Shiny and New: Ten Moments of Pop Genius that Defined the '80s
By: Dylan Jones
3.78
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
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1. The Worst Street In London
By: Fiona Rule
4.10
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Halfway along Commercial Street in London, close to Spitalfields Market, is an anonymous service ro… read more
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2. What Does This Button Do?: An Autobiography
By: Bruce Dickinson
4.20
Format: None pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER A long-awaited memoir from the larger-than-life, multifaceted lead vocalis… read more
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- music
- nonfiction
3. Fortunate Son: My Life, My Music
By: John Fogerty
4.17
Format: None pages, Hardcover
NATIONAL BESTSELLER The long-awaited memoir from John Fogerty, the legendary singer-songwriter and … read more
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- music
- nonfiction
4. The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher
By: Hilary Mantel
4.00
Format: 139 pages, Paperback
HILARY MANTEL is one of Britain's most accomplished and acclaimed writers. In these ten bracingly t… read more
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5. Sugar (Sugar Lacey, #1)
By: Bernice L. McFadden
3.87
Format: 252 pages, Paperback
"Strong and folksy storytelling...think Zora Neale Hurston...Sugarspeaks of what is real." --The Da… read more
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6. When Giants Walked the Earth: A Biography of Led Zeppelin
By: Mick Wall
4.71
Format: None pages, Paperback
Veteran rock journalist Mick Wall unflinchingly tells the story of the band that pushed the envelop… read more
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7. With Nails: The Film Diaries of Richard E. Grant
By: Richard E. Grant
4.17
Format: 510 pages, Paperback
First comes Grant's first big break, the starring role in Bruce Robinson's Withnail and I,the cult … read more
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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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9. How They Broke Britain
By: James O'Brien
4.29
Format: 404 pages, Kindle Edition
The revealing, defining account of the dark network that broke out country. Something has gone r… read more
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- nonfiction
10. Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
By: David Mitchell
4.16
Format: 433 pages, ebook
A rollicking history of England's earliest kings and queens, a story of narcissists, excessive behe… read more
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"The defeat of the Armada in 1588 was Elizabeth's high point. Things went downhill after that. Militarily the triumph against Spain was rather undermined the following year when Elizabeth sent her own…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"There were a couple of positives: in 1554, the Queen Regent's Prerogative Act was passed which made explicit, for the first time, that when a woman inherited the throne - became the sovereign, queen …"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Standing jaggedly on Senlac Hill, where Harold Godwinson died, possibly as a result of having taken an arrow to the eye - though possibly more boringly than that, some historians have felt constraine…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Queen Mary was known as Bloody Mary because of the large number of people she killed. And also because of misogyny. She was the first properly crowned woman to rule as queen regnant, not just queen c…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
11. Treacle Walker
By: Alan Garner
3.13
Format: 152 pages, Hardcover
Treacle Walker is a stunning fusion of myth and folklore and an exploration of the fluidity of time… read more
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12. Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story
By: Bono
4.20
Format: 564 pages, Hardcover
Bono--artist, activist, and the lead singer of Irish rock band U2--has written a memoir: honest and… read more
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"Fame is a currency. I want to spend mine on the right stuff."-Bono, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story
"Wisdom is the recovery of innocence at the far end of experience"-Bono, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story
"I remain more suspicious of religion than most people who'd never darken the door of a church."-Bono, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story
"the only true way to be victorious is to surrender. To each other. To love. To the higher power."-Bono, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story
13. Unrequited Infatuations: A Memoir
By: Stevie Van Zandt
4.01
Format: None pages, Audiobook
Uncover never-before-told stories in this epic tale of self-discovery by a Rock n Roll disciple and… read more
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- music
- nonfiction
14. Sing Backwards and Weep: A Memoir
By: Mark Lanegan
4.35
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A gritty, gripping memoir by the singer Mark Lanegan (Screaming Trees, Queens of the Stone Age, Sou… read more
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- nonfiction
15. Dickens and Prince: A Particular Kind of Genius
By: Nick Hornby
3.66
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Just Like You, High Fidelity, and Fever Pitch, a short, warm, and… read more
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- music
- nonfiction
"This book is about work, and nobody ever worked harder than these two, or at a higher standard, while connectiong with so many people for so long."-Nick Hornby, Dickens and Prince: A Particular Kind of Genius
16. Rememberings
By: Sinéad O'Connor
4.10
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
THE LANDMARK MEMOIR OF A GLOBAL MUSIC ICONSinéad O'Connor's voice and trademark shaved head made he… read more
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- music
- nonfiction
"When one lives with the Devil one finds out there's a God."-Sinéad O'Connor, Rememberings
17. Goth: A History
By: Lol Tolhurst
3.68
Format: 257 pages, Hardcover
Following his memoir Cured , a fascinating deep dive into the dark Romanticism of Goth music, a mi… read more
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- music
- nonfiction
18. Nöthin' But a Good Time: The Uncensored History of the '80s Hard Rock Explosion
By: Tom Beaujour
4.07
Format: 535 pages, Hardcover
Hard rock in the 1980s was a hedonistic and often intensely creative wellspring of escapism that pe… read more
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- music
- nonfiction
19. T.V.: Big Adventures on the Small Screen
By: Peter Kay
4.23
Format: 302 pages, Kindle Edition
*The long-awaited return of the comedy national treasure*Blockbusters, Baywatch … Mastermind, Moonl… read more
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20. Leonard and Hungry Paul
By: Ronan Hession
4.15
Format: 252 pages, Kindle Edition
In this startling debut, Ronan Hession tells the story of two thirty-something men who take care of… read more
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"You may wish to note the above"-Ronan Hession, Leonard and Hungry Paul
"It was strange that after all the years of getting the kids to be independent, she would feel so daunted at having her life back. But it was the nature of being a parent. The kids' lives are their ow…"-Ronan Hession, Leonard and Hungry Paul
"Leonard wore a new feeling of peace. He had always associated peace with the idea of happiness, as if it were some sort of steady state that happiness turned into when it was for real. But now he rea…"-Ronan Hession, Leonard and Hungry Paul
21. Bunnyman: A Memoir
By: Will Sergeant
4.23
Format: 334 pages, Kindle Edition
The Sunday Times bestsellerGrowing up in Liverpool in the 1960s and '70s, when skinheads, football … read more
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- nonfiction
22. Confess: The Autobiography
By: Rob Halford
4.40
Format: 355 pages, Hardcover
The legendary frontman of Judas Priest, one of the most successful heavy metal bands of all time, c… read more
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23. Just Ignore Him
By: Alan Davies
4.36
Format: 274 pages, Hardcover
The story of a life built on sand. In the rain. In this compelling memoir, comedian and actor Al… read more
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"This is the true inheritance tax of life. Behaviours and habits, ingrained, your own but not your own, a duty on your existence, a tariff to be levied on those who try to love you."-Alan Davies, Just Ignore Him
"Later, I imagined that the past is not behind us at all, but unseen beneath our feet. We are supported by it as we walk, sometimes balanced, sometimes not, and if we tried we could reach below to gra…"-Alan Davies, Just Ignore Him
"I don't see the point of leukaemia. Some diseases are using you as the host for a time and then they transfer to someone else, they survive that way, those pathogens, airborne or waterborne, jumping …"-Alan Davies, Just Ignore Him
24. Exit Stage Left: The Curious Afterlife of Pop Stars
By: Nick Duerden
3.77
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
For fans of music books from David Hepworth, Pete Paphides, Bob Stanley and Craig Brown, as well as… read more
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25. Shiny and New: Ten Moments of Pop Genius that Defined the '80s
By: Dylan Jones
3.78
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
'A wholly successful endeavour carried along by waves of infectious enthusiasm' Mojo'Fascinating' N… read more
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26. The Girls Are Good
By: Ilaria Bernardini
3.16
Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition
In the tradition of My Dark Vanessa and The Divines, a bold coming-of-age novel set in the competit… read more
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27. London, Burning
By: Anthony Quinn
4.09
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
London, Burning is a novel about the end of the 1970s, and the end of an era. It concerns a nation … read more
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28. Sweet Dreams: The Story of the New Romantics
By: Dylan Jones
3.84
Format: 688 pages, Hardcover
David Bowie. Culture Club. Wham!. Soft Cell. Duran Duran. Sade. Spandau Ballet. The Eurythmics... … read more
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29. Somebody Told Me: One Man’s Unexpected Journey Down the Rabbit Hole of Lies, Trolls and Conspiracies
By: Danny Wallace
4.22
Format: 330 pages, Kindle Edition
Have you been keeping your eye on your grandma lately? Have you been calling her enough? You sure s… read more
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30. The Eighties: One Day, One Decade
By: Dylan Jones
3.70
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
One Day: Saturday 13 July 1985, nearly two billion people woke up with one purpose. Nearly a third … read more
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31. Started Out Just Drinking Beer: The Mental As Anything Story
By: Stuart Lloyd
4.21
Format: 340 pages, Paperback
The riotous rollercoaster ride of Mental as Anything, one of Australia’s greatest bands from 1976-2… read more
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