For a man who came from a culture that prizes conversation as a high art ... books, plays and poetry. And listening to his songs it's no surprise that MacGowan was, in his youth, a reader.

Richard Balls, writer of 'A Furious Devotion: The Authorised Story of Shane MacGowan', is holding an ... Shane for the first time for his second book, about Stiff Records, the label the Pogues ...

A number of Friday's papers pay tribute to Shane MacGowan, who has died age 65 A number of papers have named two senior royals who are alleged by a new book to have speculated about the Duke and ...