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A celebration of the beauty and mysteries of the British pub, and how it changes through seasons, by award-winning beer writer Adrian Tierney-Jones.There is that sun-stroked moment in late May when a glass of golden beer on a newly shorn lawn at the back of a corner pub, its tunefully tropical fruit aromatics racing out of the glass like greyhounds from the traps, can soften the memory of a hard day at work or issue a free pass for the weekend's reward. Later in the year, autumn reaches out to us as shadows lengthen and fires are lit and the dance of time continues unabated as we move indoors, our hands clasping glasses of amber-hued ale

An irreverent, funny and candid memoir about growing up Welsh, working-class, queer and fat

Available in this new hardback edition for the first time in decades, Sweet Soul Music was hailed by Newsweek on publication as 'a stunning chronicle.... a panoramic survey of a lost world [and] one of the best books ever written on American popular music'.Since then it has acquired the status of a classic. Pitchfork included it among its '50 Favourite Music Books of All Time,' the Daily Beast placed it on their 'Essential Civil Rights Reading List,' David Bowie named it one of his '100 Must-Read books', while noted author Ta Nehisi Coates, whose work chronicles the contemporary racial divide, called it 'one of the ten books I couldn't live without.'A gripping narrative that captures the tumult and sweep of a music that will forever be linked to the Civil Rights Movement which inspired it, (think of Sam Cooke's 'A Change Is Gonna Come') Sweet Soul Music provides intimate portraits of performers like Cooke, Ray Charles, James Brown, Solomon Burke, Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding, and Al Green among others, whose passionate gospel-based music embodied the liberating energy of a nation in transition. Through rare interviews, Peter Guralnick tells the definitive story of the music and the musicians, bringing to it the same empathy and insight that has informed all of his other work.As Roddy Doyle writes in his introduction to this new edition: 'Sweet Soul Music delivers all that we love to read in a great, sprawling novel, and still manages to be richly informative, historically and musically precise; it's a work of high scholarship written by a born storyteller.'

A special hardback edition of Octavia E. Butler's extraordinarily prescient novel, with new cover artwork by Monet Alyssa.

A special hardback edition of Octavia E. Butler's bestselling novel, with new cover artwork by Monet Alyssa.

The heart warming, remarkable true story of the quizmaster Jay Flynn whose Virtual Pub Quiz became an online sensation during Covid - a story that shows that answers to your life can come from the most unexpected places