Books
Books on the underground, the hidden city and how we prepare for the end of the world, with a sixth, Groundbreaking, forthcoming from St. Martin’s Press.
Forthcoming · St. Martin’s Press / Macmillan
A cultural history of the tunnel: how we learned to dig, what we have dug for, and why the century ahead will be shaped as much by what we cut through the Earth as by anything we raise into the sky. Reporting has taken Brad a kilometer beneath the Australian Alps, into the underground cities of Cappadocia and inside Cheyenne Mountain.
2020 · Penguin (UK) / Simon & Schuster (US)
“A scary, unputdown-able account … No book could be more timely.”
Richard J. Evans, New Statesman Books of the Year 2020
A journey through the global boom in doomsday prepping, from converted missile silos in Kansas to bunker communities in South Dakota and Thailand. Named a Book of the Year by Sir Richard Evans in the New Statesman; excerpted in GQ, The Times and the Guardian Weekend Magazine; reviewed in the Financial Times, The Spectator, the Los Angeles Review of Books and more.
2013 · Verso
An account of four years with the London Consolidation Crew, slipping into the lost, forgotten and off-limits places of London and beyond. Chosen by The Observer among the best architecture books of 2013 and by Booklist among the top ten literary travel books of 2014; translated into Korean and Japanese; optioned for film.
2016 · Prestel / Penguin Random House · with Alexander Moss and Scott Cadman
A photographic monograph of the city seen from its rooftops, cranes and half-built towers, documenting London’s social, infrastructural and corporate verticalities. Featured in Time, the Guardian and Time Out London.
2016 · Reaktion Books / University of Chicago Press · edited with Paul Dobraszczyk and Carlos López Galviz
Book of the Month Institution of Civil Engineers, July 2017
A survey of the spaces beneath the world’s cities, from sewers and metros to bunkers and mines. Translated into Simplified and Complex Chinese; Institution of Civil Engineers Book of the Month.
2014 · Prestel / Penguin Random House
A photographic dissection of what lies beneath London, layer by layer, from sewers and ghost stations to secret bunkers. Sold out within four months of release; expanded paperback, 2015.
All titles: Amazon author page. Translations: Korean (Medeci Media), Japanese (Seidosha), Simplified Chinese (Hunan Science & Technology Press), Complex Chinese (Domain Publishing).
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