Biography: arts and entertainment Books
St Martin's Press Carrie Fisher A Life on the Edge
Book SynopsisA remarkably candid biography of the remarkably candid - and brilliant - Carrie Fisher.
£999.99
St. Martin's Griffin Rachel Maddow
Book SynopsisThe first biography of the most popular anchor in cable news.Rachel Maddow has beaten the odds in a way that's novel in today's America: she uses her brain. In a world of banal and opinionated soundbites, she regularly crushes Sean Hannity's ratings thanks to her deeply researched reports. And in our highly polarized world, Maddow amiably engages the staunchest conservatives, while never hesitating to expose their light-on-facts defenses. As a result, she''s become the top anchor for MSNBC and a beloved representative for all that progressive America holds dear. The news that Maddow was the first publicly-out lesbian to anchor a prime-time TV news show seemed almost anticlimactic to her millions of viewers, who will be surprised and intrigued by little-known details of her life, as written by New York Times bestselling biographer Lisa Rogak. Growing up in a conservative California town and viewing herself as a perennial outsider help
£999.99
St Martin's Press Ticking Clock
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£999.99
St Martin's Press The Shores of Bohemia
Book SynopsisAn intimate portrait of a legendary generation of artists, writers, activists, and dreamers who created a utopia on the shores of Cape Cod during the first half of the twentieth centuryTheir names are iconic: Eugene O'Neill, Willem de Kooning, Josef and Anni Albers, Emma Goldman, Mary McCarthy, Edward Hopper, Walter Gropiusthe list goes on and on. Scorning the devastation that industrialization had wrought on the nation's workforce and culture in the early decades of the twentieth century, they gathered in the streets of Greenwich Village and on the beachfronts of Cape Cod. They began as progressives but soon turned to socialism, then communism. They founded theaters, periodicals, and art schools. They formed editorial boards that met in beach shacks and performed radical new plays in a shanty on the docks, where they could see the ocean through cracks in the floor. They welcomed the tremendous wave of talent fleeing Europe in the 1930s. At the end of their era, in th
£16.14
WW Norton & Co The UpsideDown World
Book SynopsisA Washington Post Notable Book of 2023 Plunged into a strange land at twenty-five, Benjamin Moser began an obsessive, decades-long study of the Dutch Masters to set his world right again.Trade Review"Conversational and congenial, essayistic and elevating . . . by the book’s end, I found that Moser’s intimate asides had accumulated into something affecting and open-ended . . . much more than an elegant guide to Dutch painters." -- Sebastian Smee - Washington Post"In a luminous, splendidly illustrated melding of art history and memoir, Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer, translator, and essayist Moser pays homage to 17th-century artists whose works he discovered when he first settled in the Netherlands 20 years ago. [Moser] sets artists’ lives in the context of violence and upheaval, as well as personal loss, poverty, grief, and longing. In Vermeer, he sees “a mind seeking.” In writing about art, Moser admits that he, too, was a mind seeking: to understand his identity as a writer and as a foreigner in a new culture.... A graceful meditation on art." -- Kirkus Reviews, starred review"The most agreeable of companions in his encompassing yet highly personal tour of the Golden Age of Dutch painting, Benjamin Moser delivers fresh insights that will delight the expert and the casual museum-goer alike, in prose as precise and intimate as a Vermeer—and as luminous." -- Jim Holt, author of Why Does the World Exist?"Benjamin Moser’s fascinating study of Dutch art and artists is more than the sum of its extraordinary parts. Part memoir, part critical and historical analysis, the book also offers a superb commentary—one of the best I’ve ever read—on what it means to be displaced in a never entirely whole world, and what it means to see between the cracks. I learned so much reading this fine book, and so will you." -- Hilton Als, author of White Girls"I always dreamed of living in the rooms of my favorite paintings. Finally! A book that animates these rooms, their light, the people in them—that evokes their character and emotions and places them in the context of their culture. Profound and intensely alive, Benjamin Moser’s writing describes these artists as living beings and brings to life their works of art, connecting his own life as a writer to deep insights into the meaning of art." -- Laurie Anderson
£27.67
WW Norton & Co Listening for America Inside the Great American
Book SynopsisFinalist • The Marfield Prize [National Award for Arts Writing] “Not since the late Leonard Bernstein has classical music had a combination salesman-teacher as irresistible as Kapilow.” —Kansas City StarTrade Review"[An] enlightening study.... Rob Kapilow may be contemporary America’s most passionate evangelist for the quaint discipline known as 'music appreciation'... a winning combination of Leonard Bernstein and Bill Nye the Science Guy, an infectiously enthusiastic explainer of the inner mechanical workings of music.... A nifty companion website for the book includes helpful, easy-to-grasp audible demonstrations and vocals, as does the e-book version. For me at least, this digital crib-sheet was a vital tool for appreciating Kapilow’s arguments.... It is a testament to the depth and catholicity of Kapilow’s knowledge that he can effortlessly compare the sweet-sour takes on love in Rodgers and Hart’s “I Wish I Were in Love Again” with Stephen Sondheim’s “Being Alive.” He writes engagingly of Irving Berlin’s astonishing journey from a Russian village and Manhattan’s Lower East Side to the heights of fame, [and] astutely surveys the radical changes in popular taste in the 1960s and ’70s that dislodged the Broadway musical.... But it is the analysis of the songs that is the meat of the book — and something like its soul as well.... [Kapilow] rewards those patient enough to hold his hand as he walks them through just what makes these songs great." -- Todd S. Purdum, New York Times Book Review"Infectiously readable.... A carefully thought-out act of selection that gives you a starting point for your journey through the Great American Songbook. Who could ask for anything more?" -- Terry Teachout, Wall Street Journal"[Kapilow] recounts the 20th-century history of American popular music in lyrical prose.... [his] melodious writing hums with the vibrant music of American history and American popular culture." -- Publishers Weekly [starred review]"[A] lively and highly informative look at what makes musical show tunes great.... A seamless blend of music, history, and biography." -- Kirkus Reviews"The Great American songbook is a national treasure, and in this engaging and instructive guide, composer, conductor, and music commentator Kapilow unlocks its riches. Sixteen gems by eight American masters of song.... are analyzed and set into historical and cultural context, resulting in a greater appreciation of these American musical masterpieces.... The songs selected for examination make for a musical theater fan’s ultimate playlist.... A treat for music fans and a great addition to any performing arts or popular culture collection." -- Carolyn Mulac, Booklist"Kapilow doesn’t just explore what makes these songs catchy and unforgettable—the author dives into how societal issues like race, immigration, sexuality, and cultural appropriation can intertwine themselves into the greatest theatrical masterpieces." -- Dan Meyer, Playbill.com"Impossible to resist.... [Kapilow’s] insight combined with the ability to share it easily will deepen your knowledge of the best that Broadway has to offer." -- Michael Giltz, broadwaydirect.com"Through the lens of musical theater, Rob Kapilow allows us to experience the unique sound and spirit of a changing America. I came away inspired and ready to write." -- Lynn Ahrens, Tony Award–winning lyricist of Ragtime"Listening for America is an impressive achievement and one of the finest contributions to the annals of musical theater." -- Robert Kimball, editor of The Complete Lyrics of Cole Porter" Praise for Rob Kapilow: Rob Kapilow leaps into the void dividing music analysis from appreciation and fills it with exhilarating details and sensations." -- New York Times"A wonderful guy who brings music alive!" -- Katie Couric"It’s a cheering thought that this kind of missionary enterprise did not pass from this earth with Leonard Bernstein. Robert Kapilow is awfully good at what he does. We need him." -- Boston Globe
£18.04
Hyperion Hello Friends
Book SynopsisWELCOME TO A COMEDIC TRIP THROUGH THE LIFE OF ONE OF THE COUNTRY’S MOST EXCITING COMEDIANS. MEET DULCÉ SLOAN, WHOSE LIFE HAS BEEN AN INCREDIBLE JOURNEY FILLED WITH LESSONS AND LAUGHTER. IN ADDITION TO DOING STAND-UP AROUND THE WORLD, DULCÉ IS A TRAINED ACTOR, SINGER, AND HAS BEEN A CORRESPONDENT ON THE DAILY SHOW ON COMEDY CENTRAL.Dulcé Sloan’s first memoir is organized into essays from her life. From a childhood moving between cities, starting her own business selling toys at a Miami flea market, to being a Black kid in a predominately white school, she’s always used her masterful wit to challenge the status quo. Her purpose in comedy unfolded while navigating clubs and the set of The Daily Show. Have you ever dated an adult who roller skated, or went out with a mechanic just to get free auto service? Yup, she’s got that story for you. Her stories are both wildly
£22.39
Alfred A. Knopf Conversations with Woody Allen His Films the
Book SynopsisIn discussions that begin in 1971 and end in 2009, Allen talks about every facet of moviemaking through the prism of his own work as well as the larger world of film, and in so doing reveals an artist’s development over the course of his career. He speaks about his influences and about the genesis of his ideas; about writing, casting, acting, shooting, directing, editing, and scoring—and throughout shows himself to be thoughtful, honest, self-deprecating, always witty, and often hilarious.
£21.21
Random House USA Inc Whatever You Say I Am
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Thomas Nelson Publishers Alone in Plain Sight
Book SynopsisAre you tired of people knowing who you are but no one really knowing you?As the star of the twentieth season of The Bachelor, Ben Higgins looked like he had it all together. Instead, Ben felt dissatisfied, fearful, and deeply alone. Like so many of us, he thought of himself as the kid who never got picked for the game, the person always on the outside of the joke, the friend who knew a lot of people but was never truly known. He wondered if he mattered at all.In Alone in Plain Sight, Ben vulnerably shares how he found authentic connection with himself, with others, and with God. As Ben helps us name our own yearning for meaning, he explores ways to understand ourselves more deeply so that we are free to connect with others; how shared pain can bridge even the widest gaps between two very different people; why we must decon
£14.24
Tyndale House Publishers Official Chuck Norris Fact Book The
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£14.24
HarperCollins Espanol Desnudo
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£13.23
Thorndike Press, a Cengage Group 100 Rules for Living to 100
£37.62
Disney Book Publishing Inc. Dream It Do It
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£20.39
Ricordi Don Pasquale Score Ricordi Opera Full Scores
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£32.50
Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation Hank Williams
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£19.99
Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation Vh1 100 Greatest Hard Rock Songs
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£35.99
Time Warner Trade Publishing Feminasty The Complicated Womans Guide to
Book Synopsis From the wickedly funny and feminist creator and host of the Throwing Shade podcast, a collection of hilarious personal essays and political commentary perfect for fans of Lindy West and Roxane Gay. Since women earned the right to vote a little under one hundred years ago, our progress hasn''t been the Olympic sprint toward gender equality first wave feminists hoped for, but more of a slow, elderly mall walk (with frequent stops to Cinnabon) over the four hundred million hurdles we still face. Some of these obstacles are obvious-unequal pay, under-representation in government, reproductive restrictions, lack of floor-length mirrors in hotel rooms. But a lot of them are harder to identify. They''re the white noise of oppression that we''ve accepted as lady business as usual, and the patriarchy wants to keep it that way. Erin Gibson has a singular goal-to create a utopian future where women are recognized as humans. In Feminasty -- ti
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Pelican Publishing Co From the Outhouse to the Mouse House
Book SynopsisA positive how-to guide for the road to success! After graduating from college, Eva Steortz moved across the country on a whim to seek better opportunities. She took a leap of faith and answered a job ad for The Walt Disney Company, and in a true Cinderella story, she rose through the ranks to eventually become vice president. She reveals the unspoken truths about the crap you cant control in your career while focusing on the areas you can control. She discusses how to rally your relationships, possess positive style, master self-motivation, and the simple secrets to crafting your happily ever after plan. Her mission is to inspire others to aim high in their careers, and Steortz provides the tools to get to the top.
£20.39
Pelican Publishing Company Professor Longhair
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£17.95
Arcadia Publishing (SC) Tampa Bay Music Roots Images of America
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£19.99
Arcadia Publishing (SC) Gershwin in Pittsburgh Images of America
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£19.99
Arcadia Publishing Honolulu Television
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£21.24
Arcadia Publishing The Erie Canal Sings A Musical History of New
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£21.24
Arcadia Publishing The Life and Legacy of BB King A Mississippi
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£20.39
History Press Pioneering Oregon Architect WD Pugh Landmarks
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£18.69
History Press A History of Milwaukee Drag
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£18.69
History Press Growing Up Yinzer
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£19.99
History Press Hidden History of Atlantic City
£17.66
History Press Live at McCabes Guitar Shop
£18.01
Orion Publishing Co Come My Fanatics
Book Synopsis''Electric Wizard is heavy, man - we don''t sing about love and flowers.'' Jus ObornIn 1993, in the market town of Wimborne Minster in Dorset, England, the heaviest band in the world was born. Led by guitarist and singer Jus Oborn, Electric Wizard began as an untameable power trio. They inhaled the iniquity of their lives and vomited it out in colossal waves of doom metal, synthesising the forbidding local landscape, biker culture, video-nasties, black magic rituals and titanic doses of psychedelics. In 1997 they released their revolutionary second album, Come My Fanatics... Then, after triumphant and calamitous tours of the USA and following the release of arguably the heaviest rock album ever recorded, 2000''s Dopethrone, Electric Wizard all but imploded, destroyed by the very reality they were fighting against. However, when guitarist Liz Buckingham joined Oborn on guitar for We Live, they drew a magic circle around themselves iTrade ReviewThe mythos, the madness, the mastery: a journey to the blackened vortex of the most eigmatic band in the cosmos. Franklin ventures further into the Wizard's subcultural maelstrom than anyone has ever dared. Absolutely essential' * Harry Sword, author of Monolithic Undertow *'Dan Franklin has somehow written a book that reads exactly how Electric Wizard sound, with everything turned up to eleven and an omnivorous approach to the outlaw occulture that inspired them. A deafening classic' * David Keenan, author of This Is Memorial Device *
£999.99
Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation Ukulele PlayAlong Bob Marley Ukulele PlayAlong
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£14.24
Hal Leonard Corporation Rhapsody in Black The Life and Music of Roy
Book SynopsisRHAPSODY IN BLACK: THE LIFE AND MUSIC OF ROY ORBISON
£18.99
Amazon Publishing David Lynch The Man from Another Place 10 Icons
£10.90
Backbeat Leonard Cohen Everybody Knows
Book SynopsisLEONARD COHEN: EVERYBODY KNOWS
£29.74
Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation Pete Seeger Banjo PlayAlong Volume 5 Hal Leonard
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£15.29
Archway Publishing Memories of La La Land
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£37.99
Globe Pequot Press To Hell and Back
Book SynopsisThere have been many books written about Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers, but only by people who weren't there. Walter Lure wasfrom the band's chaotic beginnings on New York's Lower East Side, through a now-legendary UK tour with the Sex Pistols and the Clash, and on to a yearlong stay in Londoneyewitness and midwife to the birth of UK punk.Now, he tells his story in To Hell and Back, a thrilling ride through the clubs and dives of two continents, in the company of one of the most notorious junkies in rock 'n' roll history. Drawing from his own contemporary journals, Lure paints a vivid portrait of life in both cities, during perhaps the most crucial musical uprising of the past forty yearsthe music, the characters, the clothes, the fights, the drugs, the orgies, the lot.Lure lays bare his own battle with drugs, and reflects upon his life after the band's splitrising to become a Wall Street fixture yet still finding time to make music.
£18.99
Backbeat Freddie Mercury A Kind of Magic
Book SynopsisFREDDIE MERCURY: A KIND OF MAGIC
£29.74
Backbeat I Wrote That One Too A Life in Songwriting from
Book SynopsisI WROTE THAT ONE TOO: A LIFE IN SONGWRITING FROM WILLIE TO WHITNEY
£25.49
Hal Leonard Corporation Shatner
Book SynopsisIn the early months of 1966, a handsome, hardworking thirty-five-year-old Canadian-born actor named William Shatner was cast as Captain Kirk in Star Trek, a troubled, low-budget science-fiction television series set to premiere that fall on NBC. Star Trek struggled for viewers and lasted only three seasons, but it found a huge, rabidly dedicated audience when it premiered in syndication following its cancellationturning Shatner into a pop-culture icon and launching him on a career path he never could have imagined after graduating from McGill University with an economics degree twenty years earlier. As he approaches his ninetieth year, he''s still working at a furious pace as a man of boundless contradictions: by turns one of the most dissected, disliked, revered, respected, mocked, imitated, and beloved stars in the show business firmament. Shatner takes a comprehensive look at this singular performer, using archival sources and information culled from interviews with friends and coll
£23.75
Kensington Publishing Girl on the Balcony
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£20.40
University of Minnesota Press Good Morning Blues: The Autobiography of Count Basie
Book SynopsisCount Basie was one of America’s pre-eminent and influential jazz pianists, bandleaders, and composers, known for such classics as “Jumpin’ at the Woodside,” “Goin’ to Chicago Blues,” “Sent for You Yesterday and Here You Come Today,” and “One O’Clock Jump.” In Good Morning Blues, Basie recounts his life story to Albert Murray, from his childhood years playing ragtime with his own pickup band at dances and pig roasts, to his years in New York City in search of opportunity, to rollicking anecdotes of Basie’s encounters with Fats Waller, Frank Sinatra, Fred Astaire, Sammy Davis Jr., Quincy Jones, Billie Holliday, and Tony Bennett. In this classic of jazz autobiography that was ten years in the making, Albert Murray brings the voice of Count Basie to the printed page in what is both testimony and tribute to an incredibly rich life.
£999.99
Random House USA Inc Mother American Night: My Life in Crazy Times
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£999.99
PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE USA INSOMNIA
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Rowman & Littlefield Chasing Tone: How Rob Turner and EMG
Book SynopsisPrince, Pink Floyd, Metallica, Toto, James Taylor, Keith Richards—these stars and thousands of others all owe a debt of gratitude to Rob Turner who revolutionized the electric guitar and bass.Chasing Tone tells Rob Turner’s story from humble beginnings rewiring his father’s transistor radio components to founding EMG and, finally, to the world’s largest concert stages. Jim Reilly provides a wealth of fascinating insights by weaving together many exclusive interviews with top artists and colleagues, including James Hetfield, Kirk Hammett, and Robert Trujillo of Metallica; legendary session musician Leland Sklar; Vernon Reid of Living Colour; Victor Wooten; Béla Fleck; Nili Brosh; Jim Root of Slipknot; and guitar builders Mike McGuire and John Carruthers. Along the way, Reilly not only sheds light on the history of the electric guitar and bass and how EMG pickups forever altered their course but also explores the elusive relationship between builder and creator, showing how these artists found their sound.This book takes a deep dive into the creative process while providing a history of popular music told from a side of the stage previously underexplored.Table of Contents Foreword: Tom Mulhern A Brief Introduction from the Author and Alison Turner Prologue: Friday Nights Chapter One: Just a Kid from Sunny SoCal Chapter Two: Lessons at Every Curve CHASING TONE – THE ARTISTS’ JOURNEY 1: Vernon Reid, Jim Root, & Nili Brosh Chapter Three: Am I Living the Dream? Chapter Four: From Coast to Coast and Across the Seas CHASING TONE – THE ARTISTS’ JOURNEY 2: Joel Landsberg, Chris Pandolfi, Richard Battaglia & Nate Lopez Chapter Five: Welcome to the Big Leagues Chapter Six: Enter Sandman CHASING TONE – THE ARTISTS’ JOURNEY 3: Robert Trujillo, Kirk Hammett, James Hetfield (& Zach Harmon) Chapter Seven: Brother Bill Chapter Eight: Sometimes You Just Leave It Alone – But More Often You Explore CHASING TONE – THE ARTISTS’ JOURNEY 4: Bobby Vega, Victor Wooten Chapter Nine: The Journey Continues Epilogue: A Note from the Author with Thanks Appendix: EMG Artists To Date
£34.80
Rowman & Littlefield Lead Sister: The Story of Karen Carpenter
£23.75
Grand Central Publishing The Last Days of John Lennon
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£10.44
