'Prince', through years of research and interviews with ex-Revolution members such as Wendy and Lisa, is an account of a pop maverick whose experiments with rock, funk, techno and jazz revolutionised pop. With reference to every song, released and unreleased, it will stand for years to come as the go-to book on the pop legend.
'Bright Young Things wanted for Big Project.' They're in the prime of their lives but our bright young things are all burnt out. Six sparky twenty-somethings just out of university and working dead-end jobs, they are all bored to tears with their lives and looking for a way out. When a mysterious job is advertised in the newspaper, they all apply. What they least expect is to find themselves prisoners on a deserted island. There's food in the fridge and they have a bedroom each, but there's no telephone, no television, and no way to escape.
Gerald Wedmore is an anti-hero. At the age of twenty-five, he's all washed up - his sex life is non-existent and his career as a TEFL teacher isn't going anywhere. On top of that, he has developed a series of platonic friendships with women that threaten to cast him into early middle age. But Gerald is no ordinary, anxious twenty-something. As a teenager, his face was known to millions and the intimacies of his life were shared with a hungry audience as he fumbled his way through adolescence. For Gerald was the star of a reality TV show - ALL RIGHT NOW! From child celebrity and recording angel to TEFL teacher - where did he go wrong? It's time to grow up, find a girl, change his sheets and get a life...
'All Hail, the New Puritans' is the collection of new stories from the most exciting young novelists today. Inspired by the Dogme 95 group of film makers, the New Puritans are attempting to rediscover fiction as a discipline rather than a category. 1. Primarily storytellers, we are dedicated to the narrative form. 2. We are prose writers and recognise that prose is the dominant form of expression. For this reason we shun poetry and poetic licence in all its forms. 3. While acknowledging the value of genre fiction, whether classical or modern, we will always move towards new openings, rupturing existing genre expectations. 4. We believe in textual simplicity and vow to avoid all devices of rhetoric, authorial asides. 5. In the name of clarity, we recognise the importance of temporal linearity and eschew flashbacks, dual temporal narratives and foreshadowing. 6. We believe in grammatical purity and avoid any elaborate punctuation. 7. We recognise that published works are also historical documents. As fragments of our time, all our texts are dated and set in the present day. All products, places, artists and objects named are real. 8. As faithful representation of the present, our texts will avoid all improbable or unknowable speculations on the past or the future. 9. We are moralists, so all text feature a recognisable ethical reality. 10. Nevertheless, our aim is integrity of expression, above and beyond any commitment to form.
" Je détestais le collège. Mais pas toujours. J'étais un garçon populaire. J'excellais dans tous les trucs qui comptaient : les fringues, les exams, le sport, l'humour. Et je prenais du plaisir à tout ça. Comme si la vie se limitait à ça. Mais quelque chose s'est produit quand j'ai eu seize ans. Et avant que je pige quoi que ce soit, j'ai su que j'éprouvais un intense ressentiment envers mes amis. Pas tellement à cause de ce qu'ils étaient mais à cause de ce qu'ils représentaient. D'où ils venaient. D'où nous venions tous. L'extrémité la plus aisée de Vancouver. " Confession d'un adolescent " petit-bourgeois " de seize ans, sous forme de scénario, " la forme contemporaine par excellence " selon Michael Turner, Le Poème pornographe offre une réflexion fine et pertinente sur la pornographie comme moyen de libération ou... arme de répression. Un roman d'apprentissage caustique, iconoclaste et drôle.