Paperback: Bedsit Disco Queen by Tracey Thorn (Virago, £8.99)

Tracey Thorn, who was the singer in Everything But the Girl, writes lovely, rather subtle songs — her sensibility is gentle and polite, but she’s sharp and clever, too.

Here, she tells us about her life as a person and a musician. She grew up in Brookmans Park, Herts — almost but not quite in London. As a teenager she was taken with punk. The way she puts it is: “I’ve always kidded myself that it was punk that got me started.”

She’s acutely aware of how our memories of events are not the same as the events themselves. A rare book about a pop star by a very good writer who happens to be the pop star in question.