LONGLISTED FOR THE CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE

'A thrilling and essential social history that details the rebellious youth movement that helped change the world'
Rolling Stone

'[A] riveting and inspiring history of punk's hard-fought struggle in East Germany'
New York Times

'Wildly entertaining . . . A joy in the way it brings back punk's fury and high stakes'
Vogue

'Equal parts terrifying and exhilarating, Burning Down the Haus is a fabulously alive history that shows how even the most formidable forms of oppression can be shaken by highly motivated, creative kids with riotous rage and a driving beat'
Rob Spillman, editor of Tin House and author of All Tomorrow's Parties

'The best punk book since Please Kill Me'
Legs McNeil, author of Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk

'A rallying call against authoritarianism everywhere'
Ruth Franklin, author of the NBCC Award-winning Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life

'Equal parts terrifying and exhilarating, Burning Down the Haus is a fabulously alive history that shows how even the most formidable forms of oppression can be shaken by highly motivated, creative kids with riotous rage and a driving beat'
Rob Spillman, editor of Tin House and author of All Tomorrow's Parties

'The soundtrack for the revolution that we've all been waiting for'
DW Gibson, author of The Edge Becomes the Centre: An Oral History of Gentrification in the Twenty-First Century

'Spellbinding . . . Part cultural history, part political thriller, and entirely true'
Peter Ames Carlin, author of Homeward Bound: The Life of Paul Simon