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Praise for Stranger Than Kindness: Goes deep into Cave's creative process, via his artwork, lyrics and photographs, and his ever-succinct commentary * * Guardian * * It takes on a life of its own, revealing his often compulsive way of working, as well as his abiding interests and obsessions: desire, faith, sin, despair, redemption, grief, love, and the transformative thrust of language itself * * Observer * * A carefully curated collection of artwork, handwritten lyrics, photographs, personal possessions and essays, Stranger Than Kindness is a proper deep-dive into the story and creative processes of Nick Cave * * NME, Best Music Books of the Year * * The material evidence of Cave's creative life. [There is] an excellent introduction from Darcey Steinke . . . a book of beauty and understated style . . . The book serves best as an invitation to explore Cave's work further, whether one is a novice or a committed celebrant. It is worth the effort * * Herald * * Lurid, bizarre, beautiful * * VICE * * Fascinating * * The Times * *

Praise for The Sick Bag Song: About as rock 'n' roll as you can get . . . Shot through with fantasy, fiction, apocalyptic musings and tall stories * * Sunday Times * * A new literary form - a mash-up of prose, poetry, song lyrics and autobiography * * New York Times * * A page turning mash up from the prince of darkness * * Independent * * Lyrical, hallucinatory and laced with sly wit, The Sick Bag Song is a revelation and a pleasure -- HARI KUNZRU Mad and amazing -- IAN RANKIN The stories twist and turn like a mad dash through the dark forest that is Nick Cave's imagination -- TOM ODELL

Illuminating . . . a great deal of beauty in Cave's descriptions of the strange reckless power that comes when the worst has happened . . . if it meets a need for Cave, it also feels like a gift to the reader * * Sunday Times * * An extraordinary, uplifting book . . . This is a book you could dip into if you had no knowledge of Cave at all, just to find someone unafraid to ask all the big questions: what is grief? What is forgiveness? . . . Everyday carnage has brought forth a book of hope and freedom and life * * Daily Telegraph * * An absolutely wonderful book. I don't think I've ever read so integrated and searching an engagement with how faith works, how creativity works, and how grief is bound up with both -- ROWAN WILLIAMS Remarkably candid . . . the culmination of a prolonged and moving period of reflection . . . One of Cave's greatest skills is to bring a secular eye to the religious and a religious eye to the secular, the sacred and the profane intertwined * * New Statesman * * Faith, Hope and Carnage stands, at once, as a loving tribute to his late son, and ultimately to God - a book that fuses his humour, intellect, wit and passion into one long philosophical meditation on living and dying * * Irish Independent * * This fascinating book is speckled with wisdom and rich in ideas. It is an entirely unpretentious stroll by two friends through matters big and small * * Scotsman * * Its nuanced meditations on morality and music are universally relevant . . . Offering a thoughtful and generous glimpse into the internal life that has fuelled an undeniably extraordinary output, Faith, Hope and Carnage heralds a looser, more interdisciplinary creativity * * i paper * * Heartfelt, wise and fearlessly frank * * Mojo * * Tackle[s] life's saddest and most uplifting moments with humour, candour and wisdom * * Evening Standard, Best New Books of 2022 * * A book that'll stay with you forever * * Stylist * *

Praise for The Sick Bag Song: About as rock 'n' roll as you can get . . . Shot through with fantasy, fiction, apocalyptic musings and tall stories * * Sunday Times * * A new literary form - a mash-up of prose, poetry, song lyrics and autobiography * * New York Times * * A page turning mash up from the prince of darkness * * Independent * * Lyrical, hallucinatory and laced with sly wit, The Sick Bag Song is a revelation and a pleasure -- HARI KUNZRU Mad and amazing -- IAN RANKIN The stories twist and turn like a mad dash through the dark forest that is Nick Cave's imagination -- TOM ODELL

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Nick Cave has been performing music for more than forty years and is best known as the songwriter and lead singer of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, whose latest album Ghosteen was widely received as their best work ever. Cave's body of work also covers a wider range of media and modes of expression including film score composition, ceramic sculpture and writing novels. Over the last few years his The Red Hand Files website and 'In Conversation' live events have seen Cave exploring deeper and more direct relationships with his fans. Seán O'Hagan is an award-winning journalist who has interviewed many major artists, writers and musicians over the last four decades. He currently works as a feature writer for the Observer and is photography critic for the Guardian.

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