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
A Sound Mind - How I Fell In Love With Classical Music (And Decided to Rewrite Its Entire History) by Paul Morley
32.99 NZD
Category: Music
'An alternately funny and moving book about the most important art form on Planet Earth. Destined to become a classic (pun intended)' - Jarvis CockerMusic critic and writer Paul Morley weaves together memoir and history in a spiralling tale that establishes classical music as the most rebellious genre o ...Show more
Small Hours - The Long Night of John Martyn by Graeme Thomson
49.99 NZD
Category: Music
Did any musician in the Seventies fly so free as John Martyn did on Bless The Weather, Solid Air, Inside Out and One World? Did any fall so far? Small Hours is an intimate, unflinching biography of one of the great maverick artists. Though Martyn never had a hit single, his extraordinary voice, innovati ...Show more
Not For You -Pearl Jam and the Present Tense by Ronen Givony
40.99 NZD
Category: Music | Reading Level: very good
There has never been a band like Pearl Jam. The Seattle quintet has recorded 11 studio albums; sold 85 million records; played a 1,000 shows, in 50 countries; and had five different albums reach number one. But Pearl Jam's story is about much more than music. Through passion, integrity, and sheer force ...Show more
Last Wish (Short Stories - #1 Tales of the Witcher) by Andrzej Sapkowski
24.99 NZD
Category: Film & Television | Series: Tales of the Witcher | Reading Level: very good
Soon to be a major Netflix original series! Geralt the Witcher -- revered and hated -- holds the line against the monsters plaguing humanity in this collection of adventures in the NYT bestselling series that inspired the blockbuster video games. Geralt is a Witcher, a man whose magic powers, enhanc ...Show more
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
24.99 NZD
Category: Film & Television
Everyone in Shaker Heights was talking about it that summer: how Isabelle, the last of the Richardson children, had finally gone around the bend and burned the house down. In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, everything is meticulously planned - from the layout of the winding ro ...Show more
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
22.99 NZD
Category: Film & Television | Reading Level: very good
The acclaimed, award-winning novel is now a major motion picture starring Amandla Stenberg, Russell Hornsby, Regina Hall, Anthony Mackie, Issa Rae, and Common. Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighbourhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. T ...Show more
Jazz Guitar Single Note Soloing, Volume 2 by Ted Greene
44.99 NZD
Category: Music
Ted Greene's Jazz Guitar Single Note Soloing method is one of the most respected approaches to playing jazz guitar ever written. Continuing where Volume 1 left off, this book ties all the tools together, with special emphasis on playing through chord changes and developing rich melody lines.
83 Minutes The Shocking Death of Michael Jackson by Matt Richards, Mark Langthorne
34.99 NZD
Category: Music
On June 25 2009, the world was rocked by the tragic, shocking news that Michael Jackson - the biggest and most influential music icon since Elvis Presley - was pronounced dead on arrival at a Los Angeles hospital. He was 50 years old. As the news reverberated around the world, it was accompanied by even ...Show more
Tuesdays with Morrie: The international bestseller by Mitch Albom
24.99 NZD
Category: Film & Television | Reading Level: very good
Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher or a colleague? Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, and gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it? For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly twenty years ...Show more