The godfather of British performance poetry

Smart, rude and angry

There are a legion of new young poets who rightly pay homage to Cooper Clarke

A poet who writes about darkness and decay but makes people laugh, a human cartoon, a gentleman punk, a man who has stayed exactly the same for thirty years but never grown stale. John Cooper Clarke is an original

Frankly alarming

Catching Mark Kermode in full rant is like witnessing an irate bloke slagging off an unfaithful mistress. Only funnier ... Disagreeing with Kermode is just as much fun as agreeing with him

A spectacularly well-researched and vehement argument

Combines historical context with hilariously barbed anecdotes

The angrier Mark Kermode gets, the funnier he is; good news then that this book is FURIOUS

[A] laugh-out-loud account that will tickle the funny bone of any film fanatic

Witty and incisive

Cutting and witty

[Kermode] clearly has a profound love of film and the depth of knowledge to go with it

An angry blast about the state of cinema-going

Kermode sits in the stalls peeking through his fingers at what we’re served up on the silver screen and motormouthing about bad cinema in a frank and funny counterblast to all the Hollywood hype

The Good, the Bad and the Multiplex is the film critic’s anguished cri de coeur against overpriced 3D film tickets and soulless cinemas ... often very funny and enlivened with wonderful digressions borne out of a lifetime’s movie-going

Difficult to ignore

a spritely, spirited tome ... with welcome doses of spicy self-deprecation and fascinating cultural history.

I can’t remember a music journal that I enjoyed reading more. One comes away full of admiration for Rusbridger’s ambition and determination.

Inspiring.

Read about Rusbridger's obsession in his inspiring, diary-like new book.

A wonderful account of trying to learn a complex piano piece while running the Guardian at the time of Wikileaks and phone hacking.

Rusbridger’s book is fascinating because you see him visibly struggling to keep up with the complexities of the Chopin piece along with everything else that’s going on in his life