Chris Robinson was born in December 1966 in Atlanta, Georgia. He formed the band Mr Crowe’s Garden with younger brother Rich in 1984 while they were both at high school. In 1989, they signed a record deal with Def American and changed their name to The Bl... See more
Moby was born Richard Melville Hall in September 1965 in New York City in September 1961. He played in a string of punk bands before turning to electronic music in the late ’80s. His breakthrough came with the 1991 UK Top 10 single Go. In 1993, his track ... See more
Helen Macdonald was born in Surrey in 1970. Simple Objects, Macdonald’s first book of poetry, was published in 1992, followed by Shaler’s Fish in 2001 and Falcon in 2006. Macdonald turned to prose in 2014 with a memoir, H is for Hawk. The book won the Sam... See more
Jason Williamson was born on 10 November 1970 in Grantham, Lincolnshire. As a teenager he was expelled from school and then held a series of low-paid jobs, and after moving to Nottingham in 1995, spent a while playing various different bands before formin... See more
This is a book of gravitas, wrangling with some of the most profound existential issues regarding what it means to be human. Hardly an essential festive fireside read you might think, but Michael Symmons Roberts’ engaging sense of awe and lightness of tou... See more
