Böcker av Mark Radcliffe

From Mark: In March 2024 I decided to take time out from my less than hectic broadcasting job to live in Rome for a few months. I'm not a natural traveller really, but there are two places where I've felt immediately at home - almost as if I've lived there before in a previous life. I felt totally attuned to Rajasthan which is odd as it is notably dissimilar to the North West of England.So it was that Bella, Arlo and I set off on a road trip in our VW Beetle to take us there via Reims, Strasbourg, Lucerne, Bellagio on Lake Como and Bologna. What follows is in no sense a guide book but rather a record of our Roman ramblings, in both senses of the word, as seen through the eyes of Arlo. He can't speak of course. He's a dog. But I'm pretty confident that this was what was going on inside his head.

A personal reflection on the crucial turning points in the history of music, from BBC broadcaster and musician Mark Radcliffe

Having been sacked from his university teaching job, Ed has returned to his home town to pick up the threads of his old life with his friends and ex-girlfriend, Jeannie, in the Northern Sky folk music club. His dream is to play with them again, making music like his hero Nick Drake - and maybe even a little money. But know-it-all Matt O'Malley is now running the club and has ambitious plans for them that involve contracts and record deals. Can Ed get in on the act, or does O'Malley have a hidden agenda involving the less talented but more photogenic Lane Fox? And can Ed win Jeannie back - or will his legendary temper prevent him from getting anything right? This is a funny and touching novel, written with real Northern soul by one of the country's most popular and knowledgeable commentators on music. It will appeal to anyone who loves music, anyone who's ever been young and ambitious, and anyone who's ever fallen out with someone over the one thing that unites them.