Excavate!

<b>THE <i>LOUDER THAN WAR </i>#1 BOOK OF THE YEAR</b><br><b>A ROUGH TRADE, </b><b><i>THE TIMES, </i></b><b><i>MOJO</i>,<i> UNCUT</i>, <i>THE HERALD </i>BOOK OF THE YEAR</b><br><b></b><br><font size="+1"><i><b>This is not a book about a rock band. This is not even a book about Mark E Smith. This is a book about The Fall group - or more precisely, their world.</b></i></font> <br><br>'To 50,000 Fall Fans: please buy this inspired & inspiring, profound & provocative, beautiful & bonkers Book of Revelations.'<br><b>DAVID PEACE</b><br><b></b><br>'Mind blowing . . . there is so much to enjoy in this brilliant book.'<br><b>TIM BURGESS</b><br><b></b><br>'A container sized treasure trove . . . I strongly advise you to buy it.'<br><b>MAXINE PEAKE</b><br><b></b><br>'The most wonderful, unashamedly intellectual, pretentious, ridiculous, exciting hymn to this incredible group.'<br><b>ANDY MILLER, <i>BACKLISTED</i></b><br><b></b><br>Over a prolific forty-year career, the Fall created a world that was influential, idiosyncratic and fiercely original - and defied simple categorisation.<br><br>Their frontman and lyricist Mark E. Smith spun opaque tales that resisted conventional understanding; the Fall's worldview was an education in its own right. Who wouldn't want to be armed with a working knowledge of M. R. James, shipping-dock procedures, contemporary dance, Manchester City and Can? The group inspired and shaped the lives of those who listened to and tried to make sense of their work.<br><br>Bringing together previously unseen artwork, rare ephemera and handwritten material, alongside essays by a slate of fans, <i>EXCAVATE!</i> is a vivid, definitive record - an illumination of the dark corners of the Fall's wonderful and frightening world.