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 …
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1. One Train Later: A Memoir
By: Andy Summers , None , The Edge
4.03
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
"A disarming, surprising literary memoir by the ex-Police guitarist . . . A rollicking you-are-ther… read more
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2. NOFX: The Hepatitis Bathtub and Other Stories
By: Jeff Alulis , NOFX , Billy Joe Armstrong
4.55
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
The candid, hilarious, shocking, occasionally horrifying, and surprisingly moving New York Times be… read more
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"From 111 Mike " I never travel with drugs because I don't want to get caught at the airport, so if I ever have any coke or ecstasy left over after night of partying I tuck it in the pages of the Bibl…"-Jeff Alulis, NOFX: The Hepatitis Bathtub and Other Stories
3. The Atom Station
By: Halldór Laxness , Magnus Magnusson
3.44
Format: 220 pages, Paperback
When the Americans make an offer to buy land in Iceland to build a NATO airbase after the Second Wo… read more
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4. What Happened, Miss Simone?: A Biography
By: Alan Light
5.00
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Inspired by the Academy Award-nominated Netflix documentary What Happened, Miss Simone?, an intimat… read more
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5. 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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6. Life Without Armour
By: Alan Sillitoe
3.65
Format: 276 pages, Paperback
Out of print for many years, and republished in this new edition, this is the autobiography of the … read more
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7. Down the Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan
By: Howard Sounes
3.83
Format: None pages, Paperback
Based on three years of research, new documentary evidence, and interviews with 250 of Dylan's inti… read more
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8. The Axeman's Jazz
By: Ray Celestin
4.26
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
New Orleans, 1919. As a dark serial killer - The Axeman - stalks the city, three individuals set ou… read more
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9. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
By: Alan Sillitoe
3.80
Format: None pages, Paperback
To Arthur Seaton, Key worker on a lathe in a Nottingham cycle factory, life is one long battle with… read more
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10. 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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11. 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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12. Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys
By: Viv Albertine
4.29
Format: 421 pages, Paperback
The guitarist for seminal female punk group The Slits recounts playing with Sid Vicious, touring wi… read more
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"It’s true the good die young."-Viv Albertine, Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys
"I grew up with John Lennon at my side, like a big brother."-Viv Albertine, Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys
"Anyone who writes an autobiography is either a twat or broke."-Viv Albertine, Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys
"I think most people in long marriages have a touch of Stockholm Syndrome"-Viv Albertine, Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys
13. A Time of Gifts
By: Patrick Leigh Fermor , Jan Morris
4.00
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
In 1933, at the age of 18, Patrick Leigh Fermor set out on an extraordinary journey by foot - from … read more
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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. Cathedral
By: Raymond Carver
3.74
Format: 70 pages, Paperback
Raymond Carver's third collection of stories, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, including the cano… read more
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16. 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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"All that young-girl idealism is someone else's now."-Kim Gordon, Girl in a Band
"I like being in a weak position, and making it strong."-Kim Gordon, Girl in a Band
"For me performing has a lot to do with being fearless."-Kim Gordon, Girl in a Band
"I give Iggy credit for deconstructing the very idea of entertainment."-Kim Gordon, Girl in a Band
17. Keep the Aspidistra Flying
By: George Orwell
4.00
Format: 592 pages, Paperback
London, 1936. Gordon Comstock has declared war on the money god; and Gordon is losing the war. Near… read more
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18. The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner
By: Alan Sillitoe , None
3.78
Format: None pages,
Smith, a defiant young rebel, inhabits the no-man's-land of institutionalised Borstal. As his stead… read more
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19. The Offing
By: Benjamin Myers
4.25
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
After all, there are only a few things truly worth fighting for: freedom, of course, and all that i… read more
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"I was neither old enough to have made myself a heron young enough to have escaped the newsreel images or the long dark shadows that the returning soldiers dragged behind them like empty coffins. For …"-Benjamin Myers, The Offing
"At times like this, or when hoeing soil or sanding wood, or just sitting on a bench with my face turned to the sun, I appeared to slip out of the moment so entirely - or, conversely, perhaps was so d…"-Benjamin Myers, The Offing
20. 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...
21. Normal Rules Don't Apply: Stories
By: Kate Atkinson
3.71
Format: 212 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling collection of eleven interconnected stories from the bestselling, award-winning author o… read more
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"Hello, Boy," Franklin said. He liked dogs, they were uncomplicated. "I'm a girl, actually," the dog said."-Kate Atkinson, Normal Rules Don't Apply: Stories
22. Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story
By: Bono
4.20
Format: 564 pages, Hardcover
Bono--artist, activist, and the lead singer of Irish rock band U2--has written a memoir: honest and… read more
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"Fame is a currency. I want to spend mine on the right stuff."-Bono, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story
"Wisdom is the recovery of innocence at the far end of experience"-Bono, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story
"I remain more suspicious of religion than most people who'd never darken the door of a church."-Bono, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story
"the only true way to be victorious is to surrender. To each other. To love. To the higher power."-Bono, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story
23. 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
24. 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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25. 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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26. Acid for the Children
By: Flea
4.08
Format: 390 pages, Paperback
The strange tale of a boy named Flea starts in Rye, NY. It was all very normal. But soon his parent… read more
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"Bein famous don't mean shit"-Flea, Acid for the Children
"Such a fool was I. It's a fool who's seduced by that which feels good. Nothing but a simple fool."-Flea, Acid for the Children
"We sat up through the night snorting and talking. It all felt so important, meaningful and good, all be it in that weird coke way. In the years to come, during all night coked out blab-fests, even du…"-Flea, Acid for the Children
27. What About Men?
By: Caitlin Moran
3.70
Format: 319 pages, Kindle Edition
As any feminist who talks about the problems of girls and women will know, the first question you w… read more
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"Finally I read 12 Rules for Life and there is some good stuff in it. Peterson’s step by step advice on how to properly argue with loved ones and come to an agreement that is satisfying to both is und…"-Caitlin Moran, What About Men?
28. Adventures in Modern Recording: From ABC to ZZT
By: Trevor Horn
4.15
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
As a renowned recording-studio maven, Trevor Horn has been dubbed 'the man who invented the '80s'. … read more
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29. Confess: The Autobiography
By: Rob Halford
4.40
Format: 355 pages, Hardcover
The legendary frontman of Judas Priest, one of the most successful heavy metal bands of all time, c… read more
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30. 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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"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
31. 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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