Have You Seen…?
More than one thousand pages in the voice of our most provocative contemporary film critic and historian—a …
Grace – A Memoir
Beautiful. Willful. Charming. Blunt. Grace Coddington’s extraordinary talent and fierce dedication to her work as creative director …
Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire
Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire is Iain Sinclair’s personal record of the area of north-east London where he …
The Rest Is Noise – Listening to the Twentieth Century
In this sweeping and dramatic narrative, Alex Ross, music critic for The New Yorker, weaves together the …
John Coltrane – The Story of a Sound
John Coltrane left an indelible mark on the world, but what was the essence of his achievement …
The Doors – A Lifetime of Listening to Five Mean Years
A fan from the moment the Doors’ first album arrived, Greil Marcus saw the band many times …
Captain Beefheart – The Biography
Following Don Van Vliet’s death Mike Barnes will look to reassess his legacy through new interview material …
Alan Lomax – The Man Who Recorded the World
The remarkable life and times of the man who popularized American folk music and created the science …
The Life of Slang
This book traces the development of English slang from the earliest records to the latest tweet. It …
Retromania
We live in a pop age gone loco for retro and crazy for commemoration. Band reformations and …
Electric Eden
In this groundbreaking survey of more than a century of music making in the British Isles, Rob …