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Biography: arts & entertainment
Brand: Random House
In this new volume of memoirs, Frank Skinner describes his experience of going back on the road doing stand-up again, after many years spent working mainly on television. His adventures on tour are by turns funny and moving as he meditates on growin..
13.84£
Brand: Cornell University Press
"You can't help but keep turning the pages, wondering how it will all turn out: and Walker's accumulated readings of Liszt's music have to be taken seriously indeed."-D. Kern Holoman, New York Review of Books"A conscientious scholar passionate about..
35.40£
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing
The beautifully illustrated and authoritative biography of Frida Kahlo 'Frida will hold its place as the first comprehensive biography of this most visceral of artists' Observer 'Mesmerizing' Time Frida is the story of one of the twentieth century's..
21.67£
Brand: Austin Macauley Publishers
Kenneth Sillito is internationally recognised as one of Britain's most distinguished musicians. Born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, he studied with David Martin at the Royal Academy of Music, and in Rome with Remy Principe. His first major appointment was ..
14.00£
Brand: Little Brown and Company
This is the definitive biography of rap supergroup and cultural icons, Wu-Tang Clan (WTC). Heralded as one of the most influential groups in modern music-hip hop or otherwise-WTC created a rap dynasty on the strength of seven gold and platinum album..
17.05£
Brand: Simon & Schuster
The second volume of the extraordinary life of the great music and literary icon Leonard Cohen, in the words of those who knew him best.Poet, novelist, singer-songwriter, artist, prophet, icon-there has never been a figure like Leonard Cohen. He was..
26.04£ 28.43£
Discover the little known facts about some of the world's greatest historical icons with Full Picture. We all know what was written in the history books. There are some stories we've heard a hundred times--but often our understanding of these events..
20.64£
Brand: Repro Books Limited
Ganga means different things to different people-she's the river, the life-giver, the mother and the Goddess. Apart from being India's longest and most revered river, Ganga and her tributaries traverse eleven states and provide livelihood to near..
41.85£
Brand: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
The Romanian composer George Enescu (1881-1955] is one of the neglected giants of the twentieth century. Prodigiously gifted, he became best known in America as a conductor (where he was considered as a successor to Toscanini in New York) and in Eur..
28.98£
Brand: Abrams Books
George Michael was an extravagantly gifted, openhearted soul singer whose work was both pained and smolderingly erotic. He was a songwriter of true craft and substance, and his music swept the world, starting in the mid-1980s. His fabricated image-t..
30.02£
Brand: Scarecrow Press
Documents the craft of the organbuilder Gerhard Brunzema (1927-1992) in terms of the organs he built and how his instruments and his approach to organbuilding had an influence on music history. Divided into two parts, Part I contains essays by peopl..
133.45£
Brand: Princeton University Press
Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) is the world's most frequently performed operatic composer, yet he is only beginning to receive serious scholarly attention. In Giacomo Puccini and His World, an international roster of music specialists, several writing ..
33.40£
Gigmentia A Drummer's Love Song to Rock Shows, Fatherhood, Writing, and the Passing of a Beloved Mom
GIGMENTIA is a reflection on the raw, challenging, and gritty vocation of a blue-collar musician living in the Pacific Northwest; and the varied adventures of a hard-working, day-in-day-out rock band. Introspective, insightful, and eloquently observ..
25.12£
A groundbreaking and irresistible biography of three of America's most important musical artists--Carole King, Joni Mitchell, and Carly Simon--charts their lives as women at a magical moment in time.Carole King, Joni Mitchell, and Carly Simon remain..
24.00£
Brand: Gallery Books
The Vanderpump Rules breakout star and provocateur brings her signature sharp wit to the page with this collection of humorous and brutally honest essays exploring her rocky road to fame, sobriety, and beyond. What does "Give them Lala" mean? It mea..
22.74£
Brand: HarperCollins Publishers
A New York Times bestseller."My life was a complete mess, and God bless all of it. Because it's in the messes where we learn the most-as long as we slow down enough to realize what God is trying to show us."Suddenly in the spotlight, twenty-four-yea..
22.74£
Brand: Orion
The classic, definitive biography of Marilyn Monroe, now updated in the year of the 60th anniversary of the iconic star's death - now a major Netflix film, The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe: The Untold Tapes'Gets as near to the heart of the mystery as a..
21.68£
Brand: Orion
The dazzlingly funny second volume of Danny Baker's memoirs: the television years.Since my first book was published I have had countless friends and family members get in touch to say how come I hadn't included this story or that tale. Was I ashamed..
13.51£
Brand: Orion
In this book my father dies. I almost die.*** My showbiz career winds down. And yet everyone keeps telling me it's the funniest book I've ever written. If I'd known that's what the public wanted, I'd have cancelled Pets Win Prizes and just got sick ..
14.10£
Brand: Orion
Comedy writer, journalist, radio DJ and screenwriter Danny Baker charts his 30 years in showbizDanny Baker was born in Deptford, South East London in June 1957, and from an early age was involved in magazine journalism, with the founding of fanzine ..
12.57£
Brand: Blink Publishing
The Sunday Times bestseller Two comedy greats talk life, friendship and the joys of fishing... Bob Mortimer and Paul Whitehouse have been friends for 30 years, but when life intervened, what was once a joyous and spontaneous friendship dwindled to t..
13.83£
Brand: Princeton University Press
The first major English-language biography of Francisco Goya y Lucientes, who ushered in the modern eraThe life of Francisco Goya (1746-1828) coincided with an age of transformation in Spanish history that brought upheavals in the country's politics..
26.82£
Every inch of Grayson's childhood bedroom was covered with pictures of aeroplanes, and every surface with models. Fantasy took over his life, in a world of battles ruled by his teddy bear, Alan Measles. He grew up. And in 2003, an acclaimed ceramic ..
13.76£
Brand: Headline Publishing Group
From the Academy Award®-winning actor, an unconventional memoir filled with raucous stories, outlaw wisdom, and lessons learned the hard way about living with greater satisfaction.I've been in this life for fifty years, been trying to work out its r..
19.44£