Bowie's Books: The Hundred Literary Heroes Who Changes His Life

Bowie's Books: The Hundred Literary Heroes Who Changes His LifeThree 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 shaped who he was. In Bowie's Books, John O'Connell explores this list in the form of one hundred short essays, each offering a perspective on the man, performer

where missing children come back from the dead and unearthed bones carry terrible curses

these novellas reveal Modiano’s fascination with the lost

‘Where Did Our Love Go’

and recipes

And while most people calmly go about their lives

Includes hit singles

Who knows what will vanish next

tragic and uplifting journeys ever written about

The album features songs such as "Halah

Through Yorke’s lyrics

perhaps none are more brilliant than his visceral

the band has traveled the world