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Benjamin Myers Jesus Christ Kinski BLOOMSBURY 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.

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!

Flyer for author talk in Walthamstow on 22 January. Daniel Rachel, author of This Ain’t Rock ‘n’ Roll with Caroline Coon & Emma Forrest.

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This is very kind and unexpected to say the least: in the company of hellraisers @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social @damianbarr.bsky.social & Ozzy Osbourne, what more can one ask?

Thank you to @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social & @leebrackstone.bsky.social for choosing Maybe I'm Amazed as one of their books of the year, esp in such great company

Alan Jones Discomania Arthur Baker Looking for the Perfect Beat Ben Ratliff Run the Song Benjamin Markovits The Rest of Our Lives C. Mallon Dogs Damian Barr The Two Roberts Dan Nadel Crumb: A Cartoonist’s Life David Szalay FLESH Emily Adrian Seduction Theory Geoff Dyer Homework Han Kang We Do Not Helen Garner The Mushroom Tapes and How to End a Story: Collected Diaries Holly Dicker Dance Or Die: A History of Hardcore Ian Penman Erik Satie Three Piece Suite Jamie Taylor Studio Electrophonique John Harris Maybe I’m Amazed Jon Fosse Vaim Justin Currie The Tremolo Diaries Leo Robson The Boys Liz Pelly Mood Machine Lucy Rose The Lamb Mark Z. Danielewski Tom’s Crossing Olga Ravn The Wax Child Ozzy Osbourne Last Rites Richard Foster The Punk Rock Birdwatching Club Robert MacFarlane Is a River Alive? Ron Chernow Mark Twain Sarah Hall Helm Sophy Rickett et al Pissing Women Thea Lenarduzzi The Tower Thomas Pynchon Shadow Ticket Vincenzo Latronico Perfection Wendy Erskine The Benefactors

Presenting White Rabbit's Books of 2025...

A list of 33 nominated by our colleagues and friends - we hope you'll find something new to add to your reading pile.

And if something does catch your eye you can find it from our friends at @resident-music.com www.resident-music.com/collection/w...

168 Songs of Hatred and Failure by Keith Cameron review 168 key songs from the Manic Street Preachers' career are examined, with contributions from the band themselves.

'An astute study of some of the key songs from the Manics’ four-decades-spanning catalogue... solidifies their status as one of the best, most idiosyncratic bands of their generation'

@bigissue.com review of 168 SONGS OF HATRED & FAILURE | @keithcameron2.bsky.social www.bigissue.com/culture/musi...

A Love from Outer Space Compiled by Sean Johnston Annahstasia Tether Anna von Hausswolff Iconoclasts Avalon Emerson Perpetual Emotion Machine Billy Woods GOLLIWOG Blood Orange Essex Honey C.A.R. Dance at Oscar’s Cate le Bon Michaelangelo Dying Decius Vol ii Domenique Dumont Deux Paradis Earl Sweatshirt Live Laugh Love Escape-ism Charge of the Love Brigade FKA twigs Eusexua Geese Getting Killed Gundown Services Crumbs 2 Helen Ganya Share Your Care Insecure Men A Man for All Seasons Jane Remover Revengeseekerz John Glacier Like a Ribbon Jonathan Richman Only Frozen Sky Anyway Kevin Fowley À Feu Doux KiF Productions Still Out Lily Allen West End Girl Mark Williams Lewis Mark William Lewis Perfume Genius Glory Ringlets The Lord Is My German Shepherd Ryan Davis and the Roadhouse Band New Threats from the Soul Soulwax All Systems Are Lying SUMAC & Moor Mother The Film The Tubs Cotton Crown These New Puritans Crooked Wing Tropical Fuck Storm Fairyland Codex Witch Fever Fevereaten As chosen by White Rabbit colleagues, authors, collaborators and friends

Presenting White Rabbit's Records of 2025...

Some you'll know, hopefully some will be new to you, but all 33 are excellent. Big thanks to everyone who contributed to this list.

And you can of course order these from our friends @resident-music.com www.resident-music.com/collection/w...

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Cover of the book, featuring an image of the Beatles looking down at an image of Bob Dylan

Coming April 2026... WHERE THE MUSIC HAD TO GO, a captivating new dual biography of two titans of music, as Jim Windolf dives into the surprisingly supportive, occasionally rivalrous, always fertile relationship between Bob Dylan and the Beatles geni.us/WhereTheMusicHadToGo

Announcing a very long-overdue definitive biography of a music and spiritual visionary…

COSMIC MUSIC: The Life, Art and Transcendence of ALICE COLTRANE by @andybeta.bsky.social

Coming 19 March 2026: geni.us/CosmicMusic

New book delivery week! Four drops landed and I’m buzzing, fresh @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social , new Velocity Press, Rick Rubin’s paperback, plus the gorgeous Chuck D book that sparked our collab. All on shelves 12–5pm. Best selection in the Southside (maybe Glasgow!). Come say hi 🌞

Tickets for our LYNCHIAN event with John here:

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We were saddened to hear that legendary record business figure Andrew Lauder passed away earlier this week. He was great company and a compelling raconteur. His spirit lives on in hundreds of records that have changed the lives of so many and in the stories he left us in his book Happy Trails.

FINLAND FAB 3!
Had a wonderful adventure to Turku University to deliver a keynote speech.....

This Ain't Rock 'n' Roll
A @roughtraderecords.bsky.social & Resident Book of the Year!

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This is what I’ve been working on for the last six years. So excited to be able to share it.

Sinatra & Elvis
Bowie & Turner
Madonna & Tupac

Announcing FAMOUS: Ego, Envy and Ambition in Pop, Rock and Hip-Hop, coming March 2026 from Matt Thorne (@8minutesidle.bsky.social)

Exploring seven moments in music when huge stars have come together - and the resulting reverberations.

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The paperback edition of Base Notes is almost ready to go @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social. Fit new cover by Ola Galewicz w/ ‘Clive Loves Dawn’ number plate. Signed dedications are now available to pre-order at Forum Books (who can post a copy out to you) >>

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JUST IN! 'The Complete Johnny Cash - Lyrics from a Lifetime of Songwriting' by Mark Stielper & Johnny Cash

Comprehensive 800-page book featuring lyrics, notes, and annotations from fifty-five years of the Man In Black’s career.

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Thank you @resident-music.com for selecting 168 SONGS OF HATRED AND FAILURE by @keithcameron2.bsky.social as your #1 book of the year! And for choosing @danielrachel.bsky.social, @audreyjgolden.bsky.social, @liaminscoejones.bsky.social, @reversediorama.bsky.social + Budgie on the best of 2025 list 🙏

Also put together a bit of an accompanying playlist for the book. 30 tracks is peanuts in the grand scheme of things to reflect 60+ years, and a few bits also not on Spotify, but hopefully a nice taster and one that I may expand upon a bit over the coming months.

Weekend listening: @danieldylanwray.bsky.social's essential Sheffield playlist - 30 key tracks to get you in the mood for his book, GROOVY, LAIDBACK AND NASTY, which we announced yesterday. Thank you to everyone who has already helped spread the word!

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White Rabbit signs 'definitive, immersive' history of Sheffield's music scene in four-way auction White Rabbit has acquired music and culture writer Daniel Dylan Wray’s Groovy, Laidback and Nasty, a history of Sheffield music told through the city’s independent artists, scenes and spirit.

Didn’t get chance to properly post yesterday, as a bit full on, but I have written a book. On the history of music in Sheffield. Out in May via the excellent @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social. Pre-order available now and full PR spiel here. Thanks for the love so far

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RESIDENT BOOK OF THE YEAR

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168 Songs Of Hatred And Failure: A History Of Manic Street Preachers
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📖Resident End of Year Edition Hardback Book with Exclusive *Signed* 'Covers' Zine
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One of the best bits of my job @thequietus.com is asking @danieldylanwray.bsky.social to write about Sheffield & its music & this is going to be such a brilliant book on a fertile city (arguably one under-celebrated compared to certain places across the Pennines that never shut up about themselves)

Cannot wait to read this, was just going through pre-release catalogues yesterday and it instantly stood out as an essential looking book

Already know this is going to be great. @danieldylanwray.bsky.social is so good at getting great tales from people. Gonna re-read his Mark E Smith piece from 2019.

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This is guaranteed to be amazing

Holy shit. Going to be smashing that pre-order button come pay day.

An incredible effort from @danieldylanwray.bsky.social on this. 150+ interviews, covering nearly 70 years, this is THE book on one of THE great cities for music. Very proud to be Dan's publisher 👊 #SHEFFIELD

I was born in Sheffield. Will check this out.