Michael Bracewell

Michael Bracewell (born 7 August 1958) is a British writer and novelist. He was born in London, and educated at the University of Nottingham, graduating in English and American Studies.

A comprehensive collection of Bracewell’s essays can be found in The Space Between: Selected Writings on Art, edited by Doro Globus and published by Ridinghouse in 2012.

He is perhaps best known for his 1997 collection, England Is Mine: Pop Life in Albion From Wilde to Goldie.

Books in order of publication:

Fiction

Missing Margate (1988)

The Crypto-Amnesia Club (1988)

The Quick End (1988)

Divine Concepts of Physical Beauty (1989)

The Conclave (1992)

Saint Rachel (1995)

Perfect Tense (2001)

Unfinished Business (2023)

Non-fiction

The Faber Book of Pop (contributor) (1995)

England Is Mine: Pop Life in Albion From Wilde to Goldie (1997)

The Penguin Book of Twentieth-Century Fashion Writing (contributor) (1999)

The Nineties: When Surface was Depth (2002)

I Know Where I’m Going: A Guide to Morecambe & Heysham (co-author) (2003)

Roxyism (2004)

Roxy Music: Bryan Ferry, Brian Eno, Art, Ideas and Fashion (2005)

Re-make/Re-model: Becoming Roxy Music (2007)

The Space Between: Selected Writings on Art (2012)

What Is Gilbert & George? (2017)

Modern World: The Art of Richard Hamilton (2021)

Souvenir (2021)