When 32-year-old Bill Hicks died, he had been taking Britain by storm and was on the brink of fame in his own country, 'the United States of Advertising'. This is his biography.

A second volume of quotations from Bob Dylan. The quotations range from the flippant to the profound, from the wit of his ironic moments to his more contemplative side.

The first volume in a series of memoirs by an influential musician and songwriter.

Dylan is a musical, literary, political and religious icon whose lyrics and mystique have spawned countless articles and books. The Dylan Companion contains commentary on Dylan from all phases of his career. Contributors include Ken Kesey, Joan Baez, Allen Ginsberg and Pauline Kael.

The true biography of Shakespeare is in the plays. The great English tragedies were all written in the first decade of the seventeenth century. They are often in language that is difficult to us, and must have been hard even for contemporaries. How and why did Shakespeare's language develop as it did?

An autobiography of Woody Guthrie, founder of modern American folk music. This book presents a cynical, earthy and tragic account of his life in an Oklahoma oil-boom town, of the Depression that followed, and of his subsequent travels in, on, and under trains, in stolen cars and on his feet, round an America going rotten from the top downwards.