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A band of misfit musicians in late-1960s London chases fame through psychedelia, protest, and the collision of art and commerce.
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Daisy Jones & The Six
A 1970s rock band's meteoric rise and implosion, told through oral-history interviews that reveal the love triangle at its centre.
A Visit from the Goon Squad
A novel in linked chapters that leaps through decades and forms, one of them a PowerPoint presentation, following a record executive, his kleptomaniac assistant and the people around them as time changes everything.
The Ground Beneath Her Feet
A rock star and a photographer fall in love against a backdrop of earthquakes, Orphic myth, and the collision of Eastern and Western music.
Life
Keith Richards tells the story of the Rolling Stones with the same raw energy he brought to the guitar.
Swing Time
Two mixed-race girls from a London housing estate who meet at a dance class take different paths, one a talented dancer, the other an assistant to a global pop star, in a novel about race, talent and envy.
2 A.M. at The Cat's Pajamas
Over one day and night before Christmas Eve in Philadelphia, a foul-mouthed nine-year-old aspiring jazz singer, her lonely teacher and the owner of a failing jazz club all find their way to The Cat's Pajamas.
Still Life
In the summer of 1944, among the ruins of Tuscany, Ulysses Temper, a young British soldier, meets Evelyn Skinner, an English art historian in her sixties who has come to rescue paintings, and the meeting shapes the next forty years of his life.
Sankofa
Anna Bain, a mixed-race woman in London whose marriage has ended and whose mother has just died, finds her mother's old diary and learns that her father was a West African student who went on to rule his country.
Maame
Maddie Wright, twenty-five, works a job she hates in London and looks after her father, who has Parkinson's, while her mother spends most of the year in Ghana, until a chance to move out gives her a life of her own.
Deacon King Kong
An elderly church deacon in a 1969 Brooklyn housing project shoots a drug dealer in broad daylight, and the whole neighbourhood gets tangled in the fallout.
High Fidelity
When his girlfriend Laura leaves him, Rob Fleming, a thirty-five-year-old who runs a failing record shop in north London, ranks his all-time top five breakups and goes back to find out what went wrong with each one.
Girl, Woman, Other
Twelve interlinked lives, mostly Black British women, a playwright, a teacher, a banker, a farmer and their families, told in a fluid, lightly punctuated prose that moves across a century.