Brackstone
@leebrackstone.bsky.social
Publisher, White Rabbit Books
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"Keshed hums with the vitality of lived and hard won experience that only fiction of the most transcendent kind can deliver. Channeling Bukowski, Denis Johnson and Selby Jr in a Yorkshire patois of brutal authenticity......
September 19, 2025 at 7:57 AM
"Keshed hums with the vitality of lived and hard won experience that only fiction of the most transcendent kind can deliver. Channeling Bukowski, Denis Johnson and Selby Jr in a Yorkshire patois of brutal authenticity......
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Limited to 500 copies signed hardback edition of Boyhood @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social comes with a gorgeous art print of the cover shot by legendary photographer Douglas Corrrance. Get in there: geni.us/Boyhood
October 30, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Limited to 500 copies signed hardback edition of Boyhood @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social comes with a gorgeous art print of the cover shot by legendary photographer Douglas Corrrance. Get in there: geni.us/Boyhood
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Had a blast touring Boyhood around our favourite booksellers in Glasgow and Edinburgh over the last few days. Thank you all for bringing the magic and enthusiasm. What a vibe x
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October 30, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Had a blast touring Boyhood around our favourite booksellers in Glasgow and Edinburgh over the last few days. Thank you all for bringing the magic and enthusiasm. What a vibe x
@whiterabbitbks.bsky.social
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Lee Brackstone reflects on how #AndrewWeatherall led bandmates Gary Burns and Jagz Kooner on a determined excursion through the twinkling, psychedelic sonic margins
#TheSabresOfParadise - Sabresonic and Haunted Dancehall are tQ's Reissues of the Week
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#TheSabresOfParadise - Sabresonic and Haunted Dancehall are tQ's Reissues of the Week
buff.ly/ck4saIH
August 1, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Lee Brackstone reflects on how #AndrewWeatherall led bandmates Gary Burns and Jagz Kooner on a determined excursion through the twinkling, psychedelic sonic margins
#TheSabresOfParadise - Sabresonic and Haunted Dancehall are tQ's Reissues of the Week
buff.ly/ck4saIH
#TheSabresOfParadise - Sabresonic and Haunted Dancehall are tQ's Reissues of the Week
buff.ly/ck4saIH
Always a tough afternoon in the David Cameron household I imagine
January 26, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Always a tough afternoon in the David Cameron household I imagine
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Delighted to announce a special guest joining us for our BASE NOTES night @thesociallondon.bsky.social, as we celebrate Adelle Stripe's memoir... also appearing will be @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social!
10 Feb, tickets from thesocial.seetickets.com/event/adelle...
10 Feb, tickets from thesocial.seetickets.com/event/adelle...
January 20, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Delighted to announce a special guest joining us for our BASE NOTES night @thesociallondon.bsky.social, as we celebrate Adelle Stripe's memoir... also appearing will be @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social!
10 Feb, tickets from thesocial.seetickets.com/event/adelle...
10 Feb, tickets from thesocial.seetickets.com/event/adelle...
The jokey flippant lads down the pub way @bbcradio4.bsky.social Today programme is covering Trump Day One is perhaps the most worrying indication of how the creep of fascism is now officially in the room. Grow up.
January 21, 2025 at 6:18 AM
The jokey flippant lads down the pub way @bbcradio4.bsky.social Today programme is covering Trump Day One is perhaps the most worrying indication of how the creep of fascism is now officially in the room. Grow up.
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I’m going to be doing an event on Saturday with Billy Childish for @citylightsbooks.bsky.social, speaking with the great Guy Picciotto of Fugazi. 11 AM PT/2 PM ET/7 PM GMT. All welcome. Billy Childish & Guy Picciotto: rare meeting of minds…
January 15, 2025 at 7:35 PM
I’m going to be doing an event on Saturday with Billy Childish for @citylightsbooks.bsky.social, speaking with the great Guy Picciotto of Fugazi. 11 AM PT/2 PM ET/7 PM GMT. All welcome. Billy Childish & Guy Picciotto: rare meeting of minds…
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NEW EVENT
JOEL GION: IN THE JINGLE JANGLE JUNGLE
📅 17 Feb Walthamstow
In conversation with @willhodgkinson.bsky.social
Tickets:🎟️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1156027733... @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social @leebrackstone.bsky.social
JOEL GION: IN THE JINGLE JANGLE JUNGLE
📅 17 Feb Walthamstow
In conversation with @willhodgkinson.bsky.social
Tickets:🎟️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1156027733... @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social @leebrackstone.bsky.social
January 14, 2025 at 8:56 AM
NEW EVENT
JOEL GION: IN THE JINGLE JANGLE JUNGLE
📅 17 Feb Walthamstow
In conversation with @willhodgkinson.bsky.social
Tickets:🎟️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1156027733... @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social @leebrackstone.bsky.social
JOEL GION: IN THE JINGLE JANGLE JUNGLE
📅 17 Feb Walthamstow
In conversation with @willhodgkinson.bsky.social
Tickets:🎟️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1156027733... @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social @leebrackstone.bsky.social
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Tambourines at the ready people, Joel Gion is heading to Walthamstow...
Celebrating his acclaimed book IN THE JINGLE JANGLE JUNGLE in paperback with @rnrbook-club.bsky.social, in conversation with @willhodgkinson.bsky.social + guest DJs
Tickets on sale now eventbrite.co.uk/e/joel-gion-...
Celebrating his acclaimed book IN THE JINGLE JANGLE JUNGLE in paperback with @rnrbook-club.bsky.social, in conversation with @willhodgkinson.bsky.social + guest DJs
Tickets on sale now eventbrite.co.uk/e/joel-gion-...
January 14, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Tambourines at the ready people, Joel Gion is heading to Walthamstow...
Celebrating his acclaimed book IN THE JINGLE JANGLE JUNGLE in paperback with @rnrbook-club.bsky.social, in conversation with @willhodgkinson.bsky.social + guest DJs
Tickets on sale now eventbrite.co.uk/e/joel-gion-...
Celebrating his acclaimed book IN THE JINGLE JANGLE JUNGLE in paperback with @rnrbook-club.bsky.social, in conversation with @willhodgkinson.bsky.social + guest DJs
Tickets on sale now eventbrite.co.uk/e/joel-gion-...
Judging by my inbox over the past six months, I predict that come July 2025 there will be more books in the market dedicated to Oasis than Shakespeare and The Beatles combined.
January 11, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Judging by my inbox over the past six months, I predict that come July 2025 there will be more books in the market dedicated to Oasis than Shakespeare and The Beatles combined.
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Nonfiction to look out for in 2025...
Very nice to see Base Notes getting a shoutout here, Adelle Stripe's 'olfactory account of growing up in the north of the 1980s' - out next month
www.theguardian.com/culture/2024...
Very nice to see Base Notes getting a shoutout here, Adelle Stripe's 'olfactory account of growing up in the north of the 1980s' - out next month
www.theguardian.com/culture/2024...
Nonfiction to look out for in 2025
From a river voyage with Robert Macfarlane to Helen Garner’s candid tale of a broken marriage, via Ian Leslie’s analysis of Lennon and McCartney’s complicated kinship, here are the titles you can’t af...
www.theguardian.com
January 7, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Nonfiction to look out for in 2025...
Very nice to see Base Notes getting a shoutout here, Adelle Stripe's 'olfactory account of growing up in the north of the 1980s' - out next month
www.theguardian.com/culture/2024...
Very nice to see Base Notes getting a shoutout here, Adelle Stripe's 'olfactory account of growing up in the north of the 1980s' - out next month
www.theguardian.com/culture/2024...
Gonna watch Groundhog Day. Again.
January 1, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Gonna watch Groundhog Day. Again.
First epiphany of 2025: find a jacket as cool as Dick Van Dyck’s in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
January 1, 2025 at 12:02 PM
First epiphany of 2025: find a jacket as cool as Dick Van Dyck’s in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Will be reporting to the Committee for Crimes Against Confectionary in due course
December 30, 2024 at 6:54 PM
Will be reporting to the Committee for Crimes Against Confectionary in due course
Yes the 1914 Xmas Day football match was an extraordinary thing but nowhere near as big an achievement as getting two teenage girls to join you on a dog walk on Boxing Day
December 26, 2024 at 11:55 AM
Yes the 1914 Xmas Day football match was an extraordinary thing but nowhere near as big an achievement as getting two teenage girls to join you on a dog walk on Boxing Day
Principal Xmas gifts: a bottle of mescal, three classic albums, and a rowing machine. Will start with the mescal and work my way up. Christmas as a mid-life miniature
December 25, 2024 at 11:28 AM
Principal Xmas gifts: a bottle of mescal, three classic albums, and a rowing machine. Will start with the mescal and work my way up. Christmas as a mid-life miniature
RIP Alfredo, Balearic legend open.spotify.com/track/51p3jv...
Theme from ''Hill Street Blues'' (feat. Larry Carlton)
Mike Post, Larry Carlton · Television Theme Songs · Song · 2005
open.spotify.com
December 24, 2024 at 6:21 PM
RIP Alfredo, Balearic legend open.spotify.com/track/51p3jv...
I think we can all amicably agree in the spirit of goodwill to all men that the debate about whether Die Hard is a Christmas movie can and should be retired forever now. Thanks and Merry Xmas
December 24, 2024 at 10:50 AM
I think we can all amicably agree in the spirit of goodwill to all men that the debate about whether Die Hard is a Christmas movie can and should be retired forever now. Thanks and Merry Xmas
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Here it is - my new book, by @ortacpress.bsky.social - it’s lovely.
December 18, 2024 at 6:08 PM
Here it is - my new book, by @ortacpress.bsky.social - it’s lovely.
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We've managed to fit in a bit of reading from beyond WR in 2024, and here are a few of the books we've enjoyed. Sending much love to the authors and publishers who have brought these into the world - hard to pick just 25 and we know there are loads we've forgotten, but it's been a long year...
December 18, 2024 at 10:22 AM
We've managed to fit in a bit of reading from beyond WR in 2024, and here are a few of the books we've enjoyed. Sending much love to the authors and publishers who have brought these into the world - hard to pick just 25 and we know there are loads we've forgotten, but it's been a long year...
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2024 has been another great year for music, and here - in no particular order - are just some of the many records we’ve been loving this year. We'd love to hear your favourites too...
🎧 And here's a playlist featuring a track from each one: open.spotify.com/playlist/0Jc...
🎧 And here's a playlist featuring a track from each one: open.spotify.com/playlist/0Jc...
December 17, 2024 at 5:00 PM
2024 has been another great year for music, and here - in no particular order - are just some of the many records we’ve been loving this year. We'd love to hear your favourites too...
🎧 And here's a playlist featuring a track from each one: open.spotify.com/playlist/0Jc...
🎧 And here's a playlist featuring a track from each one: open.spotify.com/playlist/0Jc...
Happy Birthday to The Country Girl. Gone but never forgotten xxx
December 15, 2024 at 1:10 PM
Happy Birthday to The Country Girl. Gone but never forgotten xxx
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'I belong to a tradition of creativity. I believe in individual creativity being the heart and soul of mankind. I don’t want to be anything and so I live a wonderful life of freedom.'
Resharing this great Billy Childish interview with @tedkessler.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Resharing this great Billy Childish interview with @tedkessler.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Billy Childish: ‘I idolise myself. I don’t waste my time idolising other things’
The artist talks about old pop stars, not networking, getting lucky as a painter and earning the right to fart at the table
www.theguardian.com
December 13, 2024 at 12:15 PM
'I belong to a tradition of creativity. I believe in individual creativity being the heart and soul of mankind. I don’t want to be anything and so I live a wonderful life of freedom.'
Resharing this great Billy Childish interview with @tedkessler.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Resharing this great Billy Childish interview with @tedkessler.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
‘It is dark blood magic that distinguishes fascism from conventional hard right governments’ - one of many on the nose sentences in this excellent and timely book @induct.bsky.social @dorianlynskey.bsky.social @wnbooks.bsky.social
December 12, 2024 at 11:35 AM
‘It is dark blood magic that distinguishes fascism from conventional hard right governments’ - one of many on the nose sentences in this excellent and timely book @induct.bsky.social @dorianlynskey.bsky.social @wnbooks.bsky.social