Category Archive: Books

A Swift Farewell: Five great books

Pop-punk band A Swift Farewell have dropped their new single To celebrate, they have shared some of their favourite books with us.

Interview: Jim Bob on his novels, live shows and new music

We chat to Jim Bob about his new novels, live shows and potential new album.

Jim Bob talks Shepherd’s Bush and Australia

We caught up with musician and author Jim Bob to find out about his upcoming London show, his return to Australia and his next book.

Kim Churchill tells us his top 10 books

Australian songsmith Kim Churchill releases his new album Weight_Falls today. We asked him to put together his Top 10 Books for us.

Interview: Nathan Roche is back

Writer, musician and occasional contributor to somethingyousaid.com, Nathan Roche has just written a new book. We talk to him.

Interview: Jim Bob and Frank Derrick return

Following last year’s critically-acclaimed novel, “The Extra Ordinary Life of Frank Derrick, Age 81″ writer/musician J.B. Morrison, better known as Jim Bob, returns this June with “Frank Derrick’s Holiday of a Lifetime”. We have… Read More

Interview: Pete Fowler reaches out

Pete Fowler is an extraordinary artist whose artwork has graced some of the albums from one of somethingyousaid.com’s favourite bands, Super Furry Animals. 25ThC caught up with him to discuss the new SFA book,… Read More

Book Review: Rise of the Super Furry Animals

Somethingyousaid.com has many Super Furry Animals enthusiasts. The biggest of all is Gary Page, who reviews the new book about them:  I have to make a confession that I am an extremely sporadic… Read More

Interview: Ric Rawlins on Super Furry Animals

One of somethingyousaid.com’s favourite bands ever, Super Furry Animals are the subject of a new biography by Ric Rawlins. With illustrations by Pete Fowler and full band participation it marks 20 years since the… Read More

Something You Said’s Books of 2014

When considering somethingyousaid.com’s Top Ten Books of 2014, we felt privileged to have in our ranks a genuine expert. As well as writing for this very site, Joe Haddow is also the producer of the BBC Radio… Read More

Book review: Christos Tsiolkas’ Merciless Gods

Christos Tsiolkas, author of award-winning novels (Dead Europe, The Slap), shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award and longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, has released his first collection of short fiction. And as… Read More

Interview: The Knife author, Lee Markham

‘The Knife’ is the startling first novel from Eastbourne-based author Lee Markham. It’s a gritty, ferocious and angry indictment of social inequality and institutional neglect in 21st Century Britain. It also happens to… Read More