As One: Remaking Suede

Rodge’s new book AS ONE: REMAKING SUEDE to be published by New Modern announced – pre-order open NOW, release August 27th 2026

Rodge’s new book, As One: Remaking Suede, is open for pre-order as of today, 8th June 2026. Announced in tandem with the new Suede single ‘Emotionally Unavailable’ on the day of the song’s first play on BBC 6 Music. The following text is from the New Modern Books press release:

As One: Remaking Suede is an intimate biography of one of the UK’s biggest bands

during the remarkable second act of their 35-year career.

Award-winning writer Rodge Glass has been granted unprecedented access to the band at home, backstage, in rehearsal and in the studio, hearing a lost album and private home recordings written about for the first time in As One. Glass has been embedded with the band as they’ve recorded, toured and promoted their music over the past three years.

Suede have achieved what few reunited bands manage: continuing to create vital, career-best music while remaining one of the most electrifying live acts of their generation. As One is the first in-depth exploration of 21^st Century Suede, offering illuminating portraits of both the five individuals and the band unit to reveal how they’ve managed it.

The book documents Suede’s evolution from breakup to renewal, charting their reunion, five subsequent albums, and the enduring connection between band, music and audience over sixteen transformative years.

It is a multi-layered story of resilience, bloody-mindedness, recovery and reconnection; on growing up, getting sober and getting better at your life’s work. It follows the story of a band who dazzled in the pre-internet world, then blew it all up before managing, through learning hard lessons, to make some of their very best work in their fourth decade.

As Richard Oakes tells Rodge Glass: ‘We’ve developed a respect for each other artistically which I’m not sure was there in the 90s, when egos, front covers and giant publishing cheques defined how we thought about ourselves…But working so hard to make Bloodsports work as a comeback has really paid off, we’re now acutely aware of our own very different roles in the band, and we’re developing our skill sets album to album….We are five incredibly different personalities, but when we work together, be it onstage or in a studio, the pieces fit. The team achieves its goal.’

Pete Selby, managing director of New Modern, who acquired the worldwide rights from Jenny Brown at Jenny Brown Associates said:“Not many bands get the opportunity to write their second act so magnificently and even fewer bands are lucky enough to have an author of Rodge’s skill, insight and charm on hand to document it for them so quite so candidly. Written with a fan’s eye but a biographer’s integrity, ‘As One: Remaking Suede’ is one of the great music books that pulls a chair up for you right in the centre of the action. A veracious piece of journalism about one of our all-time great bands.”

Rodge Glass said: ‘I was a fan of Suede for thirty years before I met anyone in the band. That meant I came to this project with certain expectations and assumptions, based on what I’d heard or seen from a distance. What a pleasure and privilege it’s been to have many of those assumptions exploded as I got to know the members of the band over the last three years. I like to build real relationships with my subjects, over a long period of time, through genuine connection, patience and openness. At some point in the process of writing As One, the band decided it was safe to let me in. Then they made themselves vulnerable. That’s hugely to their credit, and I think it allows us to tell a truer, more interesting story about the band than has been told before. Suede are one of the truly great British rock bands. Looking back and looking forward, I hope this book brings their extraordinary work to more people.’

Along with the hardback edition of the book, a limited edition ‘nighttime’ version is available from Rough Trade and Resident. You can buy this from Rough Trade here and from Resident here.