Like Magic in the Streets: Orange Juice, Aztec Camera, the Go-Betweens, the Smiths, the Blue Nile and the End of Romance
By: Tim Blanchard
3.96
Format: 279 pages, Paperback
Like Magic in the Streets tells the curious stories behind the making of much-loved indie LPs: You …
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1. Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley
By: Peter Guralnick
4.16
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
From the moment that he first shook up the world in the mid 1950s, Elvis Presley has been one of th… read more
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2. Frank: The True Story that Inspired the Movie
By: Jon Ronson
3.70
Format: 96 pages, ebook
In the late 1980s Jon Ronson was the keyboard player in the Frank Sidebottom Oh Blimey Big Band. Fr… read more
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3. Not Dead Yet: The Memoir
By: Phil Collins
3.77
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Phil Collins pulls no punches--about himself, his life, or the ecstasy and heartbreak that's inspir… read more
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4. A Riot of Our Own: Night and Day with the Clash
By: Johnny Green , Garry Barker
4.20
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
Johnny Green was a footloose slacker who loved punk rock, stumbled into being a roadie for the Sex … read more
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5. On Chesil Beach
By: Ian McEwan
3.21
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A novel of remarkable depth and poignancy from one of the most acclaimed writers of our time. It is… read more
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6. Autumn
By: Ali Smith
4.26
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A breathtakingly inventive new novel from the Man Booker-shortlisted and Baileys Prize-winning auth… read more
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7. True Grit
By: Charles Portis
3.20
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
Mattie Ross, 14, from Dardanelle, Arkansas, narrates half a century later, her trip in the winter o… read more
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8. The Love You Make: An Insider's Story of the Beatles
By: Steven Gaines , Anthony DeCurtis , Peter Brown
4.09
Format: 372 pages, Paperback
Here is the national bestseller that Newsdaycalled "the most authoritative and candid look yet at t… read more
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9. Soumission
By: Michel Houellebecq
3.65
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
Dans une France assez proche de la nôtre, un homme s’engage dans la carrière universitaire. Peu mot… read more
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"It’s submission,"-Michel Houellebecq, Soumission
"There is no Israel for me."-Michel Houellebecq, Soumission
"Intimacy isn’t something men talk about."-Michel Houellebecq, Soumission
"I was about as political as a bath towel."-Michel Houellebecq, Soumission
10. Tokyo Express
By: Seichō Matsumoto
3.68
Format: 175 pages, Paperback
In una cala rocciosa della baia di Hakata, i corpi di un uomo e di una donna vengono rinvenuti all’… read more
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11. Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne
By: Katherine Rundell
4.18
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From standout scholar Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite presents a sparkling and very modern biogra… read more
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"To adore and to devour and to be devoured is its own kind of focus: a gasp of a different kind of oxygen."-Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne
12. 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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"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
13. Bournville
By: Jonathan Coe
3.81
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling, award-winning author of Middle England comes a profoundly moving, brutally fu… read more
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14. Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
By: Rory Stewart
4.36
Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition
A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabi… read more
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"Proper searching could stop drugs being carried through the gates. In the US and Sweden, where there was proper searching, I had discovered, the drug rates were far lower. But when I shared these sug…"-Rory Stewart, Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
15. 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
16. Prisoners of the Castle: An Epic Story of Survival and Escape from Colditz, the Nazis' Fortress Prison
By: Ben Macintyre
4.26
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The definitive and surprising true story of one of history’s most notorious prisons—and the remarka… read more
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17. 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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"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
18. 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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"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
19. The Twilight World
By: Werner Herzog
3.87
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
The great filmmaker Werner Herzog, in his first novel, tells the incredible story of Hiroo Onoda, a… read more
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20. 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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21. In Perfect Harmony: Singalong Pop in ’70s Britain
By: Will Hodgkinson
4.05
Format: 549 pages, Kindle Edition
A Telegraph Book of the Year A Guardian Book of the Year A Shindig Book of the Year A Virgin Radio … read more
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22. The Horse
By: Willy Vlautin
4.26
Format: 194 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning author Willy Vlautin explores loneliness, art, addiction, regret, love, and hard-won … read more
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23. Quantum Criminals: Ramblers, Wild Gamblers, and Other Sole Survivors from the Songs of Steely Dan (American Music Series)
By: Alex Pappademas
4.46
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
A literary and visual exploration of the songs of Steely Dan. Steely Dan’s songs are exercises in … read more
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24. Pandemonium
By: Armando Iannucci
3.82
Format: 80 pages, Hardcover
Tell, Mighty Wit, how the highest in forethought and, That tremendous plus, The Science, Saw off … read more
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25. 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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26. 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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27. Abbey Road: The Inside Story of the World’s Most Famous Recording Studio
By: David Hepworth
4.06
Format: 383 pages, Kindle Edition
With a foreword by Paul McCartney'It's semi-devotional -- a really special place' Florence Welch'Th… read more
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28. Souvenir
By: Michael Bracewell
3.46
Format: None pages, None
'The best evocation I've read of London in the '80s' Neil Tennant'I loved Souvenir . . . it rescued… read more
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29. The Missing
By: Andrew O'Hagan
3.90
Format: None pages, Paperback
This book - part autobiography, part inquiry into mystery, part social history - tries to find out … read more
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30. Like Magic in the Streets: Orange Juice, Aztec Camera, the Go-Betweens, the Smiths, the Blue Nile and the End of Romance
By: Tim Blanchard
3.96
Format: 279 pages, Paperback
Like Magic in the Streets tells the curious stories behind the making of much-loved indie LPs: You … read more
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31. Tomorrow's Here Today: Lightning Seeds, Football and Cosmic Post-Punk
By: Ian Broudie
4.32
Format: 252 pages, Kindle Edition
'All Ian Broudie's great gifts as a songwriter - melody, vulnerability, empathy, hope - turn out to… read more
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