PERCY GRAINGER by JOHN BIRD

$30.00 AUD

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Big Bangs - The Story of Five Discoveries That Changed Musical History by Howard Goodall

$12.00 AUD

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In this work the author guides the reader through five developments in the history of western music; starting with the invention of notation by an 11th century Italian monk, taking in the invention of equal temperament (the gaps between notes), the invention of the piano and that of opera and ending wit h the story of the first recording made in history - Mary Had a Little Lamb by Thomas Edison. The author aims to make these complicated musical advances both clear to the layman and interesting, as well as offering a sense of culture of trial and error and competition, be it in 11th century Italy or 19th century America, in which all progress takes place. ...Show more

EIGHT SOVIET COMPOSERS by GERALD ABRAHAM

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What's It All About? - SIGNED by Michael Caine

$50.00 AUD

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From Alfred to Zulu, Michael Caine has been Britain's best-loved actor for half a century. Now, for the first time, he reveals the truth behind his remarkable life. From his time as an evacuee during the Blitz to his front-line military service in the Korean War, from his early days as an assistant stag ehand to becoming Peter O'Toole's understudy, from walk-on parts in local theatres to blowing the bloody doors off with his legendary roles in Zulu and The Italian Job, Caine's life was never simple or easy. Discussing his little-known childhood and family alongside his hard-fought journey from London to Hollywood, Caine writes with astonishing candour about the good years and the lean years, bringing his unique charm and humour to his anecdotes and memories of a sprawling movie-making career. If you worked in Hollywood in the last few decades, you've probably worked with Michael Caine - and his accounts of his relationships with other superstars, both on and offscreen, make this autobiography essential reading for any fan not just of Michael Caine, but of film in general. ...Show more

Peter Allen - The Boy from Oz by Stephen MacLean

$15.00 AUD

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I could hear voices around me and I sensed their anxiety, but I was too drowsy to make out what they were saying. It seemed like forever. It was probably only five minutes, then I felt the pressure of a tube beingforced down my throat. It was very frightening. I was only a twelve-year-old child, and thi s was my first overdose. As the doctors worked on my body I saw things a lot more clearly, and I knew then that I wasn't going to die. I never really wanted to die, I just did not want to live... ...'Give me everything in the till - notes only! Don't make me nervous or I'll shoot!' The waitress handed me the money, I fled back to the car and John hightailed it out of there...This incredible book will grip you with horror. Roxanne Holmes tells her horrific story as she saw it through a drug-induced haze. As a child she was raped by her stepfather, then sent to a succession of brutal homes and remand centres as her behaviour grew more and more uncontrollable. At seventeen she was on the run across Australia, living hand to mouth out of an old car, holding up shops and service stations to please the convicted child molester who had 'befriended' her, tryin gto block out her demons: memories of an abused childhood, life on the streets, years in and out of institutions, cold and hungry on the run, panic attacks in jail.Slashing herself with a razor blade or broken glass was the only thing she know to do when she could not stand her existence no longer, when not even the drugs could keep the terror at bay.You'd imagine Roxanne would have died on the streets of an overdose by now, but somehow, incredibly, she has turned her life around. She has been drug-free for several years, has a home of her own and a young daughter on whom she lavishes the love she never felt as a child. It's hard to believe that so much could happen to one person before the age of twenty. It's hard to believe anyone could have survived what she went through. ROXANNE is her story, the story of an extraordinary life and an unbreakable spirit. You won't be able to put this book down until you reach the last page.AUTHOR INFORMATIONRoxanne is now 30, and lives in Bilgola with her six year old daughter and boyfriend. She is still being treeated for agoraphobia, and wants to write a handbook for sufferers of agoraphobia. She is also involved in helping abused children and an active campaigner against remand institutions like the ones she had to endure when she was growing up.SELLING POINTS *** A gripping memoir in the style of Go Ask Alice and Christiane F, Roxanne will have even greater impact, because of the Australian setting.*** Despite being a traumatic and harrowing story, ROXANNE has a positive and upbeat ending which refelcts Roxanne's philosophy that the human spririt can overcome any obstacles, as she has proven.*** Roxanne is no stranger to the media, as the following clippings show. She has beent he subject of a 'Sixty Minutes' story, and Jeff McMullen wants to do a follow-up story, which will be great for the book. Expect megapublicity.*** Roxanne's journey from Australia's most wanted to model parent is an extraordinary one, and compellingly told. At one stage, when she was in institutions, she was so uncontrollable that every youth worker in NSW went on strike, saying she was too hard to deal with! ...Show more

Sparks Fly Upward - SIGNED by Stewart Granger

$50.00 AUD

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Hendrix: The Illustrated Story by Gillian G. Gaar

$29.99 AUD

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Hendrix is the definitive, illustrated biography of the man widely considered the greatest rock guitarist of all time. Jimi Hendrix's music still lives on today. This (incredibly) is the first full-blown illustrated gift book exploring the life and career of one of the rock world's most celebrated music ians. Hendrix enjoyed the international limelight for less than four years, but his innovative and imaginative interpretations of blues and rock continue to inspire guitarists and music lovers across ages and genre. Inside, Seattle-based music journalist Gillian Gaar examines the guitarist's upbringing, his service as an Army paratrooper, his role as a sideman on the chitlin' circuit, his exile in the UK, and his eventual reemergence in the US and the fame that followed until his untimely death in 1970. Featuring design as lavish as Hendrix's music and carefully curated photography, posters, picture sleeves, and other assorted memorabilia, this is the ultimate Hendrix book experience. ...Show more

NO PICNIC by PATRICIA LOVELL

$10.00 AUD

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THE GOLDEN AGE OF VIENNA by HANS GAL

$15.00 AUD

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Reg Grundy by Reg Grundy

$15.00 AUD

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Reg Grundy is one of the most successful Australian media and television entrepreneurs of his generation. He is also a notoriously private individual. Here for the first time he tells his life story, in his own words. The book is replete with colourful and charming anecdotes about his over 30 years in A ustralian television, from the first days of broadcasting, to his internationally successful game shows such as Wheel of Fortune, Sale of the Century and Perfect Match, to the dramas that most Australians will fondly remember, including The Restless Years, The Young Doctors, Prisoner, Sons and Daughters, and the most successful of all, Neighbours. ...Show more

In the Frame: My Life in Words and Pictures by Helen Mirren

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Helen Mirren has been an internationally acclaimed actress and the recipient of many awards, transferring without obvious effort from stage, cinema and television for over 40 years. Known in her youth for a forthright style, a liberated attitude and a bohemian outlook, she has never ceased to be out of the public eye, with legions of admiring fans all over the world. This illustrated memoir is an account of an extraordinary talent, and a life well lived. Helen's aristocratic Russian grandfather, Pyotr Vasielivich Mironov, a military man, was sent to London by the Tsar and found himself stranded and penniless by the Bolshevik revolution, cut off from the family estate near Smolensk. He brought with him a trunk of papers and photographs. This delightful memoir starts with contents of the trunk, with evocative pictures of Helen's Russian antecedents. She has kept a rich seam of photographs and memorabilia from her life, and her parents, family life, childhood, teenage and early years as an actress living in insalubrious flats are vividly documented. ...Show more

Dishonesty Is the Second-Best Policy: and Other Rules to Live By by David Mitchell

$32.99 AUD

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The Sunday Times bestseller Thinking About It Only Makes It Worse, was published back in 2014 and it must have really made people think. Because everything's got worse. We've gone from UKIP to Brexit, from horse lasagne to fatbergs, from big society to food banks. The only possible way to cheer up in 2 019 is to dive into David Mitchell's terrifically clever and witty analysis of the farce of recent years. Here he takes on the utter nonsense rained down on us from corporate PRs, governments in the thrall of lobbyists, customers being preyed upon by algorithm-wielding corporations, evil interest groups tricking electors with targeted lies, flat-earthers and Eton boys. No other writer is a match for the dumbfounding times we live in. ...Show more