Sing me a book - books by musicians

GRAPHIC NOVELS. In 1977, four young men were the voice of their generation. In 1978, they disappeared. This is the epic journey of art noise band One Model Nation, the final dark days of the Baader-Meinoff Gang, and the band's mysterious disappearance only months later. This original graphic nove...

Fantasy fiction. On a day like any other Prue McKeel is wheeling her baby brother's buggy around Portland and keeping out of trouble. Or trying to. Then her brother is abducted by a murder of crows, and Prue's troubles, it seems, are only just beginning. So begins an adventure that will take Prue...

Paul Kelly's songs are steeped in poetry. And now he has gathered from around the world the poems he loves, poems that have inspired and challenged him over the years, a number of which he has set to music. This wide-ranging and deeply-moving anthology combines the ancient and the modern, the hal...

From Geto Boys legend and renowned storyteller Scarface comes a passionate memoir about how hip-hop changed the life of a kid from the south side of Houston, and how he rose to the top—and ushered in a new generation of rap dominance.Scarface is the celebrated rapper whose hits include "On My Blo...

'Hope Farm' is the masterful second novel from award winning author Peggy Frew, and is a devastatingly beautiful story about the broken bonds of childhood and the enduring cost of holding back the truth.

Peter Garrett's life has been fully and passionately lived. A man of boundless energy, compassion, intelligence and creativity, he has already achieved enough to fill several lives. From his idyllic childhood growing up in the northern suburbs of Sydney, to an early interest in equality and justi...

The Death of Bunny Munro recounts the last journey of a salesman in search of a soul. Following the suicide of his wife, Bunny, a door-to-door salesman and lothario, takes his son on a trip along the south coast of England. He is about to discover that his days are numbered. With a daring hellrid...

Following a run of New Year's concerts at San Francisco's legendary Fillmore, Patti Smith finds herself tramping the coast of Santa Cruz, about to embark on a year of solitary wandering. Unfettered by logic or time, she draws us into her private wonderland, with no design yet heeding signs, inclu...

Endearing, charming, honest and absorbing, Detours is the most anticipated literary and rock n' roll memoir of the year - it is witty, endearing, funny, sad, truthful tender and beautiful - think Patti Smith meet Dylan Thomas, via Banjo Paterson. Tim Rogers - the front man and singer of hugely po...

From Geto Boys legend and renowned storyteller Scarface, comes a passionate memoir about how hip-hop changed the life of a kid from the south side of Houston, and how he rose to the top-and ushered in a new generation of rap dominance. Scarface is the celebrated rapper whose hits include "On My B...