Name: Rare Singles
Brand: Benjamin Myers

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

9781526671905signes

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Rough Trade Exclusive: No

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Extended format: Yes

Format Books GB

Hardback

Format detail

signed by the Author, Indies Edition

Limited edition

Release date

2024-08-01

Signed copies

Signed copies: Yes

Supplier GB

Bloomsbury

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Zero:0

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9781526671905

Hardback | Signed Copy

Artist

Benjamin Myers

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Writing

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An ingenious, funny and moving novel about love, loss and second chances - and the power of music to bring us together. By the award-winning author of The Offing and The Gallows Pole.

A warm, tender and funny story about unlikely friendships, second chances, and the magic of soul music - perfect for fans of Nick Hornby, David Nicholls and Jonathan Coe.

Dinah has always lived in Scarborough. Trapped with her feckless husband and useless son, her one release comes at her town’s Northern Soul nights, where she gets to put on her best and lose herself in the classics.

Dinah has an especial hero: Bucky Bronco, who recorded a string of soul gems in the late Sixties and then vanished off the face of the earth. When she manages to contact

Bucky she can’t believe her luck. Over in Chicago, Bucky Bronco is down on his luck – and has been since the loss of his beloved wife Maybelle. The best he can hope for is to make ends meet, and try and stay high.

But then an unexpected invitation arrives, from someone he’s never met, to come to somewhere he’s never heard of. With nothing to lose – and in need of the cash – Bucky boards a plane.

And so Bucky finds himself in rainy Scarborough, where everyone seems to know who is – preparing to play for an audience for the first time in nearly half a century. Over the course of the week, he finds himself striking up new and unexpected friendships; and facing his past, and its losses, for the very first time.

Wise, hilarious and profound, Rare Singles is an unforgettable story about the power of music and friendship to bring us back to ourselves.

Rare Singles

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Discover Rare Singles by Benjamin Myers. An ingenious novel about love, loss, and second chances, intertwined with the magic of soul music. Published by Bloomsbury.