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non-fiction | Caipirinha Productions Inc   
1 February 2001
Edited by Peter Shapiro
Modulations: A History of Electronic Music - Throbbing Words on Sound
In 1998 a documentary feature film was released by a small production company in New York that quickly became the most essential viewing for anyone...
by Kate Butler
non-fiction | Penguin   
1 December 2000
Graham Hancock
The Mars Mystery
Mars has always been a source of fascination, provocation and speculation within astronomical and scientific fields, but the scant information that...
by Low Life
fiction | Harper Collins   
31 March 2001
Greg Bear
Darwin's Radio
As foot and mouth ravages the animal population of this country, so one naturally takes a renewed interest in all things viral, cellular and...
by Mathew Riley
fiction | Penguin   
4 July 2004
Hari Kunzru
Transmission
Does Hari Kunzru get you shelf-cred? His latest book, Transmission, oozes edgy cool.
by Alastair Sooke
non-fiction | Nicholas Brealey Publishing   
12 June 2007
Henry Hemming
Misadventure in the Middle East
Two young artists take an expansive tour of the Middle East in Henry Hemming's first book.
by Judith Evans
fiction | Vintage   
28 March 2005
Ian McEwan
Saturday
Reason and unreason collide in McEwan's fine new thriller.
by Max Leonard
fiction | Penguin   
22 June 2004
James Kelman
You Have to Be Careful in the Land of the Free
If you fancy a rendezvous with a half-cut Begbie, check out the latest Scottish rant novel from Booker prize-shorlisted novelist James Kelman.
by Daisy Foster
non-fiction | Da Capo Press   
31 March 2001
John F Swzed
Space Is the Place: The Lives and Times of Sun Ra
This monumental biography was published last year, seven years after the death of Sun Ra at the age of 79. Monumental is an appropriate word to...
by Kate Butler
non-fiction | Century   
28 May 2004
Jonathan Margolis
O - An Intimate History of the Orgasm
In his socio-anthropological history of man's insatiable appetite for orgasm, Jonathan Margolis evaluates centuries of rather dry academic...
by Isobel Shirlaw
fiction | Hamish Hamilton   
26 June 2005
Jonathon Safran Foer
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Difficult second novel syndrome? This sophomore effort isn't quite the great American novel, but Foer should keep trying...
by Max Leonard
fiction | Vintage   
26 July 2004
Jose Saramago
The Double
Anytime a novelist prefaces his book with a quotation from The Life and Times of Tristram Shandy alarm bells should ring and the reader...
by Jarad Zimbler
feature   
5 March 2007
Judith Evans
Books For Boys & Girls
Charming and ever so slightly camp, or retreating to the sexism of a bygone era? Judith Evans finds fault with the Iggulden brothers' recent publishing phenomenon.
by Judith Evans
fiction | Faber & Faber   
12 May 2005
Kazuo Ishiguro
Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro's latest novel is clumsy, awkward and often soporifically dull. So why does it feel this mysteriously good?
by Sophie Elmhirst
non-fiction | Picador   
17 February 2005
Kevin Jackson
Humphrey Jennings
Humphrey Jennings (1907-50) has long been recognised as one of Britain's finest filmmakers on the basis of his wartime documentaries, which, for...
by Henry Miller
non-fiction | Penguin   
1 December 2000
Lloyd Bradley
Bass Culture: When Reggae Was King
It is unlikely that the full history of ska, rocksteady and reggae music has been so well documented, hand in hand with the history of the...
by Kate Butler
non-fiction | Atlantic   
20 June 2004
Louis Barfe
Where Have All the Good Times Gone?: The Rise and Fall of the Record Industry
Who won between Madonna and musical cyber-pirates? And is Richard Branson really a tightwad?
by Ashish Ghadiali
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