Rolling Stone Best Music Books of the Year"Definitive...Not just for Talking Heads fans—it’s a masterful dive into downtown New York in the 70s, and the changing face of rock music.”—Town & Country*"*Riveting"—New York Post"A masterful achievement." —Booklist (starred review)On the 50th anniversary of Talking Heads, acclaimed music biograph...

That the Beatles were an unprecedented phenomenon is a given. In Can’t Buy Me Love, Jonathan Gould explains why, placing the Fab Four in the broad and tumultuous panorama of their time and place, rooting their story in the social context that girded both their rise and their demise. Nearly twenty years in the making, Can’t Buy Me Love is a masterful work of group biography, cultural history, and musical criticism.Beginning with their adolescence i...

An epic tale of swords and baked goods.Magnus Mandalora never planned to go out into the big, wide world. He thought he'd live out his life in his homely little village, happily cooking and eating pflugberry pies. But fate had other ideas.Before he knows it, Magnus has embarked on an incredible adventure. He discovers a world full of marvels and wonder, surprises and delights. But it's also a world of perils and danger. As Magnus finds himself right in the middle of a long-...

“The beloved ’60s soul titan . . . comes alive in [Jonathan] Gould’s insightful, well-researched biography.”—People“Magisterial . . . With meticulous scholarship [and] lively prose . . . Gould has created a vital book that helps contextualize one of the most important figures in pop music.”—Boston GlobeAN NPR AND ROLLING STONE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAROtis Redding remains an immortal presence ...

A Goodreads choice semi-finalist - humor categoryNeville Lansdowne fell off the world.Actually, he did not so much fall off as let go. The world had been moving so quickly lately and Neville was finding it almost impossible to keep up.Doodling is an engaging comic fantasy which relates the events that befall Neville after he finds himself abandoned by the world and adrift in the middle of an asteroid field. Douglas Adams m...

What would you do if your world suddenly shifted? How would you cope if the universe stopped making sense and everybody around you lost their minds? Perhaps you'd conclude that you'd become the target of a devious trickster who was messing with your senses and distorting your perception of the world.Trickster is a comic yarn, combining absurd humour and social satire as a logic-loving detective tries to make sense of a world that keeps changing in ridiculous ways. It's als...

Jarvis Thwainston has a pointless job, obnoxious colleagues, and the most annoying housemate ever.Only one thing gets Jarvis through the day. At every opportunity, he disappears into daydreams, imagining himself as Harland Buckthorpe, the dashing hero of his favourite series of books. As Harland, he can engage in exciting adventures and win the heart of his true love.But Jarvis's luck seems to change when he meets Juliette, a delightful young woman whose name is remarkably ...

Jimmy Clarenden's last case didn't end well. Cut down in a hail of bullets, he's now found himself at the Pearly Gates. Jimmy is no saint, so he's stunned to learn he's been summoned by God to take on a highly sensitive job. God's son (the other one) has gone missing and it's up to Jimmy to crack the case.His investigations lead him to an unlikely cast of suspects — femme fatale angels, jaundiced journalists, even the heavenly gatekeeper, St Peter. But what Jimmy uncovers is enough...

Have you come from another world?At first, Nicola thinks the young man's question is absurd. There are no such things as other worlds.But after passing through a mysterious Bunsen burner flame to a place where the ground is blue and the sky is red, Nicola begins to realise that this is exactly what has happened. And as she sets off on a quest to fulfil an ancient prophecy, she discovers that nothing in the strange world of Enderopia is what it seems to be.

When an intrepid time traveller takes a trip back to the time of the dinosaurs, he is faced with many puzzling questions. What is this thing called the Mesozoirama? Why do the dinosaurs hold it in such high regard? And could it actually be a threat to the entire dinosaur civilisation?Dinosaurs is a political satire, a modern fable, or maybe just a funny little story about a bunch of dinosaurs with some very peculiar obsessions.

The sequel to the Goodreads Choice semi-finalist DoodlingNeville Lansdowne pushed the world out of shape.He didn't mean to do it. He didn't even realise he had done it. If you had asked him, he would have said that, as far as he could tell, the world was the wrong shape to begin with.In a world that is totally the wrong shape, Neville meets a new bunch of eccentric characters, and embarks on another strang...

As Kriffle the Flidderbug investigates why his fellow 'bugs find it impossible to agree on the pressing issue of how many points there are on the leaves of the tree on which they live, he finds that the truth is more complicated, and ultimately more terrifying, than he ever could have imagined.Flidderbugs is a political satire, a modern fable, or maybe just a funny little story about a bunch of insects with some very peculiar obsessions.