Boy on Fire: The Young Nick Cave
By: Mark Mordue
3.98
Format: 401 pages, Kindle Edition
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1. Substance: Inside New Order
By: Peter Hook
3.41
Format: 331 pages, Hardcover
Two acclaimed albums and an upcoming US tour - Joy Division had the world at their feet. Then, on t… read more
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- music
- nonfiction
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2. The Sick Bag Song
By: Nick Cave
3.95
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The Sick Bag Song is an exploration of love, inspiration and memory shaped around the events of Cav… read more
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- music
- nonfiction
- biography
- audiobook
3. The Kingdom by the Sea
By: Paul Theroux
3.36
Format: None pages,
It was 1982, the summer of the Falkland Islands War, and the birth of the royal heir, Prince Willia… read more
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4. How to Be Good
By: Nick Hornby
4.50
Format: 60 pages,
In Nick Hornby's How to Be Good, Katie Carr is certainly tryingto be. That's why she became a GP. T… read more
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5. Love, Janis
By: None
5.00
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
A revealing and intimate biography about Janis Joplin, the Queen of Classic Rock, written by her yo… read more
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6. The Eclipse: A Memoir Of Suicide
By: Antonella Gambotto-Burke
4.12
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
"An astonishing, deep and beautiful book." - Nicholas Humphrey, professor of philosophy and author … read more
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7. The Last Word
By: Hanif Kureishi
3.69
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Mamoon is an eminent Indian-born writer who has made a career in England - but now, in his early 70… read more
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8. The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History
By: Jonathan Franzen
4.10
Format: 64 pages,
Jonathan Franzen arrived late, and last, in a family of boys in Webster Groves, Missouri. The Disco… read more
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9. Girl in a Band
By: Kim Gordon
3.67
Format: 273 pages, Hardcover
In Girl in a Band, Kim Gordon, founding member of Sonic Youth and role model for a generation of wo… read more
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- music
- nonfiction
- biography
- audiobook
"All that young-girl idealism is someone else's now."-Kim Gordon, Girl in a Band
"I like being in a weak position, and making it strong."-Kim Gordon, Girl in a Band
"For me performing has a lot to do with being fearless."-Kim Gordon, Girl in a Band
"I give Iggy credit for deconstructing the very idea of entertainment."-Kim Gordon, Girl in a Band
10. Caledonian Road
By: Andrew O'Hagan
3.96
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
A biting portrait of British class, politics, and money told through five interconnected families a… read more
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- audiobook
11. Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life
By: Anna Funder
4.13
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
This is the story of the marriage behind some of the most famous literary works of the 20th century… read more
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- biography
- audiobook
12. Edenglassie
By: Melissa Lucashenko
4.13
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Two extraordinary Indigenous stories set five generations apart. When Mulanyin meets the beautiful … read more
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- australia
- audiobook
13. Sonic Life: A Memoir
By: Thurston Moore
3.81
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
From the founding member of Sonic Youth, a passionate memoir tracing the author's life and art—from… read more
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14. The In-Between
By: Christos Tsiolkas
3.70
Format: 400 pages, ebook
The tender, sensual and moving new novel from the award-winning and bestselling author of The Slap … read more
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- australia
"There was respite in history. The beligerence and intolerance of the contemporary age was of no consequence to the past. And there was no shouting."-Christos Tsiolkas, The In-Between
15. Faith, Hope and Carnage
By: Nick Cave
4.44
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
Faith, Hope and Carnage is a book about Nick Cave’s inner life. Created from more than forty hou… read more
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"I think people can do both terrible things and wonderful things when faced with the true understanding of their own powerlessness, vulnerability and lack of control."-Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage
"Vulnerability is essential to spiritual and creative growth. Finding enormous strength through vulnerability. You're being open to whatever happens, including failure and shame. The two are connected…"-Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage
"I guess not, but who says creativity it the be all and end all? Who says that our accomplishments are the only true measure of what is important in our lives? Perhaps there are other lives worth livi…"-Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage
"The usual precepts collapse under the weight of the calamity: the terrible demands that we place upon ourselves; our own internal judging voice; the endless expectations and opinions of others. They …"-Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage
16. Restless Dolly Maunder
By: Kate Grenville
3.88
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
Dolly Maunder was born at the end of the nineteenth century, when society’s long-locked doors were … read more
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17. Good Pop, Bad Pop
By: Jarvis Cocker
4.30
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
What if the things we keep hidden say more about us than those we put on display? We all have a … read more
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- nonfiction
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- audiobook
18. Same Bed Different Dreams
By: Ed Park
3.77
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
A wild, sweeping novel that imagines an alternate secret history of Korea and the traces it leaves … read more
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19. Nina Simone's Gum
By: Warren Ellis
4.26
Format: 199 pages, Hardcover
I hadn't opened the towel that contained her gum since 2013. The last person to touch it was Nina S… read more
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- australia
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20. No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison
By: Behrouz Boochani
3.91
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Winner of The Victorian Prize for Literature, and the Prize for Non-Fiction, Victorian Premier's Li… read more
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- biography
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"At times the cooks express a small amount of generosity and pour half a glass of milk for every prisoner."-Behrouz Boochani, No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison
21. Toxic: The Rotting Underbelly of the Tasmanian Salmon Industry
By: Richard Flanagan
4.30
Format: 183 pages, Kindle Edition
In a triumph of marketing, the Tasmanian salmon industry has for decades succeeded in presenting it… read more
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- australia
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22. The Buddha of Suburbia
By: Hanif Kureishi
3.74
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Karim Amir lives with his English mother and Indian father in the routine comfort of suburban Londo… read more
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"Die Belohnung für Langeweile sind Sicherheit und Geborgenheit."-Hanif Kureishi, The Buddha of Suburbia
"Someone to whom jokes are never told soon contracts enthusiasm deficiency."-Hanif Kureishi, The Buddha of Suburbia
"Selbst die Verwandten der Berühmten [sind] berühmt, denn Ruhm [ist] erblich."-Hanif Kureishi, The Buddha of Suburbia
"Yes, Eleanor loathed herself and yet required praise, which she then never believed."-Hanif Kureishi, The Buddha of Suburbia
23. Fingers Crossed: How Music Saved Me From Success
By: Miki Berenyi
4.46
Format: 367 pages, Hardcover
The extraordinary and searingly honest personal story of musician Miki Berenyi, revealing the highs… read more
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- biography
- audiobook
24. Inside Story
By: Martin Amis
4.00
Format: 560 pages, Kindle Edition
This extraordinary novel gives the reader the heart-to-heart testimony of one of our finest writers… read more
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"In the end, it's not your Nobel Prize you're thinking of, it's not your three National Book Awards, and all that. It's your sins of the heart (real or imagined), it's your wives, your children, and h…"-Martin Amis, Inside Story
"While we were moving from Camden Town, London, to Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, there was much to do: and Elena did almost all of it. At the outset she made it clear that by far the greatest obstacle we wou…"-Martin Amis, Inside Story
25. Half Deaf, Completely Mad: The Chaotic Genius of Australia's Most Legendary Music Producer
By: Tony Cohen
4.07
Format: 268 pages, Kindle Edition
The music and mayhem behind the seminal sounds of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Models, The Go-Betwe… read more
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- biography
26. Make It Scream, Make It Burn
By: Leslie Jamison
3.93
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A new collection of essays about obsession and longing from Leslie Jamison, the New York Times best… read more
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"I am human: nothing human is alien to me."-Leslie Jamison, Make It Scream, Make It Burn
"Every paradise is made possible by blindness."-Leslie Jamison, Make It Scream, Make It Burn
"Don't assume the contours of another person's heart. Don't assume its desires."-Leslie Jamison, Make It Scream, Make It Burn
"[...] one more definition of love: committing to a story you can't fully imagine when it begins."-Leslie Jamison, Make It Scream, Make It Burn
27. To Sing of War
By: Catherine McKinnon
4.19
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
From the author of the Miles Franklin Award shortlisted Storyland, comes a rich, layered and thrill… read more
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28. Boy on Fire: The Young Nick Cave
By: Mark Mordue
3.98
Format: 401 pages, Kindle Edition
The bestselling, award-winning and critically acclaimed biography of the young Nick Cave, by award-… read more
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- australia
- audiobook
29. Murder Ballads
By: Santi Elijah Holley
4.05
Format: 131 pages, Paperback
In a bar called The Bucket of Blood, a man shoots the bartender four times in the head. In the smal… read more
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- nonfiction
30. Shake Some Action: My Life in Music (and other stuff)
By: Stuart Coupe
3.92
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
First as a music writer and then as an editor, promoter, manager, broadcaster, publicist and author… read more
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