REACH FOR THE STARS: 1996-2006 (PB)

Using the arrival of the Spice Girls as a jumping-off point, this book explores, celebrates and contextualises the thus-far-uncharted period of British pop that flourished between 1996 and 2006. Compiled from interviews with popstars, songwriters, producers, choreographers, magazine editors, record-company executives, TV moguls and more, this is a complete behind-the-scenes history of the last great movement in British pop - a technicolour turning-point ripe for re-evaluation, documented here in astonishing, honest and eye-opening detail.