Lenny Kravitz - Let Love Rule by Lenny Kravitz; David Ritz
37.99 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: near fine
"I see my story as a suite of songs that have a magical connection. I never understood that connection until I sat down to write. It was then that the magic started to flow." Let Love Rule is a work of deep reflection. Lenny Kravitz looks back at his life with candor, self-scrutiny, and humor. "My lif ...Show more
I'm Your Fan: the Songs of Leonard Cohen (33 1/3) by Ray Padgett
21.99 NZD
Category: Music | Series: 33 1/3 Ser.
When I'm Your Fan: The Songs of Leonard Cohen hit stores in 1991, Leonard Cohen's career had plummeted from its revered 1960s high. Cohen's record label had refused to release his 1984 album Various Positions--including the song Hallelujah--in the United States. Luckily, Velvet Underground founder John ...Show more
The Music Advantage: How Music Helps Your Child's Brain by Anita Collins
36.99 NZD
Category: Music
Groundbreaking music educator Dr Anita Collins draws on the latest international neurological research to reveal the extraordinary and often surprising benefits of learning music for children from newborns to teenagers.
Beginner's Step-by-Step Guitar: The Complete Guide
48.00 NZD
Category: Music
From Jimi Hendrix to Ed Sheeran, every guitar hero started somewhere - so stop dreaming and start playing! Covering acoustic and electric, this book includes everything you need to know, from choosing your instrument and reading guitar tab, to using amplifiers and effects. Easy-to-follow lessons take y ...Show more
Useless Magic: Lyrics and Poetry by Florence Welch
40.00 NZD
Category: Music
'Songs can be incredibly prophetic . . . like a kind of useless magic.'The complete lyrics by the iconic vocalist of Florence + the Machine, beautifully interwoven with poems, sketches and jottings from her never-before-seen scrapbooks. This is a glimpse into the work and creative processes of a fearles ...Show more
William Burroughs and the Cult of Rock and Roll by Casey Rae
37.99 NZD
Category: Music
William S. Burroughs's fiction and essays are legendary, but his influence on music's counterculture has been less well documented-until now. Examining how one of America's most controversial literary figures altered the destinies of many notable and varied musicians, William S. Burroughs and the Cult o ...Show more
Wild Thing - The Short, Spellbinding Life of Jimi Hendrix by Philip Norman
37.99 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: very good
Celebrated as the most innovative guitarist ever to play, Jimi Hendrix (1942-1970) is renowned for symphonic solos and virtuosic picking (sometimes, with his teeth). But, as Philip Norman describes, before Hendrix was setting guitars aflame onstage, he was a shy kid in Seattle, lucking at a broken ukul ...Show more
Fare Thee Well - The Final Chapter of the Grateful Dead's Long, Strange Trip by Joel Selvin; Pamela Turley (As told to)
29.99 NZD
Category: Music
A tell-all biography of the epic in-fighting of the Grateful Dead in the years following band leader Jerry Garcia's death in 1995.The Grateful Dead rose to greatness under the inspired leadership of guitarist Jerry Garcia, but the band very nearly died along with him. When Garcia passed away suddenly in ...Show more
Sanditon (TVTI) by Kate Riordan
27.99 NZD
Category: Film & Television | Series: Jane Austen
The official TV tie-in based on the ITV drama scripted by Andrew Davies The official fiction companion to ITV's hotly anticipated new drama, Sanditon tells the tale of Jane Austen's unfinished novel, adapted for television by Emmy and BAFTA-Award winning writer Andrew Davies and brought to the page by ...Show more
Stranger Than Kindness by Nick Cave
69.99 NZD
Category: Music
Stranger Than Kindness is a journey in images and words into the creative world of musician, storyteller and cultural icon Nick Cave. This highly collectible book contains images selected by Cave from 'Stranger Than Kindness: The Nick Cave Exhibition', presented by the Royal Danish Library in partnershi ...Show more
Unorthodox - The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots by Deborah Feldman
32.99 NZD
Category: Film & Television | Reading Level: good-very good
Now a Netflix original series! Unorthodox is the bestselling memoir of a young Jewish woman's escape from a religious sect, in the tradition of Ayaan Hirsi Ali's Infidel and Carolyn Jessop's Escape, featuring a new epilogue by the author. As a member of the strictly religious Satmar sect of Hasidic Juda ...Show more
I Heard You Paint Houses: Now Filmed as The Irishman directed by Martin Scorsese by Charles Brandt
24.99 NZD
Category: Film & Television
'I heard you paint houses' are the first words Jimmy Hoffa ever spoke to Frank 'the Irishman' Sheeran. To paint a house is to kill a man. The paint is the blood that splatters on the wall and floors. In the course of nearly five years of recorded interviews Frank Sheeran confessed to Charles Brandt that ...Show more