Performing arts

A Personal Anthology: Unabridged edition

A selection of poems by various poets, including W.B Yeats, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and D.H. Lawrence. There are also readings especially devoted to John Milton’s ‘Comus’ and ‘Paradise Lost’ with Dylan Thomas as Satan.

The Kenneth Williams Letters

Following the bestselling publication of THE KENNETH WILLIAMS DIARIES, the devastating self-portrait of one of our most loved and complex performers is completed with this marvellous selection of his letters.

The New Uxbridge English Dictionary

With The Uxbridge English Dictionary the stars of BBC Radio 4’s I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue had the nation in stitches. But times move on, words change and their meanings with them. Comedy’s most outrageous dictionary is back with a hilarious new collection of definitions for all those English words that don’t mean anything like they should.

The Other Side of Me

A brilliant, highly spirited memoir of Sidney Sheldon’s early life that provides as compulsively readable and racy a narrative as any of his bestselling novels.

De Niro: A Biography

The life of Hollywood’s number one movie actor, the elusive Robert De Niro, who shuns the limelight and rarely gives interviews, written by the leading film critic and biographer of Spielberg, Kubrick, Woody Allen and George Lucas.

The Essential Spike Milligan

A Spike Milligan opus, containing everything from classics to hidden gems, with a foreword by Eddie Izzard.

Rat Pack Confidential

The first biography of the Rat Pack – Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., Dean Martin, Peter Lawford, Joey Bishop et al – the original Swingers. Brilliant and beautifully written story of their rise and fall, and their connections with the Kennedys and the Mafia.

Morecambe and Wise

The dual biography of the great British comedy double-act and the rise and fall of mass audience television by the respected biographer of Cary Grant .

Notorious: The Life of Ingrid Bergman

Revealing and richly informative account of the dramatic life of one of the century’s most famous screen actresses, Ingrid Bergman (1915–82), a controversial woman whose affair with Italian director Roberto Rossellini led to her being banned from the USA for seven years.

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