BOOKS


Harry Freedman Leonard Cohen: The Mystical Roots of Genius Bloomsbury Continuum, 28th, HB, £18.99, 9781472987273 Going beyond traditional biography, this aims to provide an insight into the spiritual traditions behind Cohen’s work. Song by song, Freedman explores how the singer-songwriter reworked myths, prayers, legends and allegories, and gives insights into the mystical origins behind his music.


Andrew Gant Five Straight Lines: A History of Music Profile, 28th, HB, £30, 9781781257777 This “sweeping and lively” history of Western music takes us on a grand musical tour from music’s origins in prehistory, right up to the 21st century, charting the leaps in technology, thought and practice that led to extraordinary revolutions of music in each age.


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This early life memoir by the Primal Scream front- man is billed as a portrait of a “rock ’n’ roll apostle who would radically reshape the future sounds of fin de siècle British pop”. It cuts “a righteous path through a decade lost to Thatcherism and saved by acid house”. Publication coincides with the 30th anniversary of the release of the seminal album “Screamadelica”.


Tom Hagler & Tony Visconti (ed) We Could Be: Bowie and His Heroes Cassell, 19th, HB, £20, 9781788402729 Extensively researched from thousands of sources by BBC reporter and Bowie obsessive Hagler, with the aid of Bowie’s long-time producer Visconti, this collection of 300 “encounters with fellow icons” paints a portrait of “humour, humility, compassion, tragedy and more”, taking in Lennon and Warhol (in front of whom he embar- rasses himself), Bob Dylan (who hated him), Nina Simone (whose life he saved), and many more.


Stephen Isserlis The Bach Cello Suites: A Companion Faber, 7th, HB, £12.99, 9780571366248 The renowned cellist with a companion to Bach’s six cherished suites for solo cello.


Bobby Gillespie Tenement Kid White Rabbit, 14th, HB, £20, 9781474622066


Food & drink


Rochelle Humes At Mama’s Table: Easy & Delicious Meals


From My Family to Yours Vermilion, 14th, HB, £20, 9781785043758


In her first cookbook, the co-host of BBC1’s “The Hit List”, owner of baby and child skincare brand My Little Coco, and children’s author and influencer (two million followers on Instagram) shares the favourite family recipes


she cooks for her husband and three children, from Four Veg Mac & Cheese and Really Easy Roast Chicken to Peach Melba Pancakes. The “one meal for all the family” angle of this book is very much on-trend.


Robby Krieger Set the Night on Fire White Rabbit, 28th, HB, 320, 9781474624176 The Doors guitarist (the band’s “infamously quiet


member”) is finally ready to tell all in this account of the band’s rise and Jim Morrison’s fall; from the latter’s plan to go mad from syphilis like his literary heroes, to being beaten up by a pack of Marines. Beyond the shocking stories, it’s also a vivid account of how Krieger himself evolved as a musician.


Brown’s One Two Three Four.


Nine Eight Books, 28th, HB, £12.99, 9781788705851 This nostalgia-heavy gift festive book features “engaging and irrever- ent” overviews of every UK Christmas Number One single since 1952. Published in association with the Official Charts Company.


Tanya Lapointe


The Art and Soul of Dune Titan, 1st, HB, £50, 9781789096095 Showcasing the creative journey behind Denis Villeneuve’s screen version of Frank Herbert’s SF classic, with concept art, interviews with cast and creatives and more.


Paul Morley From Manchester with Love: The Life and Times of Tony Wilson aka Anthony H Wilson Faber, 21st, HB, £20, 9780571252497 This biography of Factory Records co-founder and Manchester icon Tony Wilson—effectively commissioned from Morley by Wilson himself—explores how he unleashed landmark acts such as Joy Division and New Order onto the world and appointed himself a “custodian of Manchester’s legacy of innovation and change”. Faber believes it will appeal to fans of Craig


Ethan Mordden Pick a Pocket or Two: A History of British Musical Theatre OUP, 28th, HB, £22.99, 9780190877958 From Gilbert and Sullivan to Andrew Lloyd Webber, and from Julie Andrews to Hugh Jackman, the history of the British musi- cal, from “The Beggar’s Opera” in 1728 to the pres- ent day. It gives full credit to the British for having invented the form, and then influencing American iterations.


James Mottram Jurassic Park: The Ultimate Visual History Titan, 26th, HB, £44.99, 9781789098518 Billed as the most comprehensive book on the Jurassic Park movie trilogy to date, this tribute begins with an in-depth account of the making of Spielberg’s original film, and includes never- before-seen imagery and interviews with key actors and creatives. Also out this month from Titan, Jurassic World: The Ultimate Pop-Up Book from phenomenal paper engineer Matthew Reinhart (1789098808).


Michael Mulligan The Christmas Number One Singles Book


One to Watch


Biography & memoirs


Brian Johnson The Lives of Brian Michael Joseph, 26th, HB, £20, 9780241446409


hours of uncut interviews conducted for the “Supersonic” documen- tary, telling the story of the band’s phenomenal first year, in their own words and fully illustrated throughout. The original film DVD sold 300,000 copies in the UK alone.


Graham Nash The Art of Graham Nash Titan, 12th, HB, £34.99, 9781789098822 This curated collection of art and photography chronicles the career of the musician and songwriter of Crosby, Stills and Nash fame in his own images, accompanied by his reflections.


Ian Nathan The Coppolas: A Movie Dynasty Palazzo, 7th, HB, £20, 9781786751225 This account of the celebrated Coppola movie-making dynasty takes in the work of Francis Ford and Sofia, as well as other members of the clan, such as Nicholas Cage and Talia Shire.


Oasis


Supersonic: The Complete, Authorised and Unabridged Interviews Headline, 14th, HB, £25, 9781472285447 This first ever authorised Oasis book contains the scripts of more than 30


Marcellas Reynolds Supreme Actresses: Iconic Black Women Who Revolutionised Hollywood Abrams, 14th, HB, £35, 9781419756276 From Hattie McDaniel, the first actress of colour to win an Academy Award, to Cicely Tyson, the first African American star of a TV drama, a compre- hensive collection of photographs, interviews and profiles of the most influential Black film, TV and theatre actresses.


Shaun Ryder How to Be a Rock Star Allen & Unwin, 7th, HB, £20, 9781838953249 With insights from three decades touring the world—from playing work- ing men’s clubs to headlin- ing Glastonbury, and play- ing in front of the biggest festival crowd the world has ever seen, in Brazil in the middle of thun- derstorm—Ryder gives a fly-on-the-wall look at the rock ’n’ roll lifestyle, warts and all. Ryder’s previous autobiography, Twisting My Melon, is being made


One to Watch


“It wasn’t me. I didn’t do it. And I’ll never do it again”. The AC/DC frontman’s first book, Rockers and Rollers, about cars, was published in 2009. Now he returns to tell his full life story, “in his own inimitable voice”, from earning his parachute wings as a Parachute Regiment reservist in the Territorial Army, to touring the world and making “Back in Black”, the biggest-selling album in rock history.


NB As Te Bookseller went to press, it was announced this title will be published in 2022.


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