{"product_id":"flame-music-rock-and-roll-is-life-part-ii-the-true-story-of-resurgam-records-by-one-who-was-there-9781912914548","title":"Flame Music: Rock and Roll Is Life: Part II: The True Story of Resurgam Records by One Who Was There","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt's 1978 and Nick Du Pont, one-time PR man to Sixties rock behemoths the Helium Kids, is back in London and bent on founding his own record label. A new kind of music - sharp, hard and dangerous - is bursting onto the airwaves on both sides of the Atlantic and Nick wants a slice of the action - in particular, the work of The Flame Throwers, the most provocative assemblage of street-smart desperadoes ever to hail from downtown Los Angeles. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePicking up from where the highly-praised Rock and Roll is Life (2018) left off, this is the story of Resurgam Records and the personal traumas and tragedies that attended its coruscating rise - until the time when, as so invariably happens, the dancers shuffle to a halt and the music stops. 'Taylor's 1,000-watt satire is set half in the real rockbiz, ' Philip Norman has observed, and 'half in an imaginary one whose monsters are just as believable - and unbelievable. A near-narcotic treat.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eD.J. Taylor has written twelve novels, including \u003ci\u003eEnglish Settlement\u003c\/i\u003e (1996), which won a Grinzane Cavour Prize, \u003ci\u003eTrespass\u003c\/i\u003e (1998) and \u003ci\u003eDerby Day\u003c\/i\u003e (2011), both of which were long-listed for the Booker Prize, \u003ci\u003eKept \u003c\/i\u003e(2006), a U.S. Publishers' Weekly Book of the Year, and \u003ci\u003eThe Windsor Faction\u003c\/i\u003e (2013), joint winner of the Sidewise Award for Alternate History. His non-fiction includes \u003ci\u003eOrwell: The Life\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the 2003 Whitbread Prize for Biography, \u003ci\u003eThe Prose Factory: Literary Life in England Since 1918\u003c\/i\u003e (2016) and \u003ci\u003eLost Girls: Love, War and Literature 1939-1951\u003c\/i\u003e (2019). His most recent books are a collection of short stories, \u003ci\u003eStewkey Blues\u003c\/i\u003e (2022), and \u003ci\u003eCritic at Large: Essays and Reviews: \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e2010-2022\u003c\/i\u003e (2023). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and lives in Norwich with his wife, the novelist Rachel Hore.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Mensch Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50928878190866,"sku":"9781912914548","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a5523e5d-58d7-4b93-a286-acc6369b1da8.jpg?v=1739020908","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/flame-music-rock-and-roll-is-life-part-ii-the-true-story-of-resurgam-records-by-one-who-was-there-9781912914548","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}