Published in July, ‘Bless Me Father’ is the gripping and original memoir from one of the great mavericks and creative geniuses of British music. ‘’This is it – warts and all, mainly my own.”
‘And the Roots of Rhythm Remain’ by Joe Boyd, ‘Connection is a Song’ by Anna Doble and ‘Street Level Superstar’ by Will Hodgkinson are among the nominees for the prestigious music book prize this year.
Congratulations to Sarah Rainsford, whose memoir has been shortlisted for Best Book by a Non-Parliamentarian, alongside Alexei Navalny’s ‘Patriot’. Winners will be presented with their awards at the Houses of Parliament on 12 February 2025.
Adelle Stripe’s olfactory memoir of growing up in the north of the 1980s will be published by White Rabbit in February.
“Our Book of the Year changes how we think about music memoirs, how they are structured and what they tell us,” say Rough Trade. “It tells us of a particular indefatigable individual who will go further than anyone else.”
Described by Jarvis Cocker as ‘essential reading’ and Bobby Gillespie as ‘wonderful’, Street-Level Superstar follows a year in the life of Lawrence, Britain’s most singular musical genius who never hit the big time.