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This book is part of the Rough Trade Edition. Nearly everyone who works in the bar is trying to make it as an artist or something. We are trying to make it as dancers, writers, shoe-makers and DJs, actors, tattooists, costume designers and developers. [expand title="more"]We do not care about the bar and yet we find we cannot help but care a little. This is the story of how we became an odd family. In it you will also find lots of smaller stories, about rescuing a nest of swan eggs, pulling a corpse from the canal, and giving birth to half a watermelon.[/expand]

This book is part of the Rough Trade Edition. In 1977 Savage photographed streets around North Kensington in west London, which, like much of the inner city, had remained derelict since the area was bombed in the Second World War. [expand title="more"]These served as a visual backdrop for collages in the punk fanzine London's Outrage, which he edited. He said punk music 'seemed to point towards this idea of empty urban space'. The novels of JG Ballard also inspired him: 'It was this empty, deserted, depressing, kind of dystopian view of London that seemed to be coming up to the surface.' Savage was a key figure in the punk scene and is an important authority on the movement.[/expand]

This book is part of the Rough Trade Edition. A collection of 13 pieces of courage and resistance, this is work inspired by protests and rallies. Poems written for the women's march, for women's empowerment and amplification, poems that salute people fighting for justice, poems on sexism and racism, [expand title="more"]class discrimination, period poverty and homelessness, immigration and identity. This work reminds us that Courage is a Muscle, it also contains a letter from the spirit of Hope herself, because as the title suggests, Pessimism is for Lightweights.[/expand]

This book is part of the Rough Trade Edition. ‘Diary of a Bootlegger’ is a work of digital cut-outs. The emails, tweets, and text messages here replace the pre-Internet paper scrapbooks of clippings, thoughts, exchanges, in-jokes, and appropriations. [expand title="more"]The form is suggestive of the Sports Banger aesthetic, a clued-in hybrid of political commentary, sportswear chic, and proud class consciousness. Through this curated sequence of customer service emails, twitter “content”, family chats, and warehouse humour, the story of Jonny Banger’s seemingly improbable rise is told, from a DIY outfit bootlegging well-known sports brands to becoming one of the most talked about fashion phenomenons of the last decade.[/expand]

This book is part of the Rough Trade Edition. ‘McFadden’s Cold War’ is a collection of some of the earliest forays into the image production that has come to be one of the defining artistic moments of post-referendum, post-Trump, post-truth Britain: [expand title="more"]the online phenomenon known as Cold War Steve. At first a collage of Cold War scenes featuring the startling presence of actor Steve McFadden, the set pieces have since grown to take in the plight of the United Kingdom, the farce of the political classes, and a cast of characters as broad and diverse (and daft) as the country itself. Yet it is especially the early pieces reproduced in this book which comprise the essence of the artist’s aesthetic vision, original humour, and surrealism.[/expand]

‘All The Poems Contained Will Mean Everything To Everyone’ by Joe Dunthorne is part of the Rough Trade Edition. This is the story of one man's dream to edit a groundbreaking contemporary poetry anthology, of how that dream was actually a lot of work, what with reading many bad poems and also competent ones and handwriting rejection letters [expand title="more"]and using his wife's family money to pay postage and production costs, all while trying to bounce his newborn son to sleep. It is the story of the epiphanies that come with extreme tiredness: that maybe, just maybe, the greatest poetry book of all is one that contains no poems.[/expand]

This book is part of the Rough Trade Edition. Ecstatic Data Sets is a manual for a music-making machine of the near future. Whilst the technology already exists, these ideas are meant as a speculative projection, [expand title="more"]if read with a sympathetic ear this book could soon transform inside your mind and become the machine itself. Read it like a compressed file-unzip your imagination and consider a future where music can once again change the world.[/expand]

‘An Unexpected Gift: Three Christmas Stories’ by Marcel Theroux is part of the Rough Trade Edition. Originally written and pressed as Christmas cards for friends and family, An Unexpected Gift: Three Christmas Stories collects and presents three funny, tender, modern tales from Marcel Theroux. [expand title="more"]A hard-pressed barber gets an angelic last-minute customer, a struggling retailer finds un-looked for freedom, and a grieving anthropologist procures a new piece for her collection. These stories are beautifully crafted and underpinned with a wit, charm and light touch that provide perfect seasonal reading.[/expand]

This book is part of the Rough Trade Edition. A revealing examination of the dysfunctional songwriting partnership at the heart of one of Britain's most unpredictable and controversial contemporary rock 'n' roll bands, Sweating Tears with Fat White Family features candid interviews by author Adelle Stripe with Fat White Family singer Lias Saoudi and guitarist Saul Adamczewski. [expand title="more"]From childhood traumas to adult squalor and critical success, it is a tale of bitterness, humour, excess, cruelty, and the vile affections that bind this exceptional pairing on their continued Orphean descent into the underworld. This exclusive edition features demonic engravings by printmaker Lisa Cradduck, inspired by Berber folklore and the grotesque 16th century drolleries of Richard Breton.[/expand]

'Counter Reform' by Charlotte Newman is part of the Rough Trade Edition. Do you count the number of adjectives you use, and the number of syllables in the words? Do you put things down only with your left hand or step with your right foot forward so that the left is always last? [expand title="more"] 'Counter Reform' is a glimpse into the world of obsessive compulsive disorder, how it shapes every corner of your conscious mind, from the intellect to your social or anti-social life and sexuality. It is rarely tidy but often darkly funny, absurd, mathematical and something that needs to be resisted at every opportunity. This is an exercise in that resistance.[/expand]