literature

‘Arhoolie Records Down Home Music’ is a visual storytelling celebration of American roots music through unseen and newly scanned photographs by Chris Strachwitz, the founder of the legendary Arhoolie Records. The book also features a substantial 20,000-word essay by award-winning music journalist Joel Selvin.

With Sonnets for Albert, Trinidad-born poet Anthony Joseph returns to the autobiographical material explored in his earlier collection Bird Head Son. Cafe Oto are hosting a special launch event on Thursday, 23 June 2022.

If you love music and sometimes muse over why it occupies such an important place in your life, you will revel in Jude Rogers’ sweeping, often raw, but decidedly life-affirming book ‘The Sound of Being Human: How Music Shapes Our Lives’.

Sacred Bones have today announced that they are to publish a 200-page book on the legendary Los Angeles cult The Source Family and their wildly influential psychedelic rock band Ya Ho Wa 13.

Following his bittersweet slacker debut novel ‘Three Craws’, Jame Yorkston has announced his second: The Book of the Gaels, described by musician and broadcaster Jarvis Cocker as ‘An unsentimental and unflinching miracle of remembrance’.

Sounding the Century is a projected ten-volume series of books by Mike Butler covering the life of Bill Leader, the sound engineer and producer who straddled the age of traditional song and the folk revival.

With Shared Notes, Martin Hayes has written an engrossing book that illuminates his life-long musical purpose, where his music fits in the multi-faceted world of Irish traditional music, and how he overcame the bumps in the road along that journey.

We chat to Simon Moreton about his book “Where?” Following his father’s death in 2017, the author went back to his childhood home in rural Shropshire trying to process his grief by revisiting his family’s time as transplants to the countryside.

The Teesside Troubadour Vin Garbutt who passed away in 2017 at the age of 69, is to have his autobiography published. Written in the years before his death, “this is Vin’s touching, funny and life-affirming story in his own words”. The book is available to pre-order now.

We chat with internationally acclaimed artist David Suff about his new book “Walking on Skylark Ridge” – part nature diary, part autobiography, this collection of writing and drawings documents our relationship with the local natural world through one year.

Join Rough Trade Books this evening as they celebrate International Women’s Day in a special free event with Award-winning indie bookshop Forum Books – featuring Martha Sprackland, Briony Bax and more with poetry, prose and conversation.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the poet, painter and owner of the world-famous literary landmark that is City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco has died at the age of 101. We look back at his life.