Driving for Music - The Orchestral Memoirs of a Bus-Driving Violist by Peter van Drimmelen
41.00 NZD
Category: Music
Peter van Drimmelen¿s orchestral career spans thirty-five years; latterly with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra from 1987 to 2014. Over those years he has played the Beethoven symphonies 750 times. During the lean years he drove buses to make ends meet. His memoir records the unexpected and funny aspe ...Show more
The Kissing Booth (#1) by Beth Reekles
18.99 NZD
Category: Film & Television
Meet Elle Evans - pretty, popular - and never been kissed. Meet Noah Flynn -badass, volatile - and a total player. When Elle decides to run a kissing booth for the school carnival, she never imagines she'll sit in it - or that her first ever kiss would be with bad boy Noah. From that moment, her life is ...Show more
Love, Simon (Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda Film Tie-In) #1 by Becky Albertalli
23.00 NZD
Category: Film & Television | Series: Simon Vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda | Reading Level: very good
Straight people should have to come out too. And the more awkward it is, the better. Simon Spier is sixteen and trying to work out who he is - and what he's looking for. But when one of his emails to the very distracting Blue falls into the wrong hands, things get all kinds of complicated.Because, for S ...Show more
The City & The City: TV tie-in by China Mieville
19.99 NZD
Category: Film & Television
With an introduction by novelist Kamila ShamsieWhen the body of a murdered woman is found in the extraordinary, decaying city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks like a routine case for Inspector Tyador Borlú of the Extreme Crime Squad. But as he probes, the evidence begins to point to ...Show more
Listen to This by Alex Ross
27.99 NZD
Category: Music
One of The Telegraph's Best Music Books 2011 Alex Ross's award-winning international bestseller, The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, has become a contemporary classic, establishing Ross as one of our most popular and acclaimed cultural historians. Listen to This, which takes its titl ...Show more
Stealing All Transmissions - A Secret History of The Clash by Randal Doane
4.99 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: very good
This is a love story. It's the story of how The Clash fell in love with America, and how America loved them back. The romance began in full in 1977, when select rock journalists and DJs aided the band's quest to depose the rock of indolence that dominated American airwaves. This history situates The Cla ...Show more
Comparing Notes - How We Make Sense of Music by Adam Ockelford
27.99 NZD
Category: Music
How does music work? Indeed, what is (or isn't) music? We are all instinctively musical, but why? Adam Ockelford has the answers. A tap of the foot, a rush of emotion, the urge to hum a tune; without instruction or training we all respond intuitively to music. Comparing Notes explores what music is, wh ...Show more
Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot (FTI) by John Callahan
22.99 NZD
Category: Film & Television
The outrageous, funny and inspirational memoir of John Callahan, alcoholic, quadriplegic cartoonist, maverick and hell-raiser, soon to be a major motion picture starring Joaquin Phoenix and Jack Black, directed by Gus Van Sant
Nightflyers (TV Tie-in) by George R R Martin
19.99 NZD
Category: Film & Television
On a voyage toward the boundaries of the known universe, nine misfit academics seek out first contact with a shadowy alien race. But another enigma is the Nightflyer itself, a cybernetic wonder with an elusive captain no one has ever seen in the flesh. Soon, the crew discovers that their greatest myster ...Show more
Pop Charts by Katrina McHugh
45.00 NZD
Category: Music
Test your musical knowledge with this fun compilation, filled with 100 beautifully designed infographics, that pays homage to the songs we can't get out of our heads--inspired by lyrics from artists such as Madonna, Fleetwood Mac, Paul Simon, TLC, Bob Dylan, Weezer, and more. Challenge friends and fami ...Show more
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: An Art Book by Reinhard Kleist
55.00 NZD
Category: Music
In his graphic biography Nick Cave: Mercy on Me, Reinhard Kleist paints an expressive and enthralling portrait of the musician, novelist, poet, and actor. It is, according to Nick Cave himself, "a complex, chilling and completely bizarre journey into Cave World." Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: An Art Bo ...Show more
Career of Evil: A Strike Novel [FTI] by Robert Galbraith
21.99 NZD
Category: Film & Television | Series: The\Cormoran Strike Ser.
Now a major BBC drama: The Strike series When a mysterious package is delivered to Robin Ellacott, she is horrified to discover that it contains a woman's severed leg. Her boss, private detective Cormoran Strike, is less surprised but no less alarmed. There are four people from his past who he thinks ...Show more