(Fourth Estate / Atico de los Libros, Spain / Mare Verlag, Germany / Einuadi, Italy; The Whale, Ecco USA).
Winner of 2009 BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction. A gripping voyage of discovery into the heart of an obsession.
‘Philip Hoare was long been acclaimed as a brilliantly unconventional writer … This is the book he was born to write, a classic of its kind’, Rachel Cooke, The Observer.
@MarkCocker2 an astonishing, protean place, Mark. I wrote about it a little here... t.co/vTUDLoPyDI… t.co/8uadVZC9J3
“Pet Shop Boys have always been mirror ball magicians. Their songs are euphoric and bruised.” @leebrackstone t.co/DzDdd8Auci
“This curious world which we inhabit is more wonderful than it is convenient; more beautiful than it is useful; it… t.co/yNqxWCTDSg
3.30 am: starry and still, the sky and the sea, same as they ever were, completely different.