An album to transport you from the bleak poetry of war to the dark underbellies of criminal fiction - best of luck getting back. 

 

“I was enchanted and enthralled by The Bookshop Band.” Ian Rankin 

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“The Bookshop Band folks are as much magicians as they are musicians, spinning words on a page into songs that stay with you long after the last chord has faded away.” Ben Fountain 

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Album features bonus readings from authors Ben Fountain and Jason Goodwin. 

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Book-fodder provided by: 

Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk (Ben Fountain) 

Brief Encounters With Che Guevara (Ben Fountain) 

Standing In Another Man’s Grave (Ian Rankin) 

Capital Punishment (Robert Wilson) 

Red Joan (Jennie Rooney) 

An Evil Eye (Jason Goodwin)

The poems and letters of Wilfred Owen

I Saw A Man (Owen Sheers)

 

ARTWORK BY HARRY SIMMONDS.