Music

Founding member and guitarist of Joy Division and the lead singer of New Order, Bernard Sumner has been famous over the years for his reticence.

Meet Phil Collen.

At college in 1980s Luton, Robbie Goulding, an Irish-born teenager, meets the elusive Fran Mulvey, an orphaned Vietnamese refugee.

This is the remarkable, and sometimes shocking, life story of one of the most famous faces of British television.

The life of blues legend Robert Johnson becomes the centerpiece for this innovative look at what many consider to be America's deepest and most influential music genre.

The man known simply as 'Enge' by his millions of fans worldwide has sold over 150 million records and is in the Guinness Book of Records for achieving 56 consecutive weeks in the chart with 'Release Me'.

For seventy years now Desert Island Discs has managed that rare feat to be both enduring and relevant.

My book of the year.

The definitive account of the radical feminist punks and their music: "e;Exhilarating.

In Halfway Home, Ronan Tynan, a member of the enormously popular Irish Tenors, shares his moving life story - a story Barbara Walters calls 'so amazing you may find it hard to believe' - of overcoming adversity and attaining worldwide success in several different fields.

'I immersed myself in magic.

In the late nineties, Wales (is) the centre for guitar bands in the UK so says John Robb in THE NINETIES and with bands as strikingly fresh and individual as Catatonia Welsh denomination looks assured.

For more than twenty-five years Frank Muir, in partnership with Denis Norden, produced some of the most sparkling and original comedy ever written for radio and television.

Miles Davis was one of the crucial influences in the development of modern jazz.

**WINNER OF THE NME BEST BOOK AWARD**'This book is going to try and get as close as possible to the full story of what informed the noise of The Streets.

Thirty years after she first heard his voice singing to her from a jukebox at her local drive-in, Barbara began her love affair with Frank Sinatra.

Shaun Ryder has lived a life of glorious highs and desolate lows.

Grammy winner Pat Benatar recounts her career as a rock icon and "e;tells her story with heartfelt honesty"e; in this New York Times-bestselling memoir (Deseret News).

Neil Young is one of rock and roll's most important, influential and enigmatic figures, an intensely reticent artist who has granted no writer access to his inner sanctum - until now.

Through a long and chequered career, Mick Farren has functioned as a writer, poet, rock star, recording artist, rabble-rouser, critic and commentator, and even won a protracted obscenity trial at the Old Bailey.

Two years ago Bernie Nolan was given the initial all-clear after a courageous battle with breast cancer.

DAVE MATTHEWS BAND has one of the largest and most loyal followings of any band todayafter twenty years of constant touring and several acclaimed, multiplatinum albums, the members enjoy a connection with their fans that few other acts can match.

IN 2008, as he attempted to enter Canada to film a television series, Harry Hamlinthe former star of L.

For twenty years, Ellen Greene kept a running list of the thoughtful, funny, touching things that her husband, Marsh, said and did.

John, Paul, George and Ringo still rule!

Marcia!

Journalist Tyler Gray's The Hit Charade is the true story of boy band manager Lou Pearlman's epic rise and fall.

From Reggie Fieldy Arvizu, legendary bassist of nu-metal pioneers KORN, comes Got the Life: a no-holds-barred look at his extreme highs, drug- and-booze-fueled lows, and, finally, redemption through a conversion to Christianity.

The definitive oral history of the seminal rock concert, Woodstockthree days of peace and music and one of the most defining moments of the 1960swith original interviews with Roger Daltrey, Joan Baez, David Crosby, Richie Havens, Joe Cocker, and dozens of headliners, organizers, and fans.

Joni Mitchell is one of the most celebrated artists of the last half century, and her landmark 1971 album, Blue, is one of her most beloved and revered works.

"e;A harrowing story of addiction and mental illness"e; from the ex-wife of Scott Weiland and mother of his children.

The mother of rap superstar Kanye West shares her experiences on being a single mother raising a celebrity.

A fascinating, lyrical memoir about one woman's obsessive search for the perfect piano-and about finding and pursuing passion at any age How can a particular piano be so seductive that someone would turn her life upside down to answer its call?

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA Times, Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail, Radio Times, Daily Herald and FT Book of the Year'I was born with a warped sense of humour and when I was carried home from being born it was Coronation Day and so I was called Victoria but you are not supposed to know who wrote this anyway it is about time I unleashed my pent-up emotions in a bitter comment on the state of our society but it's not quite me so I think I shall write a heart-warming story with laughter behind the tears and tears behind the laughter which means hysterics to you Philistines.

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA BOOK OF THE YEAR PICK IN THE TIMES: 'Captivating'A ROUGH TRADE BOOK OF THE YEAR: 'In-depth and inspiring'Beautifully compiled .

In his groundbreaking book, The Mozart Effect, Don Campbell revealed the enormous healing powers of classical music.

In this moving memoir, Robert J.

One Day: Saturday 13 July 1985, nearly two billion people woke up with one purpose.

These are the songs that we have listened to, laughed to, loved to and laboured to, as well as downed tools and danced to.

With his infectious energy and charisma, Gok Wan has an incredible gift of making women feel more confident within themselves - but it's not until you read his own inspirational story that you find out where he got that gift from.

Watching her child die is the hardest thing a mother can ever do.

In the crazed aftermath of the late '80s northern pop explosion there have been few survivors.

'To see The Clash on the White Riot tour was like discovering how to be a rock star: you just did it yourself.

'Sedaris is the premier observer of our world and its weirdnesses'ADAM KAY'Funnier and more heartbreaking than pretty much anything out there' HADLEY FREEMAN, GUARDIAN'The brilliance of David Sedaris' writing is that his very essence, his aura, seeps through the pages of his books like an intoxication cloud'ALAN CUMMING, NEW YORK TIMES'The funniest writer alive today' JONATHAN ROSS'An incredibly funny and sometimes moving meditation on love, death and family life' SUNDAY TIMESWhen he buys a beach house on the Carolina coast, Sedaris envisions long, relaxing vacations spent playing board games and lounging in the sun with those he loves most.

The definitive account of the most famous music festival of all time: Woodstock.

It took ten years in the coal mines for Mitchell Burns to realise that no pay cheque is worth sacrificing your dreams.

How has Gay Talese found his subjects?

The only book Michael Jackson ever wrote about his lifeIt chronicles his humble beginnings in the Midwest, his early days with the Jackson 5, and his unprecedented solo success.

'So bold and so vulnerable at the same time.

THE NO.