19 best-selling biography books like Small Hours by Graeme Thomson

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Small Hours

By: Graeme Thomson

4.25

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Did any musician in the Seventies fly so free as John Martyn did on Bless The Weather, Solid Air, I…

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1. Beatles '66: The Revolutionary Year

By: Steve Turner

4.26

Format: 464 pages, ebook

A riveting look at the transformative year in the lives and careers of the legendary group whose gr… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
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2. Chronicles, Volume One

By: Bob Dylan

3.97

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

"I'd come from a long ways off and had started a long ways down. But now destiny was about to manif… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
"People were people."

-Bob Dylan, Chronicles, Volume One

"My big fear was that my guitar would go out of tune."

-Bob Dylan, Chronicles, Volume One

"Sometimes you just have to bite your upper lip and put sunglasses on."

-Bob Dylan, Chronicles, Volume One

"Sebuah lagu laksana mimpi, dan kita berusaha untuk membuatnya jadi kenyataan."

-Bob Dylan, Chronicles, Volume One

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3. It's a Battlefield

By: Graham Greene

4.04

Format: None pages, Paperback

Drover, a Communist bus driver, is in prison appealing his death sentence for killing a policeman d… read more

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4. The Crystal World

By: J.G. Ballard

3.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

J. G. Ballard's fourth novel, which established his reputation as a writer of extraordinary talent … read more

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5. Under the Ivy: The Life & Music of Kate Bush

By: Graeme Thomson , Graeme Thompson

3.18

Format: 183 pages, Hardcover

The first ever in-depth study of Kate Bush's life and career, Under The Ivy features over 70 unique… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
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6. Tune In (The Beatles: All These Years, #1)

By: Mark Lewisohn

3.63

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Tune Inis the first volume of All These Years--a highly-anticipated, groundbreaking biographical tr… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography

7. Chapter and Verse: New Order, Joy Division and Me

By: Bernard Sumner

3.86

Format: 262 pages, Hardcover

Founding member and guitarist of Joy Division and the lead singer of New Order, Bernard Sumner has … read more

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8. White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s

By: None

3.48

Format: None pages, Paperback

"This is the best book about music I've read in years, and a gripping piece of social history."--Br… read more

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9. The Bookseller of Inverness

By: S.G. MacLean

4.08

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

After Culloden, Iain MacGillivray was left for dead on Drumossie Moor. Wounded, his face brutally s… read more

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10. The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)

By: Hilary Mantel

4.39

Format: 759 pages, Paperback

With The Mirror & the Light, Hilary Mantel brings to a triumphant close the trilogy she began with … read more

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"Everybody wants something, if only for the pain to stop."

-Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)

"Those who think a heart cannot break have led blessed and sheltered lives."

-Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)

"It was not by a serpent, but by paper and ink that evil came into the world."

-Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)

"You can persuade the quick to think again, but you cannot remake your reputation with the dead."

-Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)

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11. The Mechanic: The Secret World of the F1 Pitlane

By: Marc 'Elvis' Priestley

4.24

Format: 243 pages, Hardcover

In the high octane atmosphere of the Formula One pit lane, the spotlight is most often on the super… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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12. Standing by the Wall: The Collected Slough House Novellas

By: Mick Herron

4.13

Format: 308 pages, Paperback

At last in one volume: the collected Slough House spy novellas, including the never-before-publishe… read more

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"Well don't talk to me when I'm not listening. It's a waste of everyone's time."

-Mick Herron, Standing by the Wall: The Collected Slough House Novellas

"Shut up. Now, ordinarily the reason I make you run up those stairs is I don't like you and I want you to die. But today, as it happens, I've a job for you."

-Mick Herron, Standing by the Wall: The Collected Slough House Novellas

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13. Great-Uncle Harry: A Tale of War and Empire

By: Michael Palin

4.17

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the time, many years ago, when Michael Palin first heard that his grandfather had a brother, H… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Lou Reed: The King of New York by Will Hermes

14. Lou Reed: The King of New York

By: Will Hermes

4.23

Format: 529 pages, Hardcover

"The only Lou Reed bio you need to read." ― The Washington Post "There have been many biographie… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
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15. Ramble Book

By: Adam Buxton

4.14

Format: 376 pages, Kindle Edition

Ramble /ˈramb(ə)l/ Verb 1. walk for pleasure in the countryside. ‘Dr Buckles and Rosie the do… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Beeswing: Losing My Way and Finding My Voice 1967-1975 by Richard      Thompson

16. Beeswing: Losing My Way and Finding My Voice 1967-1975

By: Richard Thompson

3.98

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

“Thompson is a master showman . . .  [ Beeswing is] everything you’d hope a Richard Thompson autobi… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm by Dan Charnas

17. Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm

By: Dan Charnas

4.56

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Equal parts biography, musicology, and cultural history, Dilla Time chronicles the life and legacy … read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
"The Yanceys were not a family that expressed love by saying “I love you."

-Dan Charnas, Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm

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18. 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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  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Exit Stage Left: The Curious Afterlife of Pop Stars by Nick Duerden

19. 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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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of The Sound of Being Human: How Music Shapes Our Lives by Jude Rogers

20. The Sound of Being Human: How Music Shapes Our Lives

By: Jude Rogers

4.13

Format: 293 pages, Kindle Edition

'Too often we treat popular music as wallpaper surrounding us as we live our lives. Jude Rogers sho… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of The Lost Album of The Beatles: What if the Beatles hadn't split up? by Daniel Rachel

21. The Lost Album of The Beatles: What if the Beatles hadn't split up?

By: Daniel Rachel

3.44

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

An award-winning music author takes a serious look at a playful question of pop what if the Beatle… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction

22. A Fabulous Creation: How the LP Saved Our Lives

By: David Hepworth

4.09

Format: None pages, ebook

_________‘Hepworth’s knowledge and understanding of rock history is prodigious … [a] hugely enterta… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
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23. Small Hours

By: Graeme Thomson

4.25

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Did any musician in the Seventies fly so free as John Martyn did on Bless The Weather, Solid Air, I… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Wrote For Luck: Selected Lyrics by Shaun Ryder

24. Wrote For Luck: Selected Lyrics

By: Shaun Ryder

3.86

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

In the mid-1980s the Happy Mondays emerged as the prime mischief makers on the Madchester scene. Ch… read more

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  • music
Cover of Mark Hollis: A Perfect Silence (Classic Edition) by Ben Wardle

25. Mark Hollis: A Perfect Silence (Classic Edition)

By: Ben Wardle

4.27

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The first complete, in-depth biography of the Talk Talk leader draws on scores of new and original … read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Muse, Odalisque, Handmaiden: A Girl's Life in the Incredible String Band by Rose Simpson

26. Muse, Odalisque, Handmaiden: A Girl's Life in the Incredible String Band

By: Rose Simpson

4.18

Format: 266 pages, None

A memoir by a member of the Incredible String Band that charts a journey from hippie utopia to post… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Electronically Yours: Vol. I: My Autobiography by Martyn Ware

27. Electronically Yours: Vol. I: My Autobiography

By: Martyn Ware

3.89

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

This is a music autobiography to remember. This is the story of Martyn Ware. The Human League and … read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Blues From Laurel Canyon: My Life as a Bluesman by John Mayall

28. Blues From Laurel Canyon: My Life as a Bluesman

By: John Mayall

3.62

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

John Mayall has played with them all; Eric Clapton, Peter Green, Jack Bruce, Mick Fleetwood, Mick T… read more

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  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Street-Level Superstar: A Year With Lawrence: 'One of the great Pop biographies' SUNDAY TIMES by Will Hodgkinson

29. Street-Level Superstar: A Year With Lawrence: 'One of the great Pop biographies' SUNDAY TIMES

By: Will Hodgkinson

4.78

Format: 324 pages, Kindle Edition

'Will has finally written his masterpiece. I'm glad I could be of assistance' LAWRENCE'Essential re… read more

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  • music
Cover of Unsung : Unsaid: Syd and Nick in absentia by Rob Chapman

30. Unsung : Unsaid: Syd and Nick in absentia

By: Rob Chapman

4.28

Format: 275 pages, Kindle Edition

In the summer of 1974 Nick Drake and Syd Barrett made their final ill-fated ventures into a recordi… read more

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31. Postcards from Scotland: Scottish Independent Music 1983-1995

By: Grant McPhee

4.00

Format: 466 pages, Kindle Edition

By 1983, many of Scotland’s post-punk bands had broken up or moved south to chase the major labels … read more

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  • music

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Beatles '66: The Revolutionary Year

Steve Turner

4.26

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Bob Dylan

3.97

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3.18

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3.63

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4.26

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4.27

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Adrian Edmondson

4.32

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4.14

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