"An essential handbook to the most advanced modern music from the Bible of experimental sounds. Since it was founded in 1982, The Wire magazine has covered a vast range of alternative, experimental, underground and non-mainstream music. Now some of that knowledge has been distilled into The Wire Primers: a comprehensive guide to the core recordings of some of the most visionary and inspiring, subversive and radical musicians on the plan ..."
March of the Lemmings Brexit in Print and Performance 2016–2019 by StewartLee 324 Pages, Published 2019 by Faber & Faber ISBN-13: 978-0-571-35704-8, ISBN: 0-571-35704-0
"Dara Ó Briain helpfully tweeted the journalist Dominic Maxwell to correct some
information about me, by pointing out that he had also had stand-up specials on
terrestrial TV this decade, and to express his delight at the death of DVD and its ..."
"Evening Standard's the Best Comedy Books of the Year, 2018Skinny's Book of the Year, 2018 'Joyfully entertaining. Full of warmth, wisdom and affectionate delight in the wonder and absurdity of being human.' Observer'Funny, honest and heart-warming.' Matt HaigWhat better way to understand ourselves than through the eyes of comedians - those who professionally examine our quirks on stage daily? In this touching and witty book, award-winni ..."
March of the Lemmings Brexit in Print and Performance 2016-2019 by StewartLee Paperback, 400 Pages, Published 2019 by Faber & Faber ISBN-13: 978-0-571-35702-4, ISBN: 0-571-35702-4
"As a Metropolitan Elitist Snowflake, Stewart Lee was disappointed by the Brexit referendum result of 2016. But he knew how to weaponise his inconvenience. He would treat all his subsequent writing, until we left the EU, as interrelated episodes of a complete work. The cast of characters include Lemming-obsessed Michael Gove, violent tanning-salon entrepreneur Tommy Robinson and Boris Piccaninny Watermelon Bumboys Letterbox Cake Disaster ..."
Hometown Tales Birmingham by StewartLee, Maria Whatton Hardcover, 160 Pages, Published 2018 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson ISBN-13: 978-1-4746-0594-6, ISBN: 1-4746-0594-X
"Original tales by remarkable writersHometown Tales is a series of books pairing exciting new voices with some of the most talented and important writers at work today. Some of the tales are fiction and some are narrative non-fiction - they are all powerful, fascinating and moving, and aim to celebrate regional diversity and explore the meaning of home.In these pages on Birmingham, you'll find two unique tales. 'Silver in the Quarter' is ..."
I'm a Joke and So Are You A Comedian's Take on What Makes Us Human by Robin Ince, StewartLee Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 2018 by Atlantic Books ISBN-13: 978-1-78649-258-6, ISBN: 1-78649-258-X
I'm a Joke and So Are You A Comedian’s Take on What Makes Us Human by Robin Ince, StewartLee 288 Pages, Published 2018 by Atlantic Books ISBN-13: 978-1-78649-260-9, ISBN: 1-78649-260-1
"He didn't know. But he wanted to find out. Insightful, witty, and often just plain weird, this book charts his journey to discover why he's made the choices he did in life, and what makes us who we are. Why did Robin become a comedian?"
"The bassist from Birmingham's Beatle apprentices The Applejacks, Megan Davis,
grew up on my grandparents' road, and I think my mother and her brother may
have known her. As a kid, I remember my mum had all the sixties Applejacks ..."
"Stewart Lee has seen a ghost but doesn’t believe in the afterlife. Rob Beckett can peel a banana with his feet. Viv Groskop gave birth to a baby next to a dishwasher.What do you get when you combine unknown facts about some of Britain’s best-loved comedians with their favourite one-liners and candid, black-and-white portraits? The result is Joker Face, a hilarious record of the British comedy scene from comedian Steve Best, a 20-year ve ..."