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Northern Sky by Mark Radcliffe
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Having been sacked from his university teaching job, Ed has returned to his home town to pick up the threads of his old life with his friends and ex-girlfriend, Jeannie, in the Northern Sky folk... -
Roman Holidog by Mark Radcliffe 9781472160348
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.56'If you love dogs, if you love travel and if you don't mind Mark, you will love this book' Paddy McGuinnessCall me Mark. My first time in the Roman district of Trastevere was in 1997 whilst covering... -
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Northern Sky by Mark Radcliffe 9780340715680 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £3.05Having been sacked from his university teaching job, Ed has returned to his home town to pick up the threads of his old life with his friends and ex-girlfriend, Jeannie, in the Northern Sky folk... -
Crossroads: In Search of the Moments that Changed Music by Mark Radcliffe
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42Standing at the crossroads - the Mississippi crossroads of Robert Johnson and the devil's infamous meeting - Mark Radcliffe found himself facing his own personal juncture. Aged sixty, he had just... -
Reelin' in the Years: The Soundtrack of a Northern Life by Mark Radcliffe 9781849832229
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.62When Mark Radcliffe was born in the late 1950s, Britain was trying to find its own version of the dangerously sexy Elvis ... we gave the world Cliff Richard but by the time Mark was old enough to... -
Hope and Glory: A People's History of Modern Britain by Stuart Maconie
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16In Hope and Glory Stuart Maconie goes in search of the days that shaped the Britain we live in today. Taking one event from each decade of the 20th century, he visits the places where history... -
Nothing is Real: The Beatles Were Underrated And Other Sweeping Statements About Pop by David Hepworth
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.83Pop music's a simple pleasure. Is it catchy? Can you dance to it? Do you fancy the singer?But what's fascinating about pop is our relationship with it. David Hepworth is interested in the human side... -
A Fabulous Creation: How the LP Saved Our Lives by David Hepworth
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.40_________'Hepworth's knowledge and understanding of rock history is prodigious ... [a] hugely entertaining study of the LP's golden age' The Times_________The era of the LP began in 1967, with 'Sgt... -
1971 - Never a Dull Moment: Rock's Golden Year David Hepworth 9781784162061
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.88*THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER*As seen on Apple TV - 1971: The Year That Music Changed EverythingThe Sixties ended a year late - on New Year's Eve 1970, when Paul McCartney initiated... -
Pies and Prejudice: In search of the North by Stuart Maconie
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.08A Northerner in exile, Stuart Maconie goes on a journey in search of the North, attempting to discover where the cliches end and the truth begins. He travels from Wigan Pier to Blackpool Tower and... -
Long Road from Jarrow: A journey through Britain then and now by Stuart Maconie
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.41The Sunday Times Bestseller'A tribute and a rallying call' - GuardianThree and half weeks. Three hundred miles. I saw roaring arterial highway and silent lanes, candlelit cathedrals and angry men in... -
How Does It Feel?: A Life of Musical Misadventures by Mark Kermode
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73'Wonderful - such a terrific read. Brilliantly captures the passion, commitment, searing self-knowledge and dizzy happiness that comes with loving music. An enchanting book' STEPHEN FRY***Following a... -
How Does It Feel?: A Life of Musical Misadventures by Mark Kermode 9781474608985
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £9.15Following a formative encounter with the British pop movie Slade in Flame in 1975, Mark Kermode decided that musical superstardom was totally attainable. And so, armed with a homemade electric guitar... -
Everything We Do is Music: How 20th-Century Classical Music Shaped Pop by Elizabeth Alker 9780571370184
Booksplease Price: £13.66'Revelation after revelation . . . I love music more for reading it.' Guy Garvey'Alker joins the dots by following myriad musical ley lines. A fascinating journey into sound.' Mark Radcliffe'Reveals... -
Adventures in Kate Bush and Theory by Deborah M. Withers 9780956450708
Booksplease Price: £13.72Adventures in Kate Bush and Theory presents Kate Bush as you have never seen her before. Encounter the polymorphously perverse Kate, the witchy Kate, the queer Kate; the Kate who moves beyond the... -
Poetic Off Licence by Hovis Presley 9780993237003
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £8.02Entertainment with the emphasis on "tert". Since running away from home at the age of 28, award winning writer Hovis Presley (the award wasn't for writing) has found fame as the inventor of the... -
For the Record: Celebrating Piccadilly Radio's 50th Anniversary 1974-2024 by Brian Beech 9781914933608
RRP: £11.95Booksplease Price: £9.07For the Record: Celebrating Piccadilly Radio's 50th Anniversary, 1974 to 2024 looks back at the early years of what became the most popular and successful mixed news and entertainment radio station... -
The Nanny State Made Me: A Story of Britain and How to Save it by Stuart Maconie
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.41'He is as funny as Bryson and as wise as Orwell' ObserverIt was the spirit of our finest hour, the backbone of our post-war greatness, and it promoted some of the boldest and most brilliant schemes... -
Never Mind the Quantocks: Stuart Maconie's Favourite Country Walks Stuart Maconie (Author) 9781446301654
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78'Every one of us knows the moment when the simple act of putting one foot in front of another stops being a method of propulsion and becomes an adventure.' In this hilarious and heart-warming... -
Caroline Aherne: Rebel in Disguise David Scott 9781526191922
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.37A thoughtful exploration of the work of this unique comedian and writer.Caroline Aherne was one of the most influential and beloved of British comedians. In this book David Scott explores Aherne's... -
Cider With Roadies by Stuart Maconie
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.74Cider with Roadies is the true story of a boy's obsessive relationship with pop. A life lived through music from Stuart's audience with the Beatles (aged 3); his confessions as a pubescent prog... -
To Fold the Evening Star: New & Selected Poems by Ian Mcmillan
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.60Ian McMillan is among Britain's most treasured living poets. His books of poems, stories and non-fiction have delighted audiences for almost forty years. To Fold the Evening Star gathers work from... -
WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM THEIR FRIENDS: The Beatles changed the world. But who changed theirs? Stuart Maconie 9780008705862
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.55The most engaging, surprising and revealing look at the Beatles story you'll read. Everyone knows a Beatles tune. But their story goes beyond the omnipresent... -
Sound System: The Political Power of Music Dave Randall 9780745351339
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.88Musicians have often wanted to change the world. From underground innovators to pop icons, many have believed in the political power of music. Rulers recognise it too. Music has been used to... -
Sound System: The Political Power of Music by Dave Randall
Booksplease Price: £21.68Musicians have often wanted to change the world. From underground innovators to pop icons many have believed in the political power of music. Rulers recognise it too. Music has been used to challenge... -
Adventures on the High Teas: In Search of Middle England by Stuart Maconie
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.99Everyone talks about 'Middle England'. Sometimes they mean something bad, like a lynch mob of Daily Mail readers, and sometimes they mean something good, like a pint of ale in a sleepy Cotswold... -
The Man Who Sold The World: David Bowie And The 1970s by Peter Doggett
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.54No artist offered a more incisive and accurate portrait of the troubled landscape of the 1970s than David Bowie. Cultural historian Peter Doggett explores the rich heritage of Bowie's most productive... -
The Pie At Night: In Search of the North at Play by Stuart Maconie
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.73Factory, mine and mill. Industry, toil and grime. Its manufacturing roots mean we still see the North of England as a hardworking place. But, more than possibly anywhere else, the North has always... -
Can of Worms: A COVID-19 Poetry Diary by Paul Cookson 9781838118518
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £8.02Written daily throughout the UK's COVID-19 regulatory restrictions, Paul Cookson's new collection picks up directly from his first volume, Fighting Talk. These poems document the period of July to... -
Fighting Talk: A COVID-19 Poetry Diary by Paul Cookson 9781838118501
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £8.02Composed throughout the initial phase of the UK's coronavirus lockdown, 'National Reading Hero' Paul Cookson's poetry diary covers the period of 23rd March to 3rd July 2020. Compassionate, societal,... -
Why We Love Music: From Mozart to Metallica - The Emotional Power of Beautiful Sounds Dr John Powell 9781473613768
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Did you know that . . .carrying a musical instrument makes you more attractive?music can cure insomnia?music can change the taste of wine?the Mozart effect has nothing to do with Mozart?Barry Manilow... -
The People's Songs: The Story of Modern Britain in 50 Records by Stuart Maconie
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.04These are the songs that we have listened to, laughed to, loved to and laboured to, as well as downed tools and danced to. Covering the last seven decades, Stuart Maconie looks at the songs that have... -
WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM THEIR FRIENDS: The Beatles changed the world. But who changed theirs? Stuart Maconie 9780008705893
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.88The most engaging, surprising and revealing look at the Beatles story you'll read. Everyone knows a Beatles tune. But their story goes beyond the omnipresent... -
From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads: A Bowie Odyssey James Briggs 9781837733118
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.38James Briggs had never known what David Bowie's Life on Mars? meant. And twenty-five years later with a career stealing his soul, a relationship in stasis and a hairline in furious retreat, life on... -
The Bad Trip: Dark Omens, New Worlds and the End of the Sixties by James Riley
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'A history that makes perfect sense when the sky is falling down.' - The Sunday TimesBeneath the psychedelic utopianism of the sixties lay a dark seam of apocalyptic thinking that seemed to rupture... -
The Full English: A Journey in Search of a Country and its People by Stuart Maconie
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.54A Sunday Times Book of the Week and Top 10 Bestseller A Waterstones Travel Book of the Year 2023 A Spectator Book of the Year 2023 What kind of country... -
The Full English: A Journey in Search of a Country and its People by Stuart Maconie 9780008498290
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.69A Sunday Times Book of the Week and Top 10 Bestseller A Times bestseller A Waterstones Paperback of the Year 2024 A Spectator Book of the Year ... -
No One Round Here Reads Tolstoy: Memoirs of a Working-Class Reader by Mark Hodkinson
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Mark Hodkinson grew up among the terrace houses of Rochdale in a house with just one book. Today, Mark is an author, journalist and publisher. He still lives in Rochdale but is now surrounded by... -
Clubland: How the working men’s club shaped Britain by Pete Brown
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.88The untold story of a British institution 'Brilliant.' Alan Johnson 'Compelling.' David Kynaston ... -
Studio Electrophonique: The Sheffield Space Age, from the Human League to Pulp 9781526183231
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.94A ROUGH TRADE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025The amazing story of the home studio that helped launch some of Britain's most beloved bands.The Sheffield space age began in 1961, when local mechanic Ken Patten...