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It's Going To Be A Bright New Day: Would You Rather, with Bonnie Prince Billy - Max
Porter (RT#35)
Rough Trade Books 2020 ISBN 9781912722426 Acqn 30574
Pb 14x21cm 32pp col ills £7.99

It's Going to be a Bright New Day: Would You Rather, with Bonnie 'Prince' Billy is Max Porter
asking Will Oldham questions. Will Oldham has to say whether he would rather one thing, or
another. Many topics are covered, including music, sex, cuisine, literature and travel. Some
people believe that the Would You Rather format is better suited to a long car journey than a
pamphlet, but we disagree. It works just fine on the page. More than that, it's very interesting and
occasionally profound.

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D.I.Y. as Privilege: A Manifesto - Richard Phoenix (RT#36)

Rough Trade Books 2020 ISBN 9781912722440 Acqn 30575
Pb 14x21cm 32pp col ills £7.99

Originally a one-page manifesto, this poignant and funny pamphlet documents over a decade of
experiences, both supporting musicians with learning disabilities and being part of a D.I.Y. punk
scene. Through anecdotes, observations and the voices of the people he's met along the way,
artist Richard Phoenix shares moments that have stayed with him, and shows us how he re-
evaluated his perception of Do-It-Yourself culture. Featuring Daniel Wakeford, Pertti Kurikan
Nimipaivat, The Fish Police, Beat Express, Robyn Steward, Electric Fire and more.

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Lament - Briony Bax (RT#37)

Rough Trade Books 2020 ISBN 9781912722433 Acqn 30576
Pb 14x21cm 24pp £7.99

Briony Bax leads the reader through the brutal world of mental illness and specifically an account
of an individual's journey with schizophrenia. A world where sections, court rooms, locked wards,
tribunals, and assessment centres form the backdrop of the daily living of sufferers and
caregivers. Through honesty and testimony, it shines a light on the disastrous effects of
government austerity measures on the mentally ill.

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Mattress Mantras - David Shillinglaw (RT#38)

Rough Trade Books 2020 ISBN 9781912722457 Acqn 30577
Pb 14x21cm 28pp col ills £7.99

In Mattress Mantras, artist David Shillinglaw provides a new way of looking at the sometimes
tawdry everyday-domestic, as embodied in the object central to these images - the mattress.
Transformed through Shillinglaw's textual interventions, these objects begin to carry both the
meaning of the additional words-playful, philosophical, literary-and a heightened sense of their
own histories. Shillinglaw draws our attention to the tension between our domestic and external
environments, between objects of use and objects of art, and between our human interactions
and our material refuse.

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