Neneh Cherry

3 weeks ago | fivebooks.com | Neneh Cherry |Rachel Clarke |Chloe Dalton |Clare Mulley

The Women’s Prize for Nonfiction is still a relatively new prize. Perhaps you might talk us through its aims and the type of book you are seeking to reward. This is the second year of the Women’s Prize for Nonfiction. We are the younger sister of the Women’s Prize for Fiction, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year.

2 months ago | thehyphen.substack.com | Neneh Cherry |Chloe Dalton |Helen Scales |Emma Gannon

I follow the Women’s Prize with great interest and enthusiasm every year, setting my alarm for the announcements across fiction and non-fiction, and then filling up my Bookshop.org shopping basket with some fantastic new reads. So when Claire, the brilliant executive director of the Women’s Prize Trust, invited me to be a judge for the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction 2025, I felt like pinching myself. “I am so excited,” I said.

Nov 8, 2024 | libraryjournal.com | Neneh Cherry

. Oct. 2024. 304p. ISBN 9781982161040. $28.99. MEMOIR COPY ISBN Swedish singer-songwriter Cherry shares stories of her life and career. She was born in Stockholm in 1964 to textile artist and painter Monika “Moki” Karlsson and West African musician Ahmadu Jah, who separated six months after her birth. Moki then married American jazz trumpeter Don Cherry.

Nov 1, 2024 | ocregister.com | Erik Pedersen |Neneh Cherry

There’s a voice whispering in my ear, telling me a story. What more could I want? “Tell me a story” is what we beg for as kids to comfort us when we’re scared or bored or unwilling to give in to sleep. And Al Pacino’s just-published memoir “Sonny Boy” has serious storytelling magic. The Oscar-winning actor has had a life: a hardscrabble upbringing in the Bronx with a loving but troubled single mom, a largely absent father and a gang of friends who mostly never made it out of the neighborhood alive.

Oct 18, 2024 | louderthanwar.com | Natalie A. Royle |Neneh Cherry

Alice Cooper | Primal Scream | The MeffsAO Arena, Manchester17th October 2024Fresh from the success of his latest album Road, rock icon, pioneer and rock and roll Hall of Fame inductee Alice Cooper is back in the UK for the first time since 2022 on his Too Close For Comfort arena tour. Louder Than War’s Natalie Royle caught him at Manchester’s AO Arena.