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  • London Calling New York New York

    Frank Sinatra cut his version of "New York, New York" within weeks of the Clash recording "London Calling" in 1979. That nearly simultaneous expression of optimistic striving and dystopic modernity is the jumping-off point for London Calling New York New York, a tale of two cities and two songs that came to exemplify them.Peter Silverton, the veteran English author and journalist who died in 2023, ... Read more

    $8.95 USD

  • Filthy English: The How, Why, When And What Of Everyday Swearing

    The How, Why, When And What Of Everyday Swearing

    When the Sex Pistols swore live on tea-time telly in 1976, there was outrage across Britain. Headlines screamed. Christians marched. TVs were kicked in. Thirty years on, all those words are media-mainstream - bandied about with impunity on TV and in the papers. This is the story of our bad language and its three-decade journey from the fringes of decency to the working centre of a more ... Read more

    $14.59 USD

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  • Better Than Before

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  • The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden

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    A picaresque novel of how one person's actions can have far-reaching—even global—consequences, from a #1 international bestselling author."A funny and completely implausible farce about a woman, a bomb and a man's frustrated ambition to overthrow the king of Sweden. . . . The rest of the world will chuckle all the way through it." — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)In a tiny shack in the largest ... Read more

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  • The Narrow Road to the Deep North

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  • Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink

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  • Electric Don Quixote: The Definitive Story Of Frank Zappa

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