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This is the memoir music fans have been waiting for. Half of one of the greatest creative partnerships in popular music, Bernie Taupin is the man who wrote the lyrics for Elton John, who conceived the ideas that spawned countless hits, and sold millions and millions of records. Together, they were a duo, a unit, an immovable object. Their extraordinary, half-century-and-counting creative relationship has been chronicled in biopics (like 2019's Rocketman) and even Elton John's own autobiography, Me. But Bernie, a famously private person, has kept his own account of their adventures close to his chest, until now. In this exciting, multi-decade whirlwind, we ride shotgun with Bernie on his extraordinary life. We discover early '70s New York with Elton on the cusp of global fame. We spend late night hours with John Lennon, with Bob Marley, and hanging with Frank Sinatra in LA. We witness memorable encounters with Graham Greene, Salvador Dali', Andy Warhol and scores of notable misfits, miscreants, eccentrics, and geniuses, some of whom inspire the indelible lyrics to songs such as Tiny Dancer, Candle in the Wind, Bennie and The Jets, and so many more. Written with honesty and candour, Scattershot bears witness to events unfolding from Taupin's singular perspective, always with an infectious energy that only a songwriter's vivid prose could offer - his imagination sparked by country music and cowboy culture. From his East Midlands childhood and early London days with Elton to the star-studded fishbowl of '70s and '80s Beverly Hills, it is an epic, picaresque journey across a landscape of unforgettable characters and locations, as well as a striking, first-hand account of a creative era like no other.

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'<b>Unstoppable </b>. . . The <b>impeccable </b>timing captures the banalities of Clay's life in a way that both <b>disgusts me</b> and <b>breaks my heart</b>' - Ottessa Moshfegh, author of <i>My Year of Rest and Relaxation</i> and <i>Lapvona</i><br/><br/><b>In 1985, Bret Easton Ellis shocked, stunned and disturbed the world with his debut novel, <i>Less Than Zero</i>. This 40th anniversary edition of the cult classic novel contains an introduction by Rachel Kushner, the Booker Prize-nominated author of <i>Creation Lake</i> and <i>The Mars Room.</i></b><br/><br/>Eighteen-year-old Clay has come home to Los Angeles for Christmas break after his first term at college. Clay is three things: rich, bored, and looking to get high. Reacquainting himself with a world of privilege and limitless indulgence, Clay steps back into the hedonism and moral depravity of his life in Los Angeles. With its relentless scenes of grotesque brutality, <i>Less Than Zero</i> is an unflinching portrait of a lost generation in revolt.<br/><br/><b>Published when he was just twenty-one, <i>Less Than Zero</i> held up an excoriating mirror up to the culture of excess and vapidity of 1908s Los Angeles and made Bret Easton Ellis an instant literary sensation.<br/><br/>'</b>The simplicity of the prose, the precision of his imagery, and the atmosphere of menace and cultural oblivion are<b> invigorating . . . one of the most telling and striking chroniclers of the void beneath our consumerist society' </b>- <i>The</i> <i>Guardian</i><br/><br/>'<b>Deadly serious social satires</b> masquerading as generic pulp workouts . . . <b>artifacts that can rearrange your chemistry</b> and <b>make you see the world anew</b>' - <i>Esquire</i><br/><br/><b>'</b>An extremely traditional and very serious American novelist<b>. He is the model of literary filial piety, </b>counting among his parents <b>Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nathanael West, and Joan Didion' </b>- <i>The</i> <i>Washington Post</i>

Find out all about the Swedish band ABBA-from winning the Eurovision Song Contest, to their rise to global stardom with unforgettable songs like "Dancing Queen" and "Mamma Mia," and their lasting influence on pop music.

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In Lewis Carroll's <i>Alice's Adventures in Wonderland</i> [1865], young Alice falls down a rabbit hole into an underground fantasy world inhabited by unforgettable, anthropomorphic characters: the White Rabbit, the hookah-smoking Caterpillar, the Mad Hatter, the grinning Cheshire Cat, the pompous Queen of Hearts. With great inventiveness, Carroll plays clever and joyful games with the logic and vibrant characters of his story, making it one of the most essential, beloved and influential works of English literature. <br/>This edition of <i>Alice's Adventures in Wonderland</i> also includes its equally imaginative sequel,<i> Through the Looking-Glass</i> [1872]. Both works feature the original illustrations by John Tenniel.<br/><br/>LEWIS CARROLL, the pseudonym for Charles Lutwidge Dodgson - born in 1832 in Daresbury, Cheshire, and died in 1898 in Guildford, Surrey - was a British author, mathematician, and logician.

'Strikingly original, utterly absorbing' Julia Boyd, author of Travellers in the Third Reich A Financial Times 'Book to Read in 2023' 1930s Europe - as the Roaring Twenties wind down and the world rumbles towards war, the great minds of the time have other concerns. Jean-Paul Sartre waits anxiously in a Parisian cafe for his first date with no-show Simone de Beauvoir. Marlene Dietrich slips from her loveless marriage into the dive bars of Berlin. Father and son Thomas and Klaus Mann clash over each other's homosexuality. And Vladimir Nabokov lovingly places a fresh-caught butterfly at the end of Vera's bed. Little do they all know, the book burning will soon begin. Love in a Time of Hate skilfully interweaves some of the greatest love stories of the 1930s with the darkening backdrop of fascism in Europe, in an irresistible journey into the past that brings history and its actors to vivid life.