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fiction | Canongate   
20 June 2004
Steven Sherrill
Visits from the Drowned Girl
Benny Poteat is a watcher. He watches from the sidelines, through car windows, from the safety of his house – but mostly Benny watches from...
by Jarad Zimbler
non-fiction | Jonathan Cape   
26 July 2004
Lynda Schuster
A Burning Hunger
As memories of apartheid recede and South Africa becomes an increasingly stable democracy, books such as this one become ever more important. A...
by Jarad Zimbler
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
non-fiction | Simon & Schuster   
17 February 2005
Bob Dylan
Chronicles: Volume One
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.
by Jonathan Polonsky
non-fiction | Century   
13 September 2004
Sam Kashner
When I Was Cool
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...
by Jonathan Polonsky
fiction | Bloomsbury   
25 October 2004
Susanna Clarke
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
It's the first decade of the 19th century, and societies of theoretical magic exist all over England – studying the history of magic with...
by Judith Evans
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
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
non-fiction | Fromm Intl   
31 August 2000
Alex Ogg and David Upshall
The Hip Hop Years: A History of Rap
Ch-ching!  It’s all about the benjamins, and it looks like Channel 4 knows that best. This book is a spin off from the pretty phenomenal...
by Kate Butler
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
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 | 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
fiction | Bloomsbury   
25 May 2004
Patrick McGrath
Port Mungo
Jack Rathbone's 'malarial' paintings may materialise from the muddy swamps of Port Mungo, the Honduran river town of the title, but it is the...
by Katharine Begg
non-fiction | Harmony   
30 June 2001
Stuart Walton
Out Of It - A Cultural History of Intoxication
In recent times of drugs seasons, exclusives and general moral panic, Stuart Walton delivers a thought-provoking and highly readable account of the...
by Kirsty Matthewson
fiction | Scribner   
31 May 2002
Monique Roffey
Sun Dog
The trials, tribulations and downright bitchiness of the UK's weather will be no stranger to those of us posted northside of Hastings. And anyone...
by Kirsty Matthewson
non-fiction | Little Brown and Company   
30 June 2000
Bill Drummond
45
'As I entered my 45th year, I decided to write a book that contained snapshots of the world from where I was standing', says Bill Drummond on the opening page of 45.
by Low Life
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