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NOTICE (in red letters) All recorded music has run its course. It has all been consumed, traded, downloaded, understood, heard before, sampled, learned, revived, judged and found wanting. Dispense with all previous forms of Music & Music-making and start again. Year Zero now. The17 is...

Another installment in his 'Grace' crime series - always written in such a way as a recap for established readers equally gives new readers background into the characters and location familar to us locals as Brighton. Throughout the weaving of the many plot threads you feel very much part of the...

Throughly researched, documenting an infant's murder in 1860. It portrays a time when growth of interest in crime and detection was like the celebrity 'heat' culture of today with national and regional coverage of the crime inspiring the birth of the amateur detective with many readers writing to...

Throughly researched, documenting an infant's murder in 1860. It portrays a time when growth of interest in crime and detection was like the celebrity 'heat' culture of today with national and regional coverage of the crime inspiring the birth of the amateur detective with many readers writing to...

The Avengers meet Sherlock Holmes! It may have been too many late nights watching reruns on BBC4 but I certainly can see similarities in the characterisations in this hybrid Victorian London fantasy world populated by bizarre glowing policeman, terrifying infected 'Zombie' plagues and magnificent...

The Avengers meet Sherlock Holmes! It may have been too many late nights watching reruns on BBC4 but I certainly can see similarities in the characterisations in this hybrid Victorian London fantasy world populated by bizarre glowing policeman, terrifying infected 'Zombie' plagues and magnificent...

Long live the cassette! Thats the general idea of this book edited by Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore who says in the introduction.."These new Walkman players were all about.... bopping around the city listening to tunes. I suppose the record industry expected the consumer to buy cassettes of the...

The ultimate in " I wish I'd thought of that!' As a bookseller without the prospect of ever becoming a first time buyer, this is an enjoyable yet envious read.* Although I heard the outcome of this story in the media months before the publication, it's the journey as a whole that counts. An...

The 'Lord of Suspence' is back! Two men in the wrong place and time, one ends up serving a life sentence for muder, the other becomes chief witness for the prosecution. And that's just the beginning of the rollercoaster of a read. Don't be daunted by its size, You'll want to race through to...

The ultimate in " I wish I'd thought of that!' As a bookseller without the prospect of ever becoming a first time buyer, this is an enjoyable yet envious read.* Although I heard the outcome of this story in the media months before the publication, it's the journey as a whole that counts. An...

A well constructed chronological gem! What I've learned:- The first computer program was written in 1843 by a woman! Plastics and Vitamins are a century old! Fizzy water was developed in 1767! Pluto is no longer a planet! Sudoku first appeared in america NOT Japan but its rules date back to...

"I'm Michael Recycle for all that I'm worth I'm green and I'm keen to save planet Earth!" A fun picture book in which you meet a new breed of superhero teaching the villagers not being lazy makes a difference and the place won't clean itself it needs help.