Another Planet: A Teenager in Suburbia
By: Tracey Thorn
3.90
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
In a 1970’s commuter town, Tracey Thorn’s teenage life was forged from what failed to happen. Her d…
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1. Faserland
By: Christian Kracht
4.48
Format: 334 pages,
Einmal durch die Republik, von Nord nach Sud: Christian Krachts namenloser Ich-Erzahler berichtet v… read more
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2. Touching from a Distance: Ian Curtis and Joy Division
By: Deborah Curtis , Jon Savage
3.67
Format: None pages, Paperback
This is an account of the mesmerising life and tragic death of Ian Curtis, lead singer of Joy Divis… read more
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4. Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys
By: Viv Albertine
4.29
Format: 421 pages, Paperback
The guitarist for seminal female punk group The Slits recounts playing with Sid Vicious, touring wi… read more
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- music
- biography
- memoir
- british literature
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
"It’s true the good die young."-Viv Albertine, Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys
"I grew up with John Lennon at my side, like a big brother."-Viv Albertine, Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys
"Anyone who writes an autobiography is either a twat or broke."-Viv Albertine, Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys
"I think most people in long marriages have a touch of Stockholm Syndrome"-Viv Albertine, Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys
5. Girl in a Band
By: Kim Gordon
3.67
Format: 273 pages, Hardcover
In Girl in a Band, Kim Gordon, founding member of Sonic Youth and role model for a generation of wo… read more
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- music
- biography
- memoir
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"All that young-girl idealism is someone else's now."-Kim Gordon, Girl in a Band
"For me performing has a lot to do with being fearless."-Kim Gordon, Girl in a Band
"I like being in a weak position, and making it strong."-Kim Gordon, Girl in a Band
"I give Iggy credit for deconstructing the very idea of entertainment."-Kim Gordon, Girl in a Band
6. Wann wird es endlich wieder so, wie es nie war
By: Joachim Meyerhoff
4.02
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Ist das normal? Zwischen Hunderten von körperlich und geistig Behinderten als jüngster Sohn des Dir… read more
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- coming of age
"Erst wenn ich es geschafft haben werde, all diese abgelegten Erinnerungspäckchen wieder aufzuschnüren und auszupacken, erst wenn ich mich traue, die scheinbare Verlässlichkeit der Vergangenheit aufzu…"-Joachim Meyerhoff, Wann wird es endlich wieder so, wie es nie war
7. Cher connard
By: Virginie Despentes
3.62
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
C’est une suite de lettres entre amis qui se sauvent la vie. Dans ce roman épistolaire, Virginie De… read more
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- audiobook
8. Caledonian Road
By: Andrew O'Hagan
3.96
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
A biting portrait of British class, politics, and money told through five interconnected families a… read more
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- literature
- audiobook
- british literature
9. You Are Here
By: David Nicholls
4.08
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Sometimes you need to get lost to find your way . . . Michael is coming undone. Adrift after his… read more
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- audiobook
- british literature
"It’s true I do have time and freedom and I love it, sometimes. But the notion that I should be “making the most of it"-David Nicholls, You Are Here
"You were traumatised.’ ‘I wonder if people use that word too much.’ ‘It’s the right word for something traumatic.’ ‘But it wasn’t war. People get beaten up every Friday night.’ ‘And are traumatised b…"-David Nicholls, You Are Here
"she went on a solo trip to Italy, role-playing a character in a Forster novel. In Florence, she read performatively in cafés and sat in the cool of exquisite churches, straining for some kind of spir…"-David Nicholls, You Are Here
"Books saw her through the pupal stage of thirteen to sixteen, frowning at Kafka and Woolf, then tearing through John Irving and Maeve Binchy, widely read in the proper sense, making no distinction be…"-David Nicholls, You Are Here
10. Went to London, Took the Dog: A Diary
By: Nina Stibbe
3.66
Format: 346 pages, Hardcover
How do I get rid of the mosquitoes infesting the garden? Should my kids be drinking so much? And wh… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
- audiobook
11. Shy
By: Max Porter
3.63
Format: 136 pages, Hardcover
A novel about guilt, rage, imagination, and boyhood, about being lost in the dark and learning you’… read more
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- literature
- audiobook
- british literature
"He could learn to speak this language: night-end."-Max Porter, Shy
"He feels colossally sad. Blisteringly sad. Almost ecstatically sad."-Max Porter, Shy
"Shy said It's our music, coming out of our shit towns, it's not from Staten Island or Seattle or Detroit, it's from Walsall and Watford. Shaun and his mate Andy burst out laughing and Andy did a sque…"-Max Porter, Shy
"He smells of pond. Everything smells of pond. He feels like he could sniff his way into individual microbes, earthy worming growgreen liquid stink, newts and shoots, silty, fruity, and as he walks he…"-Max Porter, Shy
12. August Blue
By: Deborah Levy
3.68
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A new novel from the Booker Prize finalist Deborah Levy, the celebrated author of The Man Who Saw E… read more
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- music
- audiobook
- british literature
"We agreed that whatever happened next in the world, we would still rub conditioner into our hair after we washed it and comb it through to the ends, we would soften our lips with rose-, strawberry-, …"-Deborah Levy, August Blue
13. The Bee Sting
By: Paul Murray
3.96
Format: 656 pages, Hardcover
From the author of Skippy Dies comes Paul Murray's The Bee Sting, an irresistibly funny, wise, and … read more
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- literature
- audiobook
"It is for love. You are doing this for love."-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting
"We all have problems. But often instead of accepting the truth about ourselves, we cover it up. We try to make ourselves the way we think we’re expected to be."-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting
"Maybe every era has an atrocity woven into its fabric. Maybe every society is complicit in terrible things and only afterwards gets around to pretending they didn’t know. When the kids ask, tell them…"-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting
"Maybe that’s how it will go – instead of one definitive cataclysm, a series of ‘anomalies’, each time lasting longer, with the stretches of what you call normal life becoming further and further apar…"-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting
14. Al final siempre ganan los monstruos
By: Juarma
4.28
Format: 420 pages, Paperback
Todas sus historias empiezan y acaban en este lugar: Villa de la Fuente. La gente habla mucho de el… read more
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15. Scheletri
By: Zerocalcare
4.45
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Diciotto anni, e una bugia ingombrante: Zero ogni mattina dice alla madre che va all’università, ma… read more
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16. O Brother
By: John Niven
4.64
Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition
John Niven’s little brother Gary was fearless, popular, stubborn, handsome, hilarious and sometimes… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"My mother can hold her own where foreign words are involved. The simple duo-syllable 'croissant' comes out variously as 'craw-sank', 'crass-ant', or 'crah-sint', the word seeming to have no business …"-John Niven, O Brother
17. Berserker!
By: Adrian Edmondson
4.32
Format: 406 pages, Kindle Edition
From brutal schooldays to '80s anarchy, through The Young Ones and beyond, Berserker! is the one-of… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
18. Good Pop, Bad Pop
By: Jarvis Cocker
4.30
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
What if the things we keep hidden say more about us than those we put on display? We all have a … read more
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- music
- biography
- memoir
- british literature
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
19. The Late Americans
By: Brandon Taylor
3.38
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
A deeply involving new novel of young men and women at a crossroads In the shared and private sp… read more
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- audiobook
20. A Village in the Third Reich
By: Julia Boyd
4.25
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
New from the author of Travellers in the Third Reich—the Sunday Times Top Three bestseller and Wate… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
21. The Children's Bach
By: Helen Garner
3.53
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Helen Garner has been a literary institution in Australia for decades. Her perfectly formed novels … read more
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- literature
- audiobook
22. Lectura fácil
By: Cristina Morales
4.06
Format: 424 pages, Paperback
Son cuatro: Nati, Patri, Marga y Àngels. Son parientas, tienen diversos grados de lo que la Adminis… read more
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- literature
"Igual que hemos subvertido el hecho de que siempre limpiaran o cocinaran las tías, debemos subvertir el hecho de que siempre escriba el escritor."-Cristina Morales, Lectura fácil
"al estirarle un brazo, hice crujir yo las costuras de la camisa de Ibrahim, y va el tío y me dice que perdón. ¿Perdón por qué? ¿Por ir vestido? Será que se están pidiendo perdón a ellos mismos por at…"-Cristina Morales, Lectura fácil
"Rather than yielding to power in despondence and defeat, we can radicalise against it. We can become so thoroughly repellent that they wouldn’t dare tell us to overcome our adversity, so repellent th…"-Cristina Morales, Lectura fácil
"La profesora repitió la disimulada orden. Era disimulada por dos motivos: primero, porque no dijo "Quitaos los calcetines" sino "Nos quitamos los calcetines", es decir, que no dio la orden sino que e…"-Cristina Morales, Lectura fácil
23. The Nanny State Made Me: A Story of Britain and How to Save it
By: Stuart Maconie
4.32
Format: 299 pages, ebook
'He is as funny as Bryson and as wise as Orwell' Observer It was the spirit of our finest hour, th… read more
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- biography memoir
- biography
- nonfiction
- audiobook
24. Fire Rush
By: Jacqueline Crooks
3.79
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Set amid the Jamaican diaspora in London at the dawn of 1980s, a mesmerizing story of love, loss, a… read more
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- music
- audiobook
- british literature
25. The Full English: A Journey in Search of a Country and its People
By: Stuart Maconie
4.08
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Three years before George Orwell made his expedition to the far and frozen North JB Priestley – who… read more
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- audiobook
- nonfiction
- biography
- british literature
26. Punki
By: Juarma
4.36
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
Álex y Paula se conocen desde niños. Han compartido juegos, castigos, litronas y el sueño de crecer… read more
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27. Fingers Crossed: How Music Saved Me From Success
By: Miki Berenyi
4.46
Format: 367 pages, Hardcover
The extraordinary and searingly honest personal story of musician Miki Berenyi, revealing the highs… read more
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- music
- biography
- memoir
- british literature
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
28. Another Planet: A Teenager in Suburbia
By: Tracey Thorn
3.90
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
In a 1970’s commuter town, Tracey Thorn’s teenage life was forged from what failed to happen. Her d… read more
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- music
- biography
- memoir
- british literature
- literature
- coming of age
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
29. To Throw Away Unopened
By: Viv Albertine
4.23
Format: 307 pages, Kindle Edition
SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDS 2018What was I fighting for? Even now I'm not sur… read more
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- music
- biography
- memoir
- british literature
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
"~ 'Can you please not say “Your mother"-Viv Albertine, To Throw Away Unopened
"You try all your life to be an adult, but something deep down inside you will always be that child."-Viv Albertine, To Throw Away Unopened
"It's often not until after a decision is made that you know whether you've made the right choice. The relief tells you."-Viv Albertine, To Throw Away Unopened
"I used to drink occasionally when I was with Eryk. It made our time together dreamlike – sometimes life needs a bit of a nudge to live up to our expectations."-Viv Albertine, To Throw Away Unopened
30. The Good Drinker
By: Adrian Chiles
4.04
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
'I've occasionally been asked why it is that I need to go for a drink before watching the Albion pl… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- autobiography
- nonfiction
- audiobook
31. Back to the Local
By: Maurice Gorham
3.84
Format: 136 pages, Kindle Edition
The title needs explaining. Why back? We haven't been there yet! In 1939 the same team of Maurice G… read more
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