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Graeme Thomson

Small Hours – The Long Night of John Martyn

Did any musician in the Seventies fly so free as John Martyn did on Bless The Weather, […]

Richard Bradford

Orwell – A Man of Our Time

As one of the most enduringly popular and controversial novelists of the last century, the 70th anniversary […]

Julian Barnes

The Man in the Red Coat

The Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending takes us on a rich, witty […]

Colin Asher

Never a Lovely So Real – The Life and Work of Nelson Algren

This definitive biography reclaims Nelson Algren as a towering literary figure and finally unravels the enigma of […]

Michael Finkel

The Stranger in the Woods

Many people dream of escaping modern life, but most will never act on it. This is the remarkable […]

Robert Shelton

No Direction Home

Robert Shelton met Bob Dylan when the young singer first arrived in New York. He became Dylan’s […]

Daniel Mark Epstein

The Ballad of Bob Dylan

Drawing on revelatory interviews, a rich analysis oflyrics, and a lifelong study of one of the greatest […]

Elijah Wald

Dylan Goes Electric!

One of the music world’s pre-eminent critics takes a fresh and much-needed look at the day Dylan […]

Kristin Hersh

Don’t Suck, Don’t Die – Giving up Vic Chesnutt

A haunting ode to a lost friend, this memoir by the acclaimed author of Rat Girl offers […]

Adam Sisman

John LeCarré – The Biography

Over half a century since The Spy Who came in from the Cold made John le Carré […]

Mich Houghton

I’ve Always Kept a Unicorn – The Biography of Sandy Denny

I’ve Always Kept a Unicorn tells the story of Sandy Denny, one of the greatest British singers […]

Christopher Simon Sykes

Hockney – A Pilgrim’s Progress

In this fascinating and entertaining second volume, Christopher Sykes explores the life and work of Britain’s most […]

A.N. Wilson

Victoria – A Life

Acclaimed historian A. N. Wilson gives a sweeping, definitive biography of one of the most recognizable yet […]

Marcus O'Dair

Different Every Time

The first and definitive biography of Robert Wyatt, Britain’s greatest cult musician, with an introduction by Jonathan […]

John Cleese

So, Anyway

Candid and brilliantly funny, this is the story of how a tall, shy youth from Weston-super-Mare went […]