Financial Times June 21 2007 When Storm Thorgerson, the acclaimed designer of a host of ground- breaking album covers, published a book of his artwork earlier this year, he was relieved to be able to design the book jacket without hindrance. The man behind the images for albums such as
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MusicOMH.com What has happened to Paul Curreri? Last time I looked (at his gig at London’s Luminaire, to be precise) he was singing sharp, piquant acoustic numbers, a flag bearer for the New Americana. But on Mantra, the opening track of The Velvet Rut, he has turned all dirty Delta
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The Independent on Sunday Russia has entranced Marcus Sedgwick since childhood. As a baby his mother staved off boredom by teaching herself the language. As a teenager in the early 1980s, his parents visited the country, returning with amazing stories of friendly people that fired the imagination of the future
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The Author 2004 A little over a year ago a hapless key account manager at a leading publishing house had their presentation to the books buyer at one of the biggest supermarkets unceremoniously halted before they had presented all but one title. Their crime? They had refused to give extra
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The Independent on Sunday Millions of readers around the world may be shivering with excitement at the thought of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows being released at midnight on 21 July, but to those who sell the book, it is more likely to be remembered as Harry Potter and
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A bit of fun to liven up a dull day, Click on the picture and you can find out what your Daemon is (if you haven’t read His Dark Materials this will make no sense, but read the book and you will understand why I am so looking forward to
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The Financial Times In a world obsessed with glitzy awards ceremonies, the winner of tonight’s Orange Broadband prize for women’s fiction in London can expect a great deal of public attention – although not quite reaching the levels of media frenzy seen at the 60th Cannes film festival last week.
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Orion There is a chilling moment in Simon Sebag Montefiore’s Young Stalin, the impressive biography of the young dictator and prequel to his award-winning 2004 biography Stalin. Not chilling because it betrays the violent repression that would mark his rule, but chilling because it challenges the assumption that the man
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