RE/Search

A deservedly legendary series of beautifully designed volumes, each focusing on a different aspect of American life. Each oversize volume clocks in at over 200 pages lavishly illustrated and packed with photographs throughout. A long-term cultural re-mapping programme-RE/Search makes a a study of the extremes of human behaviour.

RE/SEARCH no.13

Angry Women

pb • £16.99 • 0 940642 24 7

Massive interviews with the likes of Lydia Lunch, Kathy Acker, Susie Bright, Bell Hooks, Annie Sprinkle et al, discussing revolutionary feminism, sex, humour, beauty, spirituality,and everything else in between.

Angry Women In Rock Vol. 1

pb • £16.99 • 0 940642 31 X

A series of interviews - from the Riot Grrrls to the pioneers. From Bikini Kill and Bratmobile, to kd lang, The Breeders, Sinead O'Connor, Chrissie Hynde, Debbie Harry, Joan Jett, Patti Smith, Suzi Quatro et al. From unfettered libido and sexuality to creative passion.
RE/SEARCH People Series Vol. 1

Bob Flanagan: Super Masochist

pb • £13.99 • 0 940642 25 5

One of the latest from Re/Search, so you'll all buy it anyway. Our Bob as the title suggests likes doing things to his body, often his genitalia, and there are hundreds of photos of him nailed to various objects etc etc to prove it. Comes with the usual wondrous Re/Search packaging. Not only does Flanagan nail his scrotum to planks, but in the interviews herein shows himself to be warm, intelligent and challenging about what he does, and why.
MANNIX, Daniel P

Freaks: We Who Are Not As Others

pb • £12.99 • 0 940642 20 4

A fantastic compendium of human freaks - midgets, Siamese twins, pinheads etc - their lives, loves, dilemmas and achievements.
WILLEFORD, Charles

High Priest of California

pb • £9.95 • 0 940642 30 1

1953 San Francisco 'roman noir'. Unusual plots, tough dialogue starring anti-heroes both brutal and complex, and women living outside the lie of chivalry. Both the novel, and a play based upon the novel, also by Willeford.
RE/SEARCH no.10

Incredibly Strange Films

pb • £15.99 • 0 940642 09 3

In-depth interviews with those largely neglected by the film criticism establishment - from Russ Meyer to Herschell Gordon Lewis - along with essays, a bibliography, A-Z of film personalities and hundreds of photos.
RE/SEARCH no.14

Incredibly Strange Music vol 1

pb • £15.99 • 0 940642 22 0

Surveys the territory of neglected 'garage sale' records, spotlighting genres, artists and one-of -a-kind gems that will delight and surprise. From the sublime to the ridiculous, it will certainly expand the musical palette. Includes interviews with such luminaries as the Cramps on their own personal collections, weird tastes, and particular favourites.
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Incredibly Strange Music, vol. 2

pb • £15.99 • 0 940642 21 2

A continuation of the territory investigated in volume one, with interviews with the likes of Jello Biafra, Bebe Barron, Elizabeth Waldo, Korla Pandit, Rusty Warren and Ken Nordine. The usual insight, humour and lavish production - photos, illustrations and cataloguing galore.
RE/SEARCH no.'s 6-7

Industrial Culture Handbook

pb • £12.99 • 0 940642 07 7

Essential library reference guide to the deviant performance artists and musicians of the movement - Survival Research Laboratories, Throbbing Gristle, Cabaret Voltaire, SPK. Interviews, essays, sources etc.
RE/SEARCH no.'s 8-9

JG Ballard

pb • £13.99 • 0 940642 08 5

Three interviews, a biography, fiction and non-fiction excerpts, essays, quotations, bibliography and photos on this supremely relevant writer.
RE/SEARCH no.12

Modern Primitives

pb • £15.99 • 0 940642 14 X

The book that started it all. The ultimate compendium of tattooing, piercing and body scarification. Interviews, essays and thousands of those pictures.
RE/SEARCH no.11

Pranks

pb • £15.99 • 0 940642 10 7

Pranksters such as Timothy Leary, Abbie Hoffman, Mark Pauline, Jello Biafra, Earth First!, Karen Finley, John Waters and Henry Rollins challenge the sovereign authority of words, images and behavioural convention.
BALLARD, JG

The Atrocity Exhibition

pb • £12.99 • 0 940642 18 2

A new revised edition, with annotations and commentary by the author. Includes four additional stories, a preface by Burroughs and the usual lavish production, illustrations and photographs.
SACHER-MASOCH, Wanda von

The Confessions of Wanda Von Sacher-Masoch

pb • £12.99 • 0 940642 23 9

A feminist classic from the woman that was married for ten years to the man whose whip and fur bedroom games spawned the term 'masochism'.
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The Re/Search Guide to Body Fluids

pb • £13.99 • 0 940642 28 X

Bringing bodily functions out of the (water) closet into polite conversation. This guide sparks a radical rethinking of our relationship with our bodies and Nature, humorously (and seriously) spanning the gamut of everything you ever wanted to know about bodily functions and excreta.
MIRBEAU, Octave

The Torture Garden

pb • £12.99 • 0 940642 13 1

Long out of print, the macabre classic features a corrupt Frenchman and insatiably cruel Englishwoman who frequent a Chinese garden where torture is practised as an art form. Illustrated with evocative, dream-like photos,and equipped with the obligatory introduction, biography and bibliography.
WILLEFORD, Charles

Wild Wives

pb • £9.99 • 0 940642 29 8

In true hard-boiled tradition, another classic detective tale complete with amoral detectives and loose (married) women.
RE/SEARCH no.'s 4-5

WS Burroughs, Brion Gysin, Throbbing Gristle

pb • £11.99 • 0 940642 05 0

Interviews, scarce fiction and essays, along with rare photos, bibliographies, discographies, chronologies and illustrations.