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Rough Trade Editions in stock now

08.10.2018 by Ollie //

Sophy Hollington Tarot

This month saw the launch of Rough Trade Books, a new publishing imprint committed to "trading books and other wares of the same originality and radical direction" as Rough Trade Records, and they've embarked on this mission in earnest with the publication of their Editions pamphlet series. We've picked out some of our highlights below, and we have many other titles in stock now with more available to order. Each title is limited to 500 copies only so be quick!

To Run Wild In It by David Keenan and Sophy Hollington
Pamphlet / £7.99

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To Run Wild In It: A Handbook of Autonomic Tarot by David Keenan & Sophy Hollington

To Run Wild In It is a book about tarot, an experimental novella, a ‘channelled’ text and an extension of ideas first broached in David Keenan’s acclaimed debut novel, This Is Memorial Device. Taking the maxim that the best way to understand the tarot is to create your own, Keenan has reimagined the deck as the unfolding of parallel stories alive with uncanny oracular detail. In collaboration with the artist Sophy Hollington, the pair have also created an accompanying deck that, while still having an umbilical to the card’s archaic roots, future-visions it as a glam-punk portal deep into the Now.

Published by Rough Trade Books on 23rd July 2018
All The Poems Contained Within Will Mean Everything To Everyone by Joe Dunthorne
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All The Poems Contained Within Will Mean Everything To Everyone by Joe Dunthorne

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 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.

Published by Rough Trade Books on 23rd July 2018
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Pessimism is for Lightweights: 13 Pieces of Courage and Resistance by Salena Godden

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, 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.

Published by Rough Trade Books on 23rd July 2018
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Love, oh love by Ana de Silva

A collection of drawings from the pencil of Ana da Silva, songwriter and musician in the legendary group The Raincoats. Having always drawn and written poetry, lyrics, ideas, in Love, oh love Ana presents us with these disparate elements merged together, combining to express, with a renewed vigour, her unique vision.

Published by Rough Trade Books on 23rd July 2018
Film Ideas by Babak Ganjei
Pamphlet / £7.99

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Film Ideas by Babak Ganjei

After getting a retweet from American comedian Rob Delaney regarding his own fart joke (something Rob Delaney may well not remember) Babak Ganjei woke up to find a number of film producers from Los Angeles following him. Sensing an opportunity somewhere, anywhere, over the next five years Babak used Twitter to pitch film ideas, sadly to no avail. While ill and housebound Babak started to write them down in analogue form and discovered an audience waiting for his films.

In Film Ideas, artist Babak Ganjei presents his hallucinatory set of film pitches as both a comic lampoon of Hollywood tropes and a classic example of outsider-self-expression. Extremely funny and shot through with Ganjei’s singular world-view. Film Ideas brilliantly exposes our thin, absurd media culture.

Published by Rough Trade Books on 23rd July 2018

Categories // News Tags // Film, Illustration, Music, Poetry, Small Presses

Event - Baby Bird by Andrew Gibbs and Zosienka – Book Launch Party

03.14.2018 by Pages of Hackney //

Baby Bird poster

Join us for the launch of Baby Bird, a beautifully illustrated children's book by Andrew Gibbs and Zosienka. Refreshments will be provided, and local illustrator Zosienka will be signing copies of the book. Attendance is free but please reserve your place in advance (via the link below) as space is limited. 

‘All birds are born to fly,’ thinks Baby Bird, watching the other hatchlings leave the nest. ‘I suppose it’s now or never…’ But one of Baby’s wings is twisted and shrunken and not at all like the other one. Instead of flying, Baby plummets to the ground. There, Baby makes a new friend, and learns that sometimes you have to find unexpected ways to achieve your dreams. A moving story about the power of friendship and the importance of accepting yourself just the way you are, this lovely watercolour picture book shows how friends can help you overcome difficulty.

Andrew Gibbs was a storyteller whose unconventional imagination and mischievous charm was captured in print and on film. He devoted himself to telling stories of outsiders, with the sensitivity of someone who travelled the same road. Andrew moved from South Africa to London, where he and Zosienka forged a longstanding creative collaboration. Andrew died in 2017 due to complications of the heart. This book is devoted to him.

Zosienka is an illustrator and print designer from London who specializes in intricate drawings and watercolours. She has collaborated with confectioners, high-street fashion brands, recording artists and independent filmmakers. Baby Bird is her debut picture book.


Tags // Book Launch, Children's Book, Illustration

Event - Telling Stories – Children’s Book Illustration Private View

10.12.2017 by Pages of Hackney //

Join us as we launch a new exhibition featuring the work of three artists from Middlesex University's MA Children's Book Illustration and Graphic Novels programme. 

Please book your free ticket via the link below as space is limited.

Elena Topouzoglou

Elena Topouzoglou

Elena Topouzoglou has spent her time from a very young age painting and drawing. Her education at the Rhode Island School of Design and Vancouver Film School led her to build a career as a Visual Effects Compositor. Over the last 10 years, she has worked on the Oscar-winning movies Gravity and Hugo, and many other films including Beauty and the Beast, Paddington and Harry Potter.

Originally from Greece, she now resides in London. Elena has lived in Vancouver, New York, Oslo, Melbourne, Paris and Florence and is married to a Norwegian Visual Effects Artist. The birth of her son, Nicholas, inspired her to push her passion for drawing towards further artistic growth at Middlesex University, earning her a Master's in Children's Book Illustration.

Elena's first picture book Mr. Pegg's Post, will be published next year.

Alia Baghdad

Alia Baghdadi

Alia Baghdadi is a freelance illustrator. After studying marketing in Saudi Arabia and graduating in January 2014, Alia kept on practising drawing and painting. She won two drawing contests in Jeddah, and her inspirational tutor, Dorothy Boyer, motivated her to pursue what she really loves. In 2016 she began her MA in Children’s Book Illustration and Graphic Novels at Middlesex University. Recently she was commissioned to make a greeting for Movenpick ice cream in Saudi Arabia, and she also produced a little book about the life of Unity Mitford.

Michael O'Brien

Michael O'Brien

Michael O'Brien is an illustrator from North London. His work has been featured by the likes of Gallery Nucleus (Los Angeles), Bishop's Stortford Museum, Light Grey Art Lab (Minnesota), Mundial Magazine and the Time Online.

He works both traditionally and digitally. This year he has been creating graphic novels and children's books with the hope of having them published in the near future.


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