- Published: 15 March 2013
- ISBN: 9780099554332
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 288
- RRP: $27.99
The Train in the Night
A Story of Music and Loss
- Published: 15 March 2013
- ISBN: 9780099554332
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 288
- RRP: $27.99
In a story told with warmth, wit, candour and dry, self-deprecating humour and without a whiff of self-pity... Coleman is insightful and convincing in his musings on music's emotional impact, funny in his recollections of the pains of growing up and sharp in his analysis of the thorny issue of musical 'taste'
Time Out
A smart, witty and gentle memoir of music and adolescence and beyond
Sunday Herald
Really a story about listening and love. Brilliant.
Guardian
A deft and heartfelt exploration of music, silence, adolescence, English pop and the emotional consequences of serious illness, and above all a discussion of something modern culture has very nearly lost touch with - the idea, and the desirability, of taste.
D. J. Taylor
A beautiful, elegiac ballad. Coleman writes elegantly and movingly of his youth, of growing up and of his intimate relationship with an art form that has shaped his memories
Financial Times
Coleman is a spirited person, who writes with an irresistible Hornby-esque skip in his style... funny and admirable
Andrew Motion, Guardian
If The Train in the Night went no further than the list of life-changing music that drops in at the end, like an index, it would be just another retread of High Fidelity, but Nick Hornby's book is a boy's train-set in comparison to this
Independent
Fascinating book... It’s beautifully written, moving and, coming from 1970s, Yes-loving prog-rocker, surprisingly moving.
John Walsh, Independent
Congratulations to Coleman: his private hell is now a tribute to the things he loves the most
Sunday Times
This is a book for anyone who grew up with pop music, listens to it still and has spent too much time thinking about it and talking about it. But it’s also a book about love and loss and middle age and looming mortality, written with grace and the driest imaginable humour. I’m not sure I can recommend it highly enough
Spectator
An autobiography through sound...a broad meditation on mortality and the resourceful defences of memory
Observer
A rites-of-passage memoir refracted through key sonic experiences...a de profundis roar of anger and bafflement as the randomness of what has befallen Coleman prompts fundamental questions: Who am I? How am I? What the hell happens now?
The Times
Emotional and resonant… Sharp, funny and sad in equal measure
Sally Morris, Daily Mail
Written with the same passion and wit that punctuated his reviews for the likes of NME, Coleman shares his journey to reconnecting with the soundtrack of his life
Big Issue in the North
I can’t tell you how good it is but I’ll try… It’s a superb analysis
William Leith, Evening Standard
Wonderful
Nick Hornby
A warm, witty and very candid book
Natasha Harding, Sun