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As Margaret Thatcher prepared to enter 10 Downing Street, four bands born of punk – Siouxsie and the Banshees, Joy Division, the Cure and Magazine – found a way to distil the dissonance and darkness of the shifting decade into a new form of music. Pushing at the taboos the Sex Pistols had unlocked and dancing with the fetishistic, all will become global stars of goth. By the time Thatcher is cast out of office in 1990, the arrival of goth will have imprinted on the cultural landscape as much as the Iron Lady herself. Now, 40 years since its inception, Cathi Unsworth provides the first comprehensive overview of goth.
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London, during the long, dark days of the Blitz: a city outwardly in ruins, weakened by exhaustion and rationing. But behind the blackout, the old way of life continues: in the music halls, pubs and cafes, soldiers mix with petty crooks, stage magicians with lonely wives, scandal-hungry reporters with good-time girls – and DCI Edward Greenaway keeps a careful eye on everyone. Out on the streets, something nastier is stirring: London’s prostitutes are being murdered, their bodies left mutilated to taunt the police. And in the shadows Greenaway’s old adversaries in organised crime are active again, lured in by rich pickings on the black market.
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20 years ago, a 15-year-old schoolgirl named Corrine Woodrow was convicted of murdering one of her classmates. But now new forensic evidence indicates that Corrine didn’t act alone, and Sean Ward – a private investigator – travels to the seaside town of Ernemouth to try to discover what really happened all those years ago.
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20 years ago, a 15-year-old schoolgirl named Corrine Woodrow was convicted of murdering one of her classmates. But now new forensic evidence indicates that Corrine didn’t act alone, and Sean Ward – a private investigator – travels to the seaside town of Ernemouth to try to discover what really happened all those years ago.
