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The Centaur by John Updike 9780141189048
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.79In a small Pennsylvania town in the late 1940s, schoolteacher George Caldwell yearns to find some meaning in his life. Alone with his teenage son for three days in a blizzard, Caldwell sees his son... -
Something Like Fire by Lin Cook 9780099460350 [USED COPY]
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $2.51An intimate and entertaining portrait of one of comedy's greatest geniuses by those who knew Peter Cook best and can write abut his rare talent. The contributors include Clive Anderson, Alan Bennett,... -
Stalin and His Hangmen: An Authoritative Portrait of a Tyrant and Those Who Served Him by Donald Rayfield
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $18.56Stalin, like Hitler and other tyrants, won and held power because he had collaborators - hangmen. Drawing on newly released archival material, Donald Rayfield gives us a fuller and more colourful... -
Rolling Stones 69 by Patrick Humphries
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.23In what was a momentous year of social change, the Rolling Stones experienced the most significant twelve months of their career. At the start of 1969, they were a successful blues band returning to... -
Elvis - The #1 Hits by Patrick Humphries 9780091889081 [USED COPY]
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $3.55Where exactly was Heartbreak Hotel? Why was Number 33 the cutest little jailbird I ever did see, and how were the Mafia involved in Can't Help Falling In Love? These and many more intriguing... -
The Beatles: A Life in Music Hugh Fielder 9781839649523
Booksplease Price: $6.93The Beatles were - are - probably the most famous and successful band in the world, and despite breaking up over 40 years ago, their popularity remains rock solid, with fans ever-thirsty for new... -
Telling Stories by Tim Burgess
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.51Telling Stories by Tim Burgess of The Charlatans is one of the decade's most revealing rock books 'Clear, honest. An unusually frank and well-written rock memoir' The TimesThe Charlatans. Madchester... -
Crazy From The Heat by David Lee Roth
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.07'I WAS THERE WITH THESE TWO GIRLS ONCE; THEY WERE STRIPPERS. THEY SAID 'DAVE, WE'D LIKE YOU TO GO UPSTAIRS, THE TWO OF US, WITH YOU. ' SO I SAID, 'OKAY'. IT WAS ANGUS, AND IT WAS HOT AND SWEATY AND... -
Just One More Thing by Peter Falk
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.06Peter Falk came to prominence as an actor in 1956 in the highly successful off-Broadway revival of The Iceman Cometh with Jason Robards. Although he worked continuously for the next three years,... -
'Have You Seen...?': a Personal Introduction to 1,000 Films including masterpieces, oddities and guilty pleasures (with just a few disasters) by David Thomson 9780141020754
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $21.05David Thomson's 'Have You Seen?' - A Personal Introduction to 1,000 Films is a quirky, idiosyncratic and hugely entertaining look at a century of cinema. This is veteran film writer David Thomson's... -
Just Backdated: Melody Maker: Seven Years in the Seventies by Chris Charlesworth 9781915858221
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $26.17Just Backdated - Melody Maker: Seven Years in the Seventies is a memoir by Chris Charlesworth who, between 1970 and 1977, was a staff writer and editor for Melody Maker, the UK’s best-selling music... -
Untitled Patrice Lawrence by Patrice Lawrence 9781444954777
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $8.25From the multi-award-winning author of Orangeboy, comes a YA road-trip mystery.I pick up the envelope . . . As I rip down the sides, there's loads of paper bursting out; stuck on flowers, dandelions,... -
Chaplin: His Life And Art by David Robinson
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $21.05David Robinson's definitive and monumental biography of Charlie Chaplin, the greatest icon in the history of cinema, who lived one of the most dramatic rags to riches stories ever told. Chaplin's... -
Go Like Hell: Ford, Ferrari and their Battle for Speed and Glory at Le Mans A J Baime 9780553818390
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.92Coming to cinemas in November 2019, under the title LE MANS '66 ____________________In the 1960s Enzo Ferrari emerged as the dominant force in sports cars in the world, creating speed machines that... -
Paul Simon: The Life by Robert Hilburn 9781471174209
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75The Times Book of the Year 'There's no tougher a mind, no more tender a voice than Paul Simon, and there's no better man than Robert Hilburn to decipher the hardwiring of this hyperintellect...great... -
My Autobiography by Bill McLaren
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.29Just before the start of the 2002 Wales v Scotland match in Cardiff, the stadium announcer asked people to stand and acknowledge Bill McLaren's great contribution to the sport. The whole ground rose,... -
Messing Up the Paintwork: The Wit and Wisdom of Mark E. Smith by 9781785039850
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.29'If it's me and your granny on bongos, it's The Fall.'As legendary frontman of post-punk outfit The Fall, Mark E. Smith was known as much for his mercurial temperament as his exceptional musical... -
Elvis: My Best Man by Chuck Crisafulli
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71When George Klein was thirteen, he couldn't have known how important the new kid in class - the one with the guitar, the boy named Elvis - would become in his life. But from the first time GK (as he... -
The Insult by Rupert Thomson 9781408833186
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11One of David Bowie's 100 Must-Read Books of All Time It is a Thursday evening. After work Martin Blom drives to the supermarket to buy some groceries. As he walks back to his car, a shot rings out... -
What Is Rock And Roll? by Jim O'Connor
Booksplease Price: $7.57Rock and roll sprang from a combination of African-American genres, Western swing, and country music that exploded in post World War II America. Jim O'Connor explains what constitutes rock music,... -
Untitled Patrice Lawrence by Patrice Lawrence 9781444954777 [USED COPY]
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $3.36From the multi-award-winning author of Orangeboy, comes a YA road-trip mystery.I pick up the envelope . . . As I rip down the sides, there's loads of paper bursting out; stuck on flowers, dandelions,... -
Uncle Sam: Special Election Edition Steve Darnall 9781419777684
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $23.74Out of print for over a decade, the long-awaited reissue of the classic Vertigo miniseries Uncle Sam by Steve Darnall and Alex Ross is a sharp political fever dream praised by Kirkus as a "truly... -
Young Neil Long May You Run Bam Bk by Daniel Durchholz 9780760336472 [USED COPY]
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $1.68Neil Young has been described as brilliant, cantankerous, enigmatic, and vexing. Regardless, his generation-spanning fan base and his profound musical influence cannot be denied. While a number of... -
Rock Stars Don't Nap Jason Perkins 9780063158429
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.84Inspired by classic rock songs and eighties hair bands, Rock Stars Don't Nap is a hilarious bedtime story for anyone who's got "Moves Like Jagger."There was no denying it: Jimmy was born to rock... -
The Masters: Conversations with Dylan, Lennon, Jagger, Townshend, Garcia, Bono, and Springsteen by Jann S Wenner 9780316571050
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $23.99During fifty years of publishing the "Bible of Rock and Roll," Jann Wenner conducted a series of interviews that are now regarded among the most important historical documents of rock. Some of these... -
Sticky Fingers: The Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone Magazine Joe Hagan 9781782115939
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08You've heard the controversy, now read the book:Sticky Fingers is Joe Hagan's pulsing account of 50 years of rock'n'roll excess from Jann Wenner, founder of Rolling Stone magazine and one of the... -
The Soundtrack to My Life Dermot O'Leary 9781444790214
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.41This is the story of Dermot's life so far, from growing up in semi rural Colchester with his Irish born parents, to landing one of the biggets jobs in television. Throughout this journey, music has... -
A Few Words in Defense of Our Country: The Biography of Randy Newman by Robert Hilburn 9781408720349
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41'[A] penetrating biography . . . While the book posits Newman as a writer of sociopolitical import, its emotional narrative is driven by the more personal aspects of his story: a complex family... -
And Their Children After Them: 'A page-turner of a novel' New York Times by Nicolas Mathieu
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.75'[A] page-turner of a novel . . . I couldn't put the book down' - New York Times'A multi-viewpoint panorama of thwarted aspirations, spiced with breathy sex scenes and nostalgic detail.' - Mail on... -
Songs and Solos: Creating the Right Solo for Every Song by Rikky Rooksby 9781617131035
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $22.16This guidebook teaches songwriters exactly how to create awesome solos that will really help their material stand out. Based on the study of nearly 900 songs from six decades of great music it... -
Deed by Torrin A Greathouse 9780819501325
Booksplease Price: $16.88A lyrically and formally innovative exploration of desire and its cost /> />DEED, the follow-up to torrin a. greathouse's 2022 Kate Tufts Discovery Award winning debut, Wound from the Mouth of a... -
I Don't Want to Go Home: The Oral History of the Stone Pony by Nick Corasaniti 9780062950796
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.84"Reading Nick Corasaniti's delightful book about the storied Asbury Park, New Jersey, club is like sitting at your favorite bar listening to the old regulars tell magnificent stories."-Rolling Stone,... -
A Bicycle Built for Sue by Daisy Tate 9780008322755 [USED COPY]
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $2.64'Funny... inspiring... I loved it' Milly Johnson 'I love the fabulous friendships' Jo Thomas 'Wonderfully uplifting' Alex... -
Life by Keith Richards
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $11.86Once-in-a-generation memoir of a rock legend - the No. 1 SUNDAY TIMES bestseller.'Electrifying' New York Times'A masterpiece' The Word'Funny, poignant, brutally honest' Sunday TelegraphWith the... -
Manfred Mann's Earth Band in the 1970s: Decades John Van der Kiste 9781789522433
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71Having moved from jazz, Blues and R'n'B to out-and-out pop in his various 1960s bands, keyboard player Manfred Mann went back to the drawing board in 1971 with a new quartet, Manfred Mann's Earth... -
Knock! Knock! Knock! On Wood: My Life in Soul by Eddie Floyd
RRP: $34.77Booksplease Price: $22.02Known for the classics "Knock on Wood," "634-5789," "Raise Your Hand," "Big Bird," and "I've Never Found a Girl (To Love Me Like You Do)," among others, Eddie Floyd's career as a soul legend spans... -
Bumping Into Geniuses: My Life Inside Rock 'n' Roll Danny Goldberg 9798895150924
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.75Step inside the rock 'n' roll world with this all-access pass from the music biz legend who collaborated with Led Zeppelin, Nirvana, Stevie Nicks, Bruce Springsteen, and more.In Bumping into... -
A Bicycle Built for Sue by Daisy Tate
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $4.54'Funny... inspiring... I loved it' Milly Johnson 'I love the fabulous friendships' Jo Thomas 'Wonderfully uplifting' Alex... -
The Number Ones: Twenty Chart-Topping Hits That Reveal the History of Pop Music by Tom Breihan
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $23.58A Pitchfork Best Music Book of 2022When Tom Breihan launched his Stereogum column in early 2018, "The Number Ones"-a space in which he has been writing about every #1 hit in the history of the... -
Bowie's Books: The Hundred Literary Heroes Who Changed His Life by John O'Connell
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.28A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Brilliant. The unwritten Bowie book that needed writing' CAITLIN MORAN 'Splendid. Provides plenty of evidence of Bowie's restless, rummaging intelligence, and his...