Secondhand Music & Celebrity Biography Bargain Book Box SP3037

Secondhand Music & Celebrity Biography Bargain Book Box SP3037

Rock legends, sporting heroes, and literary provocateurs — memoirs and biographies spanning Paul Hogan to Hunter S. Thompson, Rod Stewart to John Lydon.

1. Paul Hogan: My Life (without the boring bits) — Paul Hogan — The Tap-Dancing Knife Thrower's own account of an extraordinary life.
2. Who Are You: The Life of Pete Townshend — Mark Wilkerson — A thorough biography of The Who's brilliant and troubled creative force.
3. My Family and Other Rock Stars — Tiffany Murray — An utter joy — a really great romp of a novel set in a Hideously Kinky-for-Wales music world.
4. Playing to Win: The Definitive Biography of John Farnham — Jeff Apter — The full story of one of Australia's greatest entertainers.
5. Working Class Boy — Jimmy Barnes — Long before Cold Chisel, long before 'Barnesy', there was the true story of James Dixon Swan.
6. Ian Thorpe: The Biography — Greg Hunter — A searingly honest account of one of Australia's greatest sporting champions.
7. Out in the Open — Geoffrey Dutton — An autobiography from one of Australia's significant literary figures.
8. My Sporting Life: Memories, Moments and Declarations — Michael Parkinson — So Michael's writing about sport is not only as good as it gets, it says a lot about life.
9. Marlon Brando — Patricia Bosworth — A biography of the most fascinating and contradictory actor of the twentieth century.
10. Telling Stories — Tim Burgess — Eye-watering, riotous, and unflinchingly honest — the Charlatans frontman's life story.
11. Anger Is an Energy: My Life Uncensored — John Lydon — Ridiculously entertaining — the Sex Pistols founder holds nothing back.
12. Substance: Inside New Order — Peter Hook — This book will delight both New Order die-hards and general music fans alike.
13. Rod: The Autobiography — Rod Stewart — A raunchy romp through fifty years of bad behaviour from the Sunday Times No. 1 bestseller.
14. Dead Gods: The 27 Club — Chris Salewicz — Robert Johnson, Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain, Amy Winehouse.
15. Nothing Is Real: The Beatles Were Underrated — David Hepworth — One of the best music writers around on the most written-about band in history.
16. Frank — Jon Ronson — The true story that inspired the movie, from the author of The Men Who Stare at Goats.
17. The Best of Me — David Sedaris — His funniest and most incisive work now brought together in one volume.
18. Generation of Swine — Hunter S. Thompson — Tales of shame and degradation in the '80s.