Bantam Press

In the morning, they gave Reacher a medal. And in the afternoon, they sent him back to school.It's just a voice plucked from the air: 'The American wants a hundred million dollars'.For what? Who from? It's 1996, and the Soviets are long gone. But now there's a new enemy. In an apartment in Hamburg, a group of smartly-dressed young Saudis are...

Pop music's a simple pleasure. Is it catchy? Can you dance to it? Do you fancy the singer?What's fascinating about pop is our relationship with it. This relationship gets more complicated the longer it goes on. It's been going on now for 50 years.David Hepworth is interested in the human side of pop. He's interested in how people make the stuff...