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Shine On, Marquee Moon (Audiobook)

by Zoë Howe

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    'Scooby Doo meets Smash Hits.' Mark Hart, Rock 'n' Roll Book Club.

    Debut novel of music writer Zoë Howe, shortlisted for the Virginia Prize For Fiction 2016, Blackwell's 'Independent Book Of The Month' (October 2016), featured in NME's 'THINGS WE LOVE' section.

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    'Hilarious and poignant, a rock ’n' roll love story about a woman seeking her own place in a cock-centric industry. A stylish ride through band-life, written by a woman well-versed in music's tricks and secrets....’ Emma Jane Unsworth - bestselling author of Animals and Hungry, The Stars & Everything.


    "Shine on, Marquee Moon is everything you'd expect from Zoë Howe: warm, wry, evocative and unconventional. This is an author who knows the idiosyncrasies of the music business and captures them all with candour and affection in a novel that is funny, fierce and better than most comeback tours.” Jane Bradley, founder and director of For Books’ Sake.


    "Tangled romance, ripe idiocy, monstrous self-delusion and 'that familiar backstage smell - hairspray, sweat, alcohol, dust burning on lightbulbs' ... Zoë Howe's crackling account of life around a rock band is fast, funny and superbly well-observed" - Mark Ellen, renowned music journalist and editor (Smash Hits, The Word, Select, Mojo, Q), broadcaster and author of Rock Stars Stole My Life


    'Heroin, and a fine heroine - Zoë Howe knows exactly how it'll pan out. Classic, clever, funny tale of what happens in the covens around those all boy-clubs of bands…’ Kirsty Allison, founder and editor of Cold Lips, books/arts editor DJ Magazine


    'A great story, full of sharp and funny observations. Someone needs to form a Concierge tribute band.’ Gideon Coe, BBC 6Music


    'Funny! And a bit freaky.' Wilko Johnson

    ‘Zoë Howe is one of our favourite music writers – a great writer who is in love with rock 'n' roll and can make the essence and magic of the dark stuff seem so alive…’ John Robb, Louder Than War
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    released August 24, 2016

    Author / narrator - Zoë Howe
    Publisher - Matador Books
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Chapter 3 10:54
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Chapter 4 13:25
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Chapter 5 09:49
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Chapter 6 18:18
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Chapter 7 14:33
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Chapter 8 12:22
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Chapter 9 15:28
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Chapter 10 08:13
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Chapter 11 10:09
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Chapter 12 10:49
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Chapter 13 14:01
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Chapter 14 09:20
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Chapter 15 16:37
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Chapter 16 12:57
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Chapter 17 12:23
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Chapter 18 10:33
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Chapter 19 25:47
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Chapter 20 18:50
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Chapter 21 10:54
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Chapter 22 09:18
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Chapter 23 16:00
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Chapter 24 13:54
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Chapter 25 12:32
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Chapter 26 06:55
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Chapter 27 03:58

about

Audiobook version of Shine On, Marquee Moon, the debut novel of acclaimed music writer Zoë Howe.

Shine On, Marquee Moon was shortlisted for the Virginia Prize For Fiction in 2016. The book will be released as a paperback on 28th September 2016.

'Hilarious and poignant, a rock ’n' roll love story about a woman seeking her own place in a cock-centric industry. A stylish ride through band-life, written by a woman well-versed in music's tricks and secrets... Lots of fun.’ Emma Jane Unsworth - bestselling author of Animals and Hungry, The Stars & Everything.


This is a rock 'n' roll tale with a satirical twist, a bohemian heroine and the classic Television album Marquee Moon as a musical backdrop. Here Howe challenges the myths and celebrates the highs, lows and general ridiculousness of life in the music business with plenty of wry humour, strong characters and sharp dialogue along the way. Never mind chick lit - this is rock chick lit.


Sylvie is a dresser working with Concierge, a New Romantic band currently enjoying a 21st century revival. Amid the heady chaos of touring life, Sylvie falls in love with the enigmatic Nick – reluctant heart-throb and ostensibly the least unhinged member of the band. However, a dark secret threatens to destroy their future together and much more besides.

Shine On, Marquee Moon exposes the often bizarre reality of life on and off the road, where the most unlikely people become family, and ‘friends’ aren't always who they appear to be.

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"Shine on, Marquee Moon is everything you'd expect from Zoë Howe: warm, wry, evocative and unconventional. This is an author who knows the idiosyncrasies of the music business and captures them all with candour and affection in a novel that is funny, fierce and better than most comeback tours.” Jane Bradley, founder and director of For Books’ Sake.


"Tangled romance, ripe idiocy, monstrous self-delusion and 'that familiar backstage smell - hairspray, sweat, alcohol, dust burning on lightbulbs' ... Zoë Howe's crackling account of life around a rock band is fast, funny and superbly well-observed" - Mark Ellen, renowned music journalist and editor (Smash Hits, The Word, Select, Mojo, Q), broadcaster and author of Rock Stars Stole My Life


'Heroin, and a fine heroine - Zoë Howe knows exactly how it'll pan out. Classic, clever, funny tale of what happens in the covens around those all boy-clubs of bands…’ Kirsty Allison, founder and editor of Cold Lips, books/arts editor DJ Magazine


'A great story, full of sharp and funny observations. Someone needs to form a Concierge tribute band.’ Gideon Coe, BBC 6Music


‘Zoë Howe is one of our favourite music writers – a great writer who is in love with rock 'n' roll and can make the essence and magic of the dark stuff seem so alive…’ John Robb, Louder Than War

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released August 24, 2016

Author / narrator - Zoë Howe
Publisher - Matador Books

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Zoë’s previous books inc. biographies of Poly Styrene, The Slits, Wilko Johnson, The Jesus & Mary Chain, Stevie Nicks, Florence + The Machine and Lee Brilleaux.

When not writing or listening to records, she can be found playing the drums, making witchy programmes for Soho Radio, crafting weird collages or dawdling on the beach.
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