Dylan Jones
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Modrá smrt
Vražda. Zrada. Pomsta. Tajemství.
Když se na ostrově Anglesey v severním Walesu najde tělo, ukřižované na přídi rybářské lodi, detektiv Manx ví, že na poklidný život, kvůli kterému se na ostrov vrátil, může prozatím zapomenout. Komunita je znepokojená, nadřízení zvyšují tlak na vyřešení případu a Manx ví, že stojí tváří v tvář nejen bezcitnému vrahovi, ale také své minulosti. Ostrov totiž opustil před dvaceti lety, poté co záhadně zmizela jeho mladší sestra Miriam jejíž případ nebyl nikdy vyřešen.
Dokáže se Manx vyrovnat s minulostí a dopadnout vraha dřív, než se najde další brutálně zavražděné tělo?
Temný případ z prostředí ostrovní komunity, který je zahalen smrtí a děsivým tajemstvím.
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Faster Than A Cannonball
Decades tend to crest halfway through, and 1995 was the year of the Nineties: peak Britpop (Oasis v Blur), peak YBA (Tracey Emin's tent), peak New Lad (when Nick Hornby published High Fidelity, when James Brown's Loaded detonated the publishing industry, and when pubs were finally allowed to stay open on a Sunday). It was the year of The Bends, the year Danny Boyle started filming Trainspotting, the year Richey Edwards went missing, the year Alex Garland wrote The Beach, the year Blair changed Clause IV after a controversial vote at the Labour Conference.
Not only was the mid-Nineties perhaps the last time that rock stars, music journalists and pop consumers held onto a belief in rock's mystical power, it was a period of huge cultural upheaval - in art, literature, publishing and drugs. And it was a period of almost unparalleled hedonism, a time when many people thought they deserved to live the rock and roll lifestyle, when a generation of narcotic omnivores thought they could all be rock stars just by buying a magazine and a copy of (What's the Story) Morning Glory?
Faster Than a Cannonball is a cultural swipe of the decade from loungecore to the rise of New Labour, teasing all the relevant artistic strands through interviews with all the major protagonists and exhaustive re-evaluations of the important records of the year - The Bends by Radiohead, Grand Prix by Teenage Fanclub, Maxinquaye by Tricky, Different Class by Pulp, The Great Escape by Blur, It's Great When You're Straight... Yeah! by Black Grape, Exit Planet Dust by the Chemical Brothers, I Should Coco by Supergrass, Elastica by Elastica, Pure Phase by Spiritualized, ...I Care Because You Do by Aphex Twin and of course (What's the Story) Morning Glory by Oasis, the most iconic album of the decade.
Jonesova pravidla úspěšného muže
ak pronést řeč - Jak se pohybovat na večírku - Jak být dobrým hostem - Jak správně podlézat šéfovi - Jak být dobrým šéfem - Jak zvládnout obchodní oběd - Jak se dát vyfotit - Jak se dostat do kondice - Jak kupovat dámské prádlo - Jak učinit nabídku k sňatku - Jak si vybudovat šatník - Jak dešifrovat oblékací kódy - Jak začít s golfem - Jak přestat kouřit - Jak pečovat o ústa - Jak zachovat klid - Jak žehlit košili - Jak objednat víno - Jak otevírat šampaňské - Jak vykurýrovat kocovinu - Jak se přestat cpát atd. atd. Kniha Dylana Jonese, šéfredaktora mužského společenského časopisu GQ, je určena dnešním moderním mužům a není vhodná pro ženu – ledaže by ji tomu svému s určitým úmyslem věnovala.
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Cameron Cameronról
A brit Konzervatív Pártot 2005 óta irányító David Cameron 2010-ben meghozta pártjának a régóta várt siket. A 13 évig ellenzékben lévő konzervatívok győztek, s ma a westminsteri törvényhozás legerősebb képviselői csoportját alkotják, még ha nem is nyerték el az egypárti kormány megalakításához szükséges mandátumot. De vajon minek köszönhető ez a fordulat? Mit hoz az új konzervatív miniszterelnök a briteknek és a világnak?
Dylan Jones interjúkötete személyes tükör arról, mit gondol maga Cameron Cameronról. A kötetlen beszélgetések magával ragadó sorozatából lépésről lépésre rajzolódik ki a brit Konzervatív Párt útja, Cameron reformpolitikája, karizmatikus egyénisége és politikai sikerének titka.
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David Bowie - A Life
Dylan Jones's engrossing, magisterial biography of David Bowie is unlike any Bowie story ever written. Drawn from over 180 interviews with friends, rivals, lovers, and collaborators, some of whom have never before spoken about their relationship with Bowie, this oral history weaves a hypnotic spell as it unfolds a remarkable rise to stardom and an unparalleled artistic path. Tracing Bowie's life from the English suburbs to London to New York to Los Angeles, Berlin, and beyond, its collective voices describe a man profoundly shaped by his relationship with his schizophrenic half-brother Terry; an intuitive artist who could absorb influences through intense relationships and yet drop people cold when they were no longer of use; and a social creature equally comfortable partying with John Lennon and dining with Frank Sinatra. By turns insightful and deliciously gossipy, DAVID BOWIE is as intimate a portrait as may ever be drawn. It sparks with admiration and grievances, lust and envy, as the speakers bring you into studios and bedrooms they shared with Bowie, and onto stages and film sets, opening corners of his mind and experience that transform our understanding of both artist and art. Including illuminating, never-before-seen material from Bowie himself, drawn from a series of Jones's interviews with him across two decades, DAVID BOWIE is an epic, unforgettable cocktail-party conversation about a man whose enigmatic shapeshifting and irrepressible creativity produced one of the most sprawling, fascinating lives of our time.
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Shiny and New
The Eighties were about big ideas writ large - new money, new style, gender fluidity, gay pride, attritional politics, the 'special relationship', nuclear fear, AIDS, cocaine, ecstasy, tabloid royalty, the rise of urban pop, and ultimately geopolitical chaos. Using a big narrative approach, Dylan Jones' history of the decade in pop frames the decade through some of its most important and popular hits, choosing records which either epitomised their time, or ushered in a new cultural shift. So we move seamlessly from Rapper's Delight and the genre defining moment of hip hop into The Specials' spectral, Ghost Town; from ABC and the apotheosis of New Pop (The Look of Love) to Madonna's breakthrough moment with Like a Virgin, and so on. In the '80s each year brought a new twist as technology shifted and genres snowballed, MTV reigned supreme and the story of pop became globalised. It was a decade of excess in all areas, especially ambition, but it was in the transcendent moments of pop perfection that the '80s found its true art-form.
Subjective and idiosyncratic, SHINY AND NEW takes us from downtown New York to post-industrial Manchester, in the first widescreen attempt to weave together the stories, the songs and events that re-shaped music and society.
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Sweet Dreams
*Includes an exclusive new chapter*
'Excellent' Guardian
'Hugely enjoyable' Irish Times
'Dazzling' LRB
'Fascinating' New Statesman
'An absolute must-read' GQ
An NME and BBC Culture Book of the Year 2020
For a while, Sweet Dreams were made of this.
From the testimony of the people who lived it, comes Dylan Jones' masterful history of the Blitz kids, synth-pop and the style press, from 1975 to 1985.
'Few music scenes have received more opprobrium than the New Romantics. A bunch of fame-grabbing clothes-horses? Certainly. But also, a progressive force that opened new routes for music while embracing most genders, ethnicities and sexual preferences.' MOJO
'Compelling reading for those who lived and breathed the indulgence of the era without realising its significance or contemplating its legacy.' Simon Armitage
'Dylan Jones explains how a bunch of penniless nightclub show-offs morphed into pop royalty in the 1980s . . . An excitable patchwork of interviews, punctuated with gossip and pertinent theory.' UNCUT
'It's all here: the swishing, the androgynous preening, the sweetly-dreamt synth-pop splendour of early '80s Britain. Something was happening, and Mr. Jones knew what it was.' Barney Hoskyns
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David Bowie: The Life
Drawn from a series of conversations between David Bowie and Dylan Jones across three decades, together with over 180 interviews with friends, rivals, lovers, and collaborators - some of whom have never before spoken about their relationship with Bowie - this oral history is an intimate portrait of a remarkable rise to stardom and one of the most fascinating lives of our time.
Profoundly shaped by his relationship with his schizophrenic half-brother Terry, Bowie was a man of intense relationships that often came to abrupt ends. He was a social creature, equally comfortable partying with John Lennon and dining with Frank Sinatra, and in Dylan Jones's telling - by turns insightful and salacious - we see as intimate a portrait as could possibly be drawn.
Including illuminating, never-before-seen material from Bowie himself, drawn from a series of Jones's interviews with him across three decades, DAVID BOWIE is an epic, unforgettable cocktail-party conversation about a man whose enigmatic shapeshifting and irrepressible creativity produced one of the most sprawling, fascinating lives of our time.
