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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 68 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book Why Sinead O
    Why Sinead O'Connor Matters - by Allyson McCabe

    £21.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781477325704 | ISBN 10: 1477325700

    A stirring defense of Sinéad O’Connor’s music and activism, and an indictment of the culture that cancelled her.  In 1990, Sinéad O’Connor’s video for “Nothing Compares 2 U” turned her into a superstar. Two years later, an appea ... more

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  • Cover image of book Running Up That Hill: 50 Visions of Kate Bush by Tom Doyle
    Running Up That Hill: 50 Visions of Kate Bush - by Tom Doyle

    £20.00   hardback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781788707794 | ISBN 10: 1788707796

    A Times Book of the Year An Uncut Magazine Book of the Year A Waterstones Music Book of the Year A Virgin Radio Book of the Year A Louder Book of the Year   'Probably the best Bush book to date.' - Record Collector   Kate Bush: the ... more

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  • Cover image of book Fingers Crossed: How Music Saved Me from Success by Miki Berenyi
    Fingers Crossed: How Music Saved Me from Success - by Miki Berenyi

    £22.00   hardback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781788705554 | ISBN 10: 1788705556

    Rough Trade Book of the Year Resident Book of the Year A Rolling Stone Book of the Year A Mojo Book of the Year A Sunday Times Book of the Year   Formed in 1988, Lush were part of the London gig scene during one of the most vibrant ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Book of Days by Patti Smith
    A Book of Days - by Patti Smith

    £25.00   hardback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781526650986 | ISBN 10: 1526650983

    **THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**  A deeply moving and brilliantly idiosyncratic visual book of days by the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train. More than 365 images chart Smith's singular aesthetic - inspired by her w ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Weakness in Me: The Selected Lyrics of Joan Armatrading by Joan Armatrading
    The Weakness in Me: The Selected Lyrics of Joan Armatrading - by Joan Armatrading

    £14.99   hardback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780571377596 | ISBN 10: 0571377599

    Selected and arranged by the author, and featuring a foreword by revered record producer Glyn Johns, The Weakness In Me presents the lyrics of Joan Armatrading for the first time in one unique volume.   Since the release of her debut album Wha ... more

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  • Cover image of book Face It: A Memoir by Debbie Harry
    Face It: A Memoir - by Debbie Harry

    £10.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780008229443 | ISBN 10: 0008229449

    ‘I was saying things in songs that female singers didn’t really say back then. I wasn’t submissive or begging him to come back, I was kicking his ass, kicking him out, kicking my own ass too. My Blondie character was an inflatable doll but with ... more

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  • Cover image of book Why Solange Matters by Stephanie Phillips
    Why Solange Matters - by Stephanie Phillips

    £9.99   hardback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780571368983 | ISBN 10: 0571368980

    The dramatic story of a musician and artist whose unconventional journey to international success was far more important than her family name.   A ROUGH TRADE, THE TIMES, CLASH BOOK OF THE YEAR  The dramatic story of Solange: a musician and a ... more

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  • Cover image of book My Rock
    My Rock 'n' Roll Friend - by Tracey Thorn

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781786898234 | ISBN 10: 1786898233

    In 1983, backstage at the Lyceum in London, Tracey Thorn and Lindy Morrison first met. Tracey's music career was just beginning, while Lindy, drummer for The Go-Betweens, was ten years her senior. They became confidantes, comrades and best friends, a ... more

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  • Cover image of book Why Patti Smith Matters by Caryn Rose
    Why Patti Smith Matters - by Caryn Rose

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780571374847 | ISBN 10: 0571374840

    A radical exploration of the artistry and influence of Patti Smith: the Poet Laureate of Punk whose uninhibited creativity inspired an entire generation and triggered a cultural revolution.   Patti Smith arrived in New York City at the e ... more

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  • Cover image of book Stories I Might Regret Telling You by Martha Wainwright
    Stories I Might Regret Telling You - by Martha Wainwright

    £20.00   hardback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781398503731 | ISBN 10: 1398503738

    This is Martha Wainwright’s heartfelt memoir about growing up in a bohemian musical family and her experiences with love, loss, motherhood, divorce, the music industry and more.  Born into music royalty, the daughter of folk legends Kate McGarr ... more

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  • Cover image of book This Woman
    This Woman's Work: Essays on Music - by Kim Gordon and Sinéad Gleeson (Editors)

    £20.00   hardback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781474621472 | ISBN 10: 1474621473

    This Woman’s Work: Essays on Music is edited by Kim Gordon and Sinéad Gleeson and features contributors Anne Enright, Fatima Bhutto, Jenn Pelly, Rachel Kushner, Juliana Huxtable, Leslie Jamison, Liz Pelly, Maggie Nelson, Margo Jefferson, Megan Jas ... more

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  • Cover image of book Rememberings by Sinead O
    Rememberings - by Sinead O'Connor

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781844885428 | ISBN 10: 1844885429

    THE LANDMARK MEMOIR OF A GLOBAL MUSIC ICON.  Sinead O'Connor's voice and trademark shaved head made her famous by the age of twenty-one. Her recording of Prince's Nothing Compares 2 U made her a global icon. She outraged millions when she tore up ... more

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  • Cover image of book Why Marianne Faithfull Matters by Tanya Pearson
    Why Marianne Faithfull Matters - by Tanya Pearson

    £9.99   hardback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780571368969 | ISBN 10: 0571368964

    First as a doe-eyed ingénue with ‘As Tears Go By’, then as a gravel-voiced phoenix rising from the ashes of the 1960s with a landmark punk album, Broken English, and finally as a genre-less icon, Marianne Faithfull carved her name into the histo ... more

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  • Cover image of book Punk Women: 40 Years of Musicians Who Built Punk Rock by David A. Ensminger (Editor)
    Punk Women: 40 Years of Musicians Who Built Punk Rock - by David A. Ensminger (Editor)

    £14.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781621065517 | ISBN 10: 1621065510

    Interviews with and photos of canonical rockers.  In this far-reaching anthology, David Ensminger delves underground to explore the oft overlooked community of badass women who shaped the punk scene.  There is a common thread of women be ... more

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  • Cover image of book Seeing Sideways: A Memoir of Music and Motherhood by Kristin Hersh
    Seeing Sideways: A Memoir of Music and Motherhood - by Kristin Hersh

    £14.95   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781911036753 | ISBN 10: 1911036750

    Doony, Ryder, Wyatt, Bodhi. The names of Kristin Hersh's sons are the only ones included in her new memoir, Seeing Sideways. As the book unfolds and her sons voices rise from its pages, it becomes clear why: these names tell the story of her life.  ... more

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  • Cover image of book You
    You're History: The Twelve Strangest Women in Music - by Lesley Chow

    £10.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781913462314 | ISBN 10: 1913462315

    From Kate Bush to Nicki Minaj, from Janet Jackson to TLC and Taylor Swift, pop's greatest female pioneers are simply strange: smashing notions of taste and decorum, and replacing them with new ideals of pleasure.  Instead of rehashing biographie ... more

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  • Cover image of book Bessie Smith by Jackie Kay
    Bessie Smith - by Jackie Kay

    £10.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780571362929 | ISBN 10: 0571362923

    Bessie Smith: singer, icon, pioneer.  Scotland's National Poet Jackie Kay brings to life the tempestuous story of the greatest blues singer who ever lived.   Bessie Smith was born in Tennessee in 1894. Orphaned by the age of nine, sh ... more

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  • Cover image of book High School: A Memoir by Tegan Quin and Sara Quin
    High School: A Memoir - by Tegan Quin and Sara Quin

    £9.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780349011981 | ISBN 10: 0349011982

    From iconic musicians Tegan and Sara comes a nostalgic memoir about high school, detailing their first loves and first songs in a compelling look back at their origin story.   Before they became international musicians and LGBTQ+ icons, twin ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Seat at the Table: Interviews With Women on the Frontline of Music by Amy Raphael
    A Seat at the Table: Interviews With Women on the Frontline of Music - by Amy Raphael

    £9.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780349009841 | ISBN 10: 0349009848

    Interviews with women on the frontline of music, from Kate Tempest to Maggie Rogers, Christine and the Queens to Ibeyi.   Writer and critic Amy Raphael has interviewed some of the world’s most iconic musicians, including Courtney Love, Patti Smi ... more

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  • Cover image of book No Walls And The Recurring Dream: A Memoir by Ani DiFranco
    No Walls And The Recurring Dream: A Memoir - by Ani DiFranco

    £14.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780735225190 | ISBN 10: 0735225192

    A memoir by the celebrated singer-songwriter and social activist Ani DiFranco.  In her new memoir, No Walls and the Recurring Dream, Ani DiFranco recounts her early life from a place of hard-won wisdom, combining personal expression, the power of ... more

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  • Cover image of book It Takes Blood and Guts by Skin, with Lucy O
    It Takes Blood and Guts - by Skin, with Lucy O'Brien

    £20.00   hardback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781471194917 | ISBN 10: 1471194914

    The Lead singer of multi-million-selling rock band Skunk Anansie, solo artist, LGBTQ+ activist and all around trail blazer - Skin is a global icon, and she has been smashing stereotypes for over twenty-five years. Her journey from Brixton to one of t ... more

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  • Cover image of book Year of the Monkey by Patti Smith
    Year of the Monkey - by Patti Smith

    £9.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781526614766 | ISBN 10: 1526614766

    From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train, a profound, beautifully realized memoir in which dreams and reality are vividly woven into a tapestry of one transformative year.   Following a run of New Year's concerts at ... more

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  • Cover image of book Fangirls: Scenes From Modern Music Culture by Hannah Ewens
    Fangirls: Scenes From Modern Music Culture - by Hannah Ewens

    £14.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781787132412 | ISBN 10: 1787132412

    From Beatlemania in the early 1960s to the Directioners and Beyhive of today, female music fans have long driven the objects of their affection to the dizzying heights of life-changing fame. But marginalized fan groups are never given appropriate cre ... more

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  • Cover image of book Resistance: A Songwriter
    Resistance: A Songwriter's Story of Hope, Change and Courage - by Tori Amos

    £16.99   hardback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781529325607 | ISBN 10: 1529325609

    Since the release of her first, career-defining solo album Little Earthquakes, Tori Amos has been one of the music industry’s most enduring and ingenious artists. From her unnerving depiction of sexual assault in “Me and a Gun” to her post-9/11 ... more

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  • Cover image of book Classic Albums by Women by Classic Album Sundays
    Classic Albums by Women - by Classic Album Sundays

    £18.00   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781788840392 | ISBN 10: 1788840399

    Across the genres, across the generations, across the board, this book presents over one hundred inspirational albums by women, from top-selling hits to the indie and obscure.   Classic Album Sundays - the world's most popular album listening ... more

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  • Cover image of book Revenge of the She-Punks: A Feminist Music History from Poly Styrene to Pussy Riot by Vivien Goldman
    Revenge of the She-Punks: A Feminist Music History from Poly Styrene to Pussy Riot - by Vivien Goldman

    £13.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781477316542 | ISBN 10: 147731654x

    As an industry insider and pioneering post-punk musician, Vivien Goldman’s perspective on music journalism is unusually well-rounded. In Revenge of the She-Punks, she probes four themes—identity, money, love, and protest—to explore what makes p ... more

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  • Cover image of book Another Planet: A Teenager in Suburbia by Tracey Thorn
    Another Planet: A Teenager in Suburbia - by Tracey Thorn

    £14.99   hardback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781786892553 | ISBN 10: 1786892553

    “I'm not the only person to have grown up stifled and bored in suburbia, it's almost the law.”   A Sunday Times top ten bestseller. An exploration of suburbia from music icon Tracey Thorn; singer-songwriter and bestselling author of Bedsit ... more

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  • Cover image of book Blues for Lady Day: The Story of Billie Holiday by Paolo Parisi
    Blues for Lady Day: The Story of Billie Holiday - by Paolo Parisi

    £12.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781642730210 | ISBN 10: 1642730211

    Billie Holiday, one of the greatest jazz singers of all time, had a troubled life: a childhood in poverty, brothels, jail, broken love, and a dependence on alcohol and heroin. Her first performances in the night clubs of prohibitionist America was wh ... more

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  • Cover image of book Clothes, Music, Boys. by Viv Albertine
    Clothes, Music, Boys. - by Viv Albertine

    £6.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780571351343 | ISBN 10: 0571351344

    In 1970, Viv Albertine knew she wanted to be in a band, but had never seen a woman play electric guitar. Seven years later, she was the guitarist in the hugely influential all-female punk band, the Slits. This is the story of how, through sheer will, ... more

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  • Cover image of book Dayglo! The Creative Life of Poly Styrene by Celeste Bell and Zoë Howe
    Dayglo! The Creative Life of Poly Styrene - by Celeste Bell and Zoë Howe

    £25.00   hardback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781785586163 | ISBN 10: 1785586165

    Poly Styrene was a singer-songwriter, an artist, a free-thinker, a post-modern style pioneer and a lifelong spiritual seeker: a true punk icon. But this rebel queen with the cheeky grin was also a latter-day pop artist with a wickedly perceptive gift ... more

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  • Cover image of book To Throw Away Unopened by Viv Albertine
    To Throw Away Unopened - by Viv Albertine

    £10.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780571326228 | ISBN 10: 0571326226

    LONGLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2018   What was I fighting for? Even now I’m not sure. Something so old and so deep, it has no words, no shape, no logic.   Every memoir is a battle between reality and invention - but in her follow up to ... more

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  • Cover image of book Grace Jones A to Z: The life of an icon – from Androgyny to Zula by Babeth Lafon and Steve Wide
    Grace Jones A to Z: The life of an icon – from Androgyny to Zula - by Babeth Lafon and Steve Wide

    £12.99   hardback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781925418804 | ISBN 10: 1925418804

    Singer, songwriter, supermodel, record producer, actress and iconoclast, Grace Jones is truly one of a kind, equal parts intriguing, intimidating and indefatigable.   From her early days as a model working with Yves St. Laurent and Kenzo, her ... more

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  • Cover image of book First Time Ever: A Memoir by Peggy Seeger
    First Time Ever: A Memoir - by Peggy Seeger

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780571336807 | ISBN 10: 0571336809

    Born in New York City in 1935, Peggy Seeger enjoyed a childhood steeped in music and politics. Her father was the noted musicologist Charles Seeger; her mother, the modernist composer Ruth Crawford; and her brother Pete, the celebrated writer of prot ... more

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  • Cover image of book Art Sex Music by Cosey Fanni Tutti
    Art Sex Music - by Cosey Fanni Tutti

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780571328529 | ISBN 10: 0571328520

    Art Sex Music is the autobiography of a musician who, as a founding member of the avant-garde group Throbbing Gristle and electronic pioneers Chris & Cosey, has consistently challenged the boundaries of music over the past four decades.   It is th ... more

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  • Cover image of book Under My Thumb: Songs That Hate Women and the Women Who Love Them by Eli Davies and Rhian E Jones (Editors)
    Under My Thumb: Songs That Hate Women and the Women Who Love Them - by Eli Davies and Rhian E Jones (Editors)

    £9.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781910924617 | ISBN 10: 191092461x

    Vogue Books of the Year 2017   In the majority of mainstream writing and discussions on music, women appear purely in relation to men as muses, groupies or fangirls, with our own experiences, ideas and arguments dismissed or ignored. But this ... more

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  • Cover image of book Patti Smith: American Artist by Frank Stefanko
    Patti Smith: American Artist - by Frank Stefanko

    £14.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781683830153 | ISBN 10: 1683830156

    "There I was sitting in a booth at the co-op of Glassboro State College, a bucolic school in the farmlands of South Jersey... Suddenly, the double doors of the co-op swung open and standing there in the vacuum created was an incredible apparition, a ... more

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  • Cover image of book Billie Holiday by José Muñoz and Carlos Sampayo
    Billie Holiday - by José Muñoz and Carlos Sampayo

    £17.99   hardback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781681120935 | ISBN 10: 1681120933

    Born in Philadelphia in 1915, and dead too early in New York in 1959, Billie Holiday became a legendary jazz singer, even mythical.  With her voice even now managing to touch so many people, we follow a reporter on the trail of the artist on beh ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Rise, the Fall, and the Rise by Brix Smith Start
    The Rise, the Fall, and the Rise - by Brix Smith Start

    £8.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780571325061 | ISBN 10: 0571325068

    The Rise, The Fall, and The Rise is the extraordinary story, in her own words, of Brix Smith Start. Best known for her work in The Fall at the time when they were perhaps the most powerful and influential anti-authoritarian postpunk band in the world ... more

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  • Cover image of book What Happened, Miss Simone? by Alan Light
    What Happened, Miss Simone? - by Alan Light

    £9.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781782118749 | ISBN 10: 1782118748

    Inspired by the Oscar-nominated Netflix documentary, this is the story of the real Miss Simone.   What Happened, Miss Simone? tells the story of incandescent soul singer and Black Power icon Nina Simone, one of the most influential, provocativ ... more

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  • Cover image of book On Raglan Road: Great Irish Love Songs and the Women Who Inspired Them by Gerard Hanberry
    On Raglan Road: Great Irish Love Songs and the Women Who Inspired Them - by Gerard Hanberry

    £15.99   hardback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781848892873 | ISBN 10: 184889287x

    This lively collection uncovers for the first time how great Irish love songs came to be, and includes engaging biographies of the songwriters and their muses.  This is for anyone who ever wondered who the ‘Galway Girl’ was, or if there was ... more

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  • Cover image of book Evelyn Dove: Britain
    Evelyn Dove: Britain's Black Cabaret Queen - by Stephen Bourne

    £12.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781909762350 | ISBN 10: 1909762350

    A pioneer and a trailblazer, Evelyn Dove left a mark in the arts industry. She was the first black female singer on BBC Radio and the first black British female singer to work in America, a quarter of a century before Shirley Bassey.   In a ca ... more

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  • Cover image of book M Train by Patti Smith
    M Train - by Patti Smith

    £9.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781408867709 | ISBN 10: 1408867702

    M Train begins in the tiny Greenwich Village caf� where Smith goes every morning for black coffee, ruminates on the world as it is and the world as it was, and writes in her notebook. Through prose that shifts fluidly between dreams and reality, pa ... more

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  • Cover image of book Reckless by Chrissie Hynde
    Reckless - by Chrissie Hynde

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781785031465 | ISBN 10: 1785031465

    By the time she was 14, Chrissie Hynde knew she had to get out of Akron, Ohio. Her perfect 50s American childhood upturned by a newly acquired taste for rock n roll, motorbikes and the get down boys seen at gigs in and around Cleveland Mitch R ... more

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  • Cover image of book I
    I've Always Kept a Unicorn: The Biography of Sandy Denny - by Mick Houghton

    £12.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780571278916 | ISBN 10: 0571278914

    I've Always Kept a Unicorn tells the story of Sandy Denny, one of the greatest British singers of her time and the first female singer-songwriter to produce a substantial and enduring body of original songs. Sandy Denny laid down the marker for folk ... more

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  • Cover image of book Here She Comes Now: Women in Music Who Have Changed Our Lives by Jeff Gordinier and Marc Weingarten (Editors)
    Here She Comes Now: Women in Music Who Have Changed Our Lives - by Jeff Gordinier and Marc Weingarten (Editors)

    £14.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781785780608 | ISBN 10: 1785780603

    Here She Comes Now brings together some of Americas best music writers such as Susan Choi, recipient of the inaugural PEN / W.G. Sebald award, Daniel Walters, whose credits include the screenplay for Heathers, and Alina Simon, whose novel Note to ... more

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  • Cover image of book Billie Holiday by John Szwed
    Billie Holiday - by John Szwed

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780099592624 | ISBN 10: 0099592622

    When eighteen-year-old Billie Holiday stepped into Columbia studios in November of 1933 to record Riffin the Scotch and Your Mothers Son-in-Law, it marked the beginning of what is arguably the most remarkable and important career in twentieth-c ... more

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  • Cover image of book Naked at the Albert Hall: The Inside Story of Singing by Tracey Thorn
    Naked at the Albert Hall: The Inside Story of Singing - by Tracey Thorn

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780349005249 | ISBN 10: 0349005249

    Tracey Thorn, musician and author of the bestselling autobiography Bedsit Disco Queen, offers a unique insider's take on the art of singing: why and how we sing, and the voice's power to captivate. In her bestselling autobiography Bedsit Disco Quee ... more

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  • Cover image of book I
    I'll Never Write My Memoirs - by Grace Jones

    £20.00   hardback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781471135217 | ISBN 10: 1471135217

    Born in 1948 into a family of ministers in Kingston, Jamaica, the statuesque and strikingly beautiful Grace Jones lived with her family in Syracuse, NY, before launching a career as a model in New York City. Gaining fame as the cover girl for such pu ... more

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  • Cover image of book Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl: A Memoir by Carrie Brownstein
    Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl: A Memoir - by Carrie Brownstein

    £16.99   hardback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780349007922 | ISBN 10: 0349007926

    From the guitarist of the pioneering band Sleater-Kinney, a candid, funny, and deeply personal look at making a life - and finding yourself - in music. Before Carrie Brownstein became a music icon, she was a young girl growing up in the Pacific Nor ... more

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  • Cover image of book Girl in a Band by Kim Gordon
    Girl in a Band - by Kim Gordon

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780571309351 | ISBN 10: 0571309356

    There are few artists who inspire such reverence as Kim Gordon. In Girl in a Band she tells with complete openness the story of her family, her work in the visual arts, her move to New York City, the men in her life, her marriage, her relationship wi ... more

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  • Cover image of book Dusty: An Intimate Portrait of a Musical Legend by Karen Bartlett
    Dusty: An Intimate Portrait of a Musical Legend - by Karen Bartlett

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781849548762 | ISBN 10: 1849548765

    Known the world over for her unique musical style, distinctive look and a voice that propelled her into the charts time and time again, Dusty Springfield was undoubtedly one of the biggest and brightest musical stars of the twentieth century.   ... more

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  • Cover image of book Down the Crooked Road: My Autobiography by Mary Black
    Down the Crooked Road: My Autobiography - by Mary Black

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781848271883 | ISBN 10: 1848271883

    For the last thirty years, singer Mary Black has been a dominant presence on the Irish music scene, an award-winning artist with many bestselling albums to her name. Now, in this long-awaited memoir, Mary takes us back to the roots of her musical her ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Art of Asking: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help by Amanda Palmer
    The Art of Asking: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help - by Amanda Palmer

    £13.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780349408095 | ISBN 10: 0349408092

    "When we really see each other, we want to help each other"~ Amanda Palmer Imagine standing on a box in the middle of a busy city, dressed as a white-faced bride, and silently using your eyes to ask people for money. Or touring Europe in a punk ca ... more

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  • Cover image of book My Kirsty: End of the Fairytale by Jean MacColl
    My Kirsty: End of the Fairytale - by Jean MacColl

    £7.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781784180263 | ISBN 10: 1784180262

    Kirsty MacColl led a dazzling life - tender, creative, heroic and full of love.   This book, by her mother Jean MacColl, charts with moving insight Kirsty's early years and celebrates her brilliant career at the front rank of the music busine ... more

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  • Cover image of book Harley Loco: A Memoir of Hard Living, Hair & Post-Punk, from the Middle East to the Lower East Side by Rayya Elias
    Harley Loco: A Memoir of Hard Living, Hair & Post-Punk, from the Middle East to the Lower East Side - by Rayya Elias

    £14.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781408837696 | ISBN 10: 1408837692

    "She's experienced wealth, cultural alienation, homelessness, brushes with fame, prison, rehab, record deals, a million blown second chances, a dozen broken hearts and one bloody-knuckled ultimate spiritual redemption. She even died once in the proce ... more

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  • Cover image of book Words Will Break Cement: The Passion of Pussy Riot by Masha Gessen
    Words Will Break Cement: The Passion of Pussy Riot - by Masha Gessen

    £9.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781847089342 | ISBN 10: 1847089348

    On February 21st 2012, five members of an obscure feminist post-punk collective called Pussy Riot staged a performance in Moscow's Cathedral of Christ the Saviour. Dressed in their trademark brightly coloured dresses and balaclavas, the women perform ... more

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  • Cover image of book Bedsit Disco Queen: How I Grew Up and Tried to be a Pop Star by Tracey Thorn
    Bedsit Disco Queen: How I Grew Up and Tried to be a Pop Star - by Tracey Thorn

    £9.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781844088683 | ISBN 10: 1844088685

    "The Sunday Times top ten bestselling memoir of Tracey Thorn's 30-year pop career with Marine Girls and Everything But The Girl, and her collaborations with Paul Weller, Massive Attack and Todd Terry. A Radio 4 Book of the Week in March 2013."(Tracey ... more

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  • Cover image of book Florence + the Machine: An Almighty Sound by Zoe Howe
    Florence + the Machine: An Almighty Sound - by Zoe Howe

    £14.95   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781780385136 | ISBN 10: 1780385137

    The story of Florence + The Machine makes an exhilarating contrast to the fortunes of those pre-packaged, stage-schooled pop stars who just wanted to be famous.  A bookish south London child who had sung at family funerals, Florence Welch exp ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Century of Wisdom: Lessons from the Life of Alice Herz-Sommer by Caroline Stoessinger
    A Century of Wisdom: Lessons from the Life of Alice Herz-Sommer - by Caroline Stoessinger

    £9.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781444737622 | ISBN 10: 1444737627

    An inspiring story of resilience and the power of optimism - the true story of Alice Herz-Sommer, the world's oldest living Holocaust survivor.   At 108 years old, the pianist Alice Herz-Sommer is an eyewitness to history. She has seen it all, ... more

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  • Cover image of book Women Make Noise: Girl Bands from Motown to the Modern by Julia Downes
    Women Make Noise: Girl Bands from Motown to the Modern - by Julia Downes

    £15.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780956632913 | ISBN 10: 0956632912

    As more and more female solo artists hit the mainstream the question arises: where are the girl bands? Why aren't they getting the attention they deserve?   While the media continues to ignore them, in Women Make Noise Julia Downes invites mus ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Lost Women of Rock Music: Female Musicians of the Punk Era by Helen Reddington
    The Lost Women of Rock Music: Female Musicians of the Punk Era - by Helen Reddington

    £19.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781845539573 | ISBN 10: 1845539575

    In the late 1970s and early 1980s a new phenomenon emerged in UK popular music female guitarists, bass-players, keyboard-players and drummers began playing in bands. Before this time, womens presence in rock bands, with a few notable exceptions, h ... more

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  • Cover image of book Black by Design: A 2-Tone Memoir by Pauline Black
    Black by Design: A 2-Tone Memoir - by Pauline Black

    £9.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781846687914 | ISBN 10: 1846687918

    Probably best-known for her role as lead singer in The Selecter, one of the best British ska / 2 tone bands of the early 1980s, Pauline Black has lived a life rich in contradictions. Mixed-race, adopted to a middle-aged white couple, tracing some of ... more

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  • Cover image of book Just Kids by Patti Smith
    Just Kids - by Patti Smith

    £9.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780747568766 | ISBN 10: 0747568766

    'It was the summer that Coltrane died. The summer Jimi Hendrix set his guitar in flames and China exploded the H-bomb. There were riots in Newark and marches against the war in Vietnam. The world was on the brink of change. It was the summer of love. ... more

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  • Cover image of book Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution by Sara Marcus
    Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution - by Sara Marcus

    £10.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780061806360 | ISBN 10: 0061806366

    Girls to the Front is the epic, definitive history of the Riot Grrrl movement the radical feminist punk uprising that exploded into the public eye in the 1990s, altering Americas gender landscape forever.  Author Sara Marcus, a music ... more

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  • Cover image of book Women of the Underground: Music - Cultural Innovators Speak for Themselves by Zora von Burden
    Women of the Underground: Music - Cultural Innovators Speak for Themselves - by Zora von Burden

    £14.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781933149196 | ISBN 10: 1933149191

    Featuring new interviews with: Wanda Jackson - Miss Mercy (GTOs) - Moe Tucker (Velvet Underground) - Nina Hagen - Lydia Lunch - Adele Bertei (The Contortions) - Cosey Fanni Tutti (Throbbing Gristle) - Jarboe (Swans) - Slymenstra (Gwar) - Patricia Mor ... more

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  • Cover image of book Away from the Light of Day by Amadou and Mariam, Idrissa Keta, Ann Wright
    Away from the Light of Day - by Amadou and Mariam, Idrissa Keta, Ann Wright

    £7.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781901927450 | ISBN 10: 1901927458

    The magic couple Amadou and Mariam are one of the most loved and successful acts to come out of Africa this century, but their story is not one of overnight success. They have been singing their warm notes for more than thirty years.   This au ... more

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  • Cover image of book With Billie by Julia Blackburn
    With Billie - by Julia Blackburn

    £10.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780099483656 | ISBN 10: 0099483653

    Julia Blackburn's brilliant and haunting new book is a life of Billie Holiday told in the voices of those who knew her. During the 1970s a young woman called Linda Kuehl, planning to write a biography of Billie, recorded interviews with more than 150 ... more

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  • Cover image of book Music and Gender: Perspectives from the Mediterranean by Tullia Magrini
    Music and Gender: Perspectives from the Mediterranean - by Tullia Magrini

    £25.50   paperback   (2003) - ISBN 13: 9780226501666 | ISBN 10: 0226501663

    Although scholars have long been aware of the crucial roles that gender plays in music, and vice versa, the contributors to this volume are among the first to systematically examine the interactions between the two. This book is also the first to exp ... more

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