Books and music from Desert Hearts

* OUT NOW *
The Big Bardaid Book
edited by Donna Daniels-Moss

A collection that brings together some of the better known wordsmiths on the performance poetry circuit and blends them with voices seeing print for the very first time... read more

Paperback ISBN 9781908755001 (RRR006) £4.99
Published July 2011 by Desert Hearts/RRRANTS

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* OUT NOW *
Quaking in Me Stackheels: A Beginner's Guide to Surviving Your First Public Performance
Paul Eccentric

Have you got what it takes to stand up on a stage in front of a sea of expectant strangers and wow them with your pearls of wit and wisdom or are you too scared of what might happen to you if the crowd suddenly turned ugly?... read more

Paperback ISBN 9781898948971 £6.99
Published July 2011 by Desert Hearts

* OUT NOW *
The Commuter's Tale
Oliver Gozzard

Inspired by the spirit of Lord Byron, a careworn commuter abandons his humdrum life to embark on a voyage of adventure with a rapper he meets on the train.... read more

Paperback ISBN 9781898948070   £7.99
Published January 2011 by Desert Hearts

* OUT NOW *
And on Piano... Nicky Hopkins: The Extraordinary Life of Rock's Greatest Session Man
Julian Dawson

Nicky Hopkins. Known as the 'Sixth Rolling Stone', no other rock pianist was held in such high esteem or played on more important recordings. His trademark licks.... read more

Hardback ISBN 9781898948124   £24.95
Published April 2011 by Desert Hearts

* FORTHCOMING 2012 *
Singer-Songwriters, Volume 1: Dave Cousins, Iain Matthews, Ralph McTell, Al Stewart, Richard Thompson
Nick Awde

Five of popular music's most influential singer-songwriters talk about their careers and their craft.... read more

Hardback ISBN 9781898948995   £24.95
Published 2012 by Desert Hearts

* OUT NOW *
The Art of the Circassian Minstrels: An Anthology of Circassian Music

This CD accompanies the book Circassian Culture and Folklore and contains more than 200 Circassian songs, chants and melodies.... read more

CD (price TBC) DH002 / EAN: 5060217720011
Released Summer 2011 by Desert Hearts

Close to the Edge B/W Rocket Man/Meryl Streep Nick Awde & Desert Hearts
Nick Awde & Desert Hearts

Close to the Edge B/W Rocket Man/Meryl Streep from Nick Awde and Desert Hearts is an EP that mixes elements of straight-ahead rock with prog and punk. Clocking in at 15 minutes... read more

DHEP 001 - EAN 5060217720004   £6.00
Released 2010 by Desert Hearts

Bogle and the Furless Ones
Andrea Awde

Bogle is a cat who lives with a family of loving human Furless Ones who run an animal sanctuary. But he's curious about the world that lies outside and the terrible things done by evil Furless Ones against his fellow animals... read more

Paperback  ISBN 9781898948902   £6.99
Published 2005 by Desert Hearts

The Little Big Woman Book
Llewella Gideon

Forced into temping hell, out-of-work actress Cynthia Cynical embarks on a hilarious guided tour of her office and the characters that inhabit it, including The Office Bitch, Amma the Ghanaian Canteen Lady and... read more

Paperback ISBN 9781898948766   £5.99
Published 2000 by Desert Hearts

Andrew Lloyd Webber The Musical
Book, lyrics and music by Nick Awde

Fresh from the disappointment of the failure of 'Beeching Express: The Musical (The Story of the Man who Broke the Railways)', Andrew Llloyb Webber, an aspiring composer of musicals walks into a South London pub.... read more

Paperback ISBN 9781898948483    £6.99
Published May 2000 by Desert Hearts

* THE PUBLIC SCHOOL CHRONICLES VOL.3 *
Blood Confession
Nick Awde

A drama about how truth and memory change over the passage of time, and how the shifting sands of the past can affect moral judgement. Blood Confession is set in a deserted police station in the 1980s... read more

Paperback ISBN 9781898948667   £9.99
Published 2010 by Desert Hearts

* THE PUBLIC SCHOOL CHRONICLES VOL.2 *
An Overseas Boy
Peter Lazard

After Anglo-Indian George Sinclair comes of age in an English public school he enters the shadowy worlds of espionage and voodoo in Central America and the Caribbean. Darkly funny, this satirical thriller ... read more

Hardback ISBN 9781898948162   £16.99
Published 2005 by Desert Hearts

I Saw Satan On The Northern Line – Love Songs From The Underground
Nick Awde

A gently satirical look in verse form at urban living.

Paperback ISBN 9781898948001   £4.99
Published 1996 by Desert Hearts

Sherman's Wife
Julia Camoys Stonor

"A bloodcurdling tale... There can seldom have been a better first sentence in a book by a daughter about her mother." – The Spectator... read more

Hardback ISBN 9781898948797   £16.99
Published 2006 by Desert Hearts

Tattooed Mountain Women and Spoon Boxes of Daghestan – Magic Symbols in Silk, Stone, Wood and Flesh
Robert Chenciner, Gabib Ismailov & Magomedkhan Magomedkhanov

"A serious inquiry into the motivation that empowers traditional artistic expression, it will be treasured as a source book for all who share in this search" Times Literary Supplement... read more

Paperback ISBN 9781898948810   £19.99
Published 2006 by Bennett & Bloom in association with Desert Hearts

The Tattooing Arts of Tribal Women
Lars Krutak

"Well written and wonderfully detailed, this is an absolute must for anyone seeking knowledge of the real roots of ethnic tattooing practices... the nature of the research is outstanding" – SkinDeep... read more

Paperback ISBN 9781898948759   £24.99
Hardback ISBN 9781898948742   £45.00
Published 2007 by Bennett & Bloom in association with Desert Hearts

The Vibrators: 21 Years of Punk Mania
Ian M. Carnochan (a.k.a. "Knox")

The definitive book on The Vibrators, one of Britain''s first punk rock bands and still performing and recording today. Written by Ian (Knox) Carnochan Ð the main singer, guitarist, and songwriter with the band... read more

Ringbound ISBN 9781898948100   £10.50
Published by Desert Hearts, 1997

* THE PUBLIC SCHOOL CHRONICLES VOL.1 *
The Virgin Killers
Nick Awde

When two Jesuit priests die violently at an exclusive Catholic prep school, an inquisitive teacher and an investigative journalist decide to get to the bottom of the mystery... read more

Hardback ISBN 9781898948155    £16.99
Published 2003 by Desert Hearts

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