Rough Trade favourite Jon Savage assembles three decades worth of interviews with the principle players in the Joy Division story. Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know Malcolm Gladwell. So obviously I loved it. Like everyone else, I loved Fleishman is in Trouble.
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In 1971, Joni Mitchell created a handmade book of illustrations, abstract art, poetry and lyrics. Essential and indulging reads for all - we hope you enjoy our list this year.
Please, Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments is one of our books of the year
Equally clever, but with many more laughs, Julian Barnes’s wonderful The Man in the Red Coat (Cape, £18.99) surges round Belle Epoque Paris in search of Samuel Jean Pozzi, a society surgeon whose connections with artists, writers, actors and politicians provide perfect Barnes-fodder in a story full of digressions, white peacocks, missing limbs, amusing adverbs and fantastic clothes.
Her caustic and funny stories of a squalid and buzzing New York are the perfect accompaniment to Blondie’s music, filling in all the gaps, dispelling and confirming the myths decades of silence had yielded.Free Blondie - Pollinator CD with every purchase, while stocks lastFree Debbie Harry poster with purchase, while stocks last. Limited signed copies + Limited Edition print of a Joy Division flyer from the book!LISTEN BACK: Rough Trade Podcast 54 with Jon Savage.
Jordan lays bare the Punk movement from a very unique perspective, having worked in Malcolm MacClaren and Vivienne Westwood in SEX, to managing the Adam and The Ants, to being cast in Derek Jarman’s Jubilee.
Scheidel argues that the failure of the Imperium made possible the vibrant democratic Europe that would come to dominate the world. I had a lot of fun reading Lanny by Max Porter (Faber, £12.99). What was once a Christmas present for her close friends and family has now been reproduced for everyone.
Written in the same engrossing and glistening prose that made Just Kids and M Train some of rock music’s greatest literature.Buy now.
Science fiction and fantasy books, picked by Adam Roberts. For Who Dares Wins: Britain, 1979-1982 by Dominic Sandbrook (Allen Lane, £35): you don’t have to have grown up with the Mini Metro, Lymeswold cheese and the Sinclair Spectrum v BBC Micro to adore this brilliant history of the Eigthies.
It slides compellingly from socialism to Soft Cell’s Tainted Love and made me want to be 10 again, bewildered by the Falklands War on TV.
The long-awaited memoirs of one of pop music’s most enigmatic icons is finally here. Intimate, candid, fascinating, devastating. Down there is where we are remembered forever. A necessary purchase for any John Waters fan.
Matt AnnissBass music, a British dance revolution, told through the first-hand accounts of clubs, raves, record labels and pioneers. 4/41 Afternoon of a Faun by James Lasdun. The visual organ of the Radiohead artistic movement, Stanley Donwood, releases a comprehensive look back over his work with the band. JordanInsight into the world of one of Punk’s original muses. The glacial speed of climate change is shown to be a horribly ironic myth in David Wallace-Wells’, The Uninhabitable Earth. Totally unexpected but not surprising. With the blessing of hindsight, Thorne’s re-evaluation of that time sheds a warm light on the sheer dullness of growing up to hilarious effect. Discover our favourite 20 titles below, including specially signed and deluxe editions. Now that practically everybody seems to be spoiling for a fight, I have found Malcolm Gladwell’s Talking to Strangers (Allen Lane, £20) invaluable. Lemn SissayNeglect, determination, misfortune, hope, cruelty and triumph.
Unlimited in her approach, she uncovers what punk and feminism meant to those farther afield like Colombia and Indonesia. Fortunately she found music, art and parties. Buy nowBuy bundled with Extinction Rebellion and Greta Thunberg titles in a specially stamped brown paper bag.
Melissa ChemamA detailed history of Massive Attack, and their entangled and ongoing relationship with Bristol, the city that shaped them. The word “masterpiece” is not one to throw around lightly but I was enthralled by James Lasdun’s novella Afternoon of a Faun, from his collection Victory (Cape, £14.99). I too loved Fleishman is in Trouble, Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s thoroughly readable and perceptive debut about a 5ft 5in, middle-aged New York Jew with a big ego and an even bigger inferiority complex who discovers the agonies and ecstasies of loneliness, lust and online hook-ups after his marriage breaks down. Two history books that turn conventional history on its head: Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power by Pekka Hämäläinen (Yale, £25) is a brilliant, bold, gripping history of the Lakota/Sioux nations who slaughtered Custer’s force in 1876, but instead of narrating the story from the point of view of the empire-builders and settlers, this is the tale of the Lakota empire, almost as aggressive and expansionist as the Americans who finally triumphed. Tap ‘Menu’ and then ‘Times Radio’ to listen to the latest well-informed debate, expert analysis and breaking news.
The observations about the demographic and security crisis in eastern Europe are acute.
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