Danger Music: How teaching the cello to children in Afghanistan led to a self-discovery almost too hard to bear by Eddie Ayres
$33.00 AUD
Category: General
Eddie Ayres has a lifetime of musical experience, from learning the viola as a child in England and playing with the Hong Kong Philharmonic for many years, to learning the cello in his thirties and landing in Australia to present an extremely successful Australian morning radio show. But all of this tim ...Show more
Life and Death of Sherlock Holmes: Master Detective, Myth and Media Star by Mattias Boström
$39.99 AUD
Category: Literary
Everybody knows about Sherlock Holmes, the unique literary character created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who has remained popular over the decades and is more appreciated than ever today. But what made this fictional character, dreamed up by a small-town English doctor back in the 1880s, into such a grea ...Show more
Devotion by Dani Shapiro
$25.00 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: P.S.
Settling into the responsibilities and routines of adulthood, Dani Shapiro found herself with more questions than answers. Was this all life was--a hodgepodge of errands, dinner dates, e-mails, meetings, to-do lists? What did it all mean? Having grown up in a deeply religious and traditional family, Sha ...Show more
Meet Me in the Bathroom: Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001-2011 by Lizzy Goodman
$40.00 AUD
Category: Biography
A SUNDAY TIMES, ROUGH TRADE, ROLLING STONE, MOJO AND UNCUT BOOK OF THE YEARLONGLISTED FOR THE PENDERYN MUSIC BOOK PRIZENew York, 2001. 9/11 plunges the US into a state of war and political volatility-and heralds the rebirth of the city's rock scene. As the old-guard music industry crumbles, a group of i ...Show more
Cake and the Rain: A Memoir by Jimmy Webb
$49.95 AUD
Category: Biography
"Novelistic, perfectly plotted and quite possibly the best pop-star autobiography yet written." - The Wall Street Journal Jimmy Webb's words have been sung to his music by a rich and deep roster of pop artists, including Glen Campbell, Art Garfunkel, Frank Sinatra, Donna Summer and Linda Ronstadt. He's ...Show more
The Last Australian Childhood by Kevin Moloney
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
The Last Australian Childhood, written by Kevin Moloney, is a collection of 40 vignettes written in the different voices of a child, reflecting his age at the time the story is set. The stories tell of Kevin's family life, growing up in suburban Melbourne inthe 1960s as a Catholic boy who lost his fathe ...Show more
David Sedaris Visual Compendium by Jeffrey Jenkins (Editor); David Sedaris (Foreword by, Introduction by)
$45.00 AUD
Category: General
In THEFT BY FINDING, David Sedaris opened up his written diaries (and himself) to the world in an unprecedented way. Now, in this illustrated volume, readers will for the first time be able to experience the elaborate, three-dimensional, handmade form that his diaries have always taken. For, in addition ...Show more
How to be Champion by Sarah Millican
$32.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment
'Sarah Millican is never less than belly-laugh hilarious' Mirror'An iron fist in a marigold glove' Guardian'Wonderfully wrong... incredibly funny' MetroPart autobiography, part self help, part confession, part celebration of being a common-or-garden woman, part collection of synonyms for nunny, Sarah Mi ...Show more
From Here to Eternity - Travelling The World to Find The Good Death by Caitlin Doughty
$28.00 AUD
Category: General
As a practicing mortician, Caitlin Doughty has long been fascinated by our pervasive terror of dead bodies. In this new book she sets out in search of cultures unburdened by such fears, exploring Indonesian burial caves and meeting a Bolivian natita (a cigarette-smoking, wish-granting human skull). With ...Show more
George Lucas: A Life by Brian Jay Jones
$23.00 AUD
Category: Entertainment
George Lucas by Brian Jay Jones is the first comprehensive telling of the story of the iconic filmmaker and the building of his film empire, as well as of his enormous impact on cinema. At once a biography, a business manual, and a film history, George Lucas will, for the first time explore the life and ...Show more
Lou Reed A Life by Anthony DeCurtis
$33.00 AUD
Category: Entertainment
As lead singer and songwriter for the Velvet Underground and a renowned solo artist, Lou Reed invented alternative rock. His music, at once the height of sanctity and perversity, transcended a genre, speaking to millions of listeners, inspiring a new generation of musicians, and forever changing the way ...Show more
Adventures of a Young Naturalist - The Zoo Quest Expeditions by David Attenborough
$40.00 AUD
Category: General
"A GREAT BOOK." --THE NEW YORK TIMES"MARVELOUS." --THE TELEGRAPH"A RARE GLIMPSE OF A FLEDGLING DAVID ATTENBOROUGH IN THE WILD." --VANITY FAIRLiving legend and presenter of BBC's Planet Earth series Sir David Attenborough tells the story of his early career as a broadcaster and a naturalist in his own wo ...Show more