Rough Trade Books

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'An astounding book, moving between shadow and light with an honesty and self-awareness I found completely compelling. As an account of how to handle our private and public hurts, and of a woman’s rage, and how pain and beauty is…

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To coincide with a new GRAYSON PERRY exhibition at The Wallace Collection entitled Delusions of Grandeur, which we understand will be framed by the idea that his new work has been influenced by the figure and work…

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What would you say if you had one ideal chance to speak yourself, to make a language that spoke across time to those you have loved, to those you have wronged, to all those countless human and non-human lives that have intersected and…

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As formally inventive as readers have come to expect from one of the most daring writers around, and as wild and tricky as its subject matter requires, Goblinhood: Goblin as a Mode presents us with a series of essays and poems…

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Contradictions (both real and apparent), oppositions, enigmas, provocations, challenges—this is the kind of material that makes a life, and is the kind of material that, in fiction, one is never quite sure of. With Pretty…

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In Open Mouths Sharan Hunjan presents a vision of a world simultaneously familiar and strikingly strange. The quotidian, the domestic, the commonplace are interrogated and manipulated through the poet’s eye for detail,…

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“THE WORLD SEEMS TO BE FINALLY CATCHING UP TO LESLIE WINER, WHOSE STARTLING INTELLIGENCE AND SINGULAR VISION SHINE THROUGH HER COPIOUS RECORDING LIFE.”—Max Richter Pretty Broad Tastes is the first full collection…

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“THIS BOOK IS A SHINING EXAMPLE OF THE NEED FOR THE ARTS TO BE INVOLVED IN POLITICAL MOVEMENTS.” —THE MORNING STAR“A POWERFUL AND STIMULATING RECORD OF THE STRIKE... A BEAUTIFULLY PRODUCED BOOK.” —THE…

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Do Your Own Thing is a full-length work of non-fiction from artist and musician RICHARD PHOENIX detailing his experiences of the best underground arts scene you’ve never heard of—Do Your Own Thing, a project run…

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One of the very first publications to come off the Rough Trade Books press, Pessimism is for Lightweights began life as thirteen pieces of courage and resistance from the pen of the one and only Salena Godden. These are poems…

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Chilly Gonzales is one of the most exciting, original, hard-to-pin-down musicians of our time. Filling halls worldwide at the piano in his slippers and a bathrobe—in any one night he can be dissecting the musicology of an Oasis hit,…

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The narrator arrives in Berlin, a place famed for its hedonism, to find peace and maybe love; only to discover that the problems which have long haunted him have arrived there too, and are more present than ever. As he approaches his…