If you like your sport and want something a little more stimulating to read than ghost written autobiographies of 21-year-olds then you could do worse than try some of these lesser known gems.
Despite sounding like a guide to looking good for crack-heads, Crack and Shine international is actually a much anticipated bible for taggers and fence-jumpers everywhere...
For most people Marty Feldman is the bulgy eyed bloke from Young Frankenstein. However a new biography attempts to help stake his claim as a comedy legend.
David Nicholls's much-loved 'One Day' is the latest novel to undergo the Hollywood treatment. But it looks as though the book's charm may be lost in translation.
Without Bukowski god knows what I'd have done. No one inspired by him could ever reach his heights, but the least I can do is offer this heartfelt tribute on what would've been his 91st birthday...
The makers of '4 Lions' and 'Submarine' have snapped up the film rights to this Sabotage Times writer's book. Buy the book now.
Artist, writer and radio show host Tracey Moberly has spent the last 12 years saving every text message sent to her, these are now being publishe...
Massacres, pools of blood, black magic and the hideous Voldermort. Harry Potter might have been written for children, but the last chapter is muc...
A new book gathers the best photographs of the fine people of Northern England by Lowry's favourite snapper, Sefton Samuel.
Forget Elvis Presley, Jack Kerouac was the world's first rock n roll star. Obsessed with fast cars, sexual abandon and wild music, he was a weaver of dreams and imagination, an inspiration for a generation.
Forget the Headhunters, the Bushwackers and the Inter City Firm, 16th-century Venetians were the first to take up a...
Adam Mansbach's book of poetry, Go The F**k To Sleep, attempts to capture the indescribable magic of a child that j...
An extract from Jonathan Green's superb book about two young Tibetan women who left their hillside village in Biru ...
A stunning fusion of social history, the fortunes of Leeds United and the progression Leeds' Jewish population, Ant...
Michael Faber's bawdy tale about Sugar, Victorian London's most talented prostitute, has been described as the book Dickens would have written if...
He traded binge drinking, video game marathons and collecting pointless i-Pod stuff to become a Daddy. Yet he feels strangely relaxed.
Jerry Picco, the world’s greatest midget erotic actor, has gone missing. And Jack Storm - ex-Berkeley professor and sleaze-loving, unlicensed P...
Lucky enough to be in New York this weekend? Then get yourself down to the Milk Gallery to see the exhibition of stunning Rat Pack images present...
The American author of 'Even Cowgirls Get The Blues' on taking acid with Timothy Leary and not being responsible for killing Elvis - despite rumours to the contrary.
The Formula One supremo wants to simulate rain, his ex-missus said he wouldn't engage in bedroom gymnastics and his...
Why do you get when you combine football, nostalgia and OCD? A hardback collection of football vintage memorabilia ...
Hull Fair, October 2007. A city still drowning in the aftermath of summer floodwater prepares to wave farewell to E...
From working at i-D to political art as good as Banksy via designing covers for the Pet Shop Boys - Scott King does...
First my brother totalled my brand new Austin Mini, then he went and killed himself. Now all I'm left with is a book of poetry that my wife wishe...
Downing Benylin, touring with a transsexual and playing alongside Nazis - just your average fare for Sting and the boys during The Police's early...
Suits are so often taken for granted but this book, Sharp Suits, presents 8 essays addressing the style, the history and the power of the suit.
‘If I had the whip hand,’ proclaims teenage protagonist Colin Smith in director Tony Richardson’s groundbreaking, The Loneliness of A Long ...
Macarooned in a sea of unemployment Phil Brown longs to take the sun bed back into football. Alas no-one is hiring ...
She's The Number One Gossip Columnist In Heaven communicating via her twitter feed @dianainheaven. Not one for the ...
And you thought he did all his talking on the pitch? Recently found extracts from Phil Brown's Hull City diaries su...
Lead singer Paul Weller was so inspired by Lawrence Watson’s photographs that he scrapped the planned artwork and...
Paul Ince is a Hammer (if only just), John Lyall has been given the boot and my nymphomanic cum psychopath missus is on the warpath. All in a day's work for a West Ham fan in the late 80s.
True exploring doesn't really exist anymore does it?
Just because they know how to act a tit on the telly, does that really mean they turn philosopher when pen hits page?
Feeling ill? Stick on a life jacket, grab a paddle and get out in the icy blue waters. What doesn't kill you makes ...
What's it's like to hunt terrorists and assassins from the shadows? Join us for a day in the life of the Met's Coun...
Dirty Den was nearly killed off for real, Blackadder nearly got scrapped early doors, and Albert Square is 2 millio...
James Lee Burke's no nonsense, no drinking Louisiana lawman Dave Roubicheaux returns for his 18th adventure and sma...
With their sixth album now out, it's time to reflect on why the Wakefield punk-m...
Whether its screws selling to inmates or lags becoming hopelessly addicted, the ...
A chocolate egg is for life, not just for Easter.
If you need some comedy in your life, here's a few underrated comedy gems whose ...
It's not so much top-shelf material I'm interested in as the shelves themselves....
One, Two, Three, Four Hundred...
Undoubtedly one of the greatest films of all time, Goodfellas also throws up the...
From Cruyff's unique two-stripe Holland kit to an Italian shirt with a neo-nazi ...
Submitted for the approval of the Midnight Society, I call this article....
"It's gonna take time, a whole lotta precious time..."
It's Paul Merson's 47th birthday today and to celebrate we've got 20 quotes that...
We've finally got our shit back after Monday's dramatic release , and a dozen li...
Not so Vlad to have him back.
Sid Owen ran over my foot in Asda.
Started catching up with GoT series 1 yet? Here’s some things to look out for ...
The government is voluntarily surrendering our place at the top table and the Am...
Every now and again we like to remind ourselves of this.
Never crack one of your back teeth again.
One fan's overdue love letter to the only comic to school its readers in Yiddish...
If you want to be THAT guy at the 5-a-side, here's how.