Boy On Fire: The Young Nick Cave by Mark Mordue
$29.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment
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
The Comic Book Story of Video Games: The Incredible History of the Electronic Gaming Revolution by Jonathan Hennessey
$34.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment
Author Jonathan Hennessey and illustrator Jack McGowan present the first full-color, chronological origin story for this hugely successful, omnipresent artform and business. Hennessey provides readers with everything they need to know about video games--from their early beginnings during World War II to ...Show more
I Me Mine by Olivia Harrison (Editor); George Harrison; Derek Taylor
$69.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment
Originally published in 1980 and cherished by fans and collectors,I, Me, Mine is the closest we will come to George Harrisons autobiography. It is "a sly paradox of a title," to quote Derek Taylor, The Beatles spokesperson, "chosen by a man concerned for many years and for many reasons to send his ego p ...Show more
Janis - Her Life and Music by Holly George-Warren
$32.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment | Reading Level: very good
It's been said Janis Joplin was second only to Bob Dylan as the 'creator-recorder-embodiment of her generation's mythology'. But how did a middle-class girl from Texas become a '60s countercultural icon? Janis' parents doted on her and promoted her early talent for art. But the arrival of a brother shat ...Show more
The Astounding Illustrated History of Science Fiction by Jess Nevins
$44.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment | Series: Inspirations & Techniques
A truly astonishing, illustrated history of Science fiction, covering fantasy, and horror, with forays into crime, mystery and the gothic. Using timelines, online links, illustrations, posters, movie stills, book covers, and more, this amazing new book propels us into the well of modern imagination, fro ...Show more
Beastie Boys Book by Adam Horovitz, Michael Diamond
$49.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment
A panoramic experience that tells the story of Beastie Boys, a book as unique as the band itself--by band members ADROCK and Mike D, with contributions from Amy Poehler, Colson Whitehead, Spike Jonze, Wes Anderson, Luc Sante, and more. Formed as a New York City hardcore band in 1981, Beastie Boys st ...Show more
Gurrumul by Robert Hillman
$24.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment
This unique Indigenous man is one of the most inspiring music stories of our generation. From concert halls to recording studios and into Aboriginal heartlands, this is the story of Australia's Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu. This unique Indigenous man is one of the most inspiring music stories of our gene ...Show more
Nirvana's In Utero 33 1/3 by Gaar Gillian
$19.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment | Series: 33 1/3 S.
Though "Nevermind" was Nirvana's most commercially successful album, and the record that broke them - and the grunge phenomenon - internationally, "In Utero" has increasingly become regarded as the band's best album, both by the critics and the band members themselves. This work tells the story behind t ...Show more
The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music by Dave Grohl
$24.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment
THE SUNDAY TIMES NO 1 BESTSELLER * ONE OF NME's BEST MUSIC BOOKS OF 2021 * ONE OF VARIETY'S BEST MUSIC BOOKS OF 2021 * INCLUDED IN AUDIBLE'S BEST OF THE YEAR LISTSo, I've written a book. Having entertained the idea for years, and even offered a few questionable opportunities ('It's a piece of cake ...Show more
Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You by Lucinda Williams
$34.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment | Reading Level: very good
Lucinda Williams's rise to fame was anything but easy. Raised in a working-class family in the Deep South, she moved from town to town each time her father--a poet, a textbook salesman, a professor, a lover of parties--got a new job, totalling twelve different places by the time she was 18. Her mother s ...Show more
Faith, Hope and Carnage by Nick Cave, Sean O'Hagan
$34.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment
"Created from more than forty hours of intimate conversations with the journalist Seán O’Hagan, this is a profoundly thoughtful exploration, in Cave’s own words, of what really drives his life and creativity. The book examines questions of belief, art, music, freedom, grief and love. It draws candidly o ...Show more
Folk Music - A Bob Dylan Biography in Seven Songs by Greil Marcus
$41.95 AUD
Category: Entertainment
Acclaimed cultural critic Greil Marcus tells the story of Bob Dylan through the lens of seven penetrating songs "Marcus delivers yet another essential work of music journalism."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "Further elevates Marcus to what he has always been: a supreme artist-critic."--Hilton Als Ac ...Show more