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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...
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 | 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 | Billboard Books   
31 August 2000
Dan Sicko
Techno Rebels: The Renegades of Electronic Funk
Techno Rebels represents the first concerted attempt to relate the history of techno music, a task author Dan Sicko, a Detroit native,...
by Tom Magic Feet
non-fiction | Rough Guides   
30 June 2000
Tim Barr
Techno: The Rough Guide
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...
by Tom Magic Feet
fiction | Bloomsbury   
31 August 2000
Rupert Thomson
The Book of Revelation
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...
by Paul Gannaway
fiction | Faber & Faber   
26 July 2004
Alex Garland
The Coma
A young man wakes from a coma to a world that resembles the one he knows, but which differs from it in nightmarish ways. Alex Garland's strange new...
by Robin Norton-Hale
fiction | Faber & Faber   
24 July 2004
Andrew Sean Greer
The Confessions of Max Tivoli
It's 1871, and Max Tivoli enters the world, wrinkled and withered, like any normal baby first blinking their way out of the womb. But max is...
by Daisy Foster
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
fiction | Harper Perennial   
29 September 2004
Philip Hensher
The Fit
The Fit is a perplexing little novel. It's a complete contrast to Philip Hensher's previous effort, The Mulberry Empire, a...
by Tom Roundell
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
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
fiction | Snowbooks   
22 September 2004
Virginia Woolf
The London Scene
The London Scene is a beautifully packaged sequence of six essays that Virginia Woolf composed for Good Housekeeping magazine...
by Isobel Shirlaw
non-fiction | Granta   
21 June 2004
Sarah Churchwell
The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe
Find out if Marilyn Monroe was 'truly schizoid'.
by Robin Norton-Hale
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
non-fiction | Faber and Faber   
1 March 2000
Simon Garfield
The Nation's Favourite
The Nation's Favourite is a collection of eyewitness accounts of Radio 1’s transition from the Smashy & Nicey days of old (well,...
by Tom Magic Feet
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