Situation Vacant is a guide that traces the London territory of the mid to late 70s as it relates to the story of the Sex Pistols and their agent provocateur manager Malcolm McLaren.

Journalist and author Paul Gorman reveals the addresses across the city, from art schools, dead-end schools, borstals, boutiques and nightclubs to pubs, squats and seedy Soho dives with the assistance of two large fold-out maps that help outline a once-in-a-lifetime youth movement that quickly engulfed the world but remains arguably a London phenomenon.

Meanwhile McLaren’s London life, from arrest for burning the Stars & Stripes in Grosvenor Square in the mid-60s to his inflammatory candidacy for Mayor of London in 2000, is charted with his own map showing how he used the city as a weapon of sex, style and subversion.