With our 2025 website refresh, we've curated three collections to help you browse special edition books through our online store: music, fiction, and culture. In this article, we're focusing on our culture collection.
Explore the culture collection
What is the culture collection?
This collection brings together deluxe books about art, entertainment, and heritage. It includes everything from the dazzlingly irreverent portraits of Joe Lycett's Art Hole to the serene highland photography of A Sense of Place.
This collection is made for lovers of popular culture, cult classic aficionados, and those wishing to delve into the stories behind famous celebrities. It includes collectible biographies, luxury art books and photobooks, and editions with exclusive prints.
This collection illuminates the true variety of offerings from our publishing houses at Hachette UK, and the innovative ways special editions are brought to life.
Selected titles
Joe Lycett's Art Hole
You'll never own another book like Art Hole. Comedian Joe Lycett has taken up his paintbrush to have a stab at capturing the likeness of some of the defining celebrities of our era. It's a genuinely hilarious book with new surprises on every page, perfectly showcasing Lycett's anarchic wit.
The deluxe edition is a true show-stopper, with alternate cover art featuring holographic foil, ombre sprayed edges, exclusive memorabilia, post cards, and an art print.
Inside No. 9: The Scripts Series 4-6
We have limited stock of the final remaining instalment in our Inside No. 9 series of tie-in special editions. It's been a joy to share these scripts and behind-the-scenes insights with fans of this truly innovative show, which consistently demonstrated some of the most daringly creative choices in British television.
The Scripts 4-6 is cloth bound and foil embossed in three separate volumes - one for each series. The first book in the set is also hand-signed by writers Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton.
A Sense of Place
In the ultimate book on Scottish whisky, Dave Broom travels the Highlands and Lowlands, the Isles and Speyside, to provide a wonderfully evocative portrait of the spirit and the landscape and heritage from which it originates.
The book is a visual journey as much as a literary one; Christina Kernohan's photographs take the reader on a truly inspiring journey through the striking landscapes of Scotland and the people who live there. The special clothbound edition arrives in a foil-backed clamshell box, and includes three signed photographs by Kernohan.
Scarfe: sixty years of being rude
In a retrospective epic in scope, Scarfe chronicles the work of the prolific cartoonist who has satirised political titans for the past six decades with his signature mischievous wit. We have three different editions on offer through our online store.
Our premium Hardback edition is clothbound and arrives in an illustrated slipcase.
The Deluxe edition is limited to 200 copies and is hand signed by Gerald Scarfe, featuring an alternative cover, presentation box, and an exclusive signed print.
Finally, the highly exclusive Artist's edition is limited to 26 copies. As well as including all the benefits of the Deluxe edition, each copy comes with a unique original signed artwork by Gerald Scarfe.