The House of Hidden Meanings: A memoir by RuPaul
$40.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & music
From international drag superstar and pop culture icon RuPaul, comes his most revealing and personal work to date. A brutally honest, surprisingly poignant, and deeply intimate memoir of growing up Black, poor, and queer in a broken home to discovering the power of performance, found family, and self-a ...Show more
Critical Hits: Writers on Gaming and the Alternate Worlds We Inhabit
$40.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & music
An anthology of essays on video games by some of today's best literary writers 'A loot drop of brilliance' Naomi Alderman, author of The Power Whether you're an avid gamer, a Twitch subscriber, or just an incidental Subway Surfer, video games have changed the way you interact with the world, and have be ...Show more
The Front Lawn's Songs from the Front Lawn by Matthew Bannister; Jon Stratton (Series edited by); Jon Dale (Series edited by)
$28.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & music | Series: 33 1/3 Oceania Ser.
The Front Lawn is a multi-award-winning, much-loved New Zealand duo-turned-trio made up of Don McGlashan, Harry Sinclair and, eventually, Jennifer Ward-Lealand. A 1980s variety act, The Front Lawn was part of an Aotearoa/New Zealand alternative tradition of duos that combine music, comedy, theatre and f ...Show more
Icons of Rock: In Their Own Words by Jenny Boyd
$40.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & music
There have been innumerable 'rock star' biographies and music histories before, but there is no book that presents the deepest, innermost thoughts from some of the industry's most legendary musicians on not only how they create, but what drives their creative process. Have you ever wondered how your ...Show more
Lou Reed: The King of New York by Will Hermes
$65.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & music
Since his death ten years ago, Lou Reed's stature and living presence have only grown. The great rock-poet presided over the marriage of Brill Building pop and the European avant-garde, and left American culture transfigured. In Lou Reed: The King of New York, the critic Will Hermes offers the definiti ...Show more
Rushmore by Kristi Irene McKim
$30.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & music | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
Earning critical acclaim and commercial success upon its 1998 release, Rushmore-the sophomore film of American auteur Wes Anderson-quickly gained the status of a cult classic. A melancholic coming-of-age story wrapped in comedy drama, Rushmore focuses on the efforts of Max Fischer (Jason Schwartzman)-a ...Show more
Holding the Note: Writing on Music by David Remnick
$43.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & music
The greatest popular songs, whether it’s Aretha Franklin singing ‘Respect’ or Bob Dylan performing ‘Blind Willie McTell’, have a way of embedding themselves in our memories. You remember a time and a place and a feeling when you hear that song again. In Holding the Note, David Remnick writes about the ...Show more
Bic Runga's Drive by Henry Johnson; Jon Stratton (Series edited by); Jon Dale (Series edited by)
$28.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & music | Series: 33 1/3 Oceania Ser.
From entering a high-school music competition to being honoured with the New Zealand Order of Merit, Bic Runga has an established place within contemporary popular music. Focusing on her iconic album, Drive, and including informative case studies of representative tracks on the album, this book provide ...Show more
Alastair Riddell's Space Waltz by Ian Chapman; Jon Stratton (Series edited by); Jon Dale (Series edited by)
$28.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & music | Series: 33 1/3 Oceania Ser.
Alastair Riddell's band Space Waltz was a short-lived one-album New Zealand rock act who hit gold with a #1 hit single in October 1974 with the song 'Out On The Street' but thereafter failed to achieve anything even close to that feat. While relegated to one-hit-wonder status in the eyes of many, to thi ...Show more
This Dark Country: Women Artists, Still Life and Intimacy in the Early Twentieth Century by Rebecca Birrell
$23.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & music
'As seductive as it is scholarly ... Riveting' Financial Times'Unusual and refreshing ... Brilliant' Leanne Shapton'A bold, unusual book, filled with archival research, exuberant ideas and a determination to counter misogyny' Diana Souhami, RA Magazine------------------------------Lemons gleam in a bowl ...Show more
Cassandra Speaks: When Women Are the Storytellers, the Human Story Changes by Elizabeth Lesser
$35.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & music
What story would Eve have told about picking the apple Why is Pandora blamed for opening the box And what about the fate of Cassandra who was blessed with knowing the future but cursed so that no one believed her What if women had been the storytellers Elizabeth Lesser believes that if women's voices ...Show more