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The story of AC/DC's legendary front man in his own distinctive voice 'It wasn't me. I didn't do it. And I'll never do it again!' says Brian Johnson of The...

*One of Waterstones' Best Entertainment Books of the Year 2024* 1987. Armed with a Filofax, a brick of a mobile phone and steely determination, 20-year-old Nicki Chapman is walking through...

'Clever, sharp, and deliciously dark... A one-sitting read.' Andrea Mara _____________________________ When you fake it for a living, the truth is hard to find... Former child star Lily Thane is...

The shocking book that caused a furor in Europe now comes to Australia...It was a horrible tragedy, but what if, hidden behind the story of the gruesome on-camera murder of...

The National Book Award winner from Pulitzer Prize-winning author A. Scott Berg is now celebrating its 40th anniversary. The talents he nurtured were known worldwide: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway,...

Whatever word you'd care to apply to 2022, no one can deny it's been eventful. Russia invaded Ukraine, Boris Johnson resigned, the Queen passed the baton to Charles after a...

When Barbara Walters launched The View, network executives told her that hosting it would tarnish her reputation. Instead, within ten years, she'd revolutionized morning TV and made household names of...

This extraordinary handbook was inspired by the distinctive concerns of anthropologists and others who film people in the field. The authors cover the practical, technical, and theoretical aspects of filming,...

An icon. A household name. One of our best-loved actors. Noni Hazlehurst is finally telling a story of her own. A fourth-generation performer, Noni Hazlehurst has storytelling in her blood....

The freedom to think what you want and to say what you think has always generated a pushback of regulation and censorship. This raises the thorny question: to what extent...

The American Television Industry offers a concise and accessible introduction to TV production, programming, advertising, and distribution in the United States. The authors outline how programs are made and marketed,...

It all starts when Southern Belle Lollie Woolfolk sashays into Rick Shannon's office at Rockin' Vestigations in Vicksburg. She hires him to find the grandfather she never met, one-time blues...

From the creator of CNN comes an inside, unauthorised look at the tumultuous launch of the world's first 24-hour, all-news network. Reese Schonfeld, often referred to as the "father of...

Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2008 Go behind the TV screen to explore what is changing, why it is changing, and why the changes matters. After occupying a central space...

BROADCAST WARS is an explosive look at a tumultuous period (2003-2011) in Australian television as the Nine and Seven networks traded blows, new technologies emerged and old personalities and management...

Building on the arguments of her previous books, the author challenges the reflexive identification of images with vice. Criticism condemns the immoralities of aesthetic illusion, cable television and hypermedia. Believing...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'These rollicking gabfests ... bring together nearly everyone ... who made the series a creative and cultural landmark' New York Times 'Essential for fans, with...

Set largely in wartime and postwar Sandringham, in Melbourne's bayside 'sand belt' of suburbia, this is a story of an average Australian family in a middling period of our history,...

New York Times bestselling author and the gaming industry's preeminent investigative journalist Jason Schreier examines three decades of ups and downs at Blizzard Entertainment leading up to a hostile corporate...

Beyond the Throne is the first memoir to share behind-the-scenes stories of the perils and triumphs of Game of Thrones from beloved performer Kristian Nairn, who played Hodor and became...

Bull Run - Ball's Bluff - Chickamauga - Antietam - Secessionville - Champion's Hill. To the Northern public during the Civil War, they were exotic names of unfamiliar places where...

In My Paper Chase, Harold Evans recounts the wild and wonderful tale of newspapering life. His story stretches from the 1930s to his service in WWII, through towns big and...

The mass media communicate messages to everyone within their circulation area, that is to those who buy their newspaper, tune into their TV channel or log on to the World...

Hailed as a 'great accomplishment' by the philadelphia Inquirer', Susan Moeller's Compassion Fatigue' warns that the American media threatens our ability to understand the world around us. Why do the...

'Fascinating and authoritative' The Daily Express Sunday Times bestselling author Sean Smith tells the extraordinary story of a modern cultural icon: Harry Styles. Harry Styles has grown up. The One...

CNN, AOL/Time Warner, Jane Fonda, The America's Cup: Ted Turner's story is the stuff of legend. Never before has the controversial businessman shared his personal journey. Here, for the first...

A provocative, timely account of the changing face of jounalism from a pioneer of the new-media revolution. For a long time, media organisations have controlled the news, treating their audiences...

In this memoir, replete with Jewish humor and sardonic Russian irony, exiled Russian journalist and human rights advocate Arkady Polishchuk (b. 1930) colorfully narrates his evolution as a dissenter and...

Sir Henry Morton Stanley, is known popularly for his celebrated meeting with David Livingstone. But Stanley is by any reckoning a key figure in the history of the European penetration...

"A magnificent new life . . .[and]a superb adventure story. . . . There have been many biographies of Stanley, but Jeal's is the most felicitous, the best informed, the...

From pirate radio to Glastonbury's Pyramid Stage, journalist and rapper Franklyn Addo pens an extraordinary narrative of the history, present and future of Grime music. The influence of Grime on...

This epic biography, with its remarkable new research and vivid, fast-paced writing, will delight anyone who wants to understand the tangled history of politics and the press in modern America."...

Dubbed "the industry bible" by the Los Angeles Times , All You Need to Know About the Music Business by veteran music lawyer Donald Passman is the go-to guide for...

Helen Garner is one of Australia's greatest writers. Her short non-fiction has enormous range. Spanning fifteen years of work, Everywhere I Look is a book full of unexpected moments, sudden...

"a legend, a teacher and a pioneer of reggae dancehall music in the UK and worldwide" - Julian Marley Spanning an impressive 40+ year career in the music industry, Stick...

"a legend, a teacher and a pioneer of reggae dancehall music in the UK and worldwide" - Julian Marley Spanning an impressive 40+ year career in the music industry, Stick...

Shortlisted for the 2022 Sports Book Awards'an enjoyable and interesting journey through football' Donald McRae, The Guardian'This is really good. Raw, funny and revealing on football, on Ferguson, Clough, Dalglish...

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Flea, the iconic bassist and co-founder, alongside Anthony Kiedis, of the immortal Red Hot Chili Peppers finally tells his fascinating origin story, complete with all the dizzying highs and the...

How to match the right marketing approach to your product, by legendary business thinker Seth Godin.The shiny new marketing technique isn't necessarily the right one to use. According to bestselling...

The first authorised biography of eternal legend Elizabeth Taylor. Known for her glamorous beauty, soap-opera personal life and magnetic screen presence, Elizabeth Taylor was the twentieth century's most famous film...

'Patterson is one of the great comic writers of the last quarter century' THE HERALD'Unsparing but ultimately uplifting, every sentence cuts a caper' MOJO'A thoroughly engaging, life-affirming book' MAIL ON...

Meet the Murdochs and the disastrously dysfunctional family of Fox News. Until recently, they formed the most powerful media and political force in America. Now their empire is cracking up...

GET STARTED IN SELF-PUBLISHING covers absolutely every aspect of the process, from the different options avaliable to the practicalities of ebook technology. It encourages you to think outside the box,...