The Funny Stuff

Rock Concert

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Decades after the rise of rock music in the 1950s, the rock concert retains its allure and its power as a unifying experience – and as an influential multi-billion-dollar industry. In Rock Concert, ac …

The Quotable P. J. O'Rourke

Freeman's Animals

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Over a century ago, Rilke went to the Jardin des Plantes in Paris, where he watched a pair of flamingos. A flock of other birds screeched by, and, as he describes in a poem, the great red-pink birds s …

Histories of the Unexpected

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‘History as you’ve never seen it before.’ Dan Snow’A wonderful, eclectic and entertaining history of everything, full of fascinating, surprising stories.’ Suzannah LipscombDid you know that the histor …

King of the Blues

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‘Without a doubt the most important artist the blues has ever produced’ Eric Clapton’No one did more to spread the gospel of the blues’ President Barack Obama’One part of me says, “Yes, of course I ca …

Bad Boy Boogie

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Bon Scott was once asked if he was AC or DC. ‘Neither,’ he grinned, ‘I’m the lightning flash in the middle.’ And that’s how he lived his life.No one had the same skill with lyrics as Bon, who called h …

The Importance of Being Interested

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‘A delightful and scintillating hymn to science.’ Carlo RovelliComedian Robin Ince quickly abandoned science at school, bored by a fog of dull lessons and intimidated by the barrage of equations. But, …

On Animals

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‘Every essay in this book is magnificent… Mesmerizing.’ New York Times’How we interact with animals has preoccupied philosophers, poets, and naturalists for ages,’ writes Susan Orlean. Since the age …

No One Listens to Your Dad's Show

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‘Christian has achieved something very beautiful and funny with this book, weaving ordinary life and every day sadness into something hopeful and profound. I loved it.’ Russell BrandAs a radio DJ in L …

Doc

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Often compared to David Bowie and Mick Jagger, Doc Neeson was hailed as a ‘messianic rock god’.He was thumping, pumping, sweaty hard rock. He commanded the stage. He was unstoppable. He was terrifying …

How to Be a Rock Star

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THE TOP TEN BESTSELLER’Candid, brilliant and bizarre’ Guardian’Stories about the frontman and his bandmates are legion … [like] Peter Kay with menaces’ The Sunday TimesAs lead singer of Happy Monday …

Last Chance Texaco

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A Book of the Year in Rolling Stone, Uncut, Mojo, The Telegraph and the Glasgow HeraldThis troubadour life is only for the fiercest hearts, only for those vessels that can be broken to smithereens and …

Ten Steps to Nanette

‘There is nothing stronger than a broken woman who has rebuilt herself.’ Hannah Gadsby, NanetteMulti-awardwinning Hannah Gadsby transformed comedy with her show Nanette, even as she declared that she …

Boy on Fire

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An intensely beautiful, profound and poetic biography of the formative years of the dark prince of rock ‘n’ roll, Boy on Fire is Nick Cave’s creation story, a portrait of the artist first as a boy, th …

Nellie

‘In this highly readable biography of Nellie Melba…Robert Wainwright tells the story of the girl with the incredible voice who, by sheer force of her personality and power of her decibels, took the …