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From the Author of How to Disappear Completely: 1999 Aston Somerfield, casual smoker and part-time alcoholic, has come to London to find himself. He knows who he's looking for, he's seen him on the cover of the NME. Drawn across oceans by fame and fate, Aston is keeping his diary empty to make sure he's available. Won't commit to anything until it's everything. London, however, has other ideas. When a virtual stranger calls Aston a few hours before his death, fate catches up with him, derailing his barely-made plans. Amid a hundred boozy evenings and romantic deadends, a mystery unfurls. ...

Despite having attended formal school for only a few months in his childhood, Thomas Alva Edison was nurtured at home by his mother, a former schoolmistress, who instilled in him the foundational skills of reading, writing, and arithmetic. With an insatiable curiosity and a relentless spirit, Edison transformed his knowledge and passion for technology into groundbreaking inventions, overcoming challenges and seizing opportunities along the way. This engaging book delves into the remarkable highs and lows of Edisons life, illustrating how he turned adversity into triumph. It covers his ...

The inspiring true story of Loïe Fuller, a radical 19th-century art nouveau icon who turned artificial light into performance art and became the incandescent inventor of modern dance, is revealed in this transportive and hypnotic historical narrative.

A regular trip from the original New Wave to the modern Nightclub. Taking in the best of synth music along the way.