition of creativity. I believe in individual creativity being the heart and soul of mankind. I don’t want to be anything and so I live a wonderful life of freedom.' Resharing this great Billy Childish interview with @tedkessler.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

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Billy Childish: ‘I idolise myself. I don’t waste my time idolising other things’

The artist talks about old pop stars, not networking, getting lucky as a painter and earning the right to fart at the table

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Brackstone @leebrackstone.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

‘It is dark blood magic that distinguishes fascism from conventional hard right governments’ - one of many on the nose sentences in this excellent and timely book @induct.bsky.social @dorianlynskey.bsky.social @wnbooks.bsky.social

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Brackstone @leebrackstone.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

I’m proud to have published Tony White, especially the first book in this radically ambitious series. A writer who rises above genre to create something new with every book; a hybrid of literary pop culture & police procedural with the chops of Michael Moorcock. Bravo @unbounders.bsky.social

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White Rabbit Books @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

NOW SHIPPING: fabric, the deluxe WR edition The stunning fully illustrated celebration of the club's 25th birthday, with additional exclusive memorabilia including silver pendant, pin badge, slipmat, FABRICLIVE 100 4xLP + more. Only from our store... store.whiterabbitbooks.co.uk/products/fab...

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David Keenan @reversediorama.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

It’s here! Never anything less than a total buzz to get the proofs of your new book. @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social

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Brackstone @leebrackstone.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

I had forgotten about this … Michael Smith news incoming in 2025 from @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social

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White Rabbit Books @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Great to see two of ours in fine company here, as Questlove and Vivien Goldman make Guardian's pick of the five best music books of 2024…

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Brackstone @leebrackstone.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Two @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social titles selected as the Guardian’s Music Books of the Year. Hip hop, punk, afrobeat, jazz, reggae: essential reading for fans of all these genres. Also big hugs @jonsavage.bsky.social whose book I commissioned and reluctantly left behind

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White Rabbit Books @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

📰 We'll be focusing a lot more on our newsletter in 2025, regularly sending good stuff to your inbox including big announcements and exclusives. If you want to be part of it and receive Dispatches from down the Rabbit Hole, sign up at bit.ly/WhiteRabbitN... - we promise it will be worth it!

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Brackstone @leebrackstone.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

2025 marks five years down the rabbit hole and we will be celebrating in style. To hear early, first and exclusively about what we are up to and special offers, sign up to our Newsletter, which is getting the @tomnoble.bsky.social magic makeover right now bit.ly/WhiteRabbitN...

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White Rabbit – Newsletter sign-up - Hachette UK

Sign up to the White Rabbit email newsletter and be the first to hear about new projects, exclusive content, signed copies and much more.

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Carl Loben @carlloben3000.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Crikey, is it really 25 years since Fabric opened? Just got hold of the new book celebrating the influential London club's quarter of a century, & it's stuffed full of lovely artwork and photos, with words curated by @joemuggs.bsky.social. It's out now via @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social x

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White Rabbit Books @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Today's focus title for Rough Trade in their books of the year countdown is Joel Gion's now cult classic memoir IN THE JINGLE JANGLE JUNGLE, about the wild first decade of The Brian Jonestown Massacre blog.roughtrade.com/gb/uk-books-... Photos from his sold out RT Nottingham event earlier this year

Joel Gion at Rough Trade Nottingham, in conversation with journalist Daniel Dylan Wray

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