Bowie’s Son Launches Bowie Book Club
David Bowie’s son Duncan Jones has launched a new online Bowie book club of his father’s favourite books.
Bowie’s official website released a list of the flame-haired musician’s top 100 books back in 2013. The extensive list featured classics from George Orwell, T.S. Elliot and even vintage Beano comics. Inspired by his father’s reading, Duncan Jones took to Twitter to begin a book club. Jones plucked Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd as the first book to begin with.
Alright gang! Anyone who wants to join along, we are reading Peter Ackroyd’s “Hawksmoor,” as an amuse cerveau before we get into the heavy stuff. You have until Feb 1. ❤️
— Duncan Jones (@ManMadeMoon) December 27, 2017
Besides being born and thumbing through his father’s dusty old book collection, Jones is known as a director, producer and screenwriter. His works include the BAFTA award winning Moon. He tweeted (below) his reasons for starting the book club.
My dad was a beast of a reader. One of his true loves was Peter Ackroyd’s sojourns into the history of Britain & its cities. I’ve been feeling a building sense of duty to go on the same literary marathon in tribute to dad. Time allowing…#Read-ItBig’nsTheBrain
— Duncan Jones (@ManMadeMoon) December 27, 2017
Duncan Jones will be announcing the next book via Twitter on the 1st of February. Are you tempted to join along? If you do, we’d love to see you reading intensely like Jones.
Reading intensely. pic.twitter.com/0EgDMclyw2
— Duncan Jones (@ManMadeMoon) January 2, 2018