Syd Barrett - A Very Irregular Head Syd Barrett was the lead guitarist vocalist and principle songwriter in the original line up of Pink Floyd. During his brief time with the band (1966-68) he was the driving force behind the unit. After he left the band he made just ...more

Spanning Tom Waits' extraordinary 40-year career, from "Closing Time" to "Orphans", "Lowside of the Road" is Barney Hoskyns' unique take on one of rock's great enigmas. Like Bob Dylan and Neil Young, Waits is a chameleonic survivor who's achieved long-term success while...more

A nostalgic look at Acid House and the dance and social culture that spawned it. The book sees the key to Acid House as fun, and presents a year-by-year celebration of the decade in anecdotal style. A lovingly constucted memory-evoking scrapbook and memoir, filled with ...more

Featuring illustrators from 25 countries, the second volume of Taschen's 'Illustration Now' spans from the traditional to the cutting edge. Focusing on a combination of familiar faces and up-and-comers from within the industry, this book is perfect not only for creative...more

The comics that spawned the hugely popular 2010 movie are collected here in one beautifully constructed volume. A fiercely intelligent piece of work that uses familiar superhero tropes to fresh, novel effects. The original story of teenage ambition and imaginationl is e...more

Even bleaker than the movie adaptation, Cormac McCarthy's post-apocalyptic nuightmare, for which he won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize, is a hauntingly sparse and direct account of a father-son relationship in a world that has collapsed in on itself. In turn unflinchingly viol...more

'No Country For All Men' finds Cormac McCarthy at the top of his game, delivering an unforgiving tale of desperation, greed and moral corruption set against the dry landscape of the US-Mexico border. The writing here is a cinematically rendered portrait of darkness and ...more

'Blood Meridian', a rich and complex western, follows a teenage runaway, referred to only as "the kid", and his experiences with the Glanton gang, a group of scalp hunters who massacre Indians and others on the United States-Mexico borderlands. Set in the mid 19th centu...more

The second novel from one of the most influential writers living in America today, 'Outer Dark' is a Southern story of the grimmest realms of human nature and basic instinct. The story follows a mother's hunt to find her born-of-incest child after the baby has been aban...more

By the author of the critically acclaimed "Border Trilogy", "Child of God" is a taut, chilling novel that plumbs the depths of human degradation. Lester Ballard, a violent, solitary and introverted young backwoodsman dispossessed on his ancestral land, is released from ...more