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The Spirit in the Sky: The Power of Music In Our Search for Graceland by Jeff Crosby 9781538188361
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €19.61This book shows how popular music can become a powerful source of spiritual meaning, ethical reflection, and personal transformation. Drawing on more than five decades of attentive listening, Jeff... -
Monkees, Head, and the 60s Peter Mills 9781908279972
RRP: €17.79Booksplease Price: €14.35How has a group conceived as a short-lived commodity outlived many more 'real' bands by nearly fifty years? Why are The Monkees still important, and what does this tell us about their music, their TV... -
Bob Dylan: Writings 1968-2010 by Greil Marcus
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €17.47Greil Marcus weaves individual moods and moments into a brilliant history of their changing times. The book begins in Berkeley in 1968, and ends with a piece on Dylan's show at the University of... -
Kansas City Jazz: A Little Evil Will Do You Good by Con Chapman 9781800502826
RRP: €47.60Booksplease Price: €41.84The brand of jazz that developed in the Kansas City area in the period from the late 1920s to the late 1930s is recognised as both a distinct stylistic variation within the larger genre and a... -
Total Freedom by Krishnamurti 9780060648800
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €14.79Described by the Dalai Lama as 'one of the greatest thinker's of the age', J, Krishnamurti's revolutionary teachings on personal freedom and the search for truth have influenced millions of people... -
The Little Book of Fermanagh by Doreen McBride 9781803996684
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.08Did You Know Van Morrison wrote 'Brown Eyed Girl' on a piano in Derrygonnelly Paddy Monaghan, from Ederney, befriended Mohammad Ali and became known as Paddy-Ali St Molaise brought soil containing... -
Music and Mayhem: One Man's Journey Through the Golden Era of Irish Music Keith Donald 9781843519188
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €17.23Music and Mayhem charts the immersive and explosive life of one of Ireland's most important musicians, and the golden decade of Irish music he was at the very centre of. Keith Donald's story... -
The First and Last Freedom by J. Krishnamurti
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €11.50If truth can set us free, where do we find it? In The First and Last Freedom, Krishnamurti argues that we will not find truth in formal institutions, nor in organised religions and their dogmas, nor... -
The Flight of the Eagle by J. Krishnamurti
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €13.58Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895-1986) rose from humble beginnings to become a leading spiritual and philosophical thinker. His works continue to influence thousands of people around the world; Joseph... -
Belfast Walks by Seth Linder
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €8.91Belfast and the surrounding countryside have so much to offer, and are waiting to be explored! Hike through wooded glades and past plunging waterfalls, or stroll through the Titanic Quarter and... -
Beautiful Day: 40 Years of Irish Rock by Sean Campbell 9780953535354
Booksplease Price: €37.38Beautiful Day introduces representative songs from 1964 to the present by a range of Irish popular musicians. The book combines written text with photographs to produce an attractive volume that is... -
Boogie Man: The Adventures of John Lee Hooker in the American Twentieth Century Charles Shaar Murray 9780857862037
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €16.34'You the funkiest man alive.' Miles Davis' accolade was the perfect expression of John Lee Hooker's apotheosis as blues superstar: recording with the likes of Van Morrison, Keith Richards and Carlos... -
Rory McEwen: The Colours of Reality (revised edition) by Martyn Rix 9781842465912
RRP: €59.50Booksplease Price: €45.28This is a revised edition of the bestselling book about the life and work of artist and musician Rory McEwen (1932-82). A legend in his lifetime and still admired thirty years after his death, his... -
The Ultimate Guitar Tutor by Tom Fleming
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €12.40The Ultimate Guitar Tutor provides a comprehensive introduction to playing the guitar. Suitable for acoustic or electric guitar, the step-by-step approach means no prior knowledge of music is... -
Wikibeaks by Dustin the Turkey 9781848272446
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.52'If this doesn't win the Man Booker Prize I'll write a follow up' - DustinWikibeaks is the first book from Ireland's biggest megastar, Dustin the Turkey. Destined to see Dustin's name added to the... -
Ride a White Swan: The Lives and Death of Marc Bolan Lesley-Ann Jones 9781444758795
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.02*** By the Sunday Times bestselling author of BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY ***From mod folk artist to flower power pixie elfin to the king of glam rockers, Marc Bolan was the ultimate chameleon. His... -
Words of Love: Buddy Holly by The Buddy Holly Educational Foundation 9781905662982
RRP: €71.40Booksplease Price: €70.75Conceived in 2017 from a conversation with Roger Daltrey, Words of Love by Genesis Publications is the definitive celebration of musician, songwriter and rock and roll trailblazer Buddy Holly... -
Down the Crooked Road: My Autobiography by Mary Black
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.53For the last thirty years, singer Mary Black has been a dominant presence on the Irish music scene, an award-winning artist with many bestselling albums to her name. Now, in this long-awaited memoir,... -
The Irish in Us: Irishness, Performativity, and Popular Culture by Diane Negra 9780822337409
RRP: €36.89Booksplease Price: €31.67Over the past decade or so, Irishness has emerged as an idealized ethnicity, one with which large numbers of people around the world, and particularly in the United States, choose to identify... -
Down the Crooked Road: My Autobiography by Mary Black 9781848271876
RRP: €45.16Booksplease Price: €25.70For the last thirty years, singer Mary Black has been a dominant presence on the Irish music scene, an award-winning artist with many bestselling albums to her name. Now, in this long-awaited memoir,... -
Being Alive Neil Astley 9781852246754
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.38Being Alive is the sequel to Neil Astley's Staying Alive, which became Britain's most popular poetry book because it gave readers hundreds of thoughtful and passionate poems about living in the... -
Words and Music: A History of Pop in the Shape of a City by Paul Morley 9780820327051
RRP: €35.64Booksplease Price: €28.48Has pop burnt itself out?Paul Morley takes the reader on an epic drive through the history of music to find out. A succession of celebrities, geniuses and other protagonists led by Madonna,... -
Comin' Right at Ya: How a Jewish Yankee Hippie Went Country, or, the Often Outrageous History of Asleep at the Wheel by Ray Benson 9781477326701
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €15.91A who's who of American popular music fills this lively memoir, in which Ray Benson recalls how a Philadelphia Jewish hippie and his bandmates in Asleep at the Wheel turned on generations of rock and... -
Waiting on the Moon: Artists, Poets, Drifters, Grifters, and Goddesses by Peter Wolf 9780316571708
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €20.68In the tradition of classic collections of observations and musings such as Christopher Isherwood's I Am a Camera and Truman Capote's The Dogs Bark, Waiting on the Moon is a treasure trove of... -
The Road to Riverdance HB by Bill Whelan
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €33.97Riverdance exploded across the stage at Dublin's Point Theatre one spring evening in 1994 during a seven-minute interval of the Eurovision Song Contest hosted by Ireland. It was a watershed moment in... -
The Double Life of Bob Dylan Vol. 1: A Restless Hungry Feeling: 1941-1966 by Clinton Heylin
RRP: €32.13Booksplease Price: €19.92'The definitive, scrupulously researched biography of a life steeped in mystery' ObserverThe definitive biography of one contemporary culture's most iconic and mysterious figures - musical... -
Kerouac on Record: A Literary Soundtrack by Simon Warner 9781501323348
Booksplease Price: €62.43He was the leading light of the Beat Generation writers and the most dynamic author of his time, but Jack Kerouac also had a lifelong passion for music, particularly the mid-century jazz of New York... -
William Blake and the Age of Aquarius by Stephen F. Eisenman 9780691175256
RRP: €53.55Booksplease Price: €47.28A stunningly illustrated look at how Blake's radical vision influenced artists of the Beat generation and 1960s counterculture In his own lifetime, William Blake (1757-1827) was a relatively unknown... -
Kerouac on Record: A Literary Soundtrack by Simon Warner
Booksplease Price: €30.89He was the leading light of the Beat Generation writers and the most dynamic author of his time, but Jack Kerouac also had a lifelong passion for music, particularly the mid-century jazz of New York...