In its five star review MOJO called Adamson “the post-punk generation’s most gifted guitarist, brilliant songwriter and charismatic performer…here we have the fullest measure of a complex, conflicted man….a superb book.”
James Tait Black Prizes are awarded to the best work of fiction and biography, judged by University of Edinburgh scholars and literature students. Nicholas Blincoe’s Oliver Twist & Me was selected from the highest number of submissions ever recorded.
An important new voice among Gen Z women, and supported by Jonathan Haidt, Freya India is writer and podcaster who making her name warning about the effects of growing up online.
The Penderyn Music Book Prize is the only UK-based book prize specifically for music titles including history, theory, biography, autobiography. It is now in its 12th year.
The winner is announced at the Laugharne Weekend in March 2026.
In The New Statesman Richard Dawkins says: “Doyle writes beautifully, trenchantly, near-irrefutably. The book is superb, its author fluent, humorous, acutely observant and enviably well-read.” The Spectator calls it “a lovely blend of righteous polemic and wishful thinking.”