Bob Dylan

After all of these years, it still remains the definitive Dylan biography. With its subject's consent and access to a wide range of authentic sources coupled to the writer's keen eye for detail, No Direction Home transports the reader right back into those artistically febrile times.

-- God Is In The TV

Shelton's book is such an essential read amongst the crowded market of Dylan biographies... As a Dylan primer, it's in a class of its own... Simply put this is a lavishly illustrated book.

-- Americana UK

No journalist has covered Dylan's career longer or with more respect than Robert Shelton.

* New York Times *

The most accurate description of the development of Bob's musical and poetic evolution, his innovative genius and perplexity... it is impossible to deny Shelton a legacy as an authority on popular music and an emeritus on Bob Dylan.

-- xsnoize

A landmark account of Dylan's genesis and ascension.

-- David Fricke * MOJO *

I don't believe Bob Dylan ever covered a Hawkwind song - though I can imagine him doing a mean version of "Masters of the Universe", with added nasal howl - but he was, of course, one of the kings of the underground, and the Sixties counterculture, and what with it being his 80^th birthday any minute, there's a tranche of books coming out, not to bury but to praise. Biggest, and the best in terms of its design and illustrations and closeness of its author to its subject, is Liz Thomson's fine editing job on the classic Robert Shelton bio, No Direction Home, here published as a coffee table slab packed with fantastic photos and ephemera - posters, tickets, all that.

-- The Arts Desk

'This is a book which you will want to own. It oozes quality and is lavishly illustrated with more than 150 images.'

* Living Tradition magazine *