In Another World

‘This is a book that focuses on the records themselves. If that sounds dry the result is anything but. In fact the book has a swirling tidal pull to it that sweeps you along and under’ * A Best Pop Music Book of 2026 - The Herald *
‘Few music biographies are real page turners in the manner this one is, in no small part due to the human stories at its heart, both in terms of subject and writer. But ultimately, this is a book which will not only take you back to the music, as the best music biographies do, it will make you listen in a new way. In Another World: The Four Seasons of Talk Talk is not an instruction manual, it’s a guide book, and it opens up a magical, and often moving, journey.’ * Product *
‘Graeme Thomson does an excellent job of examining their legacy through the albums The Colour of Spring, Spirit of Eden, Laughing Stock and Mark Hollis, reconstructing the painstaking processes involved in their making. Essential reading. BOOK OF THE WEEK’ * Yorkshire Post *
‘Kudos to Graeme Thomson who has attempted to make the impossible real. With a thoroughness which would do Hollis proud, Thomson paints a passionate, informed picture. (An) excellent musical investigation 4⁄5’ * Record Collector *
‘It’s the enveloping silence at the core of this immersive book that rings truest … in sending us back to these timeless records, and slowing us down to their meticulous individual heartbeats, Thomson achieves exactly what he – and Hollis – set out to do.’ * Spectrum Culture *
‘Glorious’ * Electronic Sound *
‘Curious, warm, reflective, enlightening: entirely in the spirit of their wonderful music’ – Nicola Meighan * A Kick Up The Arts *
‘For a band whose mystique has only deepened in the years since Hollis’s passing, this is the document their legacy has been waiting for’ – Eric Alper * SiriusXM *
‘Thomson’s book honours that mystique while at the same time attempting to decipher the glorious intensity of the music’ * The List *
’[A] fascinating and stirring tribute to one of the most inscrutable bands of the ’80s … Elegantly articulates the sensuality of the band’s sound 4⁄5’ * Classic Pop *

Graeme Thomson is the critically acclaimed music writer and author of biographies on Simple Minds, Kate Bush and George Harrison. Over the past 25 years his features, interviews, reviews and criticism have appeared in the Observer, New Statesman, The Guardian, Radio Times, The Word, Uncut, The Telegraph, GQ, Time Out, The Herald, Sunday Herald, MOJO, Esquire, the Sunday Express and Rolling Stone.

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