Popular Culture & Music
The Disconnect
Roisin Kiberd
A blazingly smart, mind-bending dive into the internet with an extraordinary writer: a must-read for anyone wanting to understand the way we live toda…
As Serious As Your Life
Val Wilmer
An essential masterpiece of jazz history by renowned photographer and music historian, with a new foreword by Richard Williams
White Bicycles
Joe Boyd
How was one man present at so many pivotal points of the birth of modern rock? Joe Boyd's classic memoir of the 60s music scene reissued as a Ser…
Death by Video Game
Simon Parkin
We play games to kill time. But what does it mean when games start killing us?
Different Every Time
Marcus O’Dair
The first and definitive biography of Robert Wyatt, Britain's greatest cult musician, with an introduction by Jonathan Coe
The Moth
Catherine Burns
Pull up an easy chair and settle into the most spell-binding collection of real stories you will ever read.
Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung
Lester Bangs
The essential writings of the greatest music writer of the twentieth, or any, century, reissued as a Serpent's Tail Classic
Live At the Brixton Academy
JS Rafaeli
Sometimes you have to take a chance, and Simon Parkes is nothing if not a risk-taker. The riotous life-story of a music impresario and how he turned a…
Sounds Like London
Lloyd Bradley
Scheduled for Radio 4 Book of the week – acclaimed writer Lloyd Bradley explores the influence of immigrant cultures on the capital's music scene
Black by Design
Pauline Black
Lead singer of legendary band The Selecter on music, family and roots. *New, updated edition covers The Selecter's recent reunion*
Against The Machine
Lee Siegel
One of the country's most eloquent and acid-tongued cultural critics.
A Rocket in My Pocket
Max Décharné
A Rocket in my Pocket is the story of rockabilly music, the primal 50s howl of rockin' rage that helped start it all.
Altered State
Matthew Collin
At last somebody has written the real history of the last ten years, and written it with such wit, verve, empathy and profound intelligence. I can…