9 Best music books like Shake Some Action: My Life in Music (and other stuff) by Stuart Coupe

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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…

If you liked the music plot in Shake Some Action: My Life in Music (and other stuff) by Stuart Coupe , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. Waiting for Sunrise

By: William Boyd

3.72

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Vienna. 1913. It is a fine day in August when Lysander Rief, a young English actor, walks through t… read more

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2. Restless

By: William Boyd

5.00

Format: 299 pages, Paperback

"I am Eva Delectorskaya," Sally Gilmartin announces, and so on a warm summer afternoon in 1976 her … read more

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3. The Narrow Road to the Deep North

By: Richard Flanagan

3.96

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

A novel of the cruelty of war, and tenuousness of life and the impossibility of love. Richard Flana… read more

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4. Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

By: Claire Dederer

3.79

Format: 257 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the New York Times best seller Poser and the acclaimed memoir Love and Trouble, … read more

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  • audiobook
"Biography used to be something you sought out, yearned for, actively pursued. Now it falls on your head all day long."

-Claire Dederer, Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

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5. Scattershot: Life, Music, Elton, and Me

By: Bernie Taupin

3.58

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

** NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** An evocative, clear-eyed, and revealing memoir by Bernie Taupin, th… read more

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  • music
  • audiobook
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6. Lola in the Mirror

By: Trent Dalton

4.41

Format: 448 pages, Kindle Edition

Bighearted, gritty, magical and moving, Lola in the Mirror is the irresistible new novel from inter… read more

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  • audiobook
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7. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

By: Naomi Klein

4.22

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more

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"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"

-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"

-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

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8. 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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  • audiobook
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9. So Late in the Day

By: Claire Keegan

4.00

Format: 47 pages, Hardcover

After an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office, Cathal faces into the long weekend and takes the b… read more

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  • audiobook
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10. Storytellers: Questions, Answers and the Craft of Journalism

By: Leigh Sales

3.88

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Highly respected ABC anchor, bestselling author and hit podcaster Leigh Sales interviews the cream … read more

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11. 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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  • music
  • audiobook
"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

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12. Don't Dream It's Over: The remarkable life of Neil Finn

By: Jeff Apter

3.69

Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition

Don't Dream It's Over is the first biography to focus exclusively on Neil Finn, the man who wrote t… read more

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  • music
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13. What Happened to Nina?

By: Dervla McTiernan

4.11

Format: 328 pages, Kindle Edition

10 hours, 50 minutes From the #1 internationally bestselling author of The Murder Rule comes an… read more

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  • audiobook
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14. The Empty Honour Board

By: Martin Flanagan

3.99

Format: 174 pages, Kindle Edition

In 1966, at the age of 10, Martin Flanagan was sent to a Catholic boarding school in north-west Tas… read more

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15. Did I Ever Tell You This?

By: Sam Neill

4.06

Format: 398 pages, Hardcover

In this unexpected memoir, written in a creative burst of just a few months in 2022, Sam Neill tell… read more

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  • audiobook
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16. The Colony

By: Audrey Magee

4.11

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

In 1979, as violence erupts all over Ireland, two outsiders travel to a small island off the west c… read more

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  • audiobook
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17. The Year I Met My Brain: A travel companion for adults who have just found out they have ADHD

By: Matilda Boseley

4.45

Format: 433 pages, ebook

Matilda Boseley’s adult ADHD diagnosis was a massive, earth-shattering event. She was given a presc… read more

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  • audiobook
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18. Servo

By: David Goodwin

3.59

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

An odyssey of drive-offs, spiked slurpees, stale sausage rolls and sleep-deprived madness. Most … read more

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  • audiobook
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19. Audition

By: Pip Adam

3.64

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

A spaceship called Audition is hurtling through the cosmos. Squashed immobile into its largest room… read more

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20. The Voice to Parliament Handbook: All the Detail You Need

By: Thomas Mayo

4.52

Format: 104 pages, Kindle Edition

The Voice to Parliament Handbook is an easy-to-follow guide for the millions of Australians who hav… read more

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  • audiobook
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21. 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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  • music
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22. Would that be funny?: Growing up with John Clarke

By: Lorin Clarke

4.15

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

When satirist John Clarke died, in April 2017, many people mourned his passing as if they had lost … read more

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23. Detours

By:

None

Format: None pages, None

Tim Rogers - the front man and singer of hugely popular rock n'roll band You Am I - is a shambolic,… read more

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24. 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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  • music
  • audiobook

25. The Silver River

By: Jim Moginie

4.19

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

A moving and inspiring memoir of families lost and rediscovered, by a founding member of legendary … read more

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  • music
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26. Ringside: A tale of music and mayhem from the man behind rock and roll superstars Cold Chisel

By: Rod Willis

4.09

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

At 18 Rod Willis jumped on a boat for London, the Mecca for music and fashion in the 1960s. A decad… read more

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  • music
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27. Started Out Just Drinking Beer: The Mental As Anything Story

By: Stuart Lloyd

4.21

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

The riotous rollercoaster ride of Mental as Anything, one of Australia’s greatest bands from 1976-2… read more

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  • music
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28. The Ledge

By: Christian White

4.39

Format: 268 pages, Kindle Edition

When human remains are discovered in the forests of regional Victoria, the police are baffled, the … read more

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29. 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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  • music
  • audiobook
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30. The Season

By: Helen Garner

4.36

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

It’s footy season in Melbourne, and Helen Garner is following her grandson’s under-16s team. She no… read more

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Claire Dederer

3.79

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Bernie Taupin

3.58

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Trent Dalton

4.41

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Naomi Klein

4.22

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Amy Tintera

4.13

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Alex Finlay

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Sally Hepworth

4.04

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Garry Disher

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