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Sweating Tears with Fat White Family - Adelle Stripe & Lisa Craddock (RT#31)
Rough Trade Books 2019 ISBN 9781912722358 Acqn 29874
Pb 14x21cm 28pp 2col ills £7.99

A revealing examination of the dysfunctional songwriting partnership at the heart of one of

Britain's most unpredictable and controversial contemporary rock 'n' roll bands, Sweating Tears
with Fat White Family features candid interviews by author Adelle Stripe with Fat White Family
singer Lias Saoudi and guitarist Saul Adamczewski. From childhood traumas to adult squalor and
critical success, it is a tale of bitterness, humour, excess, cruelty, and the vile affections that bind
this exceptional pairing on their continued Orphean descent into the underworld.

This exclusive edition features demonic engravings by printmaker Lisa Cradduck, inspired by
Berber folklore and the grotesque 16th century drolleries of Richard Breton.

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McFadden's Cold War - Cold War Steve (RT#32)

Rough Trade Books 2019 ISBN 9781912722365 Acqn 29875
Pb 14x21cm 32pp col ills £7.99

McFadden's Cold War is a collection of some of the earliest forays into the making of images that
has come to be one of the defining artistic moments of post-referendum, post-Trump, post-truth
Britain, the online phenomenon known as Cold War Steve. At first these images were a perfectly
balanced deft-yet-naive, phone-spun collage of cold war photography featuring the startling (and
always startlingly fitting) presence of the actor Steve McFadden, playing Eastenders' Phil
Mitchell. The set-pieces have since grown to take in the plight of the UK, the farce of the political
classes, a cast of characters as broad and diverse and daft as the country itself, but these early
pieces are an essay in the tightness of the artist's aesthetic vision, the originality of his humour,
the genuine surrealism of the work.

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Without Seeming to Care at All - Max Sydney Smith (RT#33)

Rough Trade Books 2019 ISBN 9781912722372 Acqn 29876
Pb 14x21cm 32pp 1ills £7.99

Nearly everyone who works in the bar is trying to make it as an artist or something. We are trying
to make it as dancers, writers, shoe-makers and DJs, actors, tattooists, costume designers and
developers. We do not care about the bar and yet we find we cannot help but care a little.

This is the story of how we became an odd family. In it you will also find lots of smaller stories,
about rescuing a nest of swan eggs, pulling a corpse from the canal, and giving birth to half a
watermelon.

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Diary of a Bootlegger - Jonny Banger (RT#34)

Rough Trade Books 2019 ISBN 9781912722389 Acqn 29877
Pb 14x21cm 32pp ills £7.99

Diary of a Bootlegger is a work of digital cuttings-out. Here emails, tweets and text messages
replace the pre-internet age's paper scrapbook of clippings, thoughts, exchanges, in-jokes and
appropriations, the form itself suggestive of the Sports Banger aesthetic- an of-our-times hybrid of
political comment, sportswear chic and proud class consciousness. Through this curated
sequence of customer service emails, twitter 'content', family chat and warehouse humour we are
told the story of Jonny Banger's seemingly improbable rise from a DIY outfit bootlegging well-
known sports brands to becoming one of the most talked about fashion phenomenon of the last
decade.

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