Bedsit Disco Queen: How I Grew Up and Tried to Be a Pop Star

7 best books like Bedsit Disco Queen: How I Grew Up and Tried to Be a Pop Star (Tracey Thorn): Girl, Woman, Other, Clapton: The Autobiography, Coal Black Mornings, To Throw Away Unopened, Going to Sea in a Sieve, The Haçienda: How Not to Run a Club, Constellations

Girl, Woman, Other

Author	Bernardine Evaristo
ISBN	0241364906

Joint Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2019

Teeming with life and crackling with energy - a love song to modern Britain and black womanhood

Girl, Woman, Other follows the lives and struggles of twelve very different characters. Mostly women, black and British, they tell the stories...

Clapton: The Autobiography

Author

Eric Clapton

I found a pattern in my behavior that had been repeating itself for years, decades even. Bad choices were my specialty, and if something honest and decent came along, I would shun it or run the other way.”

With striking intimacy and candor, Eric Clapton tells the story of his eventful and inspiring...

Coal Black Mornings

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...

To Throw Away Unopened

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...

Going to Sea in a Sieve

Author	Danny Baker
ISBN	0297863401

Danny Baker was born in Deptford, South East London in June 1957, and from an early age was involved in magazine journalism, with the founding of fanzine Sniffin' Glue alongside friend Mark Perry. From there he moved to documentary series for LWT and over the years worked on a variety of quiz shows (Win,...

The Haçienda: How Not to Run a Club

Author	Peter Hook
ISBN	1847371353

The Legendary musician and cofounder of Joy Division and New Order tells the whole story—the fun, the music, the vast loss of money, the legacy—of Manchester's most iconic nightclub
 
Peter Hook has been shaping the course of popular music for 30 years. He provided the propulsive...

Constellations

Author	Sinéad Gleeson
ISBN	1509892753

I have come to think of all the metal in my body as artificial stars, glistening beneath the skin, a constellation of old and new metal. A map, a tracing of connections and a guide to looking at things from different angles.

How do you tell the story of life that is no one thing? How do you tell the story...