Brett Anderson

A story about a boy imagining what it might have been like to grow up in a childhood friendship with Jesus, also as a little boy. The story begins with a parallel reflection all the way back to two thousand years ago, starting with a baby in a manger. Together, they experience the joys and fears of boyhood - right up to the redemptive plan of a cross... cut from the very tree they both climbed and embraced as little boys. The story rhyme is told from the viewpoint of that same little boy, now much older, as he reflects on the precious gift of a loving friend and Savior in Jesus. "A fresh and interactive way to share the Gospel story with children."

MOON Why Are You Chasing Me? A story about a little boy being chased by a playful moon throughout pages of vibrant color. Together, they experience the wonder from each of their own viewpoints within the cycles of the moon. The story includes a focus on Creation, Christmas Nativity, Easter Celebration, Prayer, and concludes with the soft glow of moonlight comfort over a little boy . . . now sound asleep. (For the child in all of us - who also once felt - chased by the moon).

Tick Tock Goes The Clock A Day With Papa B Inspired by the events of an actual day at Papa's house. This is a story about a grandson and his "Papa B" in full play-mode. Together, they experience the joy of each other's company throughout hourly "pages-of-play" between 8 a.m. - 7 p.m. The day includes: chasing, climbing, coloring, cartoons... even an airplane ride in a laundry basket The day concludes when mommy and daddy drive away with the little fella, and Papa and Nana are left with only the "Tick Tock" echo of the wall clock in their now quiet house. With both sadness and happiness, they reflect on a wonderful day, all at the hands of the hourly wall clock that both marks and teaches, time well spent with the little fella who loves, and is deeply loved by... his "Papa B". "This little fella refers to our actual wall clock as "Tick Tock", and can also teach you how to read it "

The Little Bird is a cute, illustrated story about a little girl's love for a bird with a broken wing.

The Little Bird is a cute, illustrated story about a little girl's love for a bird with a broken wing.

'A compelling personal account of the dramas of a singular British band' Neil TennantThe trajectory of Suede - hailed in infancy as both 'The Best New Band in Britain' and 'effete southern wankers' - is recalled with moving candour by its frontman Brett Anderson, whose vivid memoir swings seamlessly between the tender, witty, turbulent, euphoric and bittersweet. Suede began by treading the familiar jobbing route of London's emerging new 1990s indie bands - gigs at ULU, the Camden Powerhaus and the Old Trout in Windsor - and the dispiriting experience of playing a set to an audience of one. But in these halcyon days, their potential was undeniable. Anderson's creative partnership with guitarist Bernard Butler exposed a unique and brilliant hybrid of lyric and sound; together they were a luminescent team - burning brightly and creating some of the era's most revered songs and albums.In Afternoons with the Blinds drawn, Anderson unflinchingly explores his relationship with addiction, heartfelt in the regret that early musical bonds were severed, and clear-eyed on his youthful persona. 'As a young man . . . I oscillated between morbid self-reflection and vainglorious narcissism' he writes. His honesty, sharply self-aware and articulate, makes this a compelling autobiography, and a brilliant insight into one of the most significant bands of the last quarter century.

Kehutun ja pidetyn Hiilenmustat aamut -elämäkerran kirjoittanut Brett Anderson kertoo muistelmiensa toisessa osassa oman versionsa Suede-yhtyeen tarinasta alkaen bändin huimaavasta noususta 90-luvun alussa aina vuoden 2003 antiklimaksiin saakka. Raadollisen rehellisessä kirjassa Anderson ruotii välirikkoa Bernard Butlerin kanssa ja esittää tarkkanäköisiä havaintoja musiikkibisneksen ja median toimintamekanismeista ja nykytilasta sekä niiden vaikutuksesta koneiston rattaissa murskautuvaan ihmiseen. Andersonin sivaltaa myös brittipop-ilmiötä, jota Suede itse oli käynnistämässä. Brett Anderson maalailee runolliseen tyyliinsä kuvia ikonisen sumuisesta Lontoosta ja urbaaneista maisemista, joista Sueden varjoja ja syvyyksiä kavahtamaton musiikki on syntynyt. Hänen tunnistettava äänensä kuuluu kuvauksissa, jotka eivät kaihda varjoja ja syvyyksiä. Tarjolla on ihania otoksia: öisiä moottoriteitä, roskien kirjomaa, töhrittyä asfalttia, viktoriaanisten julkisivujen taakse piiloutuvia boheemeja paheiden pesiä sekä ilmassa kiemurtelevaa tupakansavua ajalta jolloin savuttomat baarit olivat mahdottomuus.

Evening Standard Book of the Year. Observer Book of the Year. Guardian Book of the Year. Sunday Times Book of the Year. Telegraph Book of the Year. New Statesman Book of the Year. Herald Book of the Year. Mojo Book of the Year.Brett Anderson came from a world impossibly distant from rock star success, and in Coal Black Mornings he traces the journey that took him from a childhood as 'a snotty, sniffy, slightly maudlin sort of boy raised on Salad Cream and milky tea and cheap meat' to becoming founder and lead singer of Suede.Anderson grew up in Hayward's Heath on the grubby fringes of the Home Counties. As a teenager he clashed with his eccentric taxi-driving father (who would parade around their council house dressed as Lawrence of Arabia, air-conducting his favourite composers) and adored his beautiful, artistic mother. He brilliantly evokes the seventies, the suffocating discomfort of a very English kind of poverty and the burning need for escape that it breeds. Anderson charts the shabby romance of creativity as he travelled the tube in search of inspiration, fuelled by Marmite and nicotine, and Suede's rise from rehearsals in bedrooms, squats and pubs. And he catalogues the intense relationships that make and break bands as well as the devastating loss of his mother.Coal Black Mornings is profoundly moving, funny and intense - a book which stands alongside the most emotionally truthful of personal stories.

Kaikkien outsidereiden prinssi, Suede-yhtyeen Brett Anderson, kirjoittaa runollisissa muistelmissaan ajasta ennen menestystä. Hiilenmustalla 1970-luvulla eksentristen työläisvanhempien kodissa kasvoi romantikko, joka oppi näkemään maailman nurjan puolen kauneuden. Punk-LP:t, rakkaalta isosiskolta peritty kitara ja vinyylisoitin, David Bowie ja Smiths mullistivat futista potkineen ja ilmaisjakelulehtiä jakaneen pikkupojan maailman.Hiilenmustat aamut ei ole perinteinen menestyksentäyteinen rokkikirja vaan kirja kaikesta siitä, mikä tämän aina itsensä ulkopuoliseksi tunteneen tyypin menestykseen johti. Se on tarina elämästä Marmiten, nikotiinin, oluen ja maitoteen kyllästämässä englantilaisessa pikkukaupungissa, säveltäjä Franz Listziä palvovasta, Arabian Lawrenceksi pukeutuvasta isästä, sieniä keräävästä hippiäidistä, köyhyydestä, kirpparivaatteista, rakkauksista, kuolemista, epäonnistumisista, Lontoon syrjäkujista ja Sueden alkuaikojen pubikeikoista.Teos avaa myös klassikkobiisien taustoja: mikä Sueden kappale on esimerkiksi syntynyt lähiöpoikien happokokeilusta fiinien rouvien kansoittamalla golfkentällä?Brett Anderson (s. 1967 Haywards Heathissa Sussexissa) on maailmankuulun Suede-yhtyeen nokkamies ja laulusolisti. Hiilenmustat aamut julkaistaan tasan 25 vuotta bändin debyyttialbumin ilmestymisen jälkeen. Sueden melankolinen indierock iski salamana suomalaiseen tajuntaan. Sueden eka keikka ulkomailla oli Helsingissä Tavastia-klubilla ja Suomessa bändi sai ensimmäisen listaykkösensä Brittein saarten ulkopuolella. Sirje Niitepõldin suomentaman teoksen jälkisanoista vastaa kirjailija Riku Korhonen.