Watling Street: Travels through Britain and its Ever-Present Past was published in July 2017. Ben Goldacre (Bad Science, Bad Pharma) called it “By far the best book this year, brilliant, discursive and wise.” The leading music website The Quietus said it “Might well be the best music book of the 2010s” and it was named as one of the top ten music books of 2013 by The Guardian, The Independent and Mojo.Īlan Moore described his following book Stranger Than We Can Imagine: Making Sense of the Twentieth Century as “Breathtakingly lucid… An illuminating work of massive insight, I cannot recommend this magnificent work too highly.” Rufus Hound said it was “a sensational book” while the Financial Times called it “a brilliantly stimulating tale.” Together with his first book I Have America Surrounded: The Life of Timothy Leary, which features a foreword by Winona Ryder, his work is currently being translated into seven languages. His book The KLF: Chaos, Magic and the Band who Burned a Million Pounds, was described as “Adam Curtis brainstorming with Thomas Pynchon” by The Guardian.
JOHN HIGGS HOW TO
He knows how to make us relate.” Russell Brand described him succinctly as “a great writer who pulls shit together in an interesting way.” The Times agrees, saying that “Higgs’s prose has a diamond-hard quality.
Suddenly everything becomes terrifyingly clear”. In the words of MOJO magazine, “Reading John Higgs is like being shot with a diamond. John Higgs is a writer who specialises in finding previously unsuspected narratives, hidden in obscure corners of our history and culture, which can change the way we see the world.
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