The Nineties: When Surface Was Depth

With this title, Bracewell gives us the first consideration of that still-warm, still-bizarre, still-confused and confusing decade just ended. He talks to and talks about a host of representative nineties figures, some already forgotten, some absolutely emblematic of their times - from Hanson to Neil Hannon, from Tracey Emin to Hussein Chalayan, from the Spice Girls to Sean Hughes. Painstakingly, sometimes painfully, he puts all the pieces together and starts to make sense of it all...