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Wrecking Ball Music & Books

Wrecking Ball Music & Books is an independent book and music shop located at the heart of Hull's historic Whitefriargate. We sell a large range of new titles, stock an extensive range of books from UK independent publishers, the entire Wrecking Ball Press catalogue and new and used vinyl, as well as gifts and band merchandise. Our extensive range of books and vinyl also sees us specialise in items not normally found in high street chains. 

 

Our building is also home to the Wrecking Ball Arts Centre, which hosts book launches, spoken word, poetry, theatre, performance, live music, quizzes and film screenings. 

 

The Wrecking Ball Music & Books shop also plays host to in-store book signings and launch events and is home to a café space that enables book and vinyl buyers to take a break between purchasing their favourite music, books and other merchandise and gifts. 

 

Wrecking Ball Music & Books is a sister company of independent publisher Wrecking Ball Press.

I Remain In Darkness
Getting Lost – WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
Happening
A Girl's Story – WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
Exteriors – WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
A Man's Place – WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
The Years – WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
House Of Leaves
Just Like Home: A must-read, dark thriller full of unpredictable secrets
The Good House
The Haunting of Hill House
Mistakes Were Made
The Boys from Biloxi: Sunday Times No 1 bestseller John Grisham returns in his most gripping thriller yet
Poster Girl: a haunting dystopian mystery from the author of Chosen Ones
The Passenger
If You Could See the Sun
Project Hail Mary
The Atlas Paradox
The First to Die at the End: TikTok made me buy it! The prequel to THEY BOTH DIE AT THE END
Hester: a bewitching tale of desire and ambition
Mad Honey
Our Missing Hearts: 'Thought-provoking, heart-wrenching' Reese Witherspoon, a Reese's Book Club Pick
What Is It Like?
The Lightman System
Four Letter Words
Persons Unknown: The Battle for Sheffield's Street Trees
Killing The Horses
Toxins (and Other Poisons)
The Conquest of the Red Man
Scraps
Scouse Brows
Park by the River
What Maisie Didn't Know
The Things I Learnt And The Things I Still Don't Know About
Trust
BOOTH: Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2022
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
Case Study
The Colony
Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies
Nightcrawling: Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2022 - the youngest ever Booker nominee
After Sappho
Oh William!: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2022
SAKTHI
GHOST SIGNS: Shortlisted for Best Non-fiction, 2022 Books Are My Bag Awards Shortlisted for Best Political Book By A Non-Par
I Am Not Your Eve: Short listed for the world's leading literary prize for historical fiction -the £25K WALTER SCOTT PRIZE
Panenka
The Handsworth Times
The Happiness Factory
All Walls Collapse: Stories of Separation
The Book of Barcelona: A City in Short Fiction
In Another Country: Selected Stories
The Sea Cloak
The Dressing-Up Box
Resist: Stories of Uprising
Hidden Music
The Girls Are Pretty Crocodiles
House with the Mansard Roof
The Unauthorised Biography of Ezra Maas
Mr Jolly - Short Stories
The Lost Art of Staring into Fires
The Animated Universe
Love the Dark Days
Fortune
The Mystic Masseur's Wife
unHistory: a poem cycle by Kwame Dawes and John Kinsella
The Drowned Forest
Waiting for Ted
Animals at Night
Currowan: The Story of a Fire
808s and Otherworlds: Memories, Remixes, & Mythologies
The Doloriad
The Water Statues
Mister N
Bad Eminence
The Visitors
Invasion of the Spirit People
Down the Rabbit Hole: Shortlisted for the 2011 Guardian First Book Award
Termination Shock
The Last Woman in the World
The End We Start From
Day of the Whale
Flight Behaviour: Author of Demon Copperhead, Winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction
The Ministry for the Future
The Survival Game
Out of Time: Poetry from the Climate Emergency
Parable of the Sower: the New York Times bestseller
The Drowned World
How Many Lightbulbs Does It Take To Change A Planet?: 95 Ways to Save Planet Earth
Your Planet Needs You!: An everyday guide to saving the earth
Earthshot: How to Save Our Planet
Why Women Will Save the Planet
140 Artists' Ideas for Planet Earth
Behind Closed Doors: SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING: Why We Break Up Families – and How to Mend Them
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad
My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World’s Deadliest Migration Route
Orwell's Roses
The Right to Sex: Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize 2022
Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy
Spike: The Virus vs. The People - the Inside Story
Things I Have Withheld
Boomerang: How the Afterlife of Empire is Breaking Britain
Appliance: Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction 2022
Assembly: The critically acclaimed debut novel
The Colony
Cwen: 'A wild ride!' MARGARET ATWOOD
The High House: Shortlisted for the Costa Best Novel Award
The Night The Moon Went Missing
My Beautiful Voice
Granny Came Here on the Empire Windrush
A Song of Gladness: A Story of Hope for Us and Our Planet
Counting Creatures
Arlo The Lion Who Couldn't Sleep
When I Was the Greatest: Winner - Indie Book Award
The Chime Seekers
Escape Room
Frankenstiltskin: Fairy Tales Gone Bad
The Week at World's End
The Last Bear
House of Music: Raising the Kanneh-Masons
Scoff: A History of Food and Class in Britain
How We Met: A Memoir of Love and Other Misadventures
I'll Die After Bingo: My unlikely life as a care home assistant
Dark Earth
Red Sauce Brown Sauce: A British Breakfast Odyssey
A Likely Lad
The Young Accomplice
A Woman's Game: The Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Women's Football
Middlemarch
American Pastoral: The renowned Pulitzer Prize-Winning novel
A Spool of Blue Thread: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2015
Dark Laughter
Fifty-Two Stories
Lincoln in the Bardo: WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017
The Colour of Memory
William Shakespeare: The Complete Works
The Old Man and the Sea
A Cole Porter Companion
Chronicles Volume 1
Beautiful World, Where Are You: from the internationally bestselling author of Normal People
Empire of the Vampire
Klara and the Sun: The Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year
Sorrow and Bliss: Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2022
The Passenger
Consumed: A Sister’s Story - SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2021
Somebody Loves You
Like a Tree, Walking
Keeping the House
The Roles We Play
Things I Have Withheld
Ace of Spades
We're Going to Find the Monster
Danny Chung Does Not Do Maths
The Sound of Everything
The Crossing
Tomb of Sand
Cursed Bunny
Elena Knows
The Books of Jacob
Wuthering Heights
1984
The Trial
American Psycho
A Clockwork Orange: Restored Edition
Lonely Boy: Tales from a Sex Pistol (Soon to be a limited series directed by Danny Boyle)
The Beatles: Get Back
One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time
The Revelry
A Life Behind the Lens: Thirty Years of Award Winning Photography from Sport's Most Iconic Moments
Joy Division: Juvenes
Spring Cannot be Cancelled: David Hockney in Normandy - A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
The Magician: Winner of the Rathbones Folio Prize
Capitalism and Slavery
The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
Cursed Bunny
Daisy Jones and The Six
The Promise
Shuggie Bain
Girl, Woman, Other: WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019
The Narrow Road to the Deep North: Discover the Booker prize-winning masterpiece
Vernon God Little
The God of Small Things: Winner of the Booker Prize
How Late It Was How Late: The classic BOOKER PRIZE winning novel
The Testaments: WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019
Bring Up the Bodies
The Gates of Europe : A History of Ukraine
Borderland: A Journey Through the History of Ukraine
The White Guard: New Translation
Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
Death and the Penguin: A BBC Two Between the Covers Pick
Kleptopia: How Dirty Money Is Conquering the World
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
Kobzar
Chronicles Volume 1
Bunnyman: A Memoir: The Sunday Times bestseller
Tenement Kid
Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys.
Girl in a Band
Just Kids: An Autobiography
Record Play Pause: Confessions of a Post-Punk Percussionist: the Joy Division Years: Volume I
My Rock 'n' Roll Friend
You Are Beautiful and You Are Alone: The Biography of Nico
Dayglo!: The Poly Styrene Story
Tales of Mystery and Imagination
The Complete Short Stories: Volume One
The Turning
Where I'm Calling From: The Selected Stories
The Metamorphosis and Other Stories
Runaway
Welcome to the Monkey House
The Lottery: And Other Stories
Best Short Stories
The Thing Around Your Neck
Things We Lost in the Fire
Tokyo Ueno Station (National Book Award Winner)
Breasts and Eggs
The Lost Words: Spell Songs
Rave Art: Flyers, invitations and membership cards
Teenage
The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present
English Magic
The Actual
Murakami T: The T-Shirts I Love
Earthlings
Oh, The Places You'll Go! Deluxe Gift Edition
Stargazing: Memoirs of a Young Lighthouse Keeper
Xxxholic Omnibus 1
I Wanna Be Yours
Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire - The Sunday Times Bestseller
Before the Coffee Gets Cold
Binge: 60 Stories to Make Your Brain Feel Different
Zen in the Art of Writing
The Crafty Art of Playmaking
The Complete Smoking Diaries
On Writers and Writing
Bird by Bird: Instructions on Writing and Life
Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
Three Uses Of The Knife: On the Nature and Purpose of Drama
On Writing
The Ormering Tide
Red Roar: 20 Years Words Niall Griffith
Sometimes I'm So Happy I'm Not Safe
Reater, The Issue 2
Reater, The Issue 2
Reater, The Issue 2
Reater, The Issue 2
Kingdom
J SS Bach
Exire
The Book Of Fual Fuck The
Earwigging: & Other Stories
A Gin Pissing, Raw Meat, Dual Carburettor V-8 Son-of-a-Bitch from Los Angeles
You're So Vain You Probably Think This
Spit & Hiss
Crime and Punishment
The Karamazov Brothers
The Leopard: Vintage Quarterbound Classics
The Trial (Legend Classics)
Hunger
Anna Karenina
The Myth of Sisyphus
Stoner: A Novel
Lint: The Incredible Career of Cult Author Jeff Lint
Uncle
Bluebird, Bluebird
Still Life: The heart-pounding number one bestseller that will have you gripped
We Are Never Meeting in Real Life
"I Will Not Be Erased": Our stories about growing up as people of colour
Queenie: Now a Channel 4 series
Helium
I Capture the Castle: A special edition of the coming-of-age classic
Mrs Death Misses Death
The Gloaming
The Night Circus
Priestdaddy: A Memoir
Greatest Hits: From the bestselling author of The Versions of Us
Lanny: Author of the Number One Sunday Times Bestseller SHY
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Autobiography of Red
Vanity Fair
Orlando (Vintage Classics Woolf Series)
Educated: The international bestselling memoir
Chernobyl Prayer: Voices from Chernobyl
Not Working: Why We Have to Stop
Bullshit Jobs: The Rise of Pointless Work, and What We Can Do About It
The Vanishing Man: In Pursuit of Velazquez
The Lost Pianos of Siberia: A Sunday Times Paperback of 2021
Satori in Paris
Where I'm Calling From: The Selected Stories
Hawthorn and Child
The Panopticon
Preparation for the Next Life: Winner of the 2015 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
Broken Ghost
How Late It Was How Late: The classic BOOKER PRIZE winning novel
Tramp in Flames
A Gin Pissing, Raw Meat, Dual Carburettor V-8 Son-of-a-Bitch from Los Angeles
Corksucker: Cab Driver Stories from the L.A. Streets
Fante: A Family's Legacy of Writing, Drinking and Surviving
Chump Change: A Novel
Spitting Off Tall Buildings: A Novel
86'd: A Novel
The Bandini Quartet: Wait Until Spring, Bandini: The Road to Los Angeles: Ask the Dust: Dreams from Bunker Hill
Ask The Dust
Wait Until Spring, Bandini
1933 Was A Bad Year
Full of Life
Brotherhood Of The Grape
West of Rome
New Selected Poems
Dad, the Donkey's on Fire
Not All Honey
Roar!
Who the Hell is Alice?
The Lion Tamer Who Lost
Federico Garcia Lorca: A Life
The Brontes
Jade - How it All Began: My First Book
The Hail Mary Pass
My Heart is Bleeding: The Life of Dorothy Squires
South of the Border, West of the Sun
The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea: Vintage Quarterbound Classics
Convenience Store Woman
The Makioka Sisters
Snow Country
The Key
The Silent Cry
The Housekeeper and the Professor: ‘a poignant tale of beauty, heart and sorrow’ Publishers Weekly