A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR

‘Brilliant. The unwritten Bowie book that needed writing’ CAITLIN MORAN

‘Splendid. Provides plenty of evidence of Bowie’s restless, rummaging intelligence, and his pleasure in the fact that books allow readers to slip into someone else’s skin and try it on for size’ THE TIMES

‘A witty and enlightening analysis of Bowie’s 100 essential books . . . A handy, amusing, light-touch precis’ OBSERVER

‘What is your idea of perfect happiness?’

‘Reading.’

‘What is the quality you most like in a man?’

‘The ability to return books.’

Three years before he died, David Bowie made a list of the one hundred books that had transformed his life a list that formed something akin to an autobiography. From Madame Bovary to A Clockwork Orange, the Iliad to the Beano, these were the publications that had fuelled his creativity and sh