Rememberings by Sinead O'Connor
$22.99 AUD
Category: Performing Arts
An intimate and revelatory memoir from the iconic, acclaimed singer-songwriterSinead O'Connor's voice and trademark shaved head made her famous by the age of twenty-one. Her landmark recording of Prince's Nothing Compares 2 U made her a global icon. She outraged millions when she tore up a photograph of ...Show more
Shoulda Been Higher: A Celebration of 30 Years of Triple J's Hottest 100 by Tom W Clarke
$34.99 AUD
Category: Performing Arts
The Hottest 100 is a national institution.Every year since 1993, Australia's national youth broadcaster triple j has held annual countdown of listeners' 100 favourite songs of the year, as voted by the public. It's as iconic of modern Australiana as sausage sizzles and leadership spills. It has become s ...Show more
Listen: On Music, Sound and Us by Michel Faber
$36.99 AUD
Category: Performing Arts
'I'm not here to change your mind about Dusty Springfield or Shostakovich or Tupac Shakur or synthpop. I'm here to change your mind about your mind.' There are countless books on music with much analysis given to musicians, bands, eras and/or genres. But rarely does a book delve into what's going on in ...Show more
Acid For The Children - The autobiography of Flea, the Red Hot Chili Peppers legend by Flea
$22.99 AUD
Category: Performing Arts
Flea, the iconic bassist and co-founder, alongside Anthony Kiedis, of the immortal Red Hot Chili Peppers finally tells his fascinating origin story, complete with all the dizzying highs and the gutter lows you'd expect from an LA street rat turned world-famous rock star. Michael Peter Balzary was born i ...Show more
Boy On Fire: The Young Nick Cave by Mark Mordue
$29.99 AUD
Category: Performing Arts
The bestselling, award-winning and critically acclaimed biography of the young Nick Cave, by award-winning writer, Mark Mordue. A beautiful, profound and poetic biography of the formative years of the dark prince of Australian rock 'n' roll, Boy on Fire is Nick Cave's creation story. This is a portrait ...Show more
David Bowie All the Songs: The Story Behind Every Track by Benoit Clerc
$69.99 AUD
Category: Performing Arts | Series: All the Songs Ser.
A first-of-its-kind chronicle of David Bowie's career, spanning 50 years and 27 studio albums, David Bowie All the Songs tells the story of one of rock's all-time greatest artists -- album by album, and track by track.A lovingly thorough dissection of every album and every track ever released by David B ...Show more
The Path to Paradise: A Francis Ford Coppola Story by Sam Wasson
$45.00 AUD
Category: Performing Arts
A visionary who was ahead of his time, the book presents Francis Ford Coppola's great adventure in film-making.Say 'Coppola' and The Godfather immediately comes to mind. But Coppola isn't Corleone -- he's more than that. He's a visionary who predicted that digital cameras - no larger than one's hand - ...Show more
The Talented Mr Ripley (Netflix TVTI) by Patricia Highsmith
$22.99 AUD
Category: Performing Arts
This sleek and modern Netflix tie-in edition marks the return of Highsmith's classic story to our screens, cementing The Talented Mr Ripley's iconic position as a tale that has triggered delight and disgust in readers and viewers alike for decades, and will continue to do so for decades to come. * Tom R ...Show more
Leonard Cohen, Untold Stories: The Early Years by Michael Posner
$49.99 AUD
Category: Performing Arts | Series: Great Untold Series
The extraordinary life of one of the world's greatest music and literary icons, in the words of those who knew him best. Poet, novelist, singer-songwriter, artist, prophet, icon--there has never been a figure like Leonard Cohen. He was a true giant in contemporary western culture, entertaining and inspi ...Show more
Beethoven - A Life in Nine Pieces by Laura Tunbridge
$39.99 AUD
Category: Performing Arts
2020 marks 250 years since Beethoven's birth Ludwig van Beethoven: to some, simply the greatest ever composer of Western classical music. Yet his life remains shrouded in myths, and the image persists of him as an eccentric genius shaking his fist at heaven. Beethoven by Oxford professor Laura Tunbridge ...Show more
Year of the Monkey: The New York Times bestseller by Patti Smith
$22.99 AUD
Category: Performing Arts
'Magical' GUARDIAN'A gripping tale of the search for meaning in times of turbulence - expressed with Smith's signature poetic flair' VOGUE'Extraordinary ... A tense, teasing mix of reality and dream' Sunday Times'A melancholy mood and poetic language distinguish Smith's third memoir' BBC'Her willingness ...Show more
One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time by Craig Brown
$24.99 AUD
Category: Performing Arts
WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2020. A Spectator Book of the Year From the award-winning author of Ma'am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret comes a fascinating, hilarious, kaleidoscopic biography of the Fab Four. John Updike compared them to 'the sun coming out on an Easter morning'. Bob D ...Show more