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Shelf Life Books and Zines

I started Shelf Life Books and Zines in December 2019 as a pop-up inside my friend's beer and record shop, Pop'n'Hops. Since the first day, I've focused on making space for marginalised voices, stocking books from independent, micro- and self- publishers. You might think it's daft to start a specialist, not-for-profit bookshop in the digital age and during a pandemic (!) but I think now is the best possible time - our communities need bolstering, understanding and a safe place to have their voice heard more than ever.

 

Keep on reading!

 

Rosie x

Kitchen
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Ghost World
Hope In The Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
No One Belongs Here More Than You
Freshwater
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
The Care Manifesto: The Politics of Interdependence
Bullshit Jobs: The Rise of Pointless Work, and What We Can Do About It
Gender Explorers: Our Stories of Growing Up Trans and Changing the World
Her Body And Other Parties
Border Nation: A Story of Migration
Dryland
Your Silence Will Not Protect You: Essays and Poems
Revenge of the She-Punks: Poly Styrene to Pussy Riot
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
Flake
Driving Short Distances
A Puff of Smoke
Building Stories
Are You Listening?
Paying the Land
Sensible Footwear: A Girl's Guide: A graphic guide to lesbian and queer history 1950-2020
Quiet Girl in a Noisy World: An Introvert's Story
Feelings
Everybody Worries
Love Your Body
The Cloud
My Monster and Me
The Invisible
Where Happiness Begins
The Dare to Be You Journal
No Worries: Your Guide to Starting Secondary School
No Worries! Mindful Kids: An activity book for children who sometimes feel anxious or stressed
Online Offline! Mindful Kids: An activity book for young people who want to lead a healthy digital life
Be Brave! Mindful Kids: An Activity Book for Children Who Sometimes Feel Scared or Afraid
Hello Happy! Mindful Kids: An activity book for children who sometimes feel sad or angry.
Letting Go! Mindful Kids: An activity book for children who need support through experiences of loss, change, disappointment and
Michael Rosen's Sad Book
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams
Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation
Burnout: Solve Your Stress Cycle
Burnout Survival Kit: Instant relief from modern work
The Recovery Letters: Addressed to People Experiencing Depression
Pain is Really Strange: Graphic medicine
Trauma is Really Strange: Graphic medicine
Anxiety is Really Strange: Graphic medicine
The Anxiety Journal: Exercises to Soothe Stress and Eliminate Anxiety Wherever You Are
So Sad Today: personal essays
Create Your Own Calm: A Journal for Quieting Anxiety
Depression: Vintage Minis
Living at the Speed of Light: Navigating Life with Bipolar Disorder, from Depression to Mania and Everything in Between
(Don't) Call Me Crazy: 33 Voices Start the Conversation about Mental Health
Red Comet: A New York Times Top 10 Book of 2021
Priestdaddy: A Memoir
In the Dream House: A Memoir
Modern Nature: Journals, 1989 – 1990
After Kathy Acker: A Biography
The Year of Magical Thinking
How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir
Lowside of the Road: A Life of Tom Waits
Keith Haring Journals
Fingers in the Sparkle Jar: A Memoir
Widow Basquiat: A Memoir
I Am Not Your Negro
Heimat: A German Family Album
Persepolis I & II
The Rise, The Fall, and The Rise
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
How to Be an Anticapitalist in the Twenty-First Century
Basic Income: And How We Can Make It Happen
Steal as Much as You Can: How to Win the Culture Wars in an Age of Austerity
Talking to My Daughter: The Sunday Times Bestseller
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate
The End of Policing
Are Prisons Obsolete?
Bullshit Jobs: The Rise of Pointless Work, and What We Can Do About It
How To Resist Amazon And Why: The Fight for Local Economics, Data Privacy, Fair Labor, Independent Bookstores, and a People-Powe
Wage Slaves
Women, Race & Class
Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto
Seeing Gender
Beyond the Gender Binary
Gender: A Graphic Guide
Queer: A Graphic History
How to Understand Your Gender: A Practical Guide for Exploring Who You Are
Life Isn't Binary: On Being Both, Beyond, and In-Between
Non-Binary Lives: An Anthology of Intersecting Identities
They/Them/Their: A Guide to Nonbinary and Genderqueer Identities
In Their Shoes: Navigating Non-Binary Life
Queer Sex: A Trans and Non-Binary Guide to Intimacy, Pleasure and Relationships
Trans Power: Own Your Gender
Gender Explorers: Our Stories of Growing Up Trans and Changing the World
Transitions: Our Stories of Being Trans
What's the T?: The no-nonsense guide to all things trans and/or non-binary for teens
Trans Teen Survival Guide
Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power
Smashing It: Working Class Artists on Life, Art and Making It Happen
Pandemic Solidarity: Mutual Aid during the Covid-19 Crisis
Border Nation: A Story of Migration
Make Bosses Pay: Why We Need Unions
Consumed: The need for collective change; colonialism, climate change & consumerism
Labours of Love: The Crisis of Care
The Care Manifesto: The Politics of Interdependence
GaYme Changer: How the LGBT+ community and their allies are changing the global economy
The Power of Privilege: How White People Can Challenge Racism
Just So You Know: Essays of Experience
What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition
Excluded: Making Feminist and Queer Movements More Inclusive
Unmasking Autism: The Power of Embracing Our Hidden Neurodiversity
Disability Visibility
Being Heumann: The Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist
Great People Who Reached for the Stars
A Kind of Spark
Break the Mould: How to Take Your Place in the World - WINNER OF THE AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARDS
One in a Hundred Thousand
The Hospital Dog: Book and CD Pack
Tender: The Imperfect Art of Caring - 'profoundly important' Clover Stroud
Just Like Me: 40 neurologically and physically diverse people who broke stereotypes
Queerly Autistic: The Ultimate Guide For LGBTQIA+ Teens On The Spectrum
Talking is not my Thing
Wink
Seeing Voices: A Journey into the World of the Deaf
Camouflage: The Hidden Lives of Autistic Women
Wintering: The power of rest and retreat in difficult times
How the Pill Changes Everything: Your Brain on Birth Control
Recovery: The Lost Art of Convalescence
Brain Power: A Toolkit to Understand and Train Your Unique Brain
Bodies Are Cool: A picture book celebration of all kinds of bodies
The Body Is Not an Apology
One Body
How To Move It: Reset Your Body
The Eating Disorder Recovery Journal
What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Fat
Sex Ed: A Guide for Adults
Sex Robots & Vegan Meat: Adventures at the Frontier of Birth, Food, Sex & Death
Explaining Humans: Winner of the Royal Society Science Book Prize 2020
Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Faith, Hope and Carnage
Rememberings
The Sound of Being Human: How Music Shapes Our Lives
Lady Sings the Blues
Windswept & Interesting: My Autobiography
Bessie Smith: A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK
Where the Wild Cooks Go: Recipes, Music, Poetry, Cocktails
Dancing In The Streets: A History Of Collective Joy
Musical Truth: A Musical Journey Through Modern Black Britain
Beeswing: Fairport, Folk Rock and Finding My Voice, 1967–75
A Little Devil in America: In Praise of Black Performance
You're History: The Twelve Strangest Women in Pop
Long Players: Writers on the Albums That Shaped Them
Flip The Script: How Women Came to Rule Hip Hop
Resist Phony Encores!
How To Break Up With Fast Fashion: A guilt-free guide to changing the way you shop – for good
Loved Clothes Last: How the Joy of Rewearing and Repairing Your Clothes Can Be a Revolutionary Act
How Bad Are Bananas?: The carbon footprint of everything - 2020 new edition
The Joyful Environmentalist (Revised and Updated 2nd Edition – with New Material): How to Practise without Preaching
Rebugging the Planet: The Remarkable Things that Insects (and Other Invertebrates) Do – And Why We Need to Love Them More
Burnt: Fighting for Climate Justice
140 Artists' Ideas for Planet Earth
How To Change Everything
Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid: How the Natural World is Adapting to Climate Change
The Future We Choose: 'Everyone should read this book' MATT HAIG
What We Need to Do Now: For a Zero Carbon Future
Turning the Tide on Plastic: How Humanity (And You) Can Make Our Globe Clean Again
Eat to Save the Planet: Over 100 Recipes and Ideas for Eco-Friendly Cooking and Eating
A Bigger Picture: My Fight to Bring a New African Voice to the Climate Crisis
Go Toxic Free: Easy and Sustainable Ways to Reduce Chemical Pollution
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures
The Peanutbutter Sisters and Other American Stories
The Sound of Being Human: How Music Shapes Our Lives
Alison: a stunning and emotional graphic novel unlike any other
Sleeping While Standing
The Roles We Play
The Bell Jar: The Illustrated Edition
My Perfect Life
A Visible Man: The Top 5 Sunday Times bestseller and BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week
Tetris: The Games People Play
Cyberman
Manifesto: A radically honest and inspirational memoir from the Booker Prize winning author of Girl, Woman, Other
Welsh Witchcraft: A Guide to the Spirits, Lore, and Magic of Wales
Poor Little Sick Girls: A love letter to unacceptable women
Putin's Russia: The Rise of a Dictator
Malala's Magic Pencil
All Are Welcome
The Journey
My Disability Story
A First Look At: ADHD: My Busy Brain
Mr Mornington's Favourite Things
I Am, You Are: Let's Talk About Disability, Individuality and Empowerment
Listen: How Evelyn Glennie, a Deaf Girl, Changed Percussion
Giraffe and a Half
Through the Eyes of Me
The Amazing Edie Eckhart: The Amazing Edie Eckhart: Book 1 - World Book Day 2024 author and star of Taskmaster Series 18!
The Hospital Dog
A Different Sort of Normal: A real-life completely true story about being unique
I Am Not a Label: 34 disabled artists, thinkers, athletes and activists from past and present
What Happened to You?
We Are All Different: A Celebration of Diversity!
All Are Welcome
Everybody Has a Body / Mae gan Bawb ei Gorff ei Hun