Books published by Isola Press

A second volume of photos from the archive of the oldest off-road cycling club in the world is a further look into an unseen corner of cycling, social history and outdoor culture.

The original guide to adventuring by bicycle in the Alps, reprinted with stunning vintage photography. Now in a new, more compact, editionReplaces ISBN 978-0-9954886-2-5

Photographic archive from the Rio cinema in Hackney London, depicting life in the London borough in the 1980s. This important oral history places the photos in the cultural and political context of Hackney in the 1980, contains contextual essays and is presented chronologically.

High above the pleasure palaces of the French Riviera is the Alpine Extension of the Maginot Line. These little-known bunkers were built in the 1930s to protect against Mussolini. But things didn't quite turn out as the French expected...