Truly Gifted Kids: A Book About a Band Called Prefab Sprout

'Truly Gifted Kids: A Book About a Band Called Prefab Sprout' by Nige Tassell, out this month.

Four hundred pages on Paddy McAloon, who has spent the last thirteen years writing and recording material that almost nobody has heard.

It's part biography, part travelogue. At one point Tassell ends up working as an ad-hoc roadie for Martin McAloon, which tells you the sort of access he had to settle for and the lengths he went to anyway.

£25, hardback.