It's Lovely to be Here
By: James Yorkston
3.69
Format: 265 pages, Paperback
Published in February of 2011 by Domino Press / Faber and presented as a series of tour diaries, It…
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1. Billy Bragg: Still Suitable for Miners: The Official Biography
By: Andrew Collins
3.67
Format: 244 pages, Paperback
He was a punk. He was a soldier. He was a flag-waver for the Labour Party. He is Billy Bragg, best … read more
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- music
- nonfiction
- biography
2. Pet Shop Boys Versus America
By: Chris Heath , Pennie Smith
4.11
Format: 98 pages, Paperback
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- music
- nonfiction
- biography
3. Life
By: Keith Richards
3.17
Format: 55 pages, Hardcover
With the Rolling Stones, Keith Richards created the riffs, the lyrics and the songs that roused the… read more
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4. Detroit 67: The Year That Changed Soul
By: Stuart Cosgrove
4.12
Format: 440 pages,
The Epic Story of Motown and Detroit's Independent Soul Music Scene It's January 1967--and one of t… read more
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5. In the All-Night Café: A Memoir of Belle and Sebastian's Formative Year
By: Stuart David
3.89
Format: None pages, Paperback
"One afternoon in 1994, I had an idea." So begins Stuart David's charming, evocative memoir about t… read more
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6. The Descent of Man
By: Grayson Perry
4.18
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Grayson Perry has been thinking about masculinity - what it is, how it operates, why little boys ar… read more
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7. Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits
By: David Wong
3.63
Format: 56 pages, Hardcover
Nightmarish villains with superhuman enhancements. An all-seeing social network that tracks your ev… read more
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8. Girl in a Band
By: Kim Gordon
3.67
Format: 273 pages, Hardcover
In Girl in a Band, Kim Gordon, founding member of Sonic Youth and role model for a generation of wo… read more
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- music
- nonfiction
- biography
"All that young-girl idealism is someone else's now."-Kim Gordon, Girl in a Band
"For me performing has a lot to do with being fearless."-Kim Gordon, Girl in a Band
"I like being in a weak position, and making it strong."-Kim Gordon, Girl in a Band
"I give Iggy credit for deconstructing the very idea of entertainment."-Kim Gordon, Girl in a Band
9. Maximum Bob
By: Elmore Leonard
4.09
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
"Hilarious....Strange and risky....A right-on, pitch perfect novel, with wide social scope, comic g… read more
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10. City Primeval
By: Elmore Leonard
3.69
Format: 355 pages, Paperback
Clement Mansell, knows how easy it is to get away with murder. The crazed killer is back on the Det… read more
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11. Prophet Song
By: Paul Lynch
4.10
Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition
A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internat… read more
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"people are entitled to some small moment of peace."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"the child absorbing the mother’s trauma and storing it in his body for later use,"-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"... time is at once addition and subtraction, time adds one day to the next and always takes away from what's left..."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"...knowing how it is so that all boys grow up and pull away from home to unmake the world in the guise of making it, nature decrees it so."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
12. Old God's Time
By: Sebastian Barry
3.85
Format: 261 pages, Hardcover
From the two-time Booker Prize finalist author, a dazzlingly written novel exploring love, memory, … read more
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"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-de immòbil, feliç i inútil"-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time
"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-se immòbil, feliç i inútil"-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time
"No one minds life as long as they are not trying to leave it. Nor death, as long as they are not dying."-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time
13. 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
14. The Wren, the Wren
By: Anne Enright
3.55
Format: 278 pages, Hardcover
An incandescent novel about the inheritance of trauma, wonder, and love across three generations of… read more
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"It's not that I think about him constantly, he is my way of thinking. His mind is my compass, his eyes my only mirror."-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren
"We don’t walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren
"We don't walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren
15. Harlem Shuffle (Ray Carney, #1)
By: Colson Whitehead
3.74
Format: 318 pages, Hardcover
From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys, a … read more
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"Step back and the world is a classroom if need be."-Colson Whitehead, Harlem Shuffle (Ray Carney, #1)
"Crooked world, straight world, same rules - everybody had a hand out for the envelope."-Colson Whitehead, Harlem Shuffle (Ray Carney, #1)
"He was a strange mix--congenial but reserved in a way that told you being friendly was an act of will."-Colson Whitehead, Harlem Shuffle (Ray Carney, #1)
"I'm an entrepreneur." "Entrepreneur?" Pepper said the last part like manure. "That's just a hustler who pays taxes."-Colson Whitehead, Harlem Shuffle (Ray Carney, #1)
16. Shy
By: Max Porter
3.63
Format: 136 pages, Hardcover
A novel about guilt, rage, imagination, and boyhood, about being lost in the dark and learning you’… read more
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"He could learn to speak this language: night-end."-Max Porter, Shy
"He feels colossally sad. Blisteringly sad. Almost ecstatically sad."-Max Porter, Shy
"Shy said It's our music, coming out of our shit towns, it's not from Staten Island or Seattle or Detroit, it's from Walsall and Watford. Shaun and his mate Andy burst out laughing and Andy did a sque…"-Max Porter, Shy
"He smells of pond. Everything smells of pond. He feels like he could sniff his way into individual microbes, earthy worming growgreen liquid stink, newts and shoots, silty, fruity, and as he walks he…"-Max Porter, Shy
17. Scabby Queen
By: Kirstin Innes
3.72
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Three days before her fifty-first birthday, Clio Campbell - one-hit-wonder, political activist, lif… read more
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"At what point did the policeman stop? When he put his cock in? Whose was the sperm that had fathered her child? Was that erection, that constant need to get her knickers off all part of the performan…"-Kirstin Innes, Scabby Queen
18. 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
- nonfiction
- biography
19. Remain in Love: Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club, Tina
By: Chris Frantz
3.50
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Chris Frantz’s memoir tells the story of his life with Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club and his life-lon… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
"Without adventures, we won’t have stories."-Chris Frantz, Remain in Love: Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club, Tina
"...the opposite of love is not hate. The opposite of love is selfishness."-Chris Frantz, Remain in Love: Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club, Tina
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. 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
- biography
22. Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You: A Memoir
By: Lucinda Williams
3.96
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The iconic singer-songwriter and three-time Grammy winner opens up about her traumatic childhood in… read more
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- music
- nonfiction
- biography
23. The Perfect Golden Circle
By: Benjamin Myers
3.92
Format: 211 pages, Hardcover
From a British literary sensation, the story of two rural outcasts and the crop circles they create… read more
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24. 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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- nonfiction
- biography
25. Open Water
By: Caleb Azumah Nelson
4.04
Format: 145 pages, Hardcover
Two young people meet at a pub in South East London. Both are Black British, both won scholarships … read more
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"Trauma makes you considerate."-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water
"You are more than the sum of your traumas"-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water
"You do not want to die before you can live"-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water
"...love was not always synonymous with care."-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water
26. The Lost Rainforests of Britain
By: Guy Shrubsole
4.30
Format: 326 pages, Hardcover
From the Sunday Times-bestselling author of Who Owns England?, a mesmerising chronicle of our forgo… read more
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- nonfiction
"This was the very heart of Wales' rainforest zone, where the oceanic climate conspires to make conditions perfect for the rich profusion of plant life that we'd spent the past week exploring. Yet her…"-Guy Shrubsole, The Lost Rainforests of Britain
27. The Collapsing Wave: The epic, awe-inspiring new novel from the author of BBC 2’s Between the Covers pick THE SPACE BETWEEN US (The Enceladons Trilogy)
By: Doug Johnstone
4.37
Format: 282 pages, Kindle Edition
Ava, Lennox and Heather make contact with alien Sandy and head for a profound confrontation that co… read more
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28. The Space Between Us
By: Doug Johnstone
3.86
Format: 276 pages, Paperback
When several people suffer strokes after seeing dazzling lights over Edinburgh, then awake complete… read more
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29. 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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- nonfiction
- biography
"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
30. From Manchester with Love
By: Paul Morley
4.09
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
Critically-acclaimed and bestselling author Paul Morley’s long-awaited biography of Factory Records… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
31. It's Lovely to be Here
By: James Yorkston
3.69
Format: 265 pages, Paperback
Published in February of 2011 by Domino Press / Faber and presented as a series of tour diaries, It… read more
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