Christmas 2024: Music & Film

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From Freaks to Land of the Pharaohs, Dune to Speed 2, and Catwoman to Cats - a riotous and revealing story of Hollywood's most spectacular flops.'An instant classic . . . funny, sharp,…

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A colourful and concise telling of the fascinating story behind Richard Wagner's extraordinary masterpiece, Ring of the Nibelung.The Ring is one of the most epic and compelling stories of the nineteenth century, created by a…

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THE FIRST BIOGRAPHY OF DE LA SOUL UNPACKING THE RISE, STRUGGLES, AND ENDURING INFLUENCE OF A HIP HOP LEGENDThe first book about De La Soul, High and Rising is a stunning cultural biography of the era-defining hip-hop trio that…

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A captivating look at what draws us to the shocks and thrills of horror, by film critic and broadcaster Bogutskaya.Zombies want brains. Vampires want blood. Cannibals want human flesh. All monsters need feeding.Horror has been…

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‘It is difficult to imagine the emotional power that bells exerted, their capacity to summon people together, to structure time and space in society. Still today, bell-ringing is considered an essential element of the quintessential…

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The extraordinary true story of intertwined lives that lies behind Handel's Messiah, the most performed piece of classical music ever writtenEvery Valley is a glittering narrative history of intertwined lives that tells the story…

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Translated by Caroline SchmidtWhile travelling through the Great Alföld, the vast plain in south-eastern Hungary, Esther Kinsky stops in a small town near the Romanian border. Like many other things, the cinema, ‘mozi’…

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A thrilling new biography of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky—composer of some of the world’s most popular orchestral and theatrical music Tchaikovsky is famous for all the wrong reasons. Portrayed as a hopeless romantic, a…

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‘One of America’s most legendary living poets.’– Ocean Vuong‘[CAConrad] surges ahead in experiment and lasting power.’– Maggie NelsonIn this heartfelt exploration of queer fandom, legendary poet…

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The first major biography of the French New Wave filmmaker hailed as “one of the Gods of Cinema” by Martin ScorseseOver the course of her sixty-five-year career, the longest of any female filmmaker, Agnès Varda…

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The definitive biography of MF DOOM, charting the reclusive and revered hip-hop artist's life, career, and eventual immortality. Packed with behind-the-scenes content, for fans of hip-hop biographies like Dilla Time.On December 31,…

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A ground-breaking account of the scientists and architects who pioneered acoustics in twentieth-century Britain.On a winter's night in 1951, shortly after Evensong, the interior of St Paul's Cathedral echoed with gunfire. This was no act of…

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A year in the life of Lawrence, Britain's most singular musical genius who never hit the big time.'Will has finally written his masterpiece. I'm glad I could be of assistance' LAWRENCE'Essential reading' JARVIS…

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A collection of never-before-seen photographs of RADIOHEAD by their bassist Colin Greenwood, with a ten-thousand-word essay by him about the band that has been his life since they formed at school.'For years now, I've been taking fugitive…

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A New York music journalist goes on a quest to uncover the truth behind the mysterious disappearance of the young Brazilian piano virtuoso (and pioneer of samba-jazz), Tenório Jr.An investigation and celebration of the origins of the…

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A brand new anthology on feminist sonic cultures and radical listening for peace.Bodies of Sound began by enquiring into how sonic experience is intervening in realms such as gender, memory, disability justice, anti-colonial ways of…