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'This Is a Call: The Life and Times of Dave Grohl' by Paul Brannigan

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He has sold over 40 million albums. He's been in bands that have changed popular music forever. He saw his best friend commit suicide. He starts supergroups. He's the nicest guy in rock. From Nirvana to Foo Fighters, from brotherhood to bitter rivalry, from breathless highs to lifeless lows, Paul Brannigan gives an unparalleled, intimate and extraordinary account of the life and times of Dave Grohl. When Nirvana ended I wasn't finished. I'm still not f*****g finished. Dave Grohl is the man who changed music forever. This is an account of his life that's more personal, more thrilling, more heart-rending and more inspiring than any other. This is Dave Grohl revealed fully, for the first time.

'The Book of Dust Volume One La Belle Sauvage' by Philip Pullman

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Malcolm was the landlord's son, an only child...he had friends enough, but he was happiest on his own playing with his daemon Asta in their canoe, which was called La Belle Sauvage . Malcolm Polstead's life in the pub beside the Thames is safe and happy enough, if uneventful. But during a winter of unceasing rain the forces of science, religion and politics begin to clash, and as the weather rises to a pitch of ferocity, all of Malcolm's certainties are torn asunder. Finding himself linked to a baby by the name of Lyra, Malcolm is forced to undertake the challenge of his life and to make a dangerous journey that will change him and Lyra for ever... Twenty-two years after the publication of the ground-breaking His Dark Materials , Philip Pullman returns to this epic parallel world in a masterful new novel: the long-awaited volume one of The Book of Dust .