- Published: 15 January 2015
- ISBN: 9780099597889
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 496
- RRP: $32.99
MOD
From Bebop to Britpop, Britain’s Biggest Youth Movement
- Published: 15 January 2015
- ISBN: 9780099597889
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 496
- RRP: $32.99
The book to get Sir Bradley Wiggins for his birthday
Esquire
This [is a] highly entertaining and discursive mixture of social history and cultural theory… As an analysis of Britain’s youth tribes of the past 50 years…Mod: A Very British Style is definitive
Mick Brown, Daily Telegraph
Richard Weight’s splendid new book… The writing is witty…the judgments are pinpoint accurate… The research is formidable in its scope and detail
Alwyn W Turner, New Statesman
Well-written throughout, crackles with reflection on fashion, music and film
Ian Thompson, Observer
This is a must-read for Weller wannabes
Evening Standard ES
For anyone who wants an accessible, thorough and discursive audit of youth culture over the past 50 years, MOD will be immensely satisfying
Paul Connolly, Metro
A serious and worthwhile insight into a fascinating aspect of youth identity
Will Hodgkinson, The Times
We can’t seem to get enough of the mod look. Now you can swot up on the originals with Mod: a Very British Style
Sunday Times Style
It’s an ode to youth culture and the Britain it created
Wall Street Journal Off Duty
He has done his job well. As we age, we need to be reminded that our youth was special and that nostalgia was good for the soul
Walter Ellis, Spectator
MOD is a weighty book. Its scope is almost as impressive as its Conran-esque endpapers…
Gavin James Bower, Independent
MOD is an important book because it shows how a style so often dismissed as trivial is in fact an important determinant of Britishness... This is a great book because it has the courage to celebrate what is wonderfully modern
Gerard DeGroot, Sunday Telegraph
The perfect gift for someone who wants to walk down memory lane. The '60s, '70s and '80s are investigated thoroughly, with clubs, fashion, music and geography carefully described
Sorted
It’s the history of an attitude, and [Weight’s] captured it very well
William Leith, Evening Standard
An impeccably written, thoughtful, provocative, at time shocking, yet most compelling book describing the uprising of modernism in Britain, from the 1940s onwards
Elaine Holland, Nudge