Walking with Ghosts - A memoir by Gabriel Byrne

$14.00 NZD

Category: Film | Reading Level: very good

Walking with Ghosts is the stunningly evocative memoir by Irish actor and Hollywood star, Gabriel Byrne.'Make no mistake about it: this is a masterpiece . . . poetic, moving and very funny' -- Colum McCann, author of Let the Great World SpinAs a young boy growing up in the outskirts of Dublin, Gabriel B yrne sought refuge in a world of imagination among the fields and hills near his home, at the edge of a rapidly encroaching city. Born to working-class parents and the eldest of six children, he harboured a childhood desire to become a priest. When he was eleven years old, Byrne found himself crossing the Irish Sea to join a seminary in England. Four years later, Byrne had been expelled and he quickly returned to his native city. There he took odd jobs as a messenger boy and a factory labourer to get by. In his spare time he visited the cinema, where he could be alone and yet part of a crowd. It was here that he could begin to imagine a life beyond the grey world of '60s Ireland.He revelled in the theatre and poetry of Dublin's streets, populated by characters as eccentric and remarkable as any in fiction, those who spin a yarn with acuity and wit. It was a friend who suggested Byrne join an amateur drama group, a decision that would change his life forever and launch him on an extraordinary forty-year career in film and theatre. Moving between sensual recollection of childhood in a now almost vanished Ireland and reflections on stardom in Hollywood and on Broadway, Byrne also courageously recounts his battle with addiction and the ambivalence of fame.Walking with Ghosts is by turns hilarious and heartbreaking as well as a lyrical homage to the people and landscapes that ultimately shape our destinies. ...Show more

Writing & Illuminating, & Lettering ... with diagrams & illustrations by Edward Johnston

$35.00 NZD

Category: Graphic Design | Reading Level: good-very good

Old and New Zeeland - Masterpieces from the Golden Age of Dutch Painting and Exploration Lent by the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, on the Occasion of the State Visit to New Zealand of Her Majesty Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands by Lindsey Bridget Shaw; Victoria Robson; National Art Gallery (N.Z.) Staff (Contribution by)

$10.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good

The Continuing Crisis

$10.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good

Writing Around Sound Volume 2 - In Whose Tradition? by Jo Burzynska (ed.); Richard B Keys (ed.)

$10.00 NZD

Category: Music | Reading Level: very good

The Hours of Simon de Varie by James H Marrow (Editor); Francois Avril

$85.00 NZD

Category: Books About Books | Reading Level: very good

Illustrated by three different painters, the Hours of Simon de Varie was long thought to be irrevocably dismembered. During the 17th century, it was split into three sections, two went to the Royal Library at The Hague, and one was believed lost until it surfaced in a private collection in 1984, and was then acquired by the J. Paul Getty Museum. A special collaboration between these two institutions has reassembled the lost manuscript, enabling the reader to view the book as it was created. ...Show more

The Hours of Catherine of Cleves by John Plummer (Introduction & Commentary)

$30.00 NZD

Category: Books About Books | Reading Level: very good

Ornament in Medieval Manuscripts - A Glossary by Lucia N Valentine

$20.00 NZD

Category: Books About Books | Reading Level: good-very good

Otto Dix 1891-1969 by Keith Hartley (Editor)

$40.00 NZD

Category: Artists | Reading Level: very good

Now See Hear! Art, Language and Translation by Ian Wedde (ed.); Gregory Burke (ed)

$25.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: good-very good

The World of Charles Ricketts by Joseph Darracott

$15.00 NZD

Category: Art | Reading Level: very good

The Cambridge Companion to Richard Strauss by Charles Youmans

$25.00 NZD

Category: Music | Series: Cambridge Companions to Music | Reading Level: very good

Richard Strauss is a composer much loved among audiences throughout the world, both in the opera house and the concert hall. Despite this popularity, Strauss was for many years ignored by scholars, who considered his commercial success and his continued reliance on the tonal system to be liabilities. Ho wever, the past two decades have seen a resurgence of scholarly interest in the composer. This Companion surveys the results, focusing on the principal genres, the social and historical context, and topics perennially controversial over the last century. Chapters cover Strauss's immense operatic output, the electrifying modernism of his tone poems, and his ever-popular Lieder. Controversial topics are explored, including Strauss's relationship to the Third Reich and the sexual dimension of his works. Reintroducing the composer and his music in light of recent research, the volume shows Strauss's artistic personality to be richer and much more complicated than has been previously acknowledged. ...Show more