Stranger Than Kindness offers an intimate, visually rich exploration of the creative world of Australian musician, songwriter and author Nick Cave. Developed and curated by Cave in collaboration with Christina Back, the book brings together photographs, handwritten song lyrics, drawings, paintings, collages, notebooks, manuscripts, personal objects and other archival materials that illuminate the experiences and ideas behind his artistic life. Contributions and reflections by Cave, Janine Barrand and Darcey Steinke explore the relationship between memory, imagination, identity and creative expression. Rather than following a conventional chronological biography, the book constructs a personal and associative portrait of Cave through fragments of his life, revealing the influences, obsessions and recurring themes that shape his music and writing. Love, faith, desire, loss, violence, redemption and the transformative power of language appear throughout this visual and literary journey. The publication was developed in connection with the exhibition Stranger Than Kindness: The Nick Cave Exhibition at the Royal Danish Library in Copenhagen in 2020. Combining the qualities of an artist's archive, a visual autobiography and an exhibition catalogue, it is a substantial reference for admirers of Cave, collectors of music-related books and readers interested in the creative process. (AI-generated content description)