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The Uncool

The long-awaited memoir by Cameron Crowe—one of America’s most iconic journalists and filmmakers—revealing his formative years in rock and roll and bringing to life stories that shaped a generation, in the bestselling tradition of Patti Smith’s Just Kids. If you’ve seen Almost Famous, you may think you know this story, but you don’t.

Music Against the Night

‘May well be the most perfectly constructed, moving, and beautiful novel I’ve ever read’ ANN PATCHETT

Acclaimed Pulitzer-Prize winner Yiyun Li, returns with a sweeping historical epic, following two extraordinary musicians on the rise.

Blueprints: How mathematics shapes creativity

*A Financial Times and Waterstones Book of the Year 2025*

Many artists are unaware of the mathematics that bubble beneath their craft, while some consciously use it for inspiration. Our instincts might tell us that these two subjects are incompatible forces with nothing in common, but what if we’re wrong?

Famesick

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES #1 BESTSELLER

‘Typically exposing, brilliantly written’ VOGUE

‘Its quick hits of wit are like sniffs from an oxygen mask’ NEW YORK TIMES

‘Few people are willing to be as human as Lena Dunham’ OBSERVER

‘A generational voice’ FINANCIAL TIMES

Famesick

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES #1 BESTSELLER

‘Typically exposing, brilliantly written’ VOGUE

‘Its quick hits of wit are like sniffs from an oxygen mask’ NEW YORK TIMES

‘Few people are willing to be as human as Lena Dunham’ OBSERVER

‘A generational voice’ FINANCIAL TIMES

Famesick: Unabridged edition

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES #1 BESTSELLER

‘Typically exposing, brilliantly written’ VOGUE

‘Its quick hits of wit are like sniffs from an oxygen mask’ NEW YORK TIMES

‘Few people are willing to be as human as Lena Dunham’ OBSERVER

‘A generational voice’ FINANCIAL TIMES

Famesick

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES #1 BESTSELLER

‘Typically exposing, brilliantly written’ VOGUE

‘Its quick hits of wit are like sniffs from an oxygen mask’ NEW YORK TIMES

‘Few people are willing to be as human as Lena Dunham’ OBSERVER

‘A generational voice’ FINANCIAL TIMES

Famesick

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES #1 BESTSELLER

‘Typically exposing, brilliantly written’ VOGUE

‘Its quick hits of wit are like sniffs from an oxygen mask’ NEW YORK TIMES

‘Few people are willing to be as human as Lena Dunham’ OBSERVER

‘A generational voice’ FINANCIAL TIMES

Cleopatra: Histories, Dreams and Distortions

‘Brilliant and discursive’ Antonia Fraser, Sunday Times

‘Hughes-Hallett’s exemplary reappraisal … throws a searching light on two thousand years of male erotic fantasy’ Joan Smith, New Statesman

Winner of the FAWCETT PRIZE and EMILY TOTH AWARD

High-Rise

From the author of ‘Crash’ and ‘Cocaine Nights’ comes an unnerving tale of life in a modern tower block running out of control.

The Uncool

The long-awaited memoir by Cameron Crowe—one of America’s most iconic journalists and filmmakers—revealing his formative years in rock and roll and bringing to life stories that shaped a generation, in the bestselling tradition of Patti Smith’s Just Kids.

The Uncool

The long-awaited memoir by Cameron Crowe—one of America’s most iconic journalists and filmmakers—revealing his formative years in rock and roll and bringing to life stories that shaped a generation, in the bestselling tradition of Patti Smith’s Just Kids. If you’ve seen Almost Famous, you may think you know this story, but you don’t.

The Uncool: Unabridged edition

The long-awaited memoir by Cameron Crowe—one of America’s most iconic journalists and filmmakers—revealing his formative years in rock and roll and bringing to life stories that shaped a generation, in the bestselling tradition of Patti Smith’s Just Kids. If you’ve seen Almost Famous, you may think you know this story, but you don’t.

The Uncool

The long-awaited memoir by Cameron Crowe—one of America’s most iconic journalists and filmmakers—revealing his formative years in rock and roll and bringing to life stories that shaped a generation, in the bestselling tradition of Patti Smith’s Just Kids. If you’ve seen Almost Famous, you may think you know this story, but you don’t.

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