{"product_id":"faster-than-a-cannonball-1995-and-all-that-9781474624596","title":"Faster Than a Cannonball: 1995 and All That","description":"Decades tend to crest halfway through, and 1995 was \u003ci\u003ethe year\u003c\/i\u003e of the Nineties: peak Britpop (Oasis v Blur), peak YBA (Tracey Emin's tent), peak New Lad (when Nick Hornby published \u003ci\u003eHigh Fidelity\u003c\/i\u003e, when James Brown's \u003ci\u003eLoaded\u003c\/i\u003e detonated the publishing industry, and when pubs were finally allowed to stay open on a Sunday). It was the year of \u003ci\u003eThe Bends\u003c\/i\u003e, the year Danny Boyle started filming \u003ci\u003eTrainspotting\u003c\/i\u003e, the year Richey Edwards went missing, the year Alex Garland wrote \u003ci\u003eThe Beach\u003c\/i\u003e, the year Blair changed Clause IV after a controversial vote at the Labour Conference. It was a period of huge cultural upheaval - in art, literature, publishing and drugs, and a period of almost unparalleled hedonism. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eFaster Than a Cannonball\u003c\/i\u003e is a cultural swipe of the decade from loungecore to the rise of New Labour, teasing all the relevant artistic strands through interviews with all the major protagonists and exhaustive re-evaluations of the important records of the year, by artists including Radiohead, Teenage Fanclub, Tricky, Pulp, Blur, the Chemical Brothers, Supergrass, Elastica, Spiritualized, Aphex Twin and, of course, Oasis.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author Dylan Jones has written or edited over twenty-five books. In the Eighties, he was one of the first editors of \u003ci\u003ei-D\u003c\/i\u003e, before becoming a Contributing Editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Face\u003c\/i\u003e and Editor of \u003ci\u003eArena\u003c\/i\u003e. He spent the next decade working in newspapers - principally the\u003ci\u003e Observer\u003c\/i\u003e and the\u003ci\u003e Sunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e - before embarking on a multi-award-winning tenure at \u003ci\u003eGQ\u003c\/i\u003e. A former columnist for the \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e and the\u003ci\u003e Independent\u003c\/i\u003e, he is a Trustee of the Hay Festival, and a peripatetic television producer. In 2012 he was awarded an OBE for services to publishing.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"White Rabbit","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50900495434002,"sku":"9781474624596","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_fe929ba8-8071-4b76-8bf3-3ca985f1924a.jpg?v=1738384548","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/faster-than-a-cannonball-1995-and-all-that-9781474624596","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}