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Lloyd Bradley
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 black...
John F Swzed
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...
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...
Judith Evans
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.
Henry Hemming
Two young artists take an expansive tour of the Middle East in Henry Hemming's first book.
Bob Dylan
A perfect coffee-table book for anyone who agrees that Dylan's canon of lyrics constitutes some of the most important poetry of the last half-century.
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...
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...
Lynda Schuster
As memories of apartheid recede and South Africa becomes an increasingly stable democracy, books such as this one become ever more important. A...
Jose Saramago
Anytime a novelist prefaces his book with a quotation from The Life and Times of Tristram Shandy alarm bells should ring and the reader...
Edited by Ian Jack
From handling rats on Werner Herzog's Nosferatu to a peek into Lana Turner's bedroom, the new Granta collection (somewhat heavily titled...
Virginia Woolf
The London Scene is a beautifully packaged sequence of six essays that Virginia Woolf composed for Good Housekeeping magazine in...
Alan Hollinghurst
The measured decision to publish The Line of Beauty, Alan Hollinghurst's exquisite fourth novel, to coincide with the 25th anniversary...
Jonathan Margolis
In his socio-anthropological history of man's insatiable appetite for orgasm, Jonathan Margolis evaluates centuries of rather dry academic...
Kevin Jackson
Humphrey Jennings (1907-50) has long been recognised as one of Britain's finest filmmakers on the basis of his wartime documentaries, which, for...
Christine Gledhill
British silent film, since the introduction of sound, has endured a dismal reputation. Kevin Brownlow wrote that British silents never advanced...
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