Also nominated was Geoff Dyer's take on Julian Barnes' Booker-winning novel, The Sense of An Ending, of which he said: "It isn't terrible, it is just so... average, " and David Sexton's review of Carol Ann Duffy's The Bees - calling it "very GCSE".

BBC: By Nightfall jacket

Receli, steel guitarist Donnie Herron, and guitarists Charlie Sexton and Stu Kimball -- as well as David Hidalgo on guitar, violin and accordion.

CNN: Bob Dylan on his dark new album, 'Tempest'