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Sydney Morning Herald
21-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Sydney Morning Herald
Nick Cave draws a crowd – but the queues aren't to listen to his music this time
London: Australian singer Nick Cave has surprised shoppers at a small store in England by giving them an insight into his creative life – not with his music, but with his books. The singer has generated queues at an Oxfam bookshop at a seaside resort by donating 2000 books on topics including philosophy, religion and rock. The first of his boxes was opened last week and drew a crowd of buyers when word reached the local media in Hove, near Brighton in south-east England. 'I guess there were between 50 and 100 people queuing in the first couple of hours of the stock going out,' store manager Richard, who asked to be quoted without his surname, told this masthead. Cave lived near Brighton with his family for many years and donated the books after they were used in an art installation about his creative process. That exhibition, called Stranger Than Kindness, included a recreation of Cave's office, with his entire personal library, as presented in the Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard film 20,000 Days on Earth. Word of the donation reached the local newspaper, The Argus, which broke the news and triggered the crowds. About 800 of the books were put on display last week and included Australian books such as Helen Garner's This House of Grief, her account of the trial of Robert Farquharson for driving his car into a dam, killing his three young sons.
The Age
21-07-2025
- Entertainment
- The Age
Nick Cave draws a crowd – but the queues aren't to listen to his music this time
London: Australian singer Nick Cave has surprised shoppers at a small store in England by giving them an insight into his creative life – not with his music, but with his books. The singer has generated queues at an Oxfam bookshop at a seaside resort by donating 2000 books on topics including philosophy, religion and rock. The first of his boxes was opened last week and drew a crowd of buyers when word reached the local media in Hove, near Brighton in south-east England. 'I guess there were between 50 and 100 people queuing in the first couple of hours of the stock going out,' store manager Richard, who asked to be quoted without his surname, told this masthead. Cave lived near Brighton with his family for many years and donated the books after they were used in an art installation about his creative process. That exhibition, called Stranger Than Kindness, included a recreation of Cave's office, with his entire personal library, as presented in the Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard film 20,000 Days on Earth. Word of the donation reached the local newspaper, The Argus, which broke the news and triggered the crowds. About 800 of the books were put on display last week and included Australian books such as Helen Garner's This House of Grief, her account of the trial of Robert Farquharson for driving his car into a dam, killing his three young sons.
