Friends, I decided to have a trip around the living room bookshelves to get some reading recommendations for you in the hope of making lockdown bearable whilst also
Music
Isle Of Noises by Daniel Rachel
The History Of The NME by Pat Long
Meet Me In The Bathroom by Lizzy Goodman
Yeah Yeah Yeah by Bob Stanley
How To Listen To Jazz by Ted Gioia
Original Rockers by Richard King
Serge Gainsbourg – A Fistful Of Gitanes by Sylvie Simmons
Revolution by David Quantick
Sympathy For The Drummer by Mike Edison
Darker Than The Deepest Sea by Trevor Dann
Let It Blurt by Jim Derogatis
The Manual by Jimmy Cauty & Bill Drummond
Film
Rebel Without A Crew by Robert Rodriguez
Easy Riders Raging Bulls by Peter Biskind
Smoking In Bed by Bruce Robinson
Tales From Development Hell by David Hughes
Making It Big In The Movies by Richard Kiel
Talking Pictures by Ann Hornaday
TV/Film
Difficult Men by Brett Martin
Room To Dream by David Lynch & Kristine McKenna
Shut It! by Martin Day & Keith Topping
Just One More Thing by Peter Falk
American Splendor Our Movie Year by Harvey Pekar
Your Face Here by Ali Catterall & Simon Wells
Humour
Confessions of a Late Night Talk Show Host by Garry Shandling & David Rensin
My Less Than Secret Life by Jonathan Ames
Fibber In The Heat by Miles Jupp
A Year in Cricklewood by Alan Coren
How I Escaped My Certain Fate by Stewart Lee
Over The Limit by Bob Monkhouse
The Chic Murray Story by Andrew Mule
Disgusting Bliss by Lucian Randall
Fiction
My Year Of Rest And Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
The Ballad Of Peckham Rye by Muriel Spark
Another Bullshit Night In Suck City by Nick Flynn
New Grub Street by George Gissing
Bed by David Whitehouse
Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Heather, The Totality by Mathew Weiner
Kill Your Friends by John Niven
Barcelona Plates by Alexei Style
Eleven Kinds of Loneliness by Richard Yates
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
Post Office by Charles Bukowski
Music Memoir
White Bicycles by Joe Boyd
Memoirs of a Geezer by Jah Wobble
Things The Grandchildren Should Know by Mark Oliver Everett
It’s Lovely To Be Here by James Yorkston
Hunger Makes Me A Modern Girl by Carrie Brownstein
Sound Man by Glyn Johns
Unknown Pleasures by Peter Hook
Bad Vibes by Luke Haines
In The All-Night Cafe by Stuart David
Renegade by Mark E Smith
Chronicles by Bob Dylan
24 Hour Party People by Tony Wilson
I’m Not with the Band by Sylvia Patterson
Apathy For The Devil by Nick Kent
A Freewheeling’ Time by Suze Rotolo
Rock Stars Stole My Life by Mark Ellen
Lost In Music by Giles Smith
Mind/Body/Soul
The Power Of Now by Eckhart Tolle
The Obstacle Is The Way by Ryan Holiday
The Untethered Soul by Michael A. Singer
A Field Guide To Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit
Goodbye, Things by Fumio Sasaki
Catching The Big Fish by David Lynch
London
The London Nobody Knows by Geoffrey Fletcher
The London Scene by Virginia Woolf
The London Compendium by Ed Glinert
Soho In The Fifties by Daniel Farson
Walk The Lines by Mark Mason
Underground Overground by Andrew Martin
Paris
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
Paris The Secret History by Andrew Hussey
Paris Views by Gail Albert Halaban
Books, Baguettes & Bedbugs by Jeremy Mercer
In Montmartre by Sue Roe
Autobiography/Life Stories
Frank by Jon Ronson
Lady Sings The Blues by Billie Holiday
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
Leonardo Da Vinci by Walter Isaccson
Confessions Of An English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey
A Sense Of Freedom by Jimmy Boyle
Football
The Football Grounds Of Great Britain by Simin Inglis
Engineering Archie by Simon Inglis
A Season With Verona by Tim Parks
Football days by Peter Robinson
Calcio by John Foot