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Slivers, Shards and Skerricks: A one-man anthology by one of
This indefinitive collection brings together under one cover the very best comic writing - parody, poetry, prose, plays, philosophy and political treatise - by Australia's greatest living television host. From...
Puppets and Puppet Theatre
Puppets & Puppet Theatre has been essential reading for everyone interested in making and performing puppets for over 25 years. Now in a fully revised and updated new edition, it...
Life as a Unicorn: A Journey from Shame to Pride and Everything in
A heart-breaking and hilarious memoir about the author's fight to be true to themself WINNER OF THE POLARI FIRST BOOK PRIZE 2020WINNER OF A SOMERSET MAUGHAM AWARD Amrou knew they...
Popcorn: Fifty Years of Rock 'n' Roll Movies
From Blackboard Jungle to Quadrophenia, from 8 Mile to ABBA: The Movie, no one has seriously looked at the strange phenomenon that is the rock 'n' roll movie. Garry Mulholland...
Pop Music in British Cinema: A Chronicle
Pop music 'stars' in many of the most successful of British films, such as 'Trainspotting' and 'Human Traffic'. Even pop artists themselves have been known to appear in British movies,...
The Virgin Encyclopedia of Stage & Film Musicals
A guide to the greatest shows and films in the history of the musical, as well as their stars, lyricists and composers. Over 1600 entries provide facts, figures and critical...
Faces in the Crowd: Players and Writers
$20.00 AUD
Primarily a jazz critic, Gary Giddins is also keenly interested in cinema and modern American literature, and this book brings together over thirty of his most perceptive pieces. There are...
Dad's Army: The Story of a Very British Comedy
The story of the greatest British sit-com and its enduring appeal. When we laugh at Dad's Army we laugh at ourselves, and nearly fifty years after it was first broadcast,...
Broadway Musicals
$30.00 AUD
A colorful tribute to the great Broadway shows of our time. 395 illustrations, 112 in full color.
Met Opera Bk of Mozart Operas
The book titled Met Opera Bk of Mozart Operas by the author Metropolitan Opera. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Starside: The instant No. 1 New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller
The stunning standard edition of Starside , with illustrated endpapers, a special hardcover case design and jacket effects. Enter the enchanting and deadly world of Starside, where swords have magic...
Worlds Elsewhere: Journeys Around Shakespeare's Globe
$20.00 AUD
A book about how Shakespeare became fascinated with the world, and how the world became fascinated with Shakespeare Ranging ambitiously across four continents and four hundred years, Worlds Elsewhere is...
Hexy Bitch: Tales from My Life, the Afterlife, and Beyond
Following her 2021 bestselling memoir Don't Laugh, It'll Only Encourage Her comes the laugh out loud follow-up Hexy B*tch . 'My life's changed a lot since This Country came out....
The Hottest Girl at Burn Camp: How to Survive a Fire and A Chaotic
'A wonderful book, I don't expect to read a better memoir for a very long time.' ROBERT WEBB, author of How Not To Be A Boy 'Funny and heart breaking...
Tent Show: Arthur Names and His ""Famous"" Players
Before movie screens filled the country and television screens filled our homes, entertainment had to travel to the people. The traveling tent show was a popular form of melodrama and...
Who am I, again?
A child of the Jamaican diaspora, Lenny Henry was one of seven children in a boisterous, complicated family. With honesty, tenderness and a glorious sense of humour, he conducts a...
Body and Self
$110.00 AUD
Designed for courses in visual art and critical theory, this analysis of the contemporary art scene in Australia concentrates on performance art.
Ken Dodd: The Biography
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For more than sixty years Ken Dodd discomknockerated audiences in packed venues across Britain with his unique blend of madcap humour. Despite his advancing years he continued to perform his...
Presto!: How I Made Over 100 Pounds Disappear and Other Magical Tales
Penn Jillette's New York Times bestselling account of his "extremely funny and somewhat profane journey to discovering a healthy lifestyle...that will motivate others to seek weight-loss solutions" ( The Washington...
A Portrait of an Idiot as a Young Man: Part memoir, part explanation
Part memoir, part explanation as to why men are so rubbish. When Jon Holmes became a father (twice), he was asked to fill in a form detailing his family medical...
Quartet: How Four Women Challenged the Musical World
The lives, loves, adventures and trailblazing musical careers of four extraordinary women from a stunning debut biographer.'Fabulous.' Sunday Times 'A rare gift.' Financial Times 'Passionate ... Vivid ... Timely.' Telegraph...
Different Aspects: The magical memoir from the West End legend
DISCOVER THE CHARMING MEMOIR FROM THE BELOVED WEST END LEGEND In 1989, a young Michael Ball landed the lead role in the musical Aspects of Love. It was a moment...
Running the Light: 'The best novel I've ever read about comedy' Megan
'A thrilling, nauseating and painfully real depiction of what happens as youth, talent and charisma sour' MEGAN NOLAN 'Anyone wondering where The Great American Novel went: this is it on...
Virginia Woolf and the Arts: Selected Papers from the Sixth Annual
Virginia Woolf and the Arts, a provocative collection of papers culled from the sixth annual conference on Virginia Woolf at Clemson University, explores new ground in Woolf studies. Papers in...
The Magic in You: Become a superstar entertainer
Mat Ricardo never used to see himself as a performer, in fact he was always on the outskirts and incredibly shy - but through practice and dedication, he found his...
The Playbook: A Story of Theatre, Democracy and the Making of a
From the 'Winner of Winners' of the Baillie Gifford Prize, a timely and dramatic story of a utopian American experiment, and the self-serving politicians that engineered its downfall. 1935 ....
No Shame: the hilarious and candid memoir from one of our best-loved
'Wonderfully funny, utterly charming and sharp as all Hell' SARAH MILLICAN 'Tom Allen is one of the funniest comedians in the UK, the best dressed man I know and now...
Spectacle
Spectacle is a dynamic visual essay that celebrates the phenomenon and history of public performance worldwide -- from the theater to the streets, from religious festivals to political marches, and...
Bip in a Book
Marcel Marceau's genius for the art of silence has astonished and delighted audiences of all ages for more than 50 years. Now, Bip in a Book captures the celebrated mime's...
The Wardrobe Department
AN IRISH TIMES DEBUT AUTHOR TO LOOK OUT FOR 2025 'Beautifully written' LOUISE KENNEDY 'Full of verve and wit and humanity' MARY COSTELLO 'Clever and original' TLS 'A tremendous new...
The War Magician: The Man Who Conjured Victory in the Desert
Jasper Maskelyne was a world famous magician and illusionist in the 1930s. When war broke out, he volunteered his services to the British Army and was sent to Eygpt where...
Irving Berlin's Show Business
Few artists have left as profound a mark on twentieth-century culture as Irving Berlin has. Starting on New York's Tin Pan Alley in 1907 and continuing to Broadway and Hollywood,...
The Illustrated Compendium of Magic Tricks: The Complete Step-by-step
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The complete step-by-step guide to magic, with more than 320 fun and fully accessible tricks. Every conjuring trick is simply explained in more than 2300 easy-to-follow colour photographs.
Everything Must Go: Kit
The book titled Everything Must Go: Kit by the author Philip Norton. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Happy Alchemy: On the Pleasures of Music and the Theatre
"Long may he continue to divert us, " said "The New York Times" Book Review on its front page of Robertson Davies
Operetta: A Theatrical History
This illustrated history of operetta documents a form of musical theatre which entertained audiences around the world for over a century. Coming at a time of renewed enthusiasm for operetta,...
David Mitchell: Back Story
$12.00 AUD
David Mitchell, who you may know for his inappropriate anger on every TV panel show except Never Mind the Buzzcocks, his look of permanent discomfort on C4 sex comedy Peep...
Artists in Camera: A Gallery of Star Portraits
"First published in the United Kingdom in 1989 by Prion ... London"--T.p. verso.
Bluestocking
$40.00 AUD
The book titled Bluestocking by the author Helen Fletcher. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Streisand: It Only Happens Once
Barbra Streisand has been at the top almost from the first moment she sang professionally more than 30 years ago.As Anne Edwards reveals she had a, difficult childhood,her father dying...
In Black and White: The Life of Sammy Davis, Jr
Sammy Davis, Jr was one of the most recognisable showbiz entertainers of the twentieth century: dancer, singer, hyperactive cabaret performer, film star and hard-drinking, high-living bad-boy member of Las Vegas's...
Sinatra: The Man Behind the Myth
Frank Sinatra's career has spanned more than half a century and he is famed for such songs as "My Way" and "Strangers In The Night". This biography aims to take...
Trevor Howard: A Gentleman and a Player
$15.00 AUD
The book titled Trevor Howard: A Gentleman and a Player by the author Vivienne Knight. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Live from New York: The Complete, Uncensored History of Saturday Night
When first published to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Saturday Night Live , LIVE FROM NEW YORK was immediately proclaimed the best book ever produced on the landmark and legendary...
Elizabeth Taylor: The Grit and Glamour of an Icon
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...
Billy Connolly
Whatever your opinion of Billy Connolly, his life has been an epic tale of controversy and hilarity, tragedy and comedy. From his working class roots in Glasgow he has worked...
One Foot on the Stage: The Biography of Richard Wilson
The life if Richard Wilson,the lugubrious actor best known from the series "One Foot In The Grave",whose on-screen incredulity is invariably marked by the droll if exasperated phrase "I dont...
How to Be Alone: If You Want To, and Even If You Don't
The former Sex & Relationships Editor for Cosmopolitan and host of the wildly popular comedy show Tinder Live with Lane Moore presents her poignant, funny, and deeply moving first book....