A factional novella: a place where fictional characters rub shoulders with real people, and where actual documented events thread their way through the text alongside imagined scenarios. Through the eyes…

Never Enough is Barney Hoskyns’s raw, uncompromising and utterly compelling account of the highs and lows of life under the needle.

The exhaustive, definitive biography of Tom Waits, one of the most influential artists of all time.

A new edition as part of the Faber Social Greatest Hits - books that have taken writing about music in new and exciting directions for the twenty-first century.

A Rock’s Backpages anthology, edited and introduced by Barney Hoskyns, of Steely Dan, one of the defining and bestselling American rock acts of the last half-century.

When musicians in the New York folk scene of the 1960s grew tired of city life, they decided to get it together in the country. They headed for Woodstock–not the…

Gathers some of the best and most entertaining rock writing, coming at rock and roll from several different angles and spanning four decades of Good, Bad and Ugly. This book…