A detailed dissection of how the different divisions of record labels are bound together in a complex relationship of tension and mutual dependency. The academic dissection of popular music had, by the 1980s, drifted into Cultural Studies and textual analysis, but Negus brought it back to its sociological roots with this book which remains (rightly so) required reading on all music business courses. Producing Pop: Culture & Conflict In The Popular Music Industry The subject matter – the record business freewheeling out of control during its most indulgent decades – is ripe for the picking and salacious tabloidisation but Dannen’s eye for detail takes it to a much more intellectual level. Towering over every music industry book that has followed it, this is investigative journalism at its finest (the flashpoint being around the payola scandals of the 1970s and 1980s). Hit Men: Power Brokers & Fast Money Inside The Music Business Are there others you would like to have seen on the list? Add your suggestions in the comments section below. Here they are (presented in chronological order of publication). As an appendix to the feature, we listed the 15 books about the music industry you need to read. In last week’s Music Ally Report, we spoke to Stephen Witt, author of How Music Got Free.
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Each page stacks iconic book spine atop of iconic book spine. For a person like me who likes the written word so much, it was a refreshing wonder to see a visual celebration of the most influential books over the years. Other pages are devoted to illustrating notable bookstores, libraries, and even bookmobiles around the world.īibliophie is a book for book lovers. There are five-word literary quizzes that challenge readers to guess the book by a five-word summary and there are pages dedicated to authors’ workspaces including the likes of Dylan Thomas and Roald Dahl. Yet, what if we celebrated books by creating a book of curated lists of books while illustrating their covers? Bibliophile: An Illustrated Miscellany by Jane Mount is a book about books, or more accurately, a book with illustrations of curated stacks of the most defining books in every genre you can think of. Judging a book by its cover enables us to prejudge the worth or value of stories by its initial outward appearance. As the cliché goes, never judge a book by its cover. When the door is broken down, a passenger is found murdered, her stunning ruby necklace gone.īut the killer has vanished – as if into thin air.ĭaisy and Hazel are faced with their first ever locked-room mystery – and with competition from several other sleuths, who are just as determined to crack the case. Then, during dinner, there is a scream from inside one of the cabins. Source title: First Class Murder: A Murder Most Unladylike Mystery Classifications Library of Congress. A rumbustious reworking of Agatha Christie’s Orient Express caper’ New Statesmanĭaisy Wells and Hazel Wong are taking a holiday on the world-famous Orient Express – and it’s clear that each of their fellow first-class passengers has something to hide.Įven more intriguing: there is rumour of a spy in their midst. First class murder by Robin Stevens, Sep 27, 2016, Puffin edition, paperback. Theyve solved murders most unladylike before, and they can do it again. Hazel and Daisy are aboard the Orient Express: cue spies, priceless jewels, a murder and seriously upgraded bun breaks’ The Bookseller But it doesnt do to overlook the Wells and Wong Detective Society. The third mystery in the bestselling Murder Most Unladylike series just like the iconic Agatha Christie, Hazel and Daisy have boarded the Orient Express! T-shirt to show off his binder – er, what? I can’t think of a single But when Leo comes out to David, he genuinely lifts up his There was a little foreshadowingĪnd it was a mid-way twist to surprise the reader and Alicia herself.įine, okay. Trying to keep mystery and pull off reveals. Secondly, I feel like the book comes off as a little voyeuristic in Leo, meanwhile, is a new transfer to David’s school who comes from the local council estate and things are left vague about why he’s switched schools in an attempt to build up mystery. David (later named Katie, but blurbs and interviews insist on using her old name and male pronouns so I’ll stick to David so no one gets confused) is a trans girl wanting to come out to her parents and the typical worries faced by teens – school bullies, crushes, being unpopular – and the not so typical that transgender kids experience, like bodily dysphoria. The novel is set up in first person narrative using two characters: David and Leo. One is that I really don’t feel this book was written with transgender people as the key audience in mind. I didn’t hate this book – in fact, I quite liked large parts of it, but there are a few issues that drag it down. He has it all-family money, good looks, devoted friends-but he's looking for much more than that. Known as Raven Boys, they can only mean trouble.īut Blue is drawn to Gansey, in a way she can’t entirely explain. Blue has a policy of staying away from Aglionby boys. His name is Gansey, and Blue soon discovers that he is a rich student at Aglionby, the local private school. Blue herself never sees them-not until this year, when a boy emerges from the dark and speaks directly to her. It is freezing in the churchyard, even before the dead arrive.Įvery year, Blue Sargent stands next to her clairvoyant mother as the soon-to-be dead walk past. “There are only two reasons a non-seer would see a spirit on St. Mariner's Compass, Berkley Publishing (New York, NY), 1999. Goose in the Pond, Berkley Publishing (New York, NY), 1997.ĭove in the Window, Berkley Publishing (New York, NY), 1998. Kansas Troubles, Berkley Publishing (New York, NY), 1996. Irish Chain, Berkley Publishing (New York, NY), 1995. WRITINGS:įool's Puzzle, Berkley Publishing ( New York, NY), 1994. AWARDS, HONORS:Īgatha Award nomination for best novel, 1994, Fool's Puzzle, 1996, for Kansas Troubles, 1997, for Goose in the Pond, 1998, for Dove in the Wind, 2002, for Arkansas Traveler Agatha Award, 1999, for Mariner's Compass. Sisters in Crime, Women Writing the West, American Crime Writers League. Agent-Ellen Geiger, Francis Goldin Agency, Inc., 57 East 11 St., Ste. Hobbies and other interests: Quilts, folk art, horses, oral history, country/ western music, cowboy boots. Fowler (a process engineer), September 8, 1973. (a sheet metal machinist) and Mary (a homemaker and secretary) Worley married Allen W. Born August 23, 1954, in Lynwood, CA daughter of Earl J. The stock of Seinfeld’s 2007 animated comedy Bee Movie has risen precipitously in the years since its release. Jerry Seinfeld, Reneé Zellweger and friend at the UK premiere of Bee Movie, 2007. Making a film about a bee that wanted to have sex with a human woman. Between all the hoo-hah of the Netflix deal – which, let’s not forget, has seen him dress up in a giant Lego costume of himself and tip hundreds of Lego bricks into his mouth for reasons that may never be fully explained – Seinfeld has taken the time to take stock of his past mistakes and apologise for the most egregious error of his life. He can quite happily insulate himself from regret, using all the wads and wads of cash he has lying around the place.īut still, something has clearly been nagging at him. So Jerry Seinfeld doesn’t need to be reflective. And now Seinfeld has arrived on Netflix as part of a deal worth over $500m. He has earned tens of millions more in syndication deals. When it finished its run in 1998, he was earning a million dollars an episode. At this point, his sitcom – dead for almost 25 years – is still making money faster than any human being could spend it. Jerry Seinfeld doesn’t need to be reflective. Even sharper was his ability to capture the all-encompassing power of the obsession. As a surfer, I found it easy to get lost in Finnegan’s sharp prose about the act of surfing and poignant observations of the ever-changing surf culture. He’s a true die-hard with connections to surfing enclaves as unique as San Francisco and New York. And while some have gone so far as to call Finnegan a kook–using San Diego’s most notorious editorial graffiti wall and preserving their anonymity (see above)–it’s obvious he’s anything but.įinnegan’s memoir follows a lifelong surfing habit–nay, obsession–to the ends of the earth and back again. In spite of these feelings about book reviews, William Finnegan’s recent addition to the surfing literary canon, Barbarian Days, compelled me to write one, albeit a little late, I’ll admit. Finnegan (doubtful) just know that you write for the New Yorker and I sir, well, don’t. Because, after all, reviewers are objective, right? So before I go on, if you’re reading this, Mr. I can’t imagine how authors must feel toiling for months or even years over their life’s work–battling publishers, edits, and rewrites–only to have some smug staff writer, denoted non-specifically as “editorial board,” attempt to assert his personal opinion as cold hard fact. I’ll just come out and say it: I hate book reviews. I’m very aware that too much information will spoil the readers experience of this wonderful novel. There is much more to this action packed story than I want to write in a summary. They have nobody to turn to, and if they are to be saved, they will have to save themselves. This part of Alaska might be tough, rough and wild, but there is a strong community very eager to help these novices set up, and live an off the grid lifestyle without all the mod cons and modern facilities that they have previously taken for granted.īut it doesn’t take Cora and Leni long to realise that as much as they have come to love their new home and lifestyle, they really are on their own. When they first arrive in Alaska, there is hope that this is the change that the family and Ern need. They will live an off the grid lifestyle in America’s last untamed frontier.Įrn Allbright and his wife, Cora, have a thirteen year old daughter, Leni, who becames caught between her parents and their very stormy and very passionate relationship. He makes a surprise announcement that with no preparation or planning at all, he is taking his family to live in the wilds of Alaska. He is now very volatile, with a bad temper and a very short fuse. A former Vietnam veteran and POW comes home from the war very damaged by his experiences. This story about a family in crisis, is set in Alaska in 1974. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. And, fatally, the attention of a murderer who is prepared to kill again. What's more, her speciality is the study of corpses she is, in fact, a mistress of the art of death, a skill that must be concealed in case she's accused of witchcraft.Adelia's investigation takes her deep into Cambridge, its castle and convents and in a medieval city teeming with life, Adelia makes friends and even finds romance. There are few female doctors in twelth century Europe, but Adelia is one of them, having qualified at the great School of Medicine in Salerno. A renowned investigator, Simon of Naples, is recruited and he arrives in town from the continent accompanied by an Arab and a young woman, Adelia Aguilar. The Jews provide a large part of his revenue and therefore the real killer must be found, and quickly. The Jews, made scapegoats by the all-powerful Christian clergy, have been forced to retreat into the castle to avoid slaughter by angry townspeople. In Cambridge a child has been hideously murdered and other children have disappeared. |