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Paulie Stewart
This is an intriguing memoir by Paulie Stewart, a much-loved rock singer, newspaper journalist and social activist whose life story spans an unusually broad swathe of modern Australian life... Written when Paulie was facing the risk of an early death due to drug and alcohol-induced liver failure, the book helped him to realise the extent to which his whole life, including his often self-destructive behaviour, were shaped by the teenage trauma of losing his brother Tony, the 21-year-old HSV7 newsman who was one of the Balibo Five murdered by Indonesian forces in East Timor in 1975. A long-term campaigner for East Timorese independence, Paulie is convinced that a chance encounter with a Timore...
Paulie Stewart
In this tell-all, highly entertaining memoir, we read how Paulie channelled his anger from the murder of his brother, one of the Balibo Five, into the infamous Painters & Dockers band that put the Australian music scene on notice. From being formed with the intention of a one-time performance to pay a friend's parking fine, it became a 40-year-long punk rock band with a cult following. Paulie's activism also formed the Dili Allstars which highlighted the plight of the Timorese and he tirelessly supports Timor-Leste's Alma Nuns. Not only was he a rockstar and an activist, Paulie also worked as a music journalist with the Melbourne Herald Sun for 30 years. This is a much-anticipated story that transcends music and activism. The book is full of laugh-out-loud anecdotes of his encounters with major stars, including Billy Idol, Keith Richards, the Wiggles and Nick Cave.
Shoulda Been Higher
The Hottest 100 is a national institution. For 30 years, triple j has held an annual countdown of its listeners' 100 favourite songs of the year, as voted by the public. It has evolved into the single most anticipated musical event of every year for millions of Australians. The Hottest 100 is so much more than music. It's beaches, barbeques, and bonfires. It's joy and despair, drama and debate, friendship and community. This book is a celebration of everything that makes the world's greatest musical democracy so damn iconic. Shoulda Been Higher is the definitive account of the Hottest 100 - a comedic chronicle and love letter. It's the complete picture from Augie March to Ziggy Alberts, 'Amazing' to 'Zombie'.
The Hungate Family
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Life After
Having to deal with the loss of loved ones is something that unites us all. Yet we rarely even talk about it. Life After shares the raw, intimate and inspiring stories of how more than 60 ordinary and well-known Australians have recovered from heart-breaking loss and have rebounded to live fuller lives than they once thought possible. Full of optimism and spirit, this book features famous people who have lost loved ones, people whose loved ones were famous, the bereaved behind our biggest news stories and a gamut of experiences from every walk of life in Australia.
Wiseguy
'Toen ik twaalf was, was mijn ambitie: gangster worden, een wiseguy. Het was beter een wiseguy te zijn dan de president van Amerika. Een wiseguy zijn betekende: de wereld bezitten.' - Henry Hill Wiseguy vertelt het fascinerende en gewelddadige verhaal van Henry Hill, een voormalig topgangster van de maffia. Op ontnuchterende wijze beschrijft Pileggi diens leven, een leven vol geweld, brasserijen, vrouwen en codes of honor. Henry Hill weet waar lijken begraven liggen, en onderging het getuigenbeschermingsprogramma om zijn eigen leven te redden. De maffia was niet blij met hetgeen Hill opbiechtte in Wiseguy: afpersing, brandstichting, gijzeling, moord en de overval op het John F. Kennedy Airpo...
Crime and Spy Jazz on Screen, 1950-1970
Henry Mancini's Peter Gunn theme. Lalo Schifrin's Mission: Impossible theme. John Barry's arrangement of the James Bond theme. These iconic melodies have remained a part of the pop culture landscape since their debuts in the late 1950s and early '60s: a "golden decade" that highlighted an era when movie studios and TV production companies employed full orchestral ensembles to provide a jazz backdrop for the suspenseful adventures of secret agents, private detectives, cops, spies and heist-minded criminals. Hundreds of additional films and television shows made during this period were propelled by similarly swinging title themes and underscores, many of which have (undeservedly) faded into ob...
Maffiabröder
»Den bästa bok som skrivits om organiserad brottslighet.« Cosmopolitan Redan som tolvåring vet Henry Hill hur man äger världen - genom att bli en person att räkna med inom maffian, en maffiabroder. När han vägrar samarbeta med polisen vinner han förtroende från två ledande figurer i New Jerseys undre värld. Paul Vario och Jimmy Burke arbetar för familjen Lucchese, en av de fem mäktiga familjer som utgör maffian i New York-området. Henry Hill knyts till verksamheten, som består av en rad kriminella aktiviteter: pengatvätt, droghandel, hasardspel, utpressning och mord. Maffiabröder är bästsäljaren som låg till grund för Martin Scorseses storfilm Goodfellas med Robert De Niro och Ray Liotta i huvudrollerna. Kriminalreportern Nicholas Pileggis sanna redogörelse för Henry Hills liv är klassisk och högklassig true crime som skildrar maffialivet från insidan. NICHOLAS PILEGGI [f.1933] är en amerikansk författare, producent och manusförfattare. Mest känd är han för boken Maffiabröder [Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family, 1986] som blev filmen Goodfellas. Filmmanuset gav Pileggi en Oscarsnominering.
