Earthbound

Paul Morley author journalist and cultural commentator tells the story in Earthbound of post-punk music and changing times - part of a series of twelve books tied to the twelve lines of the London Underground as Tfl celebrates 150 years of the Tube with Penguin. It is also available in a boxset. The stand-out is Paul Morleys eclectic headspinning Earthbound.. .it mixes memoir and manifesto to create something paradoxical: an obituary for pre-digital ways of experiencing art thats gleeful and inquisitive rather than emptily nostalgic". (The Times). "Authors include the masterly John Lanchester the children of Kids Company comic John OFarrell and social geographer Danny Dorling. Ranging from the polemical to the fantastical the personal to the societal they offer something for
every taste. All experience the city as a cultural phenomenon and notice its nature and its people. Read individually theyre delightful small reads pulled together they offer a particular portrait of a global city". (Evening Standard). "Exquisitely diverse". (The Times). "Eclectic and broad-minded.. .beautifully designed". (Tom Cox Observer). "A fascinating collection with a wide range of styles and themes. The design qualities are excellent as you might expect from Penguin with a consistent look and feel while allowing distinctive covers for each book. This is a very pleasing set of books". (A Common Reader blog). "The contrasts and transitions between books are as stirring as the books themselves.. .A multidimensional literary jigsaw".
(Londonist). "A series of short sharp city-based vignettes - some personal some political and some pictorial.. .each inimitable author finds that our city is complicated but ultimately connected full of wit and just the right amount of grit Fabric Magazine A collection of beautiful books". (Grazia). [Praise for Paul Morley]: "At his best hes the Brian Eno of the sentence". (Time Out). Critic and cultural theorist Paul Morley has written books about music history Joy Division suicide the moog synthesiser and the north of England. A contributor to numerous publications from the Face to the Financial Times a founding member of the Art of Noise he appears regularly on BBC 2s The Review Show and has presented radio and television documentaries on many subjects including
Brian Eno boredom the recording studio and Anthony Burgess. He uses an unregistered Oyster Card."