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Thirty-four essays and interviews with some of the greatest individuals, malcontents and free thinkers of the last 150 years - including Louise Brooks, Richard Pryor, David Bowie, Liam Gallagher and Daniel Day-Lewis - this is a collection that exonerates the maverick and celebrates the individual. It is an essential read for the left of field.
This is an Irish novel set in Los Angeles. It tells the story of Alfredo Hunter, a depressive Jewish/Irish playwright who is in Hollywood to make a killing in the film business. It also tells the story of the unknown narrator, who observes Alfredo's various fluctuations of mood and humor. Humor is to the fore in this novel of a building friendship between two Dubliners as they encounter the New World, with its new language and confusing mores.
“Wartime airfields can be very atmospheric places. When you stand at Gransden Lodge at dusk, it’s very easy to imagine a huge Lancaster bomber taxying out onto a runway for takeoff...” Today, the peaceful countryside to the west of Cambridge is mainly given over to agriculture, but for several years in the mid-20th century, things were very different. Then, the area was dotted with airfields from which Allied aircraft flew to war – and one of these was Gransden Lodge. When the airfield first became operational, the units that were stationed there were involved in top-secret radar investigation and trials work, but within a year these units had moved away and the station became the ba...
When Kate's liberal-minded family moves from New York to a small town near Nashville, she joins an effort to replace the school's Confederate flag symbol. Soon, Kate, her family, and new friends are pitted against each other in a bitter controversy.
Bizarre and bewildering that's what so many murder investigations in the past had proved to be ... In this respect, at least, Lewis was correct in his thinking. What he could not have known was what unprecedented anguish the present case would cause to Morse's soul. The victim had been killed by a single stab wound to the stomach. Yet the police had no weapon, no suspect, no motive. When another body is discovered Morse suddenly finds himself with rather too many suspects. For once, he can see no solution. But then he receives a letter containing a declaration of love ...
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With trademark charm and eloquence, golf's "Great White Shark" chronicles his extraordinary life and career, showing how lessons learned on pressure-packed putting greens prepared him for phenomenal success in the boardroom.
In the '80s, when a small group of dandies and deviants began acting out their fantasies, London nightlife blossomed into flaming colour. Fashion, music and clubbing would never be the same again. It was the birth of street fashion, style magazines and futuristic synth pop. Graham Smith was at the centre of this creative cult.
After losing his wife, John is faced with the challenge of living without her. A feeling of desperation and loneliness consumes him due to this loss and adding to it all; the responsibilities he is obligated to handle as a part of life. Even with her death, life has to go on; so insists his mother in law. John delves into his work, surrounding himself with those closest to him; those he now considers family. He finds a way to cope with the card his been dealt; paying his deads wife tremendous hospital bill within the month, paying off his mortgage and car loan in that same month. As is with all who have their wits about them, questions arise; how is he doing it? So asks the mother in law. We...
David Bowie. Culture Club. Wham!. Soft Cell. Duran Duran. Sade. Adam Ant. Spandau Ballet. The Eurythmics. ' Excellent' Guardian ' Hugely enjoyable' Irish Times ' Dazzling' LRB 'Fascinating' New Statesman 'An absolute must-read' GQ One of the most creative entrepreneurial periods since the Sixties, the era of the New Romantics grew out of the remnants of post-punk and developed quickly alongside club culture, ska, electronica, and goth. The scene had a huge influence on the growth of print and broadcast media, and was arguably one of the most bohemian environments of the late twentieth century. Not only did it visually define the decade, it was the catalyst for the Second British Invasion, when the US charts would be colonised by British pop music - making it one of the most powerful cultural exports since the Beatles. In Sweet Dreams, Dylan Jones charts the rise of the New Romantics through testimony from the people who lived it. For a while, Sweet Dreams were made of this.