Space Odyssey - Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, and the Making of a Masterpiece by Michael Benson
$39.99 AUD
Category: Film
The definitive story of the making of 2001: A Space Odyssey, acclaimed today as one of the greatest films ever made, and of director Stanley Kubrick and writer Arthur C. Clarke--"a tremendous explication of a tremendous film....Breathtaking" (The Washington Post). Fifty years ago a strikingly origin ...Show more
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: An Art Book by Reinhard Kleist
$50.00 AUD
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
Wonderland : Alice in Wonderland on Screen by Emma McRae; Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
$65.00 AUD
Category: Film
Wonderland follows Alice's journey through her many cinematic appearances from 1930's silent Alice in Wonderland to the recent Tim Burton blockbusters, looking at the importance of Lewis Carroll's creation, and how technological innovations and filmmakers' unique voices have added intriguing new layers ...Show more
Book of Mormon by Trey Parker; Robert Lopez; Matt Stone
$55.00 AUD
Category: Theatre
"The best musical of this century. Heaven on Broadway. The Book of Mormon achieves something like a miracle." --Ben Brantley, New York Times "A crowning achievement. A huge smash success. So good it makes me angry.--Jon Stewart, The Daily Show The biggest Broadway hit in decades--the brilliant brainch ...Show more
Roots, Radicals and Rockers - How Skiffle Changed the World by Billy Bragg
$40.00 AUD
Category: Music
Roots, Radicals & Rockers: How Skiffle Changed the World is the first book to explore this phenomenon in depth - a meticulously researched and joyous account that explains how skiffle sparked a revolution that shaped pop music as we have come to know it. It's a story of jazz pilgrims and blues blow ...Show more
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri by Martin McDonagh
$25.00 AUD
Category: Film
After months pass without a culprit in her daughter's murder case, Mildred Hayes pays for three signs challenging the authority of William Willoughby, the town's revered chief of police. When his second-in-command, Officer Dixon, a mother's boy with a penchant for violence, gets involved, the battle bet ...Show more
The Ring of the Nibelung by Richard Wagner; John Deathridge (Introduction by, Translator, Notes by)
$55.00 AUD
Category: Music | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
The scale and grandeur of Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelung has no precedent and no successor. It preoccupied Wagner for much of his adult life and revolutionized the nature of opera, the orchestra, the demands on singers and on the audience itself. The four operas-The Rhinegold, The Valkyrie, Siegfried ...Show more
Chopin's Piano: A Path Through the Romantic Century by Paul Kildea
$55.00 AUD
Category: Music
In November 1838 Frédéric Chopin, George Sand and her two children sailed to Majorca to escape the Parisian winter. They settled in an abandoned monastery at Valldemossa in the mountains above Palma, where Chopin finished what would eventually be recognised as one of the great and revolutionary works of ...Show more
Dolce Vita Confidential: Fellini, Loren, Pucci, Paparazzi and the Swinging High Life of 1950s Rome by Shawn Levy
$23.00 AUD
Category: Film
'Uproariously readable ... Levy is a master of the group biography' Sunday Times'Teeming with satisfying gossipy details' Guardian'Exalts the intoxicating, beguiling dreaminess of Rome in its celluloid heyday' TLS1950s Rome. From the ashes of war, the Eternal City is reborn as the epicentre of film, sty ...Show more
Corresponding with Carlos: A Biography of Carlos Kleiber by Charles Barber
$65.95 AUD
Category: Music
Drawing heavily on their 15-year correspondence, this book is the first English-language biography of Carlos Kleiber ever written. Charles Barber offers unique insights into how Kleiber worked. This biography considers Kleiber's singular aesthetic, his playful and often erudite sense of humor, his reput ...Show more
The Long and Winding Way to the Top: Fifty (or So) Songs That Made Australia by Andrew P Street
$29.99 AUD
Category: Music
'Andrew tells us things about the songs that we might not know and things about the songs that no one should ever know. He does it with intelligence and humour, not to mention an acid wit.' - Jimmy BarnesWhich band is Australia's premier act for drunk men to hug to? Which dance floor smash owes its exis ...Show more