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James Briggs
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Music & travel writer for The Guardian

From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads - A Bowie Odyssey. Published by Icon Books October 2025

Tottenham Hotspur pain sponge.

Rep'd by Nick Walters at DLA

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When you've cycled a David Bowie lyric 'From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads' there's only one county to go and do your first book signing. Thanks Norfolk and the brilliant folk at Diss Publishing Bookshop!

#Bowie #Diss #Norfolk #bookstoread #debutauthor
November 2, 2025 at 4:19 PM
NORFOLK! I'll be signing copies of From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads: A Bowie Odyssey at Diss Publishing Bookshop this Saturday from 11am-1pm. Come say hello! ⚡️

#Bowie #Norfolk #debutauthor #bookshop #independentbookshops #Diss
October 30, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Honoured to be on Lauren Laverne's 6music show talking Bowie and From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads from around midday. With thanks producers Matt and Shola, and Lauren for having me on. Proper 6music fanboy moment 🙂
October 20, 2025 at 10:10 AM
One whole week of From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads 🙂
Six whole days of covid for the first time 🙃
October 17, 2025 at 12:10 PM
From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads is published today! Thank you to everyone who helped make this happen and the biggest thank you of all to David Robert Jones - aka David Bowie. You made some mighty fine records and you made my childhood dream come true.
October 9, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Thursday 16th October! Chatting Bowie and bikes with award-winning travel writer Daniel Stables at the iconic Battersea Power Station (and how we both ended up namechecking Mr Blobby in our books..). Do join!

Tickets: www.batterseabookshop.com/event-from-i...
October 8, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Delighted to be sharing the pages of this week's @cyclingweekly.com with the disgustingly better looking Geraint Thomas as I write about what I learnt cycling
@davidbowiereal.bsky.social's lyric 'From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads.

Thanks to @dbfreelance.co.uk
October 1, 2025 at 1:19 PM
On Wednesday, a great friend, Lee, wrote to Lauren Laverne to tell her about the Bowie tome. Couldn't have been more surprised and overjoyed when she read it out on 6music. Love you mate. So glad you came along for the ride. And thanks to Lauren Laverne for her dulcet delivery. Ou est le Bowie!
September 27, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Bowie holds a narrow lead, but who will be Christmas number one? Bananarama and Brother Beyond waiting in the wings to mount a serious challenge.
September 16, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Thank you ever so much to the lovely @markradcliffe.bsky.social for offering some kind words about my Bowie escapade.
August 28, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Thanks for everything, Sonny. We love you.
August 2, 2025 at 8:08 AM
New ink. COYS
July 31, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Yes, Lionesses! 🦁🦁🦁
July 27, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Thrilled and terrified to say my journey following a David Bowie song lyric ‘From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads’ will be published by Icon Books this October.

With Life on Mars? released as a single 52 years ago today, it's a lovely clammy day for a cover reveal.

#DavidBowie #LifeOnMars
June 22, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Stole most of my life, all my weekend afternoons and forever my tattered heart. Stole a bit of the pitch in return. COYS
May 22, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Second to last time Spurs won a trophy we had a fella on the bench smoking a pipe! COYS
May 20, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Amen.

via Salted Books, Lisbon.
January 9, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Happy Birthday David Bowie
January 8, 2025 at 2:44 PM
@fontainesdc.bsky.social ripping Ally Pally a new giant cavernous hole.
December 4, 2024 at 3:13 PM