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non-fiction | Sanctuary   
30 June 2001
Wolfgang Flur
Kraftwerk - I Was a Robot
Electronic music owes an incomprehensible debt of gratitude to Kraftwerk. Four electrotechpopmeisters from the Rhineland took their vision of music...
by Low Life
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
non-fiction | Fourth Estate   
30 June 2001
Christopher Ross
Tunnel Visions: Journeys of an Underground Philosopher
Self-styled Underground philosopher Christopher Ross tells it like it is, through the eyes of a bottom-rung station assistant at Oxford Circus,...
by SZA
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 | Bloomsbury   
23 March 2004
David Katz
Solid Foundation - An Oral History of Reggae
Recently published in paperback, this excellent collection of interviews by reggae historian David Katz is a significant step in the archiving of...
fiction | PIcador   
3 May 2004
Nell Freudenberger
Lucky Girls
'Travelling is for people who don't know how to be happy,' observes a character in the second story of Nell Freudenberger's collection. It's a neat...
by Sophie Elmhirst
fiction | Picador   
11 May 2004
Alan Hollinghurst
The Line of Beauty
The measured decision to publish The Line of Beauty, Alan Hollinghurst's exquisite fourth novel, to coincide with the 25th anniversary...
by Isobel Shirlaw
non-fiction | Atlantic   
11 May 2004
Santo Cilauro, Tom Gleisner and Rob Sitch
Molvania - A Land Untouched by Modern Dentistry
The undeveloped backwater that has escaped infestation by jaded backpackers and tedious soul-searching students clutching the contents of their...
by Masta G
fiction | Faber and Faber   
25 May 2004
Orhan Pamuk
Snow
You can imagine the Faber editors salivating at the prospect of this book. 'Snow angered Islamists and Westernised Turks alike when it came...
by Sophie Elmhirst
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 | 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 | Faber and Faber   
5 June 2004
Benjamin Markovits
The Syme Papers
This first novel by Benjamin Markovits signals the arrival of a first-rate talent. The Syme Papers is an academic romance reminiscent of AS...
by Alastair Sooke
fiction | Vintage   
19 June 2004
Martin Amis
Yellow Dog
How Pornoland inspired Martin Amis' latest novel, Yellow Dog.
by Edward Oates
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 | Thames & Hudson   
20 June 2004
Stefano de Luigi and Martin Amis
Pornoland
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...
by Bruno Matthews
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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