17 best-selling music books like Carpet Burns: My Life With Inspiral Carpets by Tom Hingley

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Carpet Burns: My Life With Inspiral Carpets

By: Tom Hingley

3.60

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Carpet Burns is Tom Hingley's account of his life as lead singer of Inspiral Carpets, one of the bi…

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1. The Death of Bunny Munro

By: Nick Cave

3.80

Format: 152 pages, Hardcover

Set adrift by his wife's sudden death and struggling to keep a grip on reality, Bunny Munro does th… read more

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  • music

2. Ska'd for Life: A Personal Journey with The Specials

By: Horace Panter

4.15

Format: None pages, Paperback

As a bass player with The Specials in his second-hand suit and pork pie hat, Horace was a member of… read more

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  • music
  • biography

3. Twisting My Melon

By: Shaun Ryder

4.11

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Shaun Ryder has lived a life of glorious highs and desolate lows. As lead singer of the Happy Monda… read more

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4. Marple: Twelve New Mysteries

By: Naomi Alderman

3.81

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A brand-new collection of short stories featuring the Queen of Mystery’s legendary detective Jane M… read more

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5. You Like It Darker

By: Stephen King

4.32

Format: 502 pages, Hardcover

From legendary storyteller and master of short fiction Stephen King comes an extraordinary new coll… read more

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6. My Effin' Life

By: Geddy Lee

4.58

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

The long-awaited memoir, generously illustrated with never-before-seen photos, from the iconic Rock… read more

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  • music
  • biography
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7. Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir

By: Werner Herzog

4.25

Format: 367 pages, Kindle Edition

Legendary filmmaker and celebrated author Werner Herzog tells in his inimitable voice the story of … read more

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  • biography
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8. Murder Before Evensong (Canon Clement, #1)

By: Richard Coles

3.32

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

Canon Daniel Clement is Rector of Champton. He has been there for eight years, living at the Rector… read more

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9. Death and Croissants (A Follet Valley Mystery, #1)

By: Ian Moore

3.27

Format: 230 pages, Kindle Edition

Richard is a middle-aged Englishman who runs a B&B in the fictional Val de Follet in the Loire Vall… read more

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10. Undoctored: The Story of a Medic Who Ran Out of Patients

By: Adam Kay

3.91

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

Adam Kay's secret diary from his time as a junior doctor This is Going to Hurt was the publishing p… read more

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  • biography
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11. The Christmas Appeal (The Appeal, #1.5)

By: Janice Hallett

3.63

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

This immersive holiday caper from the “modern Agatha Christie” (The Sunday Times, London) follows t… read more

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12. Abroad in Japan: Ten Years In The Land Of The Rising Sun

By: Chris Broad

4.18

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

When Englishman Chris Broad landed in a rural village in northern Japan he wondered if he'd made a … read more

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  • biography
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13. 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

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14. This Much is True

By: Miriam Margolyes

4.09

Format: 427 pages, Kindle Edition

BAFTA-winning actor, voice of everything from Monkey to the Cadbury's Caramel Rabbit, creator of a … read more

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  • biography
"...it is the vulnerabilities in people, rather more than their strengths, which allow us to love them."

-Miriam Margolyes, This Much is True

"And I was in love with him because, when he ended it, I can remember the feeling of being annihilated - a pure, wrenching grief and loss."

-Miriam Margolyes, This Much is True

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15. Will

By: Will Smith

4.26

Format: 418 pages, Hardcover

The instant #1 New York Times bestseller! “It's the best memoir I've ever read.” —Oprah Winfrey … read more

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  • music
  • biography
"No paralysis, do analysis. No paralysis, do analysis!"

-Will Smith, Will

"...either "know what you're talking about or be quiet". (Will's mom)"

-Will Smith, Will

"Learning is really easy when you can feel that your teachers love you."

-Will Smith, Will

"The slamming of her bedroom door functioned as a disastrous exclamation point."

-Will Smith, Will

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16. 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
  • biography
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17. Record Play Pause

By: Stephen Morris

4.38

Format: 405 pages, Hardcover

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'A unique and thoughtful musical memoir' Observer 'Gritty coming-of-age… read more

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  • music
  • biography
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18. The Lives of Brian

By: Brian Johnson

4.51

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Brian Johnson’s memoir from growing up in a small town to starting his own band to ultimately repla… read more

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  • music
  • biography
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19. Orlam

By: P.J. Harvey

4.06

Format: 301 pages, Hardcover

A beautiful and profound narrative poem set in a magic realist version of the West Country by music… read more

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  • music
Cover of Whatever Happened to the C86 Kids? An Indie Odyssey by Nige Tassell

20. Whatever Happened to the C86 Kids? An Indie Odyssey

By: Nige Tassell

4.11

Format: 408 pages, Hardcover

In 1986, the NME released a cassette that would shape music for years to come. A collection of twen… read more

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  • music
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21. 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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  • music
  • 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

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22. 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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  • music
  • biography
Cover of Another Planet: A Teenager in Suburbia by Tracey Thorn

23. Another Planet: A Teenager in Suburbia

By: Tracey Thorn

3.90

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

In a 1970’s commuter town, Tracey Thorn’s teenage life was forged from what failed to happen. Her d… read more

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  • music
  • biography
Cover of Pandamonium!: How Not To Run A Record Label by Simon Williams

24. Pandamonium!: How Not To Run A Record Label

By: Simon Williams

3.86

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

'Hilarious, heart-wrenching and packed with British music history.' - COLDPLAY A Virgin Radio Bo… read more

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  • music
Cover of Buzzin': The Nine Lives of a Happy Monday by Bez

25. Buzzin': The Nine Lives of a Happy Monday

By: Bez

3.84

Format: 298 pages, Kindle Edition

At the height of his initial, turn-of-the-1990's infamy as the maraca-wielding dancer with 'Madches… read more

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  • music
  • biography
Cover of Kraftwerk: Future Music from Germany by Uwe Schütte

26. Kraftwerk: Future Music from Germany

By: Uwe Schütte

3.68

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

'Highly stimulating ... Kraftwerk is a pleasure to read' Jon Savage, New StatesmanThe story of the … read more

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

27. 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 All The Songs Sound The Same – The Wedding Present by Richard Houghton

28. All The Songs Sound The Same – The Wedding Present

By: Richard Houghton

3.75

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Co-edited by David Lewis Gedge, lead singer and main songwriter with The Wedding Present, and music… read more

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Cover of Carpet Burns: My Life With Inspiral Carpets by Tom Hingley

29. Carpet Burns: My Life With Inspiral Carpets

By: Tom Hingley

3.60

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Carpet Burns is Tom Hingley's account of his life as lead singer of Inspiral Carpets, one of the bi… read more

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  • music
  • biography
Cover of Go out and get ‘em, boy! by David Lewis Gedge

30. Go out and get ‘em, boy!

By: David Lewis Gedge

4.60

Format: 164 pages, Hardcover

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Horace Panter

4.15

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Geddy Lee

4.58

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Werner Herzog

4.25

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Adam Kay

3.91

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Robert Thorogood

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