A Little Book About Movies: Quotes for the Cinephile in Your Life by Unnamed
16.99 NZD
Category: Film & Television | Series: The\Little Books of Film and TV Ser.
The greatest movies endure for many reasons: they give us comfort, laughter, drama and suspense. They thrill us with their powerful storytelling and bring us fabulous characters that linger on in the imagination. And then, of course, they showcase the astonishing skill of the moviemaker. A Little ...Show more
Sound Within Sound: Opening Our Ears to the Twentieth Century by Kate Molleson
45.00 NZD
Category: Music
A radical answer to Alex Ross' The Rest is Noise, Sound Within Sound fundamentally changes the way we think about classical music and the musicians who made it on a global scale. The twentieth century was the century of modernity; in a world undergoing rapid transformation, musicians drew upon new tech ...Show more
King of the Blues by Daniel de Vise
27.99 NZD
Category: Music
The first authoritative cradle-to-grave biography of a worldwide musical and cultural legend.
The Little Guide to Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man by Unnamed
16.99 NZD
Category: Music | Series: The\Little Books of Music Ser.
Features quotes by and about Leonard Cohen, as well as facts, song lists and more. Without a doubt one of the most important, influential and acclaimed artists since the 1960s, Leonard Cohen is admired by fans, musicians and composers the world over. His death in 2016 at the age of 82 was front-page new ...Show more
Long Players: Writers on the Albums That Shaped Them by Tom Gatti
24.99 NZD
Category: Music
In Long Players, fifty of our finest authors write about the albums that changed their lives, from Deborah Levy on Bowie to Daisy Johnson on Lizzo, Ben Okri on Miles Davis to David Mitchell on Joni Mitchell, Sarah Perry on Rachmaninov to Bernardine Evaristo on Sweet Honey in the Rock. Part meditation o ...Show more
Where the Crawdads Sing (FTI) by Delia Owens
27.99 NZD
Category: Film & Television
OVER 12 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE A NUMBER ONE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Painfully beautiful' New York Times 'Unforgettable . . . as engrossing as it is moving' Daily Mail 'A rare achievement' The Times 'I can't even express how much I love this book!' Reese WitherspoonFor ...Show more
Doctor Strange: The Movie Novel (Marvel: Collector's Edition) by Alex Irvine (Adapted by)
31.99 NZD
Category: Film & Television
Doctor Stephen Strange is a gifted but arrogant surgeon whose life is changed in an instant. Following a horrific car crash, Strange is unable to use his hands for the simplest tasks. He travels to Kathmandu, hoping desperately that rumours of a mystical city called Kamar Taj are true, and he can find s ...Show more
The Power of the Dog by Thomas Savage
26.00 NZD
Category: Film & Television | Reading Level: very good
Discover Thomas Savage's dark poetic tale of a small town in early 20th century American that inspired the new Jane Campion film. Phil and George are brothers and joint owners of the biggest ranch in their Montana valley. Phil is the bright one, George the plodder. Phil is tall and angular; George is st ...Show more
Why Marianne Faithfull Matters by Tanya Pearson
27.99 NZD
Category: Music | Series: Music Matters Ser.
A remarkable feminist history and biography that features fragments from the five-decade career of an iconic artist. First as a doe-eyed ingenue with 'As Tears Go By', then as a gravel-voiced phoenix rising from the ashes of the 1960s with a landmark punk album, Broken English, and finally as a genre-le ...Show more
Long Players - Writers on the Albums That Shaped Them by Tom Gatti (ed.)
36.99 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: near fine
Fifty great writers reflect on the albums that shaped them in this captivating collection curated by the New Statesman's Tom Gatti. Our favorite albums are our most faithful companions: we listen to them hundreds of times over decades, we know them far better than any novel or film. These records don' ...Show more
Bob Dylan - No Direction Home by Robert Shelton
55.00 NZD
Category: Music
Robert Shelton met Bob Dylan when the young singer arrived in New York in 1961. He became Dylan’s friend, champion, and critic. His book, first published in 1986, was hailed as the definitive unauthorized biography of this moody, passionate genius. Shelton tells the intimate and first-hand story of Bob ...Show more
Bessie Smith by Jackie Kay
24.99 NZD
Category: Music
A portrait of the tempestuous life of the pioneering and iconic blues singer by Scotland’s National Poet. ‘[Bessie Smith] showed me the air and taught me how to fill it … she’s the reason I started singing, really’ – Janis Joplin Bessie Smith was born in Tennessee in 1894. Orphaned by the age of nine ...Show more