Mike Skinner has announced a new book exploring the precipitous rise and abrupt end of the Streets. The rapper's memoir, The Story of the Streets, will be published by Bantam Press on 29 March.

"An empty shell of what the book is yet to be," Skinner tweeted on Tuesday, pointing to the barren Amazon product page. Besides the imprint and publication date, the only other information is the page count – 352 – and the tentative price – £11.77. Skinner has been working on the book since the Streets bowed out in November, Contact Music reports. The singer and rapper has been collaborating with writer Ben Thompson, who also writes for the Guardian, and has previously worked on memoirs for Russell Brand, Vic Reeves and Phil Daniels.

Besides a written account of Skinner's iconic garage project, The Story of the Streets will also feature pictures. "I wasnt going to have photos in my book coz i thought it was a bit silly but the wife said i had to," Skinner wrote on Twitter. "Mum gave me a stack of photo album. got a bit emotional. where i'm starting school and that." Posting on his new blog, Skinner said the schoolboy snaps roused "strong emotions" because his daughter has recently started at nursery. "Circle of life shit," he wrote. "Lion King and that."

This book isn't the only thing Skinner has planned for 2012. Even though the Streets are finished, he announced a new musical project, the D.O.T, in October. There's more on his list of New Year's resolutions, too: photography, a screenplay, and "more beats for rappers". We're also hoping Skinner makes good on a recent Twitter joke, producing a gigantic, delectable coffee-table book: "One day i want to write a book about all the club sandwiches i've had," he joked last week, "and now they reflect the city they were procured in."

The Streets' final album, Computers and Blues, was released last February.