NEW PAPERBACK EDITION OF PETER WATTS’
BOOK ON BATTERSEA POWER STATION

Back in 2016, Peter Watts’ landmark Up in Smoke: The Failed Dreams of Battersea Power Station was the first book to be published by Paradise Road.

In the almost 10 years since, the formerly derelict power station has been completely restored and reopened to the public as an upscale shopping and leisure complex, and the UK headquarters of Apple. The surrounding landscape has been transformed with residential blocks and offices, shops and restaurants, and a new extension of the Northern line now links everything up with London’s Underground network.

This new paperback edition of Watts’ book has been heavily revised to reflect all the changes. Compiled from interviews with architects, planners, politicians, former workers, urban explorers and makers of inflatable pigs it remains a fantastic tale of hubris, bankruptcy and controversy.

Music fans note: the book contains a whole chapter on shooting the cover of Pink Floyd’s Animals.

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New paperback edition of Raving Upon Thames
New paperback edition of Raving Upon Thames

After selling out two hardback editions of Raving Upon Thames we have now issued the book as a paperback. (All hardback copies are sold out.)

This paperback edition includes a new Afterword with information and anecdotes that have come to light since the first publication of the book.

New paperback edition of Marquee
New paperback edition of Marquee

Paradise Road’s Marquee: The Story of the World’s Greatest Music Venue has just been published in paperback.  

According to Shindig! magazine, the book “not only delivers a tome worthy of the legendary venue, but also a broader account of popular music in postwar Britain and beyond’. 

We still have some copies of the hardback available. You can order either version through your local bookshop or from Amazon, but all orders through the Paradise Road website will also a receive, free of charge, a 100-page pdf listing of every gig played at the Marquee during the Oxford Street and Wardour Street years (1958–88). 

The coming months will see a new revised paperback edition of Up in Smoke: The Failed Dreams of Battersea Power Station and a paperback version of Raving Upon Thames with a newly added afterword.