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The Nick Tosches Reader by Nick Tosches 9780306809699
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £16.51Newsday has said that Nick Tosches "casts brilliant black light." The San Diego Reader has said that "Tosches's best sentences uncoil like rattlesnakes and strike with a venom that spreads poison... -
Chaldee by Nick Tosches 9782951906358
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £10.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782951906358Author Nick ToschesFormat PaperbackPage Count 115Imprint VagabondePublisher... -
Me and the Devil by Nick Tosches 9780316120999
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £15.47An aging New Yorker, a writer named Nick, feels life ebbing out of him. The world has gone to hell and Nick is so sick of it all that he can't even have a glass of champagne. Then one night he meets... -
In the Hand of Dante by Nick Tosches 9780316735643
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £18.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316735643Author Nick ToschesFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint Back Bay BooksPublisher Back Bay... -
Under Tiberius by Nick Tosches 9780316405645
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £16.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316405645Author Nick ToschesFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Back Bay BooksPublisher Back Bay... -
Where The Dead Voices Gather by Nick Tosches 9780316895071
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £23.40For twenty years, Nick Tosches searched for facts about the life of Emmett Miller, a yodelling blackface performer whose songs prefigured jazz, country, blues and much of the popular music of the... -
King of the Jews: The Arnold Rothstein Story by Nick Tosches
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47'Once upon a time, when New York City lived and breathed, there was a man marked for death, like us all ...'Arnold Rothstein was one of the most mysterious figures in Manhattan's history: a godfather... -
Night Train: A Biography of Sonny Liston by Nick Tosches
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.59A breathtakingly brutal and evocative account of the life of infamous boxing world champion Sonny Liston'Dazzling . . . An unforgettable journey to some of boxing's darkest places' Steve Bunce,... -
Where Dead Voices Gather by Nick Tosches 9780316895378
Booksplease Price: £16.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316895378Author Nick ToschesFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Back Bay BooksPublisher Little,... -
Hellfire: The Jerry Lee Lewis Story by Nick Tosches
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'The greatest rock 'n' roll biography ever written' Rolling Stone'You're lookin' at a livin' legend.' He said, and then fell silent for a moment. 'Y'know, that really worries me. I always thought a... -
Dino: Living High in the Dirty Business of Dreams by Nick Tosches 9780385334297
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385334297Author Nick ToschesFormat PaperbackPage Count 656Imprint Bantam Dell Publishing Group,... -
Country: The Twisted Roots Of Rock 'n' Roll by Nick Tosches 9780306807138
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.00Celebrating the dark origins of our most American music, Country reveals a wild shadowland of history that encompasses blackface minstrels and yodeling cowboys honky-tonk hell and rockabilly heaven... -
Johnny's First Cigarette - La Premiere Cigarette de Johnny by Nick Tosches 9782919067138
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £9.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782919067138Author Nick ToschesFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint VagabondePublisher... -
King of the Jews: The Greatest Mob Story Never Told by Nick Tosches 9780060936006
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £13.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060936006Author Nick ToschesFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins... -
Unsung Heroes Of Rock 'n' Roll: The Birth Of Rock In The Wild Years Before Elvis by Nick Tosches 9780306808913
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.00Long before Elvis Presley entered Sam Phillips's Sun Records studio in 1954, rock'n' roll was being performed and recorded by the likes of Big Joe Turner, Louis Jordan, Wynonie Harris, the Clovers,... -
Inspirations: Selections from Classic Literature by Paulo Coelho
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31'Anthology' comes from the Greek word that stands for garlands - a bouquet of flowers. An anthology then, should be a small token of something much larger. In the case of flowers, they bring to mind... -
All Things Must Pass: The Life of George Harrison by Marc Shapiro
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47George Harrison was always known as the 'quiet Beatle' As part of the biggest band in pop history, he took a back seat to Paul McCartney and John Lennon, but his talent shone through in the... -
Writings on Irish Folklore, Legend and Myth by W. B. Yeats 9780140180015
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23This collection brings together all of W. B. Yeats's published prose writings on Irish folklore, legend and myth, with pieces on subjects including ghosts, kidnappers, fairies, ancient tribes,... -
The Mammoth Book of Muhammad Ali by David West 9781849017343
Booksplease Price: £23.66From his gold medal at the 1960 Olympic Games to his defeat of Sonny Liston to claim the world heavyweight championship in 1964, the unforgettable 'Thrilla in Manila' against Joe Frazier and the... -
Death Trip: Iggy and the Stooges, 1972–74 Michael S. Begnal 9781836391890
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.50Raw Power by Iggy and the Stooges is arguably the most aggressive, dynamic album in rock history, and inarguably one of the most influential. Looking past the myths and into the true story of the... -
Da Capo Best Music Writing 2003: The Year's Finest Writing On Rock, Pop, Jazz, Country & More by Matt Groening
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.82It's here: the fourth and latest volume in the series that you have come to rely upon for your music reading fix. The 2003 volume will celebrate the year's best writing about music and its culture... -
Stranded: Rock and Roll for a Desert Island by Greil Marcus 9780306815324
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.00In 1978, Greil Marcus asked twenty writers on rock-including Dave Marsh, Lester Bangs, Nick Tosches, Ellen Willis, and Robert Christgau-a question: What one rock-and-roll album would you take to a... -
Players by Geno Zanetti 9781560253808
Booksplease Price: £19.94Once I hear the clatter of chips I almost go into convulsions," said Dostoyevsky, while Anatole France wrote, "The gambler is driven by the fascination of danger at the bottom of all great passions."... -
Da Capo Best Music Writing 2005: The Year's Finest Writing on Rock, Hip-Hop, Jazz, Pop, Country, & More by J. T. LeRoy 9780306814464
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.52Da Capo Best Music Writing has become one of the most eagerly awaited annuals of them all. Celebrating the year in music writing by gathering a rich array of essays, missives, and musings on every... -
Sing a Sad Song: THE LIFE OF HANK WILLIAMS by Roger M. Williams
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.46Few American entertainers have had the explosive impact, wide-ranging appeal, and continuing popularity of country music superstar Hank Williams. Such Williams standards as "Your Cheatin' Heart,"... -
Da Capo Best Music Writing 2002: The Year's Finest Writing On Rock, Pop, Jazz, Country, & More by Jonathan Lethem 9780306811661
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.00It's here: the third and latest volume in the series that you have come to rely upon for your music-reading fix. The 2002 volume will celebrate the year's best writing about music and its culture, as... -
Bone In The Throat by Anthony Bourdain
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73All is not well at the Dreadnought Grill. The chef has a smack habit, the owner has been set up by the FBI and in the midst of this, the sous-chef Tommy is just trying to do his job. As depraved as... -
Bone In The Throat by Anthony Bourdain 9781786895189 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £4.24All is not well at the Dreadnought Grill. The chef has a smack habit, the owner has been set up by the FBI and in the midst of this, the sous-chef Tommy is just trying to do his job. As depraved as... -
Juanita and the Frog Prince: Fairy Tale Comix Ed McClanahan 9781949669138
Booksplease Price: £25.62A miscreant, misanthrope, and misfit, two-nosed Luther Jukes lands in jail for murdering a man who insulted his froglike facial features. As Luther schemes in his cell, "hoosegow scullery maid"... -
Sweat: The Story of the Fleshtones, America's Garage Band by Joe Bonomo 9780826428462
Booksplease Price: £27.89It's June 2001. Keith Streng steers a cramped mini-van north along Lincoln Avenue in Chicago while Peter Zaremba, Bill Milhizer and Ken Fox sprawl in the back nursing hangovers and road weariness... -
The Blackwell Guide to Recorded Country Music Bob Allen 9780631191063
RRP: £42.95Booksplease Price: £40.81RECORDED COUNTRY MUSIC The Blackwell Guide to Recorded Country MusicThis is the definitive guide to selecting the finest recordings in country music. Artists such as Garth Brooks and Billy Ray Cyrus... -
Red Hot and Blue: Fifty Years of Writing About Music, Memphis, and Motherf**kers by Stanley Booth 9781641601061
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.47This collection of over fifty years of writing about the South and its music by Stanley Booth, one of the undisputedly great chroniclers of the subject, is a classic, essential read. Booth's close... -
Shake It Up: Great American Writing on Rock and Pop from Elvis to Jay Z: A Library of America Special Publication by Jonathan Lethem
Booksplease Price: £41.13The essential playlist of great writing about the music that rocked America, with fifty landmark pieces on Otis Redding, Janis Joplin, Lez Zepplin, and other rock n' roll legends Jonathan Lethem and... -
Flying Saucers Rock 'n' Roll: Conversations with Unjustly Obscure Rock 'n' Soul Eccentrics by Jake Austen 9780822348498
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48For nearly twenty years, the much-beloved music magazine Roctober has featured work by some of the best underground cartoonists, exhaustive examinations of made-up genres such as "robot rock," and an... -
The Murder of Sonny Liston: A Story of Fame, Heroin, Boxing & Las Vegas by Shaun Assael
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Sonny Liston was a legend, described by Mike Tyson as "the baddest man boxing ever produced". From veteran sports reporter Shaun Assael, The Murder of Sonny Liston is a gripping, intense examination... -
Yodel-Ay-Ee-Oooo: The Secret History of Yodeling Around the World by Bart Plantenga
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37Yodel-Ay-Ee-Oooo is the first book to address the question: How did a centuries-old, Swiss mountain tradition make its way into American country music? Along the way, the reader discovers that... -
Yodel-Ay-Ee-Oooo: The Secret History of Yodeling Around the World by Bart Plantenga 9780415939898
RRP: £125.00Booksplease Price: £111.65Yodel-Ay-Ee-Oooo is the first book to address the question: How did a centuries-old, Swiss mountain tradition make its way into American country music? Along the way, the reader discovers that... -
Jerry Lee Lewis: Lost and Found by Joe Bonomo 9781441118806
Booksplease Price: £20.95In "Jerry Lee Lewis: Lost and Found", author Joe Bonomo delves deeply into the accidental intersection between fading American Rockabilly and the ascending Beatlemania. By first taking a look at the...