Rasmussen, Tom – The Bell Bookshop https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk Henley-on-Thames Wed, 29 Oct 2025 16:22:19 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cropped-Bell-Background-Blue-32x32.png Rasmussen, Tom – The Bell Bookshop https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk 32 32 Vivienne Westwood https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/vivienne-westwood-2/ Thu, 03 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/?post_type=product&p=46923 A beautifully illustrated celebration of the life and work of activist, provocateur, and fashion icon, Vivienne Westwood.

Vivienne Westwood spent more than five decades breaking the rules and pushing the envelope of the fashion world. Renowned for her rebellious spirit and avant-garde designs, Westwood lived a life dedicated to a free artistic expression that continues to redefine fashion and inspire generations worldwide. She gifted us countless iconic moments and designs, from her days at the Kings Road ‘SEX’ shop and wearing no knickers to receive her OBE from the Queen, to her trailblazing 90s runway collections and her tireless pursuit of social and climate justice.

Beginning with her working-class upbringing and traversing through the McLaren years, her contributions to early punk culture, her most iconic collections and her activism, amongst more, Vivienne Westwood is a new illustrated guide to a true one-of-a-kind.

]]> First Comes Love https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/first-comes-love/ Thu, 21 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/?post_type=product&p=24364 ‘Bitingly funny, infectiously inquisitive and ferociously sharp. Adored!’ ATTITUDE‘A fascinating interrogation’ GRAZIA‘An incisive, witty and moving look at marriage – as an achievement, a compromise, a selling-out, a practical solution’ REFINERY29It was one thing to get married when your parents, your neighbours, your community insisted on it, when a sacred union for heterosexuals was not just one option but the only option. It’s quite another to keep doing it in when free of that societal and religious pressure. What is the allure of an institution grounded in patriarchy, in elitism, in white supremacy in the West, an institution that invalidated all but one kind of love till quite recently? Why do so many of us fight against these social ills while also posting pictures of proposals on Instagram? Is it possible to be married while subverting the institution by doing it one’s own way, or is marriage having the last laugh after all? Tom Rasmussen comes from a Northern, working class family, for whom marriage in the centrepiece of life. They are also a male-bodied, non-binary queer person in a relationship with a man. Journeying through wildly different weddings, visits to wedding planners, interviews with the much-married, those who have questioned their decision to marry, and those who would never consider matrimony, this is an incisive, witty and moving look at marriage – as an achievement, a compromise, a selling-out, a practical solution. Tom Rasmussen examines what marriage means across the spectrum of sexuality and class, and what the future looks like for this most historic and universal of institutions.‘An incisive, compassionate probing of the pleasures and pitfalls of marriage … A deft deconstruction of normativity today’ DAZED‘Tom Rasmussen is a smart and accomplished storyteller … Anyone – queer or straight – who’s considering marriage, or for that matter anyone who’s deeply in love should read this unputdownable book’ KATE BORNSTEIN‘I love Tom Rasmussen and adore their writing’ TRAVIS ALABANZA‘An interrogation and an investigation … A deeply funny and optimistic read’ JUNO ROCHE

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