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THE DESTRUCTION & CREATION OF MICHAEL JACKSON: brilliantly written biography-in-reverse

June 29, 2022

Ellis Cashmore asks the difficult questions – can and should we separate the art from the artist? And, most uncomfortably, are we responsible for Michael Jackson’s destruction if we, as consumers, aided in his creation?

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THE LAST WITCH CRAZE unearths secret ‘wizards’ at 17th-century science world’s heart

June 29, 2022

Featuring engrossing art and photographs that only aid in the voluminous research and peculiar chronicle, this intellectual book will leave you with abundant food for thought and no doubt provoke ample discussion.

Read moreTHE LAST WITCH CRAZE unearths secret ‘wizards’ at 17th-century science world’s heart

ACCESS ALL AREAS: how Barbara Charone smashed patriarchal music journalism

June 29, 2022

During the 1970s, music journalism was a male-dominated arena, but Chicago-born Barbara Charone broke through the barriers.

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Shocking tales of murder, magic & love entwine in THE SNOW LEOPARD OF MOSCOW

June 22, 2022

The Snow Leopard Of Moscow & Other Stories isn’t a biography. But if it was, it would be one messed-up confessional.

Region: West Wales
Read moreShocking tales of murder, magic & love entwine in THE SNOW LEOPARD OF MOSCOW
The Perfect Golden Circle, Benjamin Myers

THE PERFECT GOLDEN CIRCLE gets sensuously political with English crop circles

June 22, 2022

In The Perfect Golden Circle, an unlikely couple find themselves at the fringes of Thatcher’s Britain, drawn together by a compulsion to create intricate crop circles.

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AN OPEN DOOR: powerful & diverse essays about travel to & from Wales

June 22, 2022

Thoughtful, passionate and sensitive to both the similarities and differences of non-domestic cultures, An Open Door is a worthwhile Welsh travel book.

Region: Wales-Wide
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Bowie Odyssey 72

An insight into a chaotic year: BOWIE ODYSSEY 72 covers “peak Bowie”

June 22, 2022

Simon Goddard’s epic 10-book Bowie Odyssey series, recounting the life of perhaps the greatest pop star of his or any era against the cultural backdrop of 1970s Britain, continues with Bowie Odyssey 72.

Read moreAn insight into a chaotic year: BOWIE ODYSSEY 72 covers “peak Bowie”
THe Visitors, Jessi Jezewska Stevens

Occupy Wall Street & a hallucinatory gnome makes THE VISITORS an engrossing sci-fi novel

June 15, 2022

The Visitors is one of those novels where, without being much invested in its personnel or their tribulations, you find yourself becoming subtly engrossed.

Read moreOccupy Wall Street & a hallucinatory gnome makes THE VISITORS an engrossing sci-fi novel
Poor Little Sick Girls, Ione Gamble

A Gemma Collins pick, POOR LITTLE SICK GIRLS gives voice to “unacceptable women”

June 15, 2022

At a time when supermarket bookshelves are overflowing with self-help guides on how to become a girlboss, Gamble offers a reassuringly realistic and ferociously well-informed alternative. 

Read moreA Gemma Collins pick, POOR LITTLE SICK GIRLS gives voice to “unacceptable women”
Rule, Nostalgia, Hannah Rose Woods - credit: Helen Venables

RULE, NOSTALGIA charts Britain’s obsession with the past – for better and worse

June 15, 2022

In this new book, Hannah Woods handles her topic adroitly and with balance (albeit from a particularly Anglocentric perspective), presenting a fascinating depiction of Britain’s “yearning for impossible satisfaction”. 

Read moreRULE, NOSTALGIA charts Britain’s obsession with the past – for better and worse
Moonage Daydream, David Bowie/Mick Rock

MOONAGE DAYDREAM: 20 years old and still an unparalleled BOWIE guide

June 15, 2022

Twenty years after its initial publication, this unparalleled visual guide to the cultural phenomenon that was Ziggy Stardust has been revamped to celebrate the half-century since the Spiders From Mars crashlanded into British living rooms.

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The Mab, Eloise Williams

THE MAB makes a cornerstone of Welsh literature vivid & accessible again

June 15, 2022

Colourfully presented, with an eloquent and imaginative foreword from Michael Sheen, The Mab is a concise and accessible collection of the stories of the medieval Mabinogion.

Region: Wales-Wide
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