Factory
By: Mick Middles
3.76
Format: 452 pages, Paperback
Factory Records' fame and fortune were based on two bands - Joy Division and New Order - and one pe…
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1. The Crow Road
By: Iain Banks
4.08
Format: 501 pages, Paperback
This is an alternative cover edition for ISBN 9780349103235 'It was the day my grandmother explo… read more
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"I mean, nobody tells you sex is going to be so _noisy_, do they? ..."-Iain Banks, The Crow Road
"Och, stop being so sensitive, Prentice; it isn't much fun getting old. One of the few pleasures that do come your way is to speak your mind... Certainly annoying your relatives is enjoyable too, but …"-Iain Banks, The Crow Road
"The flames had passed over those flattened blades and consumed their heather neighbours on either side while they themselves had remained, made proof against the blaze and guaranteed their stark surv…"-Iain Banks, The Crow Road
"People can be teachers and idiots; they can be philosophers and idiots; they can be politicians and idiots... in fact I think they have to be... a genius can be an idiot. The world is largely run for…"-Iain Banks, The Crow Road
2. First Love, Last Rites
By: Ian McEwan
3.63
Format: 165 pages, Paperback
Ian McEwan's Somerset Maugham Award-winning collection First Love, Last Rites brought him instant r… read more
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"Me pregunta usted qué hice cuando vi a aquella chica. Bueno, pues se lo diré. ¿Ve usted ese armario de ahí, que llena casi toda la habitación? Vine corriendo hasta aquí, me metí dentro y me hice una …"-Ian McEwan, First Love, Last Rites
3. 24 Hour Party People: What the Sleeve Notes Never Tell You
By: Tony Wilson
3.94
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
''The musicians own everything. The company owns nothing. All our bands have the freedom to f**k of… read more
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- music
- punk
- nonfiction
- pop culture
"Pong had mutated into large stand-up Sega consoles by '82 and here was some extra revenue the guys were well up for. So the space on the left of the entrance was to be the games room. Until two weeks…"-Tony Wilson, 24 Hour Party People: What the Sleeve Notes Never Tell You
"Honouring the youth of their town they provided a décor that a £20-a-Martini fleecing parlour could not have amortized. They had bought eighty low Alvar Aalto stools for the alcove and coctail bar se…"-Tony Wilson, 24 Hour Party People: What the Sleeve Notes Never Tell You
4. High-Rise
By: J.G. Ballard
3.61
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
When a class war erupts inside a luxurious apartment block, modern elevators become violent battleg… read more
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"Togetherness is beating up an empty elevator."-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise
"this was an environment built, not for man, but for man's absence."-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise
"In effect, the apartment block was a small vertical city, its two thousand inhabitants boxed up into the sky.j.g."-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise
"Not for the first time Laing reflected that he and his neighbors were eager for trouble as the most effective means of enlarging their sex lives."-J.G. Ballard, High-Rise
5. Rip it Up and Start Again
By: Simon Reynolds
4.08
Format: 752 pages, Hardcover
Punk's raw power rejuvenated rock, but by the summer of 1977 the movement had become a parody of it… read more
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- punk
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6. Set the Boy Free
By: Johnny Marr
2.50
Format: 32 pages, ebook
The long-awaited memoir from the legendary guitarist and cofounder of the seminal British band The … read more
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- music
- nonfiction
7. Between the Acts
By: Virginia Woolf
4.06
Format: None pages, Paperback
In Woolf's last novel, the action takes place on one summer's day at a country house in the heart o… read more
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8. In the Miso Soup
By: Ryū Murakami , Ralph McCarthy
3.83
Format: 95 pages, Paperback
It is just before New Year's. Frank, an overweight American tourist, has hired Kenji to take him on… read more
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9. Belle and Sebastian: Just a Modern Rock Story
By: Paul Whitelaw
3.44
Format: 347 pages, Hardcover
In the eight years since their first release, Belle and Sebastianhave grown from a secretive cult c… read more
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10. The Haçienda: How Not to Run a Club
By: Peter Hook
3.90
Format: 77 pages, Hardcover
The Legendary musician and cofounder of Joy Division and New Order tells the whole story--the fun, … read more
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11. The Fog
By: James Herbert
2.96
Format: None pages, Paperback
A peaceful village in Wiltshire is shattered by a disaster which strikes without reason or explanat… read more
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12. 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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13. The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
By: Angela Carter
3.92
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
From familiar fairy tales and legends - Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Puss in Boots, Beauty and the B… read more
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"Her hair falls down like tears"-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
"ordered me a sky from a florist"-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
"My spite was sharp as broken glass"-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
"My father lost me to the Beast at cards"-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
14. Down and Out in Paris and London
By: George Orwell
4.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
This unusual fictional account - in good part autobiographical - narrates without self-pity and oft… read more
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15. Outer Dark
By: Cormac McCarthy
4.26
Format: None pages, Paperback
A woman bears her brother's child, a boy, the brother leaves the baby in the woods and tells her he… read more
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16. 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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"Always enter your shoes before wearing them."-Bob Mortimer, And Away...
17. The Shards
By: Bret Easton Ellis
4.00
Format: 595 pages, Hardcover
A sensational new novel from the best-selling author of Less Than Zero and Imperial Bedrooms that t… read more
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"Non investivo nel mondo reale – perché avrei dovuto? Non era fatto per me o per i miei bisogni o desideri."-Bret Easton Ellis, The Shards
"Eravamo adolescenti, bambini superficialmente sofisticati, che non sapevano davvero nulla di come funzionava il mondo - lo stavamo sperimentando, immagino, ma senza averne cognizione. Almeno fino a q…"-Bret Easton Ellis, The Shards
"And I just stood there in the fading afternoon light, realizing at seventeen that I was already staring into my past — that the past had a meaning that would always define you. I remember this being …"-Bret Easton Ellis, The Shards
18. The Maiden
By: Kate Foster
4.05
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Inspired by a real-life case and winner of the Bloody Scotland Pitch Perfect Award, Kate Foster's T… read more
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19. The Trading Game: A Confession
By: Gary Stevenson
4.26
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A vivid, blistering memoir that takes readers inside the high-stakes drama and hubris of the tradin… read more
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- nonfiction
20. The Satsuma Complex
By: Bob Mortimer
3.68
Format: 301 pages, Kindle Edition
'My name is Gary. I’m a thirty-year-old legal assistant with a firm of solicitors in London. To des… read more
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"And off she toddled back into the flat, banging Lassoo in the face with the door as he followed behind her. He looked up at me as if to say, 'That's your fucking fault."-Bob Mortimer, The Satsuma Complex
21. The Escape
By: Ruth Kelly
3.44
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
The grander the house. The darker the secrets. From bestselling author Ruth Kelly, The Escape is… read more
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22. Dead Men's Trousers (Mark Renton, #5)
By: Irvine Welsh
4.18
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A spectacular return of the wild, dissolute gang from Trainspotting, from the author the New York T… read more
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"Ah fuckin hate the way some American cunts call lassies cunts. Fuckin offensive, that shite."-Irvine Welsh, Dead Men's Trousers (Mark Renton, #5)
"I'm glad our slivers of existence intersected in a Venn diagram between the crushing slabs of oblivion on either side of them"-Irvine Welsh, Dead Men's Trousers (Mark Renton, #5)
"I pay more tax registered in Holland than I would in the USA, but better gieing to the Dutch to build dams than the Yanks to build bombs."-Irvine Welsh, Dead Men's Trousers (Mark Renton, #5)
23. The Botanist (Washington Poe, #5)
By: M.W. Craven
4.55
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
'I swear I'm one bad mood away from calling it black magic and going home . . .' Detective Serge… read more
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24. How to Disappear
By: Gillian McAllister
4.03
Format: 453 pages, Kindle Edition
You can run, you can hide, but can you disappear for good? Lauren's daughter Zara witnessed a te… read more
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25. But What Can I Do?
By: Alastair Campbell
3.87
Format: 321 pages, Hardcover
'Your country needs you. Your world needs you. Your time is now.'Our politics is a mess. Leaders wh… read more
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26. 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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- nonfiction
27. This Searing Light, the Sun and Everything Else: Joy Division: The Oral History
By: Jon Savage
4.32
Format: 322 pages, Hardcover
The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller Joy Division emerged in the mid-70s at the start of a two-de… read more
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28. Fast Forward: Confessions of a Post-Punk Percussionist: Volume II
By: Stephen Morris
4.40
Format: 452 pages, Kindle Edition
Iconic drummer Stephen Morris presses play once more to the tune of the long-awaited second volume … read more
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29. The Black Dog
By: Kevin Bridges
3.60
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
THE BLACK DOG is the exciting debut novel from one of Britain's most-loved comedians, Kevin Bridges… read more
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"There’s too much pressure on folk nowadays to try and fully eradicate any form of sadness…"-Kevin Bridges, The Black Dog
30. Four Shots in the Night: A True Story of Spies, Murder, and Justice in Northern Ireland
By: Henry Hemming
4.33
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Four Shots in the Night is the story of the killing of Frank Hegarty, an IRA member turned British … read more
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31. Factory
By: Mick Middles
3.76
Format: 452 pages, Paperback
Factory Records' fame and fortune were based on two bands - Joy Division and New Order - and one pe… read more
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