books

Nine years after Get Hurt, normal service is resumed

Here are the 10 best music books published this year

Elton, Brett, Patti, Debbie, Joy Division and more tell their stories

They detail the band's debut performance on The Ed Sullivan Show in February 1964

Definitive tomes, secret histories and inspired autobiographies

Pink Flag, Chairs Missing and 154 will be repackaged in May, complete with unreleased material

Jack Kerouac, Dougas Coupland and Kurt Vonnegut all appear

Bruce Springsteen has compiled a list of his 28 favourite books.

Jack White's Third Man Records company have launched a publishing offshoot, Third Man Books. Third Man Books' first commercially available release will be Language Lessons: Volume I, which comprises a 321-page book of poetry and prose as well as two vinyl LPs of "jazz, psychdelic-punk, poetry, blues and pop" and five "frameable" poems. The package – which is pictured above – will be released in a hard-case clothbound sleeve and is available to buy from August 5.

A list of David Bowie's 100 favourite books has been revealed by curators of the David Bowie... Is exhibition in Ontario, Canada.