Will America Change? - By Ziauddin Sardar & Merryl Wyn Davies  -Icon Books  (2008)

Song & Dance - By John Fuller  - Chatto & Windus  (2008)

Shakespeare On Toast - Getting A Taste For The Bard - By Ben Crystal  - Icon Books (2008)

Isreal, Palestine and Terror - Edited by Stephen Law - Continuum (2008)

John Lennon - The Life - By Philip Norman  - Harper Collins (2008)

Ghettostadt - Lodz And The Making Of  A Nazi City - By Gordon J. Horwitz  - Belknap Press/Harvard University Press (2008)

Camus at Combat – Writing 1944-1947 - Edited by Jacqueline Lévi-Valensi, Princeton University Press (2006)

Dream Boogie - The Triumph of Sam Cooke - By Peter Guralnick, Little, Brown  (2006)

The Politics Of Good Intentions -  
History, Fear and Hypocrisy in the New World Order - by David Runciman, Princeton University Press (2006)

Punk Rock - An Oral History  - by John Robb, Ebury Press (2006)

Suite Française - By Irène Némirovsky - Chatto & Windus  (2006)

A Man Without A Country  (A Memoir of Life in George W. Bush’s America)
By Kurt Vonnegut,  Bloomsbury (2006)

Last Of The Rock Romantics – Pete Doherty  - By Alex Hannaford,  Ebury Press

Moscow 1941 – A City And Its People At War - By Rodric Braithwaite - Profile Books (2006)

Tourism - By Nirpal Singh Dhaliwal - Vintage Books (2006)

The Modfather – My Life With Paul Weller - By David Lines - William Heinemann/Random House (2006)

How Bush Rules – Chronicles Of A Radical Regime - By Sidney Blumenthal - Princeton University Press (2006)

The Beatles - By Bob Spitz - Aurum Press  (2006)

Redemption Song -  The Definitive Biography of Joe Strummer - By Chris Salewicz - Harper Collins (2006)

Hello - By Leslie Phillips - Orion Books (2006)

The Sound of Laughter  - The Autobiography of Peter Kay - By Peter Kay - Century

Imagine This – Growing Up With My Brother John Lennon - By Julia Baird - Hodder & Stoughton  (2007)

Essential Questions To Ask  When Buying A House In France - By  Mark Sampson - Summersdale (2007)

Black Knight - Ritchie Blackmore - By Jerry Bloom - Omnibus Press  (2007)

Who Are You – The Life Of Pete Townshend - By Mark Wilkerson - Omnibus Press (2008)

The New Rome – The Fall Of An Empire  And The Fate Of America - By Cullen Murphy - Icon Books (2008)

The Mighty Wurlitzer – How The CIA Played America - By Hugh Wilford - Harvard University Press (2008)

The Word Of The Lord Is Upon Me - The Righteous Performance of Martin Luther King
By Jonathan Rieder - Belknap Press of Harvard University Press

Meetings with Morrissey - By  Len Brown  - Omnibus Press

Shout To The Top The Jam and Paul Weller - By Dennis Munday - Omnibus Press (2008)

Normandy – The Landings to the Liberation of Paris - By Olivier Wieviorka - Translated by M. B. DeBevoise
Belknapp Press/Harvard University Press (2008)

The Guerrilla Wars of Central America – by Saul Landau (1994)

Culture and Imperialism – by Edward W. Said (1994)

Turmoil and Triumph: My Years as Secretary of State  -  by George P. Shultz (1993)

The Downing Street Years - by Margaret Thatcher (1993)

Not Fade Away – The Life and Music of Buddy Holly  - By John Gribbin - Icon Books (2009)

Forty-fied – How to be a Fortysomething - By Malcolm Burgess - Icon Books (2009)

Putin and the Rise of Russia - By Michael Stuermer - Weidenfeld & Nicolson/Orion Publishing

No More Heroes - Alex Ogg - Cherry Red Books (2006)
Not a review but the press release for No More Heroes by Alex Ogg, a book about the unsung hero’s of punk, I was invited to write one of the forwards for this excellent book.

The Science of Culture  in Enlightenment Germany - By Michael C. Carhart - Harvard University Press (2009)

Behind Closed Doors - Stalin, The Nazis and The West - By Laurence Rees - BBC Books/Ebury Publishing (2009)

Friendship, Love, and  Trust in Renaissance Florence - By Dale Kent - Harvard University Press (2009)

Lowside Of The Road  - A Life Of Tom Waits - By  Barney Hoskyns Faber & Faber  (2009)

Punk Fiction – An Anthology of Short Stories Inspired by Punk - Edited by Janine Bullman
Foreword by Johnny Marr - Portico/Anova Books (2009)

Guernica - By Dave Boling - Picador (2009)

Weimar Germany - Promise and Tragedy - By Eric D. Weitz  - Princeton University Press (2009)

Marching To the Fault Line - The 1984 Miners’ Strike and the Death of Industrial Britain
By Francis Beckett and David Hencke - Constable (2009)

Pies and Prejudice – In Search of the North  - By Stuart Maconie - Ebury Press (2009)

Grand Designs Handbook - By Kevin McCloud - Collins (2009)

The Consolation of Philosophy - By Boethius - Translated by David R. Slavitt - Harvard University Press (2009)

Michael Donaghy – Collected Poems - With an Introduction by Sean O’Brien - Picador Poetry (2009)

The Cambridge Companion To George Orwell - Edited by John Rodden - Cambridge University Press  (2009)

Adventures On The High Teas - By Stuart Maconie - Ebury Press (2009)

Violence - By Slavoj Zizek - Profile Books (2009)

Liberation – The Bitter Road To Freedom,   Europe 1944-1945 - By William I. Hitchcock - Faber & Faber (2009)

Revolution in the Air, The Songs of Bob Dylan Vol. 1: 1957-73 - By Clinton Heylin - Constable (2009)

The Death Of Bunny Munro - By Nick Cave - Canongate Books (2009)

Love Lessons - Selected Poems of Alda Merini - Translated by Susan Stewart - Princeton University Press (2009)

The Nazis - A Warning From History - By Laurence Rees - BBC Books/Ebury Publishing (2009)

Photograph courtesy of Pablo Funky

Book Reviews

By David Marx

The Wrong Outfit by Al Gregg, I was invited to write the forward to this book, awaiting publication.