[1] He is the author of Blockbuster: How Hollywood Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Summer, published in 2004 by Simon & Schuster.
[2] The book is an analysis of the Hollywood blockbuster phenomenon driven chiefly by Steven Spielberg and George Lucas in the 1970s, based on interviews with these and other filmmakers.
Shone's first novel, In the Rooms was published in the U.K. by Hutchinson on July 2, 2009 and in the U.S. by St Martin's Press in 2011.
[5] Library Journal wrote in their review that "this is the definitive word on Nolan and a must for film buffs.
"[6] Neal Gabler called the book "intelligent, illuminating, rigorous, and highly readable.