A History of Capitalism According to the Jubilee Line
10 best books like A History of Capitalism According to the Jubilee Line (John O'Farrell): The Beat Hotel: Ginsberg, Burroughs and Corso in Paris, 1957-1963, Rock Star Superstar, Sailing Close to the Wind: Reminiscences, Marx's General: The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels, Why Are We the Good Guys?: Reclaiming Your Mind from the Delusions of Propaganda, The Benn Diaries, 1940-1990, Chinese Whispers, Underground Overground: A Passenger's History of the Tube, Suede: Love and Poison: The Authorised Biography, Sherlock Holmes: The Definitive Audio Collection
| Author | Barry Miles |
| ISBN | 0802138179 |
The Beat Hotel is a delightful chronicle of a remarkable moment in American literary history. From the Howl obscenity trial to the invention of the cut-up technique, Barry Miles's extraordinary narrative chronicles the feast of ideas that was Paris, where the Beats took awestruck audiences with...
| Author | Blake Nelson |
| ISBN | 0142405744 |
Music is Pete's life. He's happiest when playing his Fender P-Bass. He doesn't care about prestige or getting girls; it's the quality of the music that matters. Then he meets the Carlisle brothers. They can't sing and they can barely play, but somehow they have a following. Pete can't resist, and he joins...
| Author | Dennis Skinner |
| ISBN | 1782061592 |
Dennis Skinner, the famed Beast of Bolsover, is adored by legions of supporters and respected as well as feared by admiring enemies. Fiery and forthright, with a prodigious recall, Skinner is one of the best-known politicians in Britain. He remains as passionate and committed to the causes he champions...
| Author | Tristram Hunt |
| ISBN | 0805080252 |
A remarkable new biography from one of Britain’s leading young historians that recovers the co-founder of communism from the shadows of history
Friedrich Engels is one of the most intriguing and contradictory figures of the nineteenth century. Born to a prosperous Prussian mercantile...
One of the unspoken assumptions of the Western world is that we are great defenders of human rights, a free press and the benefits of market economics. Mistakes might be made along the way, perhaps even tragic errors of judgement such as the 2003 invasion of Iraq. But the prevailing view is that the West...
| Author | Tony Benn |
| ISBN | 0099634112 |
The Benn Diaries, embracing the years 1940-1990, are already established as a uniquely authoritative, fascinating and readable record of political life. The selected highlights that form this single-volume edition include the most notable events, arguments and personal reflections throughout...
| Author | Ben Chu |
| ISBN | 0297868454 |
We think we know China. The world's most venerable and self-confident civilisation, home to the largest unified race of people on the planet, China manufactures the objects that fill our lives. We see a country peopled by docile and determined factory workers, domineering 'Tiger Mothers' obsessed...
| Author | Andrew Martin |
| ISBN | 1846684773 |
An entertaining and enlightening social history of the world's most famous underground railway
Why is the Victoria Line so hot? What is an Electrical Multiple Unit? Is it really possible to ride from Kings Cross to Kings Cross on the Circle line?The London Underground is the oldest, most sprawling...
| Author | David Barnett |
| ISBN | 0233000941 |
When they appeared on the British rock scene in the early 1990s—a bastard fusion of the Smiths and Ziggy Stardust—some called them “The Best New Band in Britain.” At the time, the group—based around flamboyant vocalist Brett Anderson and guitarist Bernard Butler—hadn’t released...
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Ever since he made his first appearance in A Study In Scarlet, Sherlock Holmes has enthralled and delighted millions of fans throughout the world. Now Audible is proud to present Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes: The Definitive Collection, read by Stephen Fry. A lifelong...
| Author | Bill Sullivan |
| ISBN | 1517901693 |
A tour diary of life on the road with one of Minnesota’s greatest bands—with nearly 100 never-before-seen photographs
“Don’t bore us, get to the chorus” is Bill Sullivan’s motto, which will come as no surprise to anyone who opens Lemon Jail. A raucous tour diary of rock ’n’...
| Author | Kenneth Williams |
| ISBN | 0006380905 |
'I'll put you in my diary!' comedian Kenneth Williams was known to threaten on occasion, although tantalisingly he kept the journal to himself during his lifetime.
Here at last, in one spellbinding volume, are four million words of it. For more than forty years, from his sixteenth birthday...
| Author | Brett Anderson |
| ISBN | 1408710501 |
Brett Anderson came from a world impossibly distant from rock star success, and in Coal Black Mornings he traces the journey that took him from a childhood as 'a snotty, sniffy, slightly maudlin sort of boy raised on Salad Cream and milky tea and cheap meat' to becoming founder and lead singer of Suede.
Anderson...
| Author | Len Brown |
| ISBN | 1847723764 |
"Can you squeeze me into an empty page of your diary and psychologically save me? I've got faith in you."
The five stars up top are for Morrissey. Len Brown's Meetings with Morrissey is truly a four that I am calling a five to maybe give it more lustre (like a gold lame shirt) in the great library in...
Dylan Jones's engrossing, magisterial biography of David Bowie is unlike any Bowie story ever written. Drawn from over 180 interviews with friends, rivals, lovers, and collaborators, some of whom have never before spoken about their relationship with Bowie, this oral history weaves a hypnotic...
| Author | Viv Albertine |
| ISBN | 0571326234 |
SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDS 2018
What was I fighting for? Even now I'm not sure. Something so old and so deep, it has no words, no shape, no logic.
Every memoir is a battle between reality and invention - but in her follow up to Clothes, Music, Boys, Viv Albertine...
| Author | Rafael Alvarez |
| ISBN | 0743497325 |
Welcome to the critically acclaimed HBO drama series "The Wire," hailed as "the best show on television, period" by the "San Francisco Chronicle." "The New York Times" calls it "a vital part of the television landscape...unvarnished realism." "Time" declares that "The Wire," "like its underfunded,...
| Author | Edmundo Paz Soldán |
| ISBN | 0618872590 |
The setting: Bolivia in the near future. Miguel “Turing” Saenz, a veteran cryptanalyst, is the most famous code-breaker in the employment of a secret government organization known as the Black Chamber. He is leading the pursuit of the Chamber’s latest target: Kandinsky, a “cyberhacktivist”...
| Author | Ivan Efremov |
| ISBN | 5285002443 |
Космический корабль «Тёмное пламя», построенный с использованием новой технологии сверхсветовых путешествий в Космосе, отправляется к удалённой...
London’s Overthrow is a potent polemic describing the capital in a time of austerity at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Award-winning author and essayist China Miéville cuts through the hyperbole of our politicians to present a view from ordinary London – of the inequality, oppression...
| Author | Susan Sontag |
| ISBN | 0241339707 |
'The ultimate Camp statement: it's good because it's awful.'
These two classic essays were the first works of criticism to break down the boundaries between 'high' and 'low' culture, and made Susan Sontag a literary sensation.
Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering...
| Author | Zakhar Prilepin |
| ISBN | 5911030322 |
Второй роман одного из самых ярких дебютантов 'нулевых' годов, молодого писателя из Нижнего Новгорода, финалиста премии 'Национальный бестселлер'-2005...
Vultures' Picnic: In Pursuit of Petroleum Pigs, Power Pirates, and High-Finance Carnivores
| Author | Greg Palast |
| ISBN | 0525952071 |
The New York Times bestselling author of Armed Madhouse offers a globetrotting, Sam Spade-style investigation that blows the lid off the oil industry, the banking industry, and the governmental agencies that aren't regulating either.
This is the story of the corporate vultures that feed...
Fire and Steam: A New History of the Railways in Britain
| Author | Christian Wolmar |
| ISBN | 1843546299 |
Now in paperback, Fire and Steam tells the dramatic story of the people and events that shaped the world’s first railway network, one of the most impressive engineering achievements in history. The opening of the pioneering Liverpool and Manchester Railway in 1830 marked the beginning of the railways’...
