{"title":"Darran Anderson","description":"\u003cp\u003eExplore the unique literary landscapes of Darran Anderson. From insightful essays to evocative memoirs, delve into themes of urban life, history, and culture. A compelling voice for fans of Iain Sinclair.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"imaginary-cities-book-darran-anderson-9780992765590","title":"Imaginary Cities","description":"Inspired by the surreal accounts of the explorer and 'man of a million lies' Marco Polo, Imaginary Cities charts the metropolis and the imagination, and the symbiosis therein.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49517408649489,"sku":"GOR007398020","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49551530852625,"sku":"GOR009988184","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49791221334289,"sku":"CIN0992765595G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49858050064657,"sku":"GOR008996618","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50030241874193,"sku":"GOR013243673","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52106035298577,"sku":"CIN0992765595VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0992765595.jpg?v=1751013209"},{"product_id":"inventory-book-darran-anderson-9781784741501","title":"Inventory","description":"A smuggler and a deserter, Darran Anderson’s grandfathers skirted the Second World War on the fringes of legality. Darran’s father survived the height of the political violence in Northern Ireland and Darran came of age during the final years of the Troubles.  As a young man, Darran lost his way in the midst of hedonism, division and isolation. To find a way to exist in the world, he felt compelled to leave his hometown.  But the disappearance of another young man in his family brings him back to the city and its history. Darran walks the banks of the River Foyle, his father and uncle by his side, searching for what has been lost and what might now be said.  Inventory is sunlight, exposing and cleansing. It is a challenge to generations of silence. A portrait of a city, a biography of a family, a record of the objects that make up a life. Darran Anderson’s lucid and intimate prose offers a vital new perspective on a troubled history.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49533972644113,"sku":"GOR010277225","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50915895771409,"sku":"GOR010308380","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51797230190865,"sku":"GOR014403978","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1784741507.jpg?v=1750766263"},{"product_id":"inventory-book-darran-anderson-9781784705480","title":"Inventory","description":"Astonishing A marvellous poetic reminder that every place is a universe of magical possibility to the perceptive mind Damian Le Bas, author of The Stopping Places    A smuggler and a deserter, Darran Andersons grandfathers skirted the Second World War on the fringes of legality.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49551181873425,"sku":"GOR012032807","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49741334282513,"sku":"NGR9781784705480","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1784705489.jpg?v=1750833239"},{"product_id":"inventory-book-darran-anderson-9780374277581","title":"Inventory","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eInventory \u003c\/i\u003eis a remarkable memoir; a work of auto-archaeology, really, in which Darran Anderson disinters his own and his country's hard pasts, shaking life, love and loss out of the objects of his youth in Northern Ireland. --Robert Macfarlane, author of \u003ci\u003eUnderland: A Deep Time Journey \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA lyrical memoir and family history told through four generations of fathers and sons in Northern Ireland\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eInventory\u003c\/i\u003e, Darran Anderson's searing yet tender memoir, is an interwoven tale of political conflict, trauma, history, family, and resistance. With great rhythm, humor, and sometimes painful detail, Anderson tells the story of his city and family through the objects and memories that define them. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGrowing up in Derry, Northern Ireland, amid the unspeakable violence of the Troubles, Anderson was accustomed to poverty and fracture. Avoiding British soldiers, IRA operatives, unexploded bombs, and stray bullets, he and his friends explored their hometown with boundless imagination and innocence despite their dire circumstances. But his parents and extended family, Catholics living in Protestant-controlled Northern Ireland, could not evade the persecution. His father joined the IRA, spent time in prison, and yearned to escape the hellish reality of the Troubles. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThroughout his inventive, evocative memoir, Anderson chronicles the history of Derry's evolution from an island backwater to a crucial Allied naval base during World War II, and the diverging paths of his two grandfathers in the wake of the American military's arrival: one, an alcoholic army deserter, drowns in the legendary River Foyle--the river that will take the life of the grandfather's wife years later--while the other, a smuggler, lives off the river, retrieving the bodies of the drowned. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFifteen years after leaving Derry, Anderson returns to confront the past and its legacy when yet another family member goes missing in the Foyle. In \u003ci\u003eInventory\u003c\/i\u003e, his gripping attempt to see who, or what, he can salvage from history's shadows, Anderson creates a presence in the shape of an absence, unearthing the buried fates of family, country, and self.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49643408195857,"sku":"GOR012310368","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49972740653329,"sku":"CIN0374277583G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53136618422545,"sku":"GOR012145313","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53213566664977,"sku":"CIN0374277583VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0374277583.jpg?v=1751038944"},{"product_id":"serge-gainsbourg-s-histoire-de-melody-nelson-book-darran-anderson-9781623562878","title":"Serge Gainsbourg's Histoire de Melody Nelson","description":"Outside his native France, the view of Serge Gainsbourg was once of a one-hit wonder lothario. This has been slowly replaced by an awareness of how talented and innovative a songwriter he was. Gainsbourg was an eclectic, protean figure; a Dadaist, poète maudit, Pop-Artist, libertine and anti-hero. An icon and iconoclast.     His masterpiece is arguably Histoire de Melody Nelson, an album suite combining many of his signature themes; sex, taboo, provocation, humour, exoticism and ultimately tragedy. Composed and arranged with the great Jean-Claude Vannier, its score of lush cinematic strings and proto-hip hop beats, combined with Serge's spoken-word poetry, has become remarkably influential across a vast musical spectrum; inspiring soundtracks, indie groups and electronic artists. In recent years, the album's reputation has grown from cult status to that of a modern classic with the likes of Beck, Portishead, Mike Patton, Air and Pulp paying tribute.     How did the son of Jewish Russian immigrants, hounded during the Nazi Occupation, rise to such notoriety and acclaim, being celebrated by President François Mitterand as \"our Baudelaire, our Apollinaire\"? How did the early chanson singer evolve into a musical visionary incorporating samples, breakbeats and dub into his music, decades ahead of the curve? And what are the roots and legacy of a concept album about a Rolls Royce, a red-haired Lolita muse, otherworldly mansions, plane crashes and Cargo Cults?","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49733938872593,"sku":"NGR9781623562878","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51841692631313,"sku":"GOR014422813","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52976767336721,"sku":"GOR005743286","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1623562872.jpg?v=1751024010"},{"product_id":"imaginary-cities-book-darran-anderson-9780226470306","title":"Imaginary Cities","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eFor as long as humans have gathered in cities, those cities have had their shining--or shadowy--counterparts. Imaginary cities, potential cities, future cities, perfect cities. It is as if the city itself, its inescapable gritty reality and elbow-to-elbow nature, demands we call into being some alternative, yearned-for better place.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e This book is about those cities. It's neither a history of grand plans nor a literary exploration of the utopian impulse, but rather something different, hybrid, idiosyncratic. It's a magpie's book, full of characters and incidents and ideas drawn from cities real and imagined around the globe and throughout history. Thomas More's allegorical island shares space with Soviet mega-planning; Marco Polo links up with James Joyce's meticulously imagined Dublin; the medieval land of Cockaigne meets the hopeful future of Star Trek. With Darran Anderson as our guide, we find common themes and recurring dreams, tied to the seemingly ineluctable problems of our actual cities, of poverty and exclusion and waste and destruction. And that's where \u003ci\u003eImaginary Cities\u003c\/i\u003e becomes more than a mere--if ecstatically entertaining--intellectual exercise: for, as Anderson says, \"If a city can be imagined into being, it can be re-imagined.\" Every architect, philosopher, artist, writer, planner, or citizen who dreams up an imaginary city offers lessons for our real ones; harnessing those flights of hopeful fancy can help us improve the streets where we live.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Though it shares DNA with books as disparate as Calvino's \u003ci\u003eInvisible Cities\u003c\/i\u003e and Jane Jacobs's \u003ci\u003eDeath and Life of Great American Cities\u003c\/i\u003e, there's no other book quite like \u003ci\u003eImaginary Cities\u003c\/i\u003e. After reading it, you'll walk the streets of your city--real or imagined--with fresh eyes.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50346839507217,"sku":"CIN022647030XA","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50937201983761,"sku":"CIN022647030XG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51302315000081,"sku":"GOR014220686","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51402720870673,"sku":"GOR008209737","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51734914892049,"sku":"CIN022647030XVG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/022647030X.jpg?v=1750694044"},{"product_id":"inventory-book-darran-anderson-9781250798701","title":"Inventory","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eInventory\u003c\/i\u003e is a remarkable memoir; a work of auto-archaeology, really, in which Darran Anderson disinters his own and his country's hard pasts, shaking life, love and loss out of the objects of his youth in Northern Ireland.\" --Robert Macfarlane, author of \u003ci\u003eUnderland: A Deep Time Journey\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A lyrical memoir and family history told through four generations of fathers and sons in Northern Ireland\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eInventory\u003c\/i\u003e, Darran Anderson's searing yet tender memoir, is an interwoven tale of political conflict, trauma, history, family, and resistance. With great rhythm, humor, and sometimes painful detail, Anderson tells the story of his city and family through the objects and memories that define them.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Growing up in Derry, Northern Ireland, amid the unspeakable violence of the Troubles, Anderson was accustomed to poverty and fracture. Avoiding British soldiers, IRA operatives, unexploded bombs, and stray bullets, he and his friends explored their hometown with boundless imagination and innocence despite their dire circumstances. But his parents and extended family, Catholics living in Protestant-controlled Northern Ireland, could not evade the persecution. His father joined the IRA, spent time in prison, and yearned to escape the hellish reality of the Troubles.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Throughout his inventive, evocative memoir, Anderson chronicles the history of Derry's evolution from an island backwater to a crucial Allied naval base during World War II, and the diverging paths of his two grandfathers in the wake of the American military's arrival: one, an alcoholic army deserter, drowns in the legendary River Foyle--the river that will take the life of the grandfather's wife years later--while the other, a smuggler, lives off the river, retrieving the bodies of the drowned.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Fifteen years after leaving Derry, Anderson returns to confront the past and its legacy when yet another family member goes missing in the Foyle. In \u003ci\u003eInventory\u003c\/i\u003e, his gripping attempt to see who, or what, he can salvage from history's shadows, Anderson creates \"a presence in the shape of an absence,\" unearthing the buried fates of family, country, and self.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51022034764049,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51022036893969,"sku":"NIN9781250798701","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51683798352145,"sku":"GOR014359089","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51847491420433,"sku":"CIN1250798701G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52097372258577,"sku":"CIN1250798701VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1250798701.jpg?v=1750986430"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-au\/collections\/author-books-by-darran-anderson.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}