Mozart in Motion - His Work and His World in Pieces by Patrick Mackie
$25.00 AUD
Category: Music
Re-encounter the music of Mozart through the compositions that made him one of modernity's most important figures.
Faith, Hope and Carnage by Nick Cave, Sean O'Hagan
$35.00 AUD
Category: Music
"Created from more than forty hours of intimate conversations with the journalist Seán O’Hagan, this is a profoundly thoughtful exploration, in Cave’s own words, of what really drives his life and creativity. The book examines questions of belief, art, music, freedom, grief and love. It draws candidly o ...Show more
Loaded: The Life (and Afterlife) of The Velvet Underground by Dylan Jones
$35.00 AUD
Category: Music
Dylan Jones's definitive oral history of The Velvet Underground draws on contributions from remaining members, contemporaneous musicians, critics, film-makers, and the generation of artists who emerged in their wake, to celebrate not only their impact but their legacy, which burns brighter than ever int ...Show more
Fassbinder - Thousands of Mirrors by Ian Penman
$28.00 AUD
Category: Film
Melodrama, biography, cold war thriller, drug memoir, essay in fragments, mystery - Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors is cult critic Ian Penman's long awaited first original book, a kaleidoscopic study of the late West German film maker Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945-1982). Written quickly under a self-i ...Show more
Quartet: How Four Women Changed the Musical World - 'Magnificent' (Kate Mosse) by Leah Broad
$50.00 AUD
Category: Music
Ethel Smyth (b.1858): Famed for her operas, this trailblazing queer Victorian composer was a larger-than-life socialite, intrepid traveller and committed Suffragette. Rebecca Clarke (b.1886): This talented violist and Pre-Raphaelite beauty was one of the first women ever hired by a professional orchestr ...Show more
Glimpses of Graeme: Reflections on the work of Graeme Murphy by Michelle Potter
$45.00 AUD
Category: Theatre
A collection of writing by Michelle Potter on the career of dancer, choreographer and director Graeme Murphy. It consists of reviews and stories written over several decades for a number of newspapers, theatre magazines, journals, books and electronic sources.
Christopher Nolan: The Iconic Filmmaker and his work by Ian Nathan
$60.00 AUD
Category: Film | Series: Iconic Filmmakers Ser.
An engaging and in-depth examination of the work of Christopher Nolan, one of the most revered directors working in modern cinema. Best known for his cerebral, often nonlinear, storytelling, over the course of 15 years of filmmaking, Nolan has gone from low-budget independent films to working on some of ...Show more
The Philosophy of Modern Song by Bob Dylan
$60.00 AUD
Category: Music
The Philosophy of Modern Song is Bob Dylan's first book of new writing since 2004's Chronicles: Volume One -- and since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016. Dylan, who began working on the book in 2010, offers a masterclass on the art and craft of songwriting. He writes over 60 essays focu ...Show more
Bing and Billie and Frank and Ella and Judy and Barbra by Dan Callahan (Contribution by)
$55.00 AUD
Category: Music
Crosby, Holiday, Sinatra, Fitzgerald, Garland, and Streisand were the major interpreters of the American songbook, and this is the interlocking story of their lives and careers. Here is the epic tale of how these artists dominated American popular music over a fifty-year period, a roller coaster ride t ...Show more
Cinema Speculation by Quentin Tarantino
$25.00 AUD
Category: Film
In addition to being among the most celebrated of contemporary filmmakers, Quentin Tarantino is possibly the most joyously infectious movie lover alive. For years he has touted in interviews his eventual turn to writing books about films. Now, with CINEMA SPECULATION, the time has come, and the results ...Show more
God and the Devil - The Life and Work of Ingmar Bergman by Peter Cowie
$65.00 AUD
Category: Film
Peter Cowie's book chronicles the life and the 60-year film and stage career of Bergman as he wrestles the themes of love, sex and betrayal with the figure of Death hovering overhead. Blending biographical information with critical comment, Cowie presents a man whose life and work were intimately fused ...Show more
Becoming a Composer by Errollyn Wallen
$45.00 AUD
Category: Music
I am a composer. A composer of classical music. Quite honestly I am not quite sure how that happened to a girl born in Belize and brought up in Tottenham . . . It is clear that composing found me. It crept up on me and wouldn't let me out of its grasp.Now a leading international composer and a singer-so ...Show more