Book: Just A Shot Away: 1969 Revisited Part Two Author: Kris Needs Publisher: New Haven Just A Shot Away is a teenage memoir written by renowned music journalist Kris Needs and covers the year 1969, split into two separate books, covering January to June and July to December. Into Creative reviewed Part One here and we followed […]
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Book: The Light Acknowledgers & Other Poems Author: Gerry Cambridge Publisher: Happenstance Press The Light Acknowledgers owes its existence to two good and faithful servants of poetry: principally its author, Gerry Cambridge, but also the Fife-based publisher, Helena Nelson. Cambridge is the founder and co-editor of the transatlantic poetry magazine The Dark Horse, while Nelson
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Tony Beesley is an established author who has written and published a number of books via his own independent book company Days Like Tomorrow, which he has run with his wife, Vanessa since 2009. Into Creative recently reviewed Ignore Alien Orders – On Parole With The Clash which Tony co-authored (see review here). An avid
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Book: Watch Him Die Author: Craig Robertson Publisher: Simon and Schuster Watch Him Die is the latest chapter in Craig Robertson’s popular series of thrillers featuring Glasgow-based detective, Rachel Narey and right from the get go, it grabs one’s attention, rarely relinquishing its grip. A chance but grim discovery of a decomposing body sets the
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…………………………………………………………………… EVERYBODY WANTS TO RULE THE WORLDThe true story of the greatest band you’ve never heard …………………………………………………………………… Chapter 12 – The Wrath of Grapes To paraphrase Cole Porter, I love Glasgow in the springtime. Especially when it has that ‘summer’s come early’ sizzle. When I say ‘sizzle’ though, it wasn’t quite a ‘Tap’s Aff’
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Book: A Marvelous Life – The Amazing Story of Stan Lee Author: Danny Fingeroth Publisher: Simon & Schuster People might know ten film directors or novelists. Maybe even ten painters. But comic book creators? One: Stan Lee Since the 1960’s, few artists have bestrode pop culture like the ever smiling, omnipresent figurehead of the Marvel
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Book: Funtime Author: William Ritchie Publisher: Amazon Ian Dury once sang about Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll. In his debut novel, William Ritchie has not only covered these topics but has gone quite a bit further by incorporating gangsters, hookers, murder and a lot more besides. The book is set in London and told from
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Book: Shane MacGowan: Threescore Author: Andrew Catlin Publisher: www.andrewcatlin.com I’m a huge fan of The Pogues and The Popes, two of the bands Shane MacGowan has been the enigmatic front man for. This book by photographer Andrew Catlin documents forty years of MacGowan’s career with sixty portraits, along with quotes and lyrics. The portraits are simply fantastic,
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Book: Just A Shot Away: 1969 Revisited Part One Author: Kris Needs Publisher: New Haven Music journalist Kris Needs has written for pretty much any music magazine worth its salt for the past 40 plus years. His latest book, Just A Shot Away covers the first half of 1969 through the lens of his 14-year old self,
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Over at Into Creative towers our writers have been swotting up and reading through a plethora of reading material during the lockdown period. We told you about the excellent The Strange Book of Jacob Boyce – here and the thought-provoking Zoospeak – here. But listen up, as Jimmy Cricket once said (well, actually he said
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