PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Dylan Jones is the multi-award winning editor of GQ magazine.He has been an editor at i-D magazine, The Face, Arena, the Observer and the Sunday Times. He is a Trustee of the Hay Festival, a board member of the Norman Mailer Foundation and was awarded an OBE in 2013 for services to publishing. He has written twenty books including the critically aclaimed When Ziggy Played Guitar and From the Ground Up, U2's celebration of their record-breaking 360 tour.
Sparks with admiration and grievances, lust and envy * Sunday Telegraph * Funny, enlightening, gossipy' * The Herald * The perfect present for music mums and dads * Daily Mirror * Studded with shiny nuggets * Daily Telegraph * Dylan Jones has excavated the cacophony of voices that make up a life and curated a phenomenal portrait of the artist from childhood to the final days. The witnesses who comprise this oral biography animate the pages like characters in a non-fiction novel. Damn nigh peerless. -- David Mitchell, author of Cloud Atlas Worthy of the Starman ... Of all the volumes to appear since Bowie's death, this is the most useful: an oral history that brings together the most incisive reminiscences and memorials * Evening Standard * The best book on David Bowie you'll ever need or read. * Irish Independent, BOOKS OF THE YEAR * Jones constructs an oral-history mosaic that will engage even those whose lives were not changed by the appearance of Ziggy Stardust on Top of the Pops in 1972 * Guardian, BOOKS OF THE YEAR * Dylan Jones made absolutely the right decision to frame his superb life of David Bowie as a multi-voiced oral biography. David Bowie: A Life suits the shape-shifting, beguiling, enigmatic complexities of its subject perfectly. It's hard to imagine anything that will do Bowie better justice -- William Boyd * Guardian * The definitive book on Bowie * The Times *
