From the mud and thunder of early festivals to Live Aid and Rihanna, music journalist Mark Ellen was usually in the right place at the right timeMark Ellen surveys the happy youngsters comfortably cavorting at Glastonbury, marvelling at Primal Scream beneath a harvest moon. “You bastards,” moans the music journalist and editor, recalling his nascent festival experiences in the early 1970s, of trench foot, scurvy and Van der Graaf Generator. “You don’t know how lucky you are.”Still, there’s a misty-eyed reverence for the past in Ellen’s entertaining memoir of five decades surrounded by music – which is to be expected. This, after all, is the man who launched Mojo magazine after realising there was a potential readership who liked music that was “magical and built to last”. For Ellen, the magic began with the discovery of the Beatles and the Kinks, Small Faces and Chicken Shack. Like a character from Jonathan Coe’s novel The Rotters’ Club, his comfortable 60s and 70s adolescence discussing the meaning of prog is ditched for a squat in Battersea, where he begins to pen florid gig reviews for Record Mirror and NME. Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
[ The Guardian | 2015-03-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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If waterproof is high on your checklist of e-reader must-haves, we recommend that most people consider the Kobo Aura H20. It’s a capable ebook reader designed to stand up to the occasional poolside splash or even an extended soak in a hot tub. For anyone already invested in Amazon’s extensive... Continue reading at PC World
[ PC World | 2017-05-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Q&A with EVP, Publisher Amie Deutch and Editorial Director Ethan Trex. The post Life After Print for Mental Floss appeared first on Folio:. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2017-04-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Matt Cain, novelist and editor-in-chief of Attitude, asks where the publisher-led LGBT+ initiatives are? Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-04-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Barcelona-based literary and film agency is celebrating its anniversary on April 23, during the Spanish city's annual literary celebration, Dia Sant Jordi. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-04-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Quercus is publishing a new small-format "how to" series of books to help readers learn new skills for a more fun-filled and enriching life, called Little Ways to Live a Big Life. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-04-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Microsoft’s Windows 10 Mobile Creators Update rides the coattails of the desktop OS, heavily leaning on improvements in Cortana and Edge to nudge Microsoft’s nearly comatose mobile platform further ahead.As the free upgrade rolls out Tuesday, our review of the Creators Update can't help but... Continue reading at PC World
[ PC World | 2017-04-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Jessica Kingsley is to publish a "very timely" book exploring the need for moral courage in public life this summer. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-04-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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What the critics thought of Howard Jacobson’s Pussy, Lisa McInerney’s The Blood Miracles and Bill Hayes’s Insomniac CityTwo eagerly anticipated and very different novels divided critics this month. Howard Jacobson’s Pussy was written in two months in “a fury of disbelief” after Donald Trump’s US... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2017-04-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Weidenfeld and Nicolson has acquired a memoir, Out of the Woods, by Luke Turner to publish in 2019. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-04-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Fantasy writer China Miéville's 2009-published noir thriller The City & The City (Macmillan) is being adapted for a four-part BBC Two drama starring David Morrissey as Inspector Tyador Borlú. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-04-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Minneapolis magazine can be found as both a newspaper insert and on newsstands. The post Star Tribune Launches Quarterly Print Magazine appeared first on Folio:. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2017-04-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Matt Forbeck’s Star Wars: Rogue One (Egmont) has knocked Lee Child’s Night School (Bantam) off the UK Official Top 50 number one spot, shifting a stellar 57,949 copies according to Nielsen BookScan’s Total Consumer Market. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-04-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Publisher SAGE has extended its partnership with online platform Publons, following a successful trial. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-04-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Snooker player John Virgo of BBC "Big Break" fame is publishing his memoir with John Blake Publishing. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-04-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo earned $783,000 for his memoir, which has sold only 3,200 copies since it was published 2½ years ago, the Buffalo News reports. Cuomo's “All Things Possible: Setbacks and Success in Politics and Life” was published by the Harper Collins imprint Harper in October 2014.... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2017-04-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Simon & Schuster US will publish seven-year old Syrian refugee Bana Alabed’s memoir. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-04-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Star Wars, Harry Potter or indeed the almost century-old comic book legends Batman and Superman may have sprung from a rich creative well, but in a stunning twist all of them have been banished to the box office naughty step. Continue reading at Stuff
[ Stuff | 2017-04-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A Northern California Chick-fil-A franchise is waiting for its cows to come home after thieves absconded with three mascot costumes from a storage shed earlier this week. The shop Tuesday posted news on Facebook of the Sunday night theft from a store in the city of Folsom. The post pleaded with... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2017-04-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Dear World, which will recount the young Twitter activist’s experience of war and flight from her war-torn home, is scheduled for autumn releaseA seven-year-old Syrian refugee whose tweets from war-torn Aleppo won her a global following is set to write a book. Bana al-Abed’s Dear World will... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2017-04-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Bookseller is issuing a call for entries to its Rising Stars, the annual celebration of the industry’s up and comers, once again backed by the Frankfurt Book Fair (FBF). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-04-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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