Coming soon, a major new rock biography: FAB: An Intimate Life of Paul McCartney. To be published in the UK by HarperCollins on 2 September, 2010 (see UK cover top), Da Capo Press in the United States and Doubleday Canada (North American cover below). Pre-order now at Amazon or other online retailers.

June 2010: Former cage fighting star Lightning Lee Murray is given a ten-year prison sentence in Morocco for his part in the £53 million Securitas robbery, the biggest cash robbery in British criminal history. Read the full story in Heist,  available at good book shops and online at Amazon.co.uk. 

May 2010: 'The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll', a 30-minute BBC Radio 4 documentary about Bob Dylan's protest song of the same name, presented by Dylan biographer Howard Sounes, is a Radio 4 Pick of the Week. 

January 2010:  Reviewing the new edition of Charles Bukowski: Locked  in the Arms of a Crazy Life (Canongate, £9.99), Victoria Segal writes in the Guardian that Howard Sounes 'distils Bukowski's unlovely life into biographical firewater'.