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Wolfgang Flur
Electronic music owes an incomprehensible debt of gratitude to Kraftwerk. Four electrotechpopmeisters from the Rhineland took their vision of music...
William Eckersley and Alexander Shields
Self-publishers William Eckersley and Alexander Shields reveal the capital’s ragged edges and stale secrets.
Virginia Woolf
The London Scene is a beautifully packaged sequence of six essays that Virginia Woolf composed for Good Housekeeping magazine in...
Tim Barr
Rough Guides to house and drum‘n’bass have just been published and a similar tome for hip-hop is in the offing, so a Rough...
Susanna Clarke
It's the first decade of the 19th century, and societies of theoretical magic exist all over England – studying the history of magic with...
Stuart Walton
In recent times of drugs seasons, exclusives and general moral panic, Stuart Walton delivers a thought-provoking and highly readable account of the...
Steven Sherrill
Benny Poteat is a watcher. He watches from the sidelines, through car windows, from the safety of his house – but mostly Benny watches from...
Stefano de Luigi and Martin Amis
Martin Amis and pornography go together like a hand inside a lubed-up, latex glove. Think of the succession of set-piece fantasies in his cocksure...
Simon Garfield
The Nation's Favourite is a collection of eyewitness accounts of Radio 1’s transition from the Smashy & Nicey days of old (well,...
Sarah Churchwell
Find out if Marilyn Monroe was 'truly schizoid'.
Santo Cilauro, Tom Gleisner and Rob Sitch
The undeveloped backwater that has escaped infestation by jaded backpackers and tedious soul-searching students clutching the contents of their...
Sam Kashner
What would you give to learn how to write at the feet of your greatest literary heroes? Sam Kashner was an aspiring poet who, to the bafflement of...
Rupert Thomson
Thompson is widely acknowledged as one of England’s leading lights in the world of literature and his latest book goes all the way towards...
Robert Anton Wilson
The ageing American oddity known as Robert Anton Wilson is perhaps best known for the Illuminatus trilogy which he co-wrote with Robert...
Philip Hensher
The Fit is a perplexing little novel. It's a complete contrast to Philip Hensher's previous effort, The Mulberry Empire, a...
Peter Carey
Wrong About Japan is something of an oddity and, given that it comes from the pen of a double Booker prize-winning novelist, a bit of a...
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