Biography: arts and entertainment Books
Random House USA Inc The Piano Shop on the Left Bank
Book SynopsisWalking his two young children to school every morning, Thad Carhart passes an unassuming little storefront in his Paris neighborhood. Intrigued by its simple sign—Desforges Pianos—he enters, only to have his way barred by the shop’s imperious owner. Unable to stifle his curiosity, he finally lands the proper introduction, and a world previously hidden is brought into view. Luc, the atelier’s master, proves an indispensable guide to the history and art of the piano. Intertwined with the story of a musical friendship are reflections on how pianos work, their glorious history, and stories of the people who care for them, from amateur pianists to the craftsmen who make the mechanism sing. The Piano Shop on the Left Bank is at once a beguiling portrait of a Paris not found on any map and a tender account of the awakening of a lost childhood passion.Praise for The Piano Shop on the Left Bank:“[Carhart’s] writing is flu
£16.00
Penguin Random House LLC The Judds A Biography
£11.26
Random House USA Inc Wild Tales A Rock Roll Life
Book SynopsisFrom Graham Nash—the legendary musician and founding member of the iconic bands Crosby, Stills & Nash and The Hollies—comes a candid and riveting autobiography that belongs on the reading list of every classic rock fan. Graham Nash's songs defined a generation and helped shape the history of rock and roll—he’s written over 200 songs, including such classic hits as Carrie Anne, “On A Carousel,” Simple Man, Our House, “Marrakesh Express,” and Teach Your Children. From the opening salvos of the British Rock Revolution to the last shudders of Woodstock, he has rocked and rolled wherever music mattered. Now Graham is ready to tell his story: his lower-class childhood in post-war England, his early days in the British Invasion group The Hollies; becoming the lover and muse of Joni Mitchell during the halcyon years, when both produced their most introspective and important work; meeting Stephen Stills and David Crosby and
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W. W. Norton & Company Nadia Boulanger A Life in Music
Book SynopsisA detailed, authoritative portrait of a commanding figure in twentieth-century music.
£22.32
W. W. Norton & Company I Say Me for a Parable The Oral Autobiography of Mance Lipscomb Texas Bluesman
Book Synopsis“[A] life that’s one of the great American stoires. Lipscomb (1895-1976) knew how to tell a tale, and had incredible tales to tell. . . . [G]ratitude is owed Alyn for preserving Lipscomb’s remarkable story.” —Kirkus Reviews
£23.75
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Stanislavski A Biography Methuen Drama A Life Biography and Autobiography
Book SynopsisWritten by a former teacher and author of "Stanislavski: An Introduction", this biography has been revised and updated to include new material now becoming available from the Russian archives, including a letter from Stanislavski to Stalin.
£24.50
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) There Are No Secrets Thoughts on Acting and Theatre Biography and Autobiography
Book SynopsisPeter Brook is the most consistently innovative director in Western theatre. In these three essays he returns to the concept of his first book The Empty Space and examines what that means for the life of a production.
£27.47
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Dario Fo Peoples Court Jester Biography and Autobiography
Book SynopsisA revised critical study covering the various phases of Dario Fo's theatrical career.
£30.43
Penguin Young Readers Group Who Was Bob Marley
Book SynopsisBob Marley was a reggae superstar who is considered to be one of the most influential musicians of all time. Who Was Bob Marley? tells the story of how a man with humble roots became an international icon.
£7.51
Penguin Publishing Group Me
Book SynopsisThe New York Times bestselling memoir-now available as an enhanced paperback edition with a new Introduction and never-before- seen photos! In this New York Times bestseller, international superstar Ricky Martin, who has sold more than 60 million albums worldwide, opens up for the first time about memories of his early childhood, experiences in the famed boy band Menudo, struggles with his identity during the Livin' la Vida Loca phenomenon, reflections on coming to terms with his sexuality, relationships that allowed him to embrace love, and life-changing decisions like devoting himself to helping children around the world, and becoming a father. Me is an intimate memoir about the very liberating and spiritual journey of one of the most iconic pop-stars of our time.
£18.85
Crown Archetype The Keys A Memoir
Book SynopsisFrom Snapchat sensation, business mogul, and recording artist DJ Khaled, the book They don't want you to read reveals his major keys to success. - Stay away from They- Don’t ever play yourself- Secure the bag- Respect the code- Glorify your success- Don’t deny the heat- Keep two rooms cooking at the same time - Win, win, win no matter what
£15.30
Penguin Putnam Inc The Way I Am
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The biggest rapper in history."—Rolling Stone "The best rapper alive."—Vibe magazine "Part autobiography, part photo gallery, part ephemera collection, it's a handsome roundup for an artist who has been notoriously reluctant to discuss his personal life anyplace but in his music."—New York Times"There is this guy Eminem. He has created a sense of what is possible. He has sent a voltage around a generation. He has done this not just through his subversive attitude but also his verbal energy."—Seamus Heaney, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
£25.60
Kahurangi The 27 Club
£9.26
HarperCollins Short Nights Of The Shadow Catcher
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Mountain Top Publishing LLC Big Road Blues12 Bars on I80
£19.91
Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Nelson Sullivan The Portapak Prince
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£14.28
Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp When the Devil Smiles the Angels Frown My Life and Times in Rock n Roll
£16.55
Paul Salley Little Wing
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£14.25
Random House USA Inc The Spider
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group The Sassoons
Book SynopsisA spectacular generational saga of the making (and undoing) of a family dynasty: the riveting untold story of the gilded Jewish Bagdadi Sassoons, who built a vast empire through global finance and trade—cotton, opium, shipping, banking—that reached across three continents and ultimately changed the destinies of nations. With full access to rare family photographs and archives.“Engaging...compelling...well-paced and supremely satisfying. ”—The New York TimesThey were one of the richest families in the world for two hundred years, from the 19th century to the 20th, and were known as ‘the Rothschilds of the East.’Mesopotamian in origin, and for more than forty years the chief treasurers to the pashas of Baghdad and Basra, they were forced to flee to Bushir on the Persian Gulf; David Sassoon and sons starting over with nothing, and beginning to trade in India in cotton and opium.The Sassoons soon were building textile mills and factories, and setting up branches in shipping in China, and expanding beyond, to Japan, and further west, to Paris and London. They became members of British parliament; were knighted; and owned and edited Britain’s leading newspapers, including The Sunday Times and The Observer.And in 1887, the exalted dynasty of Sassoon joined forces with the banking empire of Rothschild and were soon joined by marriage, fusing together two of the biggest Jewish commerce and banking families in the world.Against the monumental canvas of two centuries of the Ottoman Empire and the changing face of the Far East, across Europe and Great Britain during the time of its farthest reach, Joseph Sassoon gives us a riveting generational saga of the making of this magnificent family dynasty.
£17.60
Random House USA Inc Rogues
Book SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the award-winning author of Empire of Pain and Say Nothing—and one of the most decorated journalists of our time—twelve enthralling true stories of skulduggery and intrigueAn excellent collection of Keefe''s detective work, and a fine introduction to his illuminating writing. —NPR “Fast-paced...Keefe is a virtuoso storyteller. —The Washington PostPatrick Radden Keefe has garnered prizes ranging from the National Magazine Award to the Orwell Prize to the National Book Critics Circle Award for his meticulously-reported, hypnotically-engaging work on the many ways people behave badly. Rogues brings together a dozen of his most celebrated articles from The New Yorker. As Keefe says in his preface “They reflect on some of my abiding preoccupations: crime and corruption, secrets and lies, the permeable membrane separating licit and illicit worlds, the bonds of family, the power of denial.”Keefe brilliantly explores the intricacies of forging $150,000 vintage wines, examines whether a whistleblower who dared to expose money laundering at a Swiss bank is a hero or a fabulist, spends time in Vietnam with Anthony Bourdain, chronicles the quest to bring down a cheerful international black market arms merchant, and profiles a passionate death penalty attorney who represents the “worst of the worst,” among other bravura works of literary journalism.The appearance of his byline in The New Yorker is always an event, and collected here for the first time readers can see his work forms an always enthralling but deeply human portrait of criminals and rascals, as well as those who stand up against them.
£15.30
Random House USA Inc The Devil at His Elbow
£14.61
iUniverse Lemmon A Biography
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iUniverse Aubrey Beardsley Imp of the Perverse
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iUniverse George Raft
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iUniverse King of Comedy The Lively Arts
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iUniverse Jackie The Exploitation of a First Lady The Exploration of a First Lady
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iUniverse Tryin To Get To You The Story of Elvis Presley
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iUniverse Marian Anderson
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iUniverse Musical Chairs A Life in the Arts
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iUniverse The Crossland Shootout Adventures of a Photojournalist Adventures of a Photojournalists
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iUniverse The Landed Gentry Passions and Personalities Inside Americas Propertied Class
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Writer's Showcase Press The Torment of Buddy Rich A Biography
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iUniverse Costly Performances Tennessee Williams The Last Stage
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iUniverse Television is a Young Mans Game Im 94 Why Didnt Somebody Tell Me 67 Years in the Radio and Television Jungles and No Tarzan in Sight
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iUniverse Harlow An Intimate Biography Lively Arts
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iUniverse Memoirs of a Hollywood Script Girl
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iUniverse A Different Drummer What Makes Me Tic A Memoir
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iUniverse Sophie and Me Some of These Days
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iUniverse Theatre Tales PreAndrew Lloyd Webber PreAndrew Loyd Webber
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iUniverse Behind the Van Gogh Forgeries A Memoir
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iUniverse Roadie A True Story at least the parts I remember
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iUniverse Dakota Epic Experiences of a Reenactor During the Filming of Dances With Wolves
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iUniverse Beyond the Laughter A Daughters Story of Curlys Post Three Stooges Years
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iUniverse The Music of Madness
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