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St Martin's Press This Is Not My Memoir
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St. Martin's Griffin And in the End
Book SynopsisKen McNab takes an in-depth look at The Beatles'' acrimonious final year in And in the End.This is the story of the last days of The Beatles, a final chapter reconstructing for the first time the seismic events of 1969, the year that saw the band reach new highs of musical creativity and new lows of internal strife. Two years after Flower Power and the hippie idealism of the Summer of Love, the Sixties dream had perished on the vine. By 1969, violence and vindictiveness had replaced the Beatles'' own mantra of peace and love, and Vietnam and the Cold War had supplanted hope and optimism. And just as the decade foundered on the altar of a cold, harsh reality, so too did the Beatles.In the midst of this rancour, however, emerged the disharmony of Let It Be and the ragged genius of Abbey Road, their incredible farewell love letter to the world.
£17.09
Picador USA Let Love Rule
Book SynopsisTHE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERI see my story as a suite of songs that have a magical connection.Let Love Rule is a work of deep reflection. Lenny Kravitz looks back at his life with candor, self-scrutiny, and humor.My life is all about opposites, he writes. Black and white. Jewish and Christian. The Jackson 5 and Led Zeppelin. I accepted my Gemini soul. I owned it. I adored it. Yins and yangs mingled in various parts of my heart and mind, giving me balance and fueling my curiosity and comfort.Let Love Rule covers a vast canvas stretching from Manhattan's Upper East Side, Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant, Los Angeles's Baldwin Hills and Beverly Hills, and finally to France, England, and Germany.It's the story of a wildly creative kid who, despite tough struggles at school and extreme tension at home, finds salvation in music.We see him grow as a musician and ultimately become a master songwriter, producer, and pe
£16.20
Holt McDougal Be My Baby
Book SynopsisHailed by Rolling Stone magazine as one of the greatest rock memoirs of all time, Be My Baby is the true story of how Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Ronnie Spector carved out a space for herself against tremendous odds amid the chaos of the 1960s music scene and beyond.Ronnie Spector's first collaboration with producer Phil Spector, Be My Baby, stunned the world and shot girl group the Ronettes to stardom. No one could sing as clearly, as emotively as Ronnie. But her voice was soon drowned out in Phil Spector's Wall of Sound, and lost in Ronnie and Phil's ensuing romance and marriage.Ronnie had to fight tooth and nail to wrest back control of her life, her music, and her legacy. And while she regained her footing, Ronnie found herself recording with Stevie Van Zandt, partying with David Bowie, and touring with Bruce Springsteen.Smart, humorous, and self-possessed, Be My Baby is a whirlwind account of the twists and turns in the life of an
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St Martin's Press Madly Deeply
Book SynopsisAn international bestsellerOne of Barnes & Noble''s Best Biographies & Memoirs of 2022Selected by the Guardian as one of the best books of 2022Amazon''s choice for one of the best book gifts of 2023Madly, Deeply is a rare invitation into the mind of Alan Rickmanone of the most magnetic, beloved performers of our time.From his breakout role in Die Hard to his outstanding, multifaceted performances in the Harry Potter films, Galaxy Quest, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, and more, Alan Rickman cemented his legacy as a world-class actor. His air of dignity, his sonorous voice, and the knowing wit he brought to each role continue to captivate audiences today.But Rickman's ability to breathe life into projects wasn''t confined to just his performances. As you''ll find, Rickman''s diaries detail the extraordinary and the ordinary, flitting betw
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St Martin's Press The Loft Generation
Book SynopsisA bristling and brilliant memoir of the mid-twentieth-century New York School of painters and their times by the renowned artist and critic Edith Schloss, who, from the early years, was a member of the group that shifted the center of the art world from Paris to New YorkThe Loft Generation: From the de Koonings to Twombly; Portraits and Sketches, 19422011 is an invaluable account by an artist at the center of a landmark era in American art. Edith Schloss writes about the painters, poets, and musicians who were part of the postwar movements and about her life as an artist in New York and later in Italy, where she continued to paint and write until her death in 2011.Schloss was born in Germany and moved to New York City during World War II. She became part of a thriving community of artists and intellectuals that included Elaine and Willem de Kooning, Larry Rivers, John Cage, and Frank O'Hara. She married the photographer and filmmaker Rudy Burckha
£15.29
St Martin's Press Solid Ivory
Book SynopsisThe irreverent, brilliant memoirs of the legendary filmmaker James IvoryIn Solid Ivory, a carefully crafted mosaic of memories, portraits, and reflections, the Academy Awardwinning filmmaker James Ivory, a partner in the legendary Merchant Ivory Productions and the director of A Room with a View, Howards End, Maurice, and The Remains of the Day, tells stories from his remarkable life and career as one of the most influential directors of his time. At times, he touches on his love affairs, looking back coolly and with unexpected frankness.From first meeting his collaborator and life partner, Ismail Merchant, at the Indian Consulate in New York to winning an Academy Award at age eighty-nine for Call Me by Your Name; from seeing his first film at age five in Klamath Falls, Oregon, to memories of Satyajit Ray, Jean Renoir, The New Yorker magazine's film critic Pauline Kael (his longtime enemy), Vanessa Redgrave, J.
£17.00
Holt McDougal Her Country
Book SynopsisIn country music, the men might dominate the radio waves. But it's womenlike Maren Morris, Mickey Guyton, and Kacey Musgraveswho are making history. This is the full and unbridled story of the past twenty years of country music seen through the lens of these trailblazers' careerstheir paths to stardom and their battles against a deeply embedded boys' club, as well as their efforts to transform the genre into a more inclusive placeas told by award-winning Nashville journalist Marissa R. Moss.For the women of country music, 1999 was an entirely different universea brief blip in time, when women like Shania Twain and the Chicks topped every chart and made country music a woman's world. But the industry, which prefers its stars to be neutral, be obedient, and never rock the boat, had other plans. It wanted its women to shut up and singor else. In 2021, women are played on country radio as little as 10 percent of the time, but they're still selling out aren
£16.14
Picador Thank You Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin
Book SynopsisThe never-thought-we'd-see-it memoir from the legendary Sly Stone.Sly Stone created some of the most memorable anthems of the 1960s and 1970s (Everyday People, Family Affair). He electrified audiences at Woodstock and all over the world. His influence on modern music and culture is indisputable. But after a rapid rise to superstardom, Sly spent decades in the gripsof addiction.Having finally achieved a lasting sobriety, he is finally ready and able to relate the ups and downs and ins and outs of his amazing life. The book moves from Sly's early career as a radio DJ and record producer through the dizzying heights of the San Francisco music scene in the late 1960s and into the darker, denser life (and music) of 1970s and 1980s Los Angeles.Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin) is a vivid, gripping, sometimes terrifying, and ultimately affirming tour through Sly's life and career. Like Sly, it's honest and playful, sharp and blunt, emotional
£17.00
St Martin's Press Faith Hope and Carnage
Book SynopsisA BOOK OF THE YEAR, ROLLING STONE, NPR, PITCHFORK, THE TIMES (LONDON), TELEGRAPHAn astoundingly intimate book-length conversation on art and grief spanning the duration of the pandemic years . . . As with Cave's music, you might flinch, but you will feel alive.? Pitchfork Faith, Hope and Carnage is a book about Nick Cave's inner life.Created from more than forty hours of intimate conversations with the journalist Seán O'Hagan, this is a profoundly thoughtful exploration, in Cave's own words, of what really drives his life and creativity.The book examines questions of belief, art, music, freedom, grief and love. It draws candidly on Cave's life, from his early childhood to the present day, his loves, his work ethic and his dramatic transformation in recent years.Faith, Hope and Carnage offers ladders of hope and inspiration from a true visionary.
£17.00
Picador David Smith
£999.99
St Martin's Press Sybil Cyril
Book SynopsisFrom Jenny Uglow, one of our most admired writers, a beautifully illustrated story of a love affair and a dynamic artistic partnership between the wars. In 1922, Cyril Power, a fifty-year-old architect, left his family to work with the twenty-four-year-old Sybil Andrews. They would be together for twenty years. Both became famous for their dynamic, modernist linocutsstreamlined, full of movement and brilliant color, summing up the hectic interwar years. Yet at the same time, they looked back to medieval myths and early music, to country ways that were disappearing from sight. Jenny Uglow's Sybil & Cyril: Cutting Through Time traces their struggles and triumphs, conflicts and dreams, following them from Suffolk to London, from the New Forest to Vancouver Island. This is a world of futurists, surrealists, and pioneering abstraction, but also of the buzz of the new, of machines and speed, of shops and sport and dance, shining against the threat of depres
£999.99
Picador USA As It Turns Out
Book SynopsisThe story of the model, actress, and American icon Edie Sedgwick is told by her sister with empathy, insight, and firsthand observations of her meteoric life.As It Turns Out is a family story. Alice Sedgwick Wohl is writing to her brother Bobby, who died in a motorcycle accident in 1965, just before their sister Edie Sedgwick met Andy Warhol. After unexpectedly coming across Edie's image in a clip from Warhol's extraordinary film Outer and Inner Space, Wohl was moved to put her inner dialogue with Bobby on the page in an attempt to reconstruct Edie's life and figure out what made Edie and Andy such iconic figures in American culture. What was it about Andy that enabled him to anticipate so much of contemporary culture? Why did Edie draw attention wherever she went? Who exactly was she, who fascinated Warhol and captured the imagination of a generation? Wohl tells the story as only a sister could, from their childhood on a California ranch
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Picador USA Shy
Book SynopsisThe memoirs of Mary Rodgerswriter, composer, Broadway royalty, and a woman who tried everything.What am I, bologna? Mary Rodgers (19312014) often said. She was referring to being stuck in the middle of a talent sandwich: the daughter of one composer and the mother of another. And not just any composers. Her father was Richard Rodgers, perhaps the greatest American melodist; her son, Adam Guettel, a worthy successor. What that leaves out is Mary herself, also a composer, whose musical Once Upon a Mattress remains one of the rare revivable Broadway hits written by a woman. Shy is the story of how it all happened: how Mary grew from an angry child, constrained by privilege and a parent's overwhelming gift, to become not just a theater figure in her own right but also a renowned author of books for young readers (including the classic Freaky Friday) and, in a final grand turn, a doyenne of philanthropy and the chairman of the Juilliard School.
£17.00
St Martin's Press Being Henry
Book SynopsisInstant New York Times Bestseller! From Emmy-award winning actor, author, comedian, producer, and director Henry Winkler, a deeply thoughtful memoir of the lifelong effects of stardom and the struggle to become whole.Henry Winkler, launched into prominence as The Fonz in the beloved Happy Days, has transcended the role that made him who he is. Brilliant, funny, and widely-regarded as the nicest man in Hollywood (though he would be the first to tell you that it's simply not the case, he's really just grateful to be here), Henry shares in this achingly vulnerable memoir the disheartening truth of his childhood, the difficulties of a life with severe dyslexia, the pressures of a role that takes on a life of its own, and the path forward once your wildest dream seems behind you. Since the glorious era of Happy Days fame, Henry has endeared himself to a new generation with roles in such adored shows as Arrested Development, Pa
£24.00
St Martin's Press Pageboy
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£22.49
Hanover Square Press I Left My Homework in the Hamptons
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£19.79
Penguin Random House Group Possibility Is Your Superpower Spanish Edition
£14.44
Crown Memories Are Made of This
Book SynopsisDeana Martin's captivating, heartfelt memoir of her father, Dean MartinCharming, debonair, and impeccably attired in a black tuxedo, Dean Martin was coolness incarnate. His music provided the soundtrack of romance, and his image captivated movie and television audiences for more than fifty years. His daughter Deana was among his most devoted fans, but she also knew a side of him that few others ever glimpsed. In this heartfelt memoir, Deana recalls the constantly changing blended family that marked her youth, along with the unexpected moments of silliness and tenderness that this unusual Hollywood family shared. She candidly reveals the impact of Dean’s fame and characteristic aloofness, but delights in sharing wonderful, never-before-told stories about her father and his pallies known as the Rat Pack. This enchanting account of life as the daughter of one of Hollywood’s sexiest icons will leave you entertained, delighted, and nostalgic for a time gone by.
£999.99
Thomas Nelson Publishers Grateful American
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Thomas Nelson Publishers Checking In
Book SynopsisI need help.Those three words saved Grammy Award–winning singer Michelle Williams''s life. After decades of sweeping her anxiety and depression under the rug--even during her years in the spotlight with Destiny''s Child--Michelle found herself planning her own funeral. Realizing that she needed immediate help and could no longer battle her anxiety and depression alone, she checked herself into a treatment facility. When she came home, she was energized and determined to check in on a regular basis with herself, God, and others. Practical, engaging, and full of wisdom, Checking In will give you the tools you need to: Tear down the walls around your vulnerability that are hindering your healing Reject the lies of anxiety and depression and replace them with the truth of God''s Word Trade toxic thought patterns for lasting joy Find freedom by forgiving yourself and others An upli
£14.24
Thorndike Press Large Print Food for Thought
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£39.67
Gale, a Cengage Group Untitled Memoir
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£41.04
Thorndike Press, a Cengage Group We Did Ok Kid
£37.62
Disney Book Publishing Inc. Dream It Do It
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£20.39
Touchstone Books Dangerously Funny
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£18.99
Atria Books House of Outrageous Fortune Fifteen Central Park
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£999.99
Orion Publishing Co Wayward
Book SynopsisThe life story of the young musician who gave up everything and everybody to take to the road with a horse, wagon, dog and partner, in a journey that would lead to the writing and recording of her 1970 album Just Another Diamond DayTrade ReviewThis is a magical and transporting memoir, relating how Bunyan ducked out of the London music scene, instead choosing to make her way - by foot and wagon - to the Outer Hebrides. Her mesmerising viewpoint and lyrical outlook on life will be familiar to anyone who, like me, loves her music, but Wayward proves that Bunyan has lived the best possible life, on her own idiosyncratic terms -- Maggie O'FarrellA gorgeous account of outsiderness and survival; a map of how to live outside the boundaries and of striving for an authentic artistic life. A quietly defiant and moving work -- Sinéad GleesonVashti Bunyan possesses one of the purest voices English music has ever produced, and now that unique otherness translates to literature. Wayward is an epic in miniature, a mythical tale with echoes of her ancestor John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress, made all the more magical by the fact it actually happened. I loved - and lived - every sentence -- Benjamin MyersA quietly beautiful and gentle read, full of light and kindness. Underneath its easygoing exterior is a proud story about gut instinct and persistence, and I have much affection for what it showed me about choosing a pace of life, and how we might find our place in the world as we move through it -- Jennifer Lucy AllanThis simply beautiful memoir cast the same spell on me as Vashti Bunyan's music. Her account of a legendary road-trip taken at horse pace through a gone England is hedgerow rich in vivid detail. But this is no nostalgia piece: Bunyan is needle-sharp on the way so many men tried to cut her - and her songs - down to size: essential reading for women in the arts now. I read the last pages through tears, deeply moved by the wilder life she embarked on, step by step, song by song. If you loved Patti Smith's Just Kids then you need to read Wayward next. -- Tanya Shadrick, author of The Cure for SleepBunyan weaves her captivating nomad's tale with a rambler's eye for detail and a dreamer's visionary ambition. Her perpetual search for utopia, and the experiences behind her songs of innocence, are romantic and revelatory -- Rob YoungDefiant and surprisingly unromantic, painting her cross-country journey in shades of muddy green, this is a fascinating and brave memoir -- Bob StanleyLike the music she makes, Vashti Bunyan's writing in this memoir of an unusual musical life is ethereal and dream-like, skipping from one thought to the next, lingering long enough to leave a clear impression but not to overburden the reader's experience . . . a story of finding meaning in the right location, with beautiful music as a backdrop * Record Collector *Extraordinary * Mojo *
£23.82
Orion Publishing Co Spaceships Over Glasgow
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis book is like being in the pub with a friend who has all the best stories * The Skinny *Will provide comfort and inspiration to all those souls abducted by music * The Guardian *Exuberant * Mojo *Candid and articulate * The Herald *Shows how well his infectious enthusiasm and taste for therapeutic noise have served him * Uncut *A love song to rock n roll * The Scots Magazine *It's hard to think of a better book written about the realities of being in a band in the 21st century * Record Collector *
£24.32
Simon & Schuster Shirley Jones
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£14.30
Simon & Schuster Im Not a Terrorist But Ive Played One on TV
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£14.40
Howard Books Life Is Short No Pun Intended
Book SynopsisFrom the stars of TLC’s The Little Couple comes an uplifting account of how the pair met and became successful professionals and parents.
£14.30
Gallery Books This Will Only Hurt a Little
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£999.99
Ebury Publishing Becoming Molly-Mae
Book SynopsisThe real Molly-Mae, in her own words Molly-Mae is no stranger to the limelight, having found fame on TV and online. But behind the polished exterior there is a young girl with a unique story. It's the Molly not everyone gets to see. In Becoming Molly-Mae she unravels herself completely for the first time to open up about how she nurtured her creativity from a young age, took ownership of her body image, battle self-doubt and built a happy life. Along the way she shares the moments, relationships and life lessons that have made her who she is. From the energetic child who loved Irish dancing and pageants, to the teenager holding down a job at Boots whilst building her dreams at fashion school, her journey to Love Island and how she copes with fame today. By sharing these parts of herself, Molly-Mae gives a fresh take on finding beauty and balance in a busy world.
£26.05
Ebury Publishing A Head Full of Music: The soundtrack to my life
Book SynopsisForeword by Bob StanleyOn a sunny Saturday morning in May 1956, a fifteen-year-old, then called Harry Webb, was mooching down Waltham Cross High Street. He heard some music blaring out of a parked car. It stopped him in his tracks.The song was 'Heartbreak Hotel' by Elvis Presley. It sounded like nothing he had ever heard before. In that instant, the schoolboy who was destined to take the hit parade by storm as Cliff Richard fell in love with rock and roll. It gave him the thrill, the purpose and the mission that has shaped his life ever since.Cliff lives in and for music. And with 65 years as a hitmaker, the music filling his head is a broad category. His soundtrack begins by blasting us all back into that first life-changing explosion of rock and also includes great soul soul stars such as Aretha Franklin, longtime colleagues like Elton John, and much-missed close friends Cilla Black and Olivia Newton-John.This book is meaningful to Cliff on many levels. The 30 or so songs here that make up the soundtrack to his life have each moved him deeply, but it's also about the legendary artists he met, and often got to know. He shares those stories and memories with you, too.A Head Full of Music is a vibrant personal journey for Cliff, and it's a joy to accompany him on it. Get wired for sound with him and read on.
£31.04
Ebury Publishing A Head Full of Music: The soundtrack to my life
Book SynopsisForeword by Bob StanleyOn a sunny Saturday morning in May 1956, a fifteen-year-old, then called Harry Webb, was mooching down Waltham Cross High Street. He heard some music blaring out of a parked car. It stopped him in his tracks.The song was 'Heartbreak Hotel' by Elvis Presley. It sounded like nothing he had ever heard before. In that instant, the schoolboy who was destined to take the hit parade by storm as Cliff Richard fell in love with rock and roll. It gave him the thrill, the purpose and the mission that has shaped his life ever since.Cliff lives in and for music. And with 65 years as a hitmaker, the music filling his head is a broad category. His soundtrack begins by blasting us all back into that first life-changing explosion of rock and also includes great soul soul stars such as Aretha Franklin, longtime colleagues like Elton John, and much-missed close friends Cilla Black and Olivia Newton-John.This book is meaningful to Cliff on many levels. The 30 or so songs here that make up the soundtrack to his life have each moved him deeply, but it's also about the legendary artists he met, and often got to know. He shares those stories and memories with you, too.A Head Full of Music is a vibrant personal journey for Cliff, and it's a joy to accompany him on it. Get wired for sound with him and read on.
£23.71
Little, Brown & Company Coal Miner's Daughter
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£9.99
Grand Central Publishing Putting the Rabbit in the Hat
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£23.20
Grand Central Publishing Brat: An '80s Story
Book Synopsis From an actor and director who got his start as a Brat Pack member, an emotionally poignant memoir, perfect for fans of Patti Smith's Just Kids and Rob Lowe's Stories I Only Tell My Friends. The inspiration for the Hulu documentary. Everyone knows Andrew McCarthy from his iconic movie roles in Pretty in Pink, St. Elmo's Fire, Weekend at Bernie's, and Less than Zero. A member of the legendary Hollywood Brat Pack (including Rob Lowe, Molly Ringwald, Emilio Estevez, and Demi Moore), his filmography has come to represent both a genre of film and an era of pop culture. In Brat, McCarthy focuses on that singular moment in time. The result is a revealing look at coming of age in a maelstrom, reckoning with conflicted ambition, innocence, addiction, and masculinity. 1980s New York City is brought to vivid life in these pages, from scoring loose joints in Washington Square Park to skipping school in favor of the dark revival houses of the Village–where he fell in love with the movies that would change his life. Filled with personal revelations of innocence lost to heady days in Hollywood with John Hughes and an iconic cast of characters, Brat is a surprising and intimate story of an outsider caught up in a most unwitting success.
£21.00
Little Brown and Company The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians
£18.69
Grand Central Publishing In Pieces
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£17.99
Amazon Publishing Almost Romance: A Memoir
Book SynopsisFinding love is all a matter of timing in a surprising, complicated, and funny memoir by the author of A Marriage in Dog Years. When a mysterious woman summons Nancy Balbirer to a Russian restaurant in New York City, the near stranger’s shocking purple hair and even more shocking news send Balbirer simultaneously reeling back to her past and hurtling toward a future that, at almost fifty years old, she never dreamed possible. This romantic-comedy memoir tells the true story of how a pack of Hollywood television writers and the denizens of a fabled but cursed Manhattan apartment building helped the author and one of her best friends turn a thirty-two-year almost romance into a real one. Witty and heartfelt, Nancy Balbirer’s sublime memoir proves that love is possible anywhere, anytime, and at any age.Trade Review“Touching and often laugh-out-loud funny…Nancy Meyers and Nora Ephron fans will be utterly charmed.” —Publishers Weekly “A lively, zesty memoir. Movie buffs, wordplay-loving readers, and hopeless never-say-die-to-love romantics will enjoy this happy-ever-after tale.” —Booklist “In this new memoir, Balbirer tells the story of a romance more than 30 years in the making, and brings readers along on the equally funny, heartbreaking, and exhilarating adventure to make it work.” —Town & Country “Nancy and her husband, Howard J. Morris, didn’t get together until their 50s, despite 32 years of knowing each other. A slew of Hollywood TV writers and the residents of a cursed apartment building conspired to turn this almost romance into an actual one.” —Katie Couric Media “The heartwarming story unfolds in Nancy Balbirer’s charming memoir Almost Romance. In her book, Balbirer tells the downright cinematic tale of how she finally realized her life-long best friend was also the person she was supposed to spend the rest of her life with.” —POPSUGAR “Nancy Balbirer’s previous books—Take Your Shirt Off and Cry and A Marriage in Dog Years—made clear the author had a singular skill for turning the trials and triumphs of her own life into unforgettable stories. In this new memoir, Balbirer tells the story of a romance more than 30 years in the making, and brings readers along on the equally funny, heartbreaking, and exhilarating adventure to make it work.” —Town & Country “For Nancy Meyers fans…Meryl, call your agents!” —Andy Lewis, The Optionist “When Howie met Nancy more than thirty years ago, they both had a lot to learn about love—and themselves. Nancy Balbirer’s new memoir, Almost Romance, tells the story of two people (writer Balbirer and Howard J. Morris, cocreator of Grace and Frankie) who were always meant to be together if they could just get it together. And finally, in their fifties, they do. Fun and frothy and full of great callbacks to sex in the city over the last three decades, Almost Romance gives hope to romantics in an impersonal age for love. From Nancy’s first anguished email reaching out to her old friend Howie, we are rooting for this couple, who come to realize that, after lives spent living without each other, they can’t exist apart. Nora Ephron would approve.” —Nancy Jo Sales, author of Nothing Personal: My Secret Life in the Dating App Inferno “Almost Romance is a modern-day romantic thriller, because what could be scarier for a cynical New York divorcée than believing in love again? Balbirer’s memoir spans the decades of missed opportunities with her soul mate from college. She is ballsy, insecure, and wickedly funny and overthinks everything. It’s a great ride and a great read!” —Josann McGibbon, Emmy-nominated screenwriter of The Starter Wife and Runaway Bride “The laugh-out-loud wit and astute contemporary observations that distinguish Nancy Balbirer’s previous memoirs is on full display in this marvelous third book. She also gives us a deeply emotional, romantic story that makes us yearn for the two longtime friends to at last find happiness with each other.” —Charles Busch, actor, playwright, cabaret entertainer, novelist, and screenwriter
£12.02
Grand Central Publishing ACT Like You Got Some Sense: And Other Things My
Book SynopsisIn this hilarious and heartfelt memoir, award-winning, multi-talented entertainer Jamie Foxx shares the story of being raised by his no-nonsense grandmother, the glamour and pitfalls of life in Hollywood, and the lessons he took from both worlds to raise his two daughters.Jamie Foxx has won an Academy Award and a Grammy Award, laughed with sitting presidents, and partied with the biggest names in hip-hop. But he is most proud of his role as father to two very independent young women, Corinne and Anelise. Jamie might not always know what he's doing when it comes to raising girlsespecially when they talk to him about TikTok (PlikPlok?) and don't share his enthusiasm for flashy Rolls Roycesbut he does his best to show up for them every single day.Luckily, he has a strong example to follow: his beloved late grandmother, Estelle Marie Talley. Jamie learned everything he knows about parenting from the fierce woman who raised him: As he puts it, she's ';Madea before Tyler Perry put on the pumps and the gray wig.'In Act Like You Got Some Sensea title inspired by EstelleJamie shares up close and personal stories about the tough love and old-school values he learned growing up in the small town of Terrell, Texas; his early days trying to make it in Hollywood; the joys and challenges of achieving stardom; and how each phase of his life shaped his parenting journey. Hilarious, poignant, and always brutally honest, this is Jamie Foxx like we've never seen him before.
£36.00
Chicago Review Press Can You Feel the Silence?: Van Morrison: A New
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£23.74
Chicago Review Press Elton: The Biography
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£15.26
Chicago Review Press Deep in a Dream: The Long Night of Chet Baker
Book SynopsisThis first major biography of the most romanticized icon in jazz thrillingly recounts his wild ride. From his emergence in the 1950s--when an uncannily beautiful young man from Oklahoma appeared on the West Coast to become, seemingly overnight, the prince of "cool" jazz--until his violent, drug-related death in Amsterdam in 1988, Chet Baker lived a life that has become an American myth. Here, drawing on hundreds of interviews and previously untapped sources, James Gavin gives a hair-raising account of the trumpeter's dark journey.Trade Review"A landmark in entertainment biography." -- Tony Gieske , Hollywood Reporter"Definitive ... a haunting prose poem that's every bit as affecting as one of Baker's solos." -- Entertainment Weekly - "A" rating"Superb ... unerring ... a stark, troubling portrait of both the artist and his times." -- Publisher's Weekly"Splendid, fascinatingly thorough ... a book that remains a page-turner long after it's obvious what's coming next." -- K. Leander Williams , Time Out New York"So thorough, gripping and well-written that once the pages start to turn, you're hooked ... a journalistic gem." -- Jason Koransky , Down Beat"Savagely honest ... impeccably researched, elegantly written." -- Joel Selvin , San Francisco Chronicle"Harrowing ... chilling." -- Richard Sudhalter , Baltimore Sun"Cringingly fine ... a really scary story." -- Kirkus Reviews
£23.02
Smithsonian Books Johnny Cash: The Life and Legacy of the Man in
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£32.30
Avery Publishing Group Tough Sh*t: Life Advice from a Fat, Lazy Slob Who
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£14.45
