Base Notes: Scents of a Life is picked by The Observer as a non-fiction highlight of 2025
Adelle Stripe’s olfactory memoir of growing up in the north of the 1980s will be published by White Rabbit in February.
Street Level Superstar by Will Hodgkinson is the number one book of the year in Mojo, Uncut and Rough Trade
“Our Book of the Year changes how we think about music memoirs, how they are structured and what they tell us,” say Rough Trade. “It tells us of a particular indefatigable individual who will go further than anyone else.”
Nine Eight signs Street Level Superstar: A Year With Lawrence by Will Hodgkinson, the chief rock and pop critic of The Times
Described by Jarvis Cocker as ‘essential reading’ and Bobby Gillespie as ‘wonderful’, Street-Level Superstar follows a year in the life of Lawrence, Britain’s most singular musical genius who never hit the big time.
Cocteau Twins’ Simon Raymonde announces new memoir
Described by Elton John as “a wonderful book of pop music history” and by Cillian Murphy as “beautiful, insightful and honest”, In One Ear: Cocteau Twins, Ivor and Me will be published by Nine Eight Books on September 12.
‘I don’t want to cancel him’: Rose Boyt on confronting the gaze of her father, Lucian Freud
Rose Boyt talks to the Observer about her chaotic childhood, writing truthfully about her dad, and the books she read to him on his deathbed. Her memoir Naked Portrait will be published by Picador on May 30th.
WHITE RABBIT SIGNS ‘BASE NOTES’, A SENSORY MEMOIR BY ADELLE STRIPE
Base Notes “documents that lost, last tribe that rarely gets served by contemporary literature – the Northern working class…This is the book I have always threatened to write.”