Ten Thousand Apologies: Fat White Family and the Miracle of Failure
By: Adelle Stripe
4.40
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A ROUGH TRADE BOOK OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR THE PENDERYN MUSIC BOO…
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1. Lanark
By: Alasdair Gray , Janice Galloway
4.10
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
This work, originally published in 1981, has been hailed as the most influential Scottish novel of … read more
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"Glasgow is a magnificent city,"-Alasdair Gray, Lanark
"The body of the last Flealouse contained the flesh of everything that had ever lived. It was content."-Alasdair Gray, Lanark
"Glasgow is still full of churches built in the last century. Half of them have been turned into warehouses."-Alasdair Gray, Lanark
"You suffer from the oldest delusion in politics. You think you can change the world by talking to a leader. Leaders are the effects, not the causes of changes."-Alasdair Gray, Lanark
2. Art Sex Music
By: Cosey Fanni Tutti
3.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
Art Sex Musicis the autobiography of a musician who, as a founding member of the avant-garde group … read more
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- music
- autobiography
- nonfiction
- biography
3. The Gallows Pole
By: Benjamin Myers
3.00
Format: 50 pages, Paperback
"The Gallows Pole may well turn out to be 2017's His Bloody Project. It's a windswept, brutal tale … read more
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4. Alan Partridge: Nomad
By: Steve Coogan , Alan Partridge , Rob Gibbons , Neil Gibbons
3.82
Format: 340 pages, Hardcover
In Alan Partridge: Nomad, Alan dons his boots, windcheater and scarf and embarks on an odyssey thro… read more
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5. KLF: Chaos Magic Music Money
By: J.M.R. Higgs , John Higgs
3.32
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
They were the best-selling singles band in the world. They had awards, credibility, commercial succ… read more
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- music
- nonfiction
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6. Nadja
By: André Breton , Richard Howard
3.55
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Nadja, originally published in France in 1928, is the first and perhaps best Surrealist romance eve… read more
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"I am the soul in limbo."-André Breton, Nadja
"Le coeur humain, beau comme un sismographe."-André Breton, Nadja
"Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all."-André Breton, Nadja
"...with the end of my breath, which is the beginning of yours."-André Breton, Nadja
7. Kill Your Friends
By: John Niven
5.00
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
It's not dog-eat-dog around here...it's dog-gang-rapes-dog-then-tortures-him-for-five-days-before-b… read more
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8. Ten Years in an Open Necked Shirt
By: John Cooper Clarke , None
2.00
Format: None pages,
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9. Junky
By: William S. Burroughs , Allen Ginsberg , Oliver Harris
3.84
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
Before his 1959 breakthrough, Naked Lunch, an unknown William S. Burroughs wrote Junky, his first n… read more
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10. Who Killed Mister Moonlight?: Bauhaus, Black Magick, and Benediction
By: None
3.87
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Beginning with the creation of Bauhaus's seminal debut hit 'Bela Lugosi's Dead', David J. Haskins o… read more
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11. Renegade
By: Mark E. Smith
3.86
Format: None pages,
Reams of stuff have been written about me in the past, but never in my own words: this is the prope… read more
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12. You Could Do Something Amazing with Your Life [You Are Raoul Moat]
By: Andrew Hankinson
3.66
Format: 325 pages, Paperback
Winner of a Northern Writers Award These are the last days of Raoul Moat. Moat was the fugitive Geo… read more
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13. This Is Memorial Device
By: David Keenan
3.64
Format: 211 pages, Paperback
This Is Memorial Device, the debut novel by David Keenan, is a love letter to the small towns of La… read more
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14. And Away...
By: Bob Mortimer
4.33
Format: 323 pages, Hardcover
Bob Mortimer’s life was trundling along happily until suddenly in 2015 he was diagnosed with a hear… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
"Always enter your shoes before wearing them."-Bob Mortimer, And Away...
15. Spaceships Over Glasgow
By: Stuart Braithwaite
3.88
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Born the son of Scotland's last telescope-maker, Stuart Braithwaite was perhaps always destined for… read more
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- music
- autobiography
- nonfiction
- biography
16. Cuddy
By: Benjamin Myers
4.33
Format: 447 pages, Hardcover
Cuddy is a bold and experimental retelling of the story of the hermit St. Cuthbert, unofficial patr… read more
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"Some say owls carry within them the souls of those who in life never had a name, a place or a purpose, and were cast out to wander alone. Some say their stained-glass eyes are windows into other worl…"-Benjamin Myers, Cuddy
17. Alan Partridge: Big Beacon
By: Alan Partridge
4.27
Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition
In Big Beacon, Norwich's favourite son and best broadcaster, Alan Partridge, triumphs against the o… read more
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18. Autobibliography
By: Rob Doyle
4.07
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In my case, reading has always served a dual purpose. In a positive sense, it offers sustenance, en… read more
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- nonfiction
"Each of us, perhaps, holds the idea of such a place, the one we long to see more than anywhere else - and for this reason we should avoid ever going there. It thus remains a zone of desire and enigma…"-Rob Doyle, Autobibliography
"I could live this way indefinitely and I'd be all right ... I've done enough living and can now spend my time holding up the memories for contemplation, determining what it all meant. Images flood in…"-Rob Doyle, Autobibliography
"We get tattoos in the same spirit in which we write books. The crucial thing in both cases is to do it while you still have the nerve to say what’s true before it gets overlaid by other truths. Write…"-Rob Doyle, Autobibliography
"It is difficult, when we look back on certain periods of our lives, not to succumb to romanticism and nostalgia. Even while I lived in London, though, I romanticised the city and the life I lived the…"-Rob Doyle, Autobibliography
19. Faith, Hope and Carnage
By: Nick Cave
4.44
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
Faith, Hope and Carnage is a book about Nick Cave’s inner life. Created from more than forty hou… read more
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- music
- nonfiction
- biography
"I think people can do both terrible things and wonderful things when faced with the true understanding of their own powerlessness, vulnerability and lack of control."-Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage
"Vulnerability is essential to spiritual and creative growth. Finding enormous strength through vulnerability. You're being open to whatever happens, including failure and shame. The two are connected…"-Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage
"I guess not, but who says creativity it the be all and end all? Who says that our accomplishments are the only true measure of what is important in our lives? Perhaps there are other lives worth livi…"-Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage
"The usual precepts collapse under the weight of the calamity: the terrible demands that we place upon ourselves; our own internal judging voice; the endless expectations and opinions of others. They …"-Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage
20. 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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- autobiography
- nonfiction
- biography
21. Paper Cuts
By: Ted Kessler
4.14
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
'A great writer' Paul Weller 'A music journalist of integrity' Billy Childish ' There's only one … read more
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- music
- autobiography
- nonfiction
- biography
22. 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
- autobiography
- nonfiction
- biography
23. Nina Simone's Gum
By: Warren Ellis
4.26
Format: 199 pages, Hardcover
I hadn't opened the towel that contained her gum since 2013. The last person to touch it was Nina S… read more
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- autobiography
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- biography
24. Verse, Chorus, Monster!
By: Graham Coxon
3.70
Format: None pages, ebook
Among the noise and clamour of the Britpop era, Blur co-founder Graham Coxon managed to carve out a… read more
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- autobiography
- nonfiction
- biography
25. A Likely Lad
By: Pete Doherty
3.92
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Peter Doherty's is the last of the great rock 'n' roll stories - bad boy and public enemy. To his d… read more
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26. 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
- autobiography
- nonfiction
- biography
27. Tenement Kid
By: Bobby Gillespie
4.02
Format: 412 pages, Hardcover
Fizzing with an infectious passion for the magic of rock music, Gillespie’s vivid and evocative mem… read more
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"I kind of became a feminist from an early age, even though I wasn’t aware of the feminist movement in any way. I admired my mum a lot. In her own quiet way she was a fighter."-Bobby Gillespie, Tenement Kid
"When I was a teenager I started to think about how dedicated Dad was to the struggle for working-class rights. He had devoted his life to the Labour cause fighting inequality and that’s fucking great…"-Bobby Gillespie, Tenement Kid
"Those painful childhood memories we bury, that some of us try and drown out with sex, drugs, alcohol, gambling, all the usual crutches and distractions. These childhood experiences are going to be re…"-Bobby Gillespie, Tenement Kid
"I began to question the world and other people from a young age. I suppose that gave me a sense of emotional distance, a lack of trust in future friendships and relationships; I would assume a friend…"-Bobby Gillespie, Tenement Kid
28. 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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- biography
29. Ten Thousand Apologies: Fat White Family and the Miracle of Failure
By: Adelle Stripe
4.40
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A ROUGH TRADE BOOK OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR THE PENDERYN MUSIC BOO… read more
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30. Chaise Longue
By: Baxter Dury
3.78
Format: 244 pages, Audiobook
Methods of parenting and education have progressed in recent years, especially compared to some of … read more
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- autobiography
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31. In the Jingle Jangle Jungle: Keeping Time with the Brian Jonestown Massacre
By: Joel Gion
4.39
Format: 348 pages, Kindle Edition
The Brian Jonestown Massacre are one of the great contemporary cult American rock and roll bands. A… read more
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