Monday, 24 November 2014

New Books - November 2014

'Music Marketing: Press, Promotion, Distribution and Retail' by Mike King


"Sell more music! Learn the most effective marketing strategies available to musicians..."




'In Defence of History' by Richard J. Evans


"Richard J. Evans mounts a brilliant and compellingly effective defence of the historian's capacity to reach genuine insights about past events."




'We the Media: Grassroots Journalism By The People, For The People' by Dan Gillmor


"Big Media has lost its monopoly on the news, thanks to the internet.  Now that it's possible to publish in real time to a worldwide audience, a new breed of grassroots journalists is taking the news into their own hands."



'Sashenka' by Simon Sebag Montefiore


"Winter, 1916, St Petersburg.  Snow is falling on a country in turmoil.  Beautiful and idealistic, Sashenka Zeitlin grows up in a privileged world careening towards self destruction."




'Sweet Tooth' by Ian McEwan


"Serena is sent on a secret mission - operation Sweet Tooth...Can she maintain the fiction of her undercover life?  And who is inventing whom? To answer these questions, Serena must abandon the first rule of espionage - trust no one."