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Tonight: Franz Ferdinand
For their third album, Glasgow rockers Franz Ferdinand have come up with something new and very retro. Showing a range of influences, including dub reggae and electronica, the band has certainly lived up to their stated aim of ‘making a…
Spirit of Apollo: N.A.S.A.
N.A.S.A (North America/South America) is the brainchild and ongoing musical collaboration of Squeak E. Clean and DJ Zegon. The cast of artists assembled on Spirit of Apollo is nothing short of breathtaking – as indeed are the results. Rooted in…
Dark Was The Night: Various
The ultimate in indie collections, this 2 CD set is part of the Red Hot series, which has been collecting money for AIDS charities for 20 years now. Curated by Aaron and Bryce Dessner of The National, there are 31…
War Child Heroes: Vol 1: Various
EMI are donating profits from this album to War Child’s work to protect the most marginalised children in war zones. The album concept sees the biggest heroes in music history select a personal favourite track from their own back catalogue…
Beware: Bonnie Prince Billy
Following up 2008’s acclaimed Lie Down The Ligh, Will Oldham enlists a team of mates, regular collaborators and colleagues such as Josh Abrams, Jennifer Hutt and Dee Alexander to deliver an album that contains that classic Bonnie Prince Billy…
Thanks For The Mammaries: Sarah Darmody (Ed)
This represented an interesting project for a girl who’s mother placed vocab restrictions on this particular part of the anatomy. One has ‘breasts’ or ‘bosoms’, never ‘boobs’ or heaven forbid, ‘tits’. However, even with these preordained prudencies this proved to…
The Women: T.C.Boyle
T.C. Boyle has tackled extraordinary characters in previous novels, like John Harvey Kellogg in The Road to Welville and Alfred Kinsey in The Inner Circle but none could ever eclipse the extraordinary, complex trajectory of Frank Lloyd Wright.
Told from…
Zac's Moon Trip: H.I. Larry
For young readers longing to be able to read the hugely popular Zac Power books for themselves, help is at hand. The Zac Power Test Drive titles, four of them so far, have arrived! First chapter books, with really big…
The China Garden: Kristina Olsson
When Laura reluctantly returns to her small hometown following the death of her estranged mother, she finds a house of secrets waiting for her. As she sorts through Angela’s belongings and begins piecing her past together, she becomes slowly aware…
Boy He Cry: An Island Odyssey: Roger Averill
Shelley, an idealistic young PhD anthropology student and her partner Roger, a writer, arrive on a remote Papuan island for 12 months without any housing, furniture or friends. The islanders agree to accommodate the couple and willingly pitch in to…
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