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The People’s Songs:
The Story Of Modern
Britain In 50 Records
By Stuart Maconie
Chronologically told over fifty chapters
and beginning with Vera Lynn’s
We’ll Meet Again, Stuart Maconie’s
The People’s Songs takes a tour of
the country’s pop music history, from
the Second World War to the present
day. The book is the companion to
Maconie’s landmark Radio Two
series, and focuses on the songs
that have tracked the country’s
changing times, along the way looking
at subjects such as work, war,
class, leisure, race, family, drugs,
sex, patriotism and more.
A Funny Thing Happened
On The Way To Heaven
By Corey Taylor
Grammy Award-winning singer and modern
Renaissance Man Corey Taylor has seen ghosts
but he hasn’t seen Jesus. A Funny Thing
Happened On The Way To Heaven is Corey’s
second book, and not only brings together stories
of his experiences with the supernatural but
also questions the validity of religious belief systems
and two-thousand-year-old dogma.
Honest, humorous and no-holds-barred in his
approach, Corey is promising his readers ‘one
hell of a ride’...
The Alex Ferguson Quote Book: The Greatest
Manager In His Own Words By Anonymous
The recently retired Sir Alex Ferguson is not only one of the greatest football
managers of all time, he’s also one of the most quotable. This fun new
book brings together some of the ex-Manchester United supremo’s most
memorable quotes, and also features contributions from those who knew
him best and crossed swords with him most.
What Not To Do
(And How To Do It)
By Danny Wallace
It’s not easy being a man. And Danny
Wallace should know, because he is one!
The best-selling author of Awkward
Situations For Men, Danny makes a welcome
return with this follow-up tome, in
which he asks fellas such leading questions
as ‘how do you
react when you realise
that yesterday's underpants
might still be in
your trousers?’ and ‘what
do you do if you think
you might have a mancrush?’.
The book was
previously published as
More Awkward Situations
For Men.
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TOP 5
BOOKS
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Hilary Mantel
The Life
Martina Cole
I’ve Got Your Number
Sophia Kinsella
The Red House
Mark Haddon
Sweet Tooth
Ian McEwan
BBC to screen American thriller
The BBC is set to screen an ambitious ten-part US suspense
drama. Produced by BBC America, Orphan Black is described
as ‘a rollercoaster ride of a thriller, with a complex and engaging
plot’, and has been met with rave reviews from Stateside critics.
Shot on location in Toronto, Canada, the show features rising
star Tatiana Maslany (The Nativity, Picture Day) in the role of
Sarah Manning, an outsider and orphan whose life changes
dramatically after she witnesses the suicide of a woman who
looks exactly like her. In a fit of madness, Sarah assumes the
dead woman’s identity, her boyfriend and her bank account,
only to find herself suddenly caught up in a deadly conspiracy.
Orphan Black shows on BBC Three later this year.
Some Girls do...
Acclaimed BBC Three comedy Some Girls has been recommissioned,
with filming on a new set of shows having begun in
South London. The second series will see the return of attitudeladen
lasses (and
every teacher’s nightmare)
Viva, Amber,
Saz and Holli. Written
by Bernadette Davies,
the six ‘comic, tender
and often very rude
episodes’ will follow
the girls’ adventures
both at home and in
an inner-city academy
school.
More comedy-drama from
Shameless creator
A new and completely original take on the world of police procedure
is being promised in a brand new comedy-drama from
Paul Abbott. Regarded as one of the UK’s most successful television
writers, Abbott has worked on a string of TV favourites,
including Coronation Street, Cracker, Clocking Off and State Of
Play, but is probably best known for creating acclaimed
Channel Four social drama Shameless. Abbott’s latest offering,
No Offence, is described as ‘raucous, riotous and razor-sharp’,
and follows a group of bobbies on the frontline in Manchester.
Commenting on his new series, Paul says, “I’m a big fan of welltold
cop shows and jet-black social comedy, and I wanted to
see how explosively we could bang two genres’ heads together.
No Offence is reared on wilder-than-average seeds, and I've had
a ball with the AbbottVision team in building this concept. It’s a
tilted, hardcore blend of cop drama, family saga and social
mayhem.”