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How Does It Feel?: A Life of Musical Misadventures

How Does It Feel?: A Life of Musical Misadventures

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Author: Mark Kermode Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Following a formative encounter with the British pop movie Slade in Flame in 1975, Mark Kermode decided that musical superstardom was...
Roman Polanski

Roman Polanski

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Author: Paul Duncan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Roman Polanski's ability to wring laughter from the most degrading heartbreaks will carry the same wealth of healthy shocks...
Hear Me Out

Hear Me Out

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Author: Armando Iannucci Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 A celebration of music from the creator of Alan Partridge, The Thick of It and Veep All my days,...
Bravemouth

Bravemouth

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Author: Pamela Stephenson Connolly Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 BILLY, the ground-breaking biography of the nation's favourite iconoclast, gave millions of readers a fascinating insight into the...
Leopoldstadt

Leopoldstadt

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Author: Tom Stoppard Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Vienna in 1900 was the most vibrant city in Europe, humming with artistic and intellectual excitement and a genius...
Bessie Smith: A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK

Bessie Smith: A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK

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Author: Jackie Kay Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 'The most vivid evocation of Bessie Smith I have ever read' - Ian Carr, BBC Music '[Bessie Smith] showed...
'Til Wrong Feels Right: Lyrics and More

'Til Wrong Feels Right: Lyrics and More

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Author: Iggy Pop Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 The Godfather of Punk and frontman for The Stooges offers insight into his creative world with this collection of lyrics brought...
The Predator: The Art and Making of the Film

The Predator: The Art and Making of the Film

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Author: James Nolan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 Embargoed to the 14th of September 2018 Official companion book to the new blockbuster sci-fi movie from Shane Black, containing stunning...
Why Solange Matters

Why Solange Matters

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Author: Stephanie Phillips Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Growing up in the shadow of her superstar sister Beyonce, and defying an industry that attempted to bend her to its...
The Eighth: Mahler and the World in 1910

The Eighth: Mahler and the World in 1910

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Author: Stephen Johnson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 'Thrilling.' - John Banville, Guardian The Eighth Symphony was going to be different from anything Mahler had ever done...
Being David Archer: And Other Unusual Ways of Earning a Living

Being David Archer: And Other Unusual Ways of Earning a Living

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Author: Timothy Bentinck Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Timothy Bentinck has played the part of David Archer in BBC Radio 4's The Archers since 1982. He is also the...
Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty

Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty

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Author: Anderson Cooper Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 New York Times bestselling author and journalist Anderson Cooper teams with New York Times bestselling historian and novelist Katherine...
Bedsit Disco Queen: How I grew up and tried to be a pop star

Bedsit Disco Queen: How I grew up and tried to be a pop star

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Author: Tracey Thorn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 I was only sixteen when I bought an electric guitar and joined a band. A year later, I formed...
Naked at the Albert Hall: The Inside Story of Singing

Naked at the Albert Hall: The Inside Story of Singing

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Author: Tracey Thorn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 In her bestselling autobiography Bedsit Disco Queen, Tracey Thorn recalled the highs and lows of a thirty-year career in pop music....
Unspoken: Toxic Masculinity and How I Faced the Man Within the Man

Unspoken: Toxic Masculinity and How I Faced the Man Within the Man

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Author: Guvna B Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Men are bold. Men are brave. Men are strong in the face of fear. But what happens when that...
The Boys: A Memoir of Hollywood and Family

The Boys: A Memoir of Hollywood and Family

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Author: Ron Howard Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "This extraordinary book is not only a chronicle of Ron's and Clint's early careers...
Absolutely on Music: Conversations with Seiji Ozawa

Absolutely on Music: Conversations with Seiji Ozawa

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Author: Haruki Murakami Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 An intimate conversation about music and creativity, between the internationally bestselling writer Haruki Murakami and world-class conductor, Seiji Ozawa....
Music in the Castle of Heaven: A Portrait of Johann Sebastian Bach

Music in the Castle of Heaven: A Portrait of Johann Sebastian Bach

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Author: John Eliot Gardiner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 672 Johann Sebastian Bach is one of the most unfathomable composers in the history of music. How can such...
Rudolf Nureyev: The Life

Rudolf Nureyev: The Life

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Author: Julie Kavanagh Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 800 The incredible story of the 20th century's superstar ballet dancer, soon to be a major film by Ralph Fiennes...
Beethoven: A Life in Nine Pieces

Beethoven: A Life in Nine Pieces

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Author: Laura Tunbridge Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 An authoritative and refreshing account of Beethoven's life and music Ludwig van Beethoven- to some, simply the greatest ever...
Dear Fatty: The Perfect Mother's Day Read

Dear Fatty: The Perfect Mother's Day Read

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Author: Dawn French Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 The number one bestselling autobiography of Britain's best-loved comedienne ___________________________ A hilarious, heartwarming memoir from one of Britain's best-loved...
The Ring of Truth: The Wisdom of Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung

The Ring of Truth: The Wisdom of Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung

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Author: Roger Scruton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 A magnificent book by a famous author on perhaps the greatest of all musical works Wagner's Ring of the...
Wagner's Parsifal: The Music of Redemption

Wagner's Parsifal: The Music of Redemption

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Author: Roger Scruton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 The last book by one of Britain's most prominent public intellectuals is a superbly insightful and moving exploration of...
Chopin's Piano: A Journey through Romanticism

Chopin's Piano: A Journey through Romanticism

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Author: Paul Kildea Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 A dazzling exploration of Romantic music unlike any other, from one of the most exciting writers about classical music...
Holler If You Hear Me: Searching for Tupac Shakur

Holler If You Hear Me: Searching for Tupac Shakur

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Author: Michael Dyson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 With a new preface by the author. Ten years after his murder, Tupac Shakur is even more loved, contested,...
Cured

Cured

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Author, Lol Tolhurst Format, Paperback / softback Number of Pages, 320 A deeply moving and engaging memoir by Laurence "Lol" Tolhurst, cofounder of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees...
Coco Chanel: The Legend and the Life

Coco Chanel: The Legend and the Life

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Author: Justine Picardie Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Justine Picardie spent years puzzling over the truth about Coco Chanel, peeling away the accretions of romance and lies....
Essentially Charli: the Charli D'Amelio Journal

Essentially Charli: the Charli D'Amelio Journal

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Author: Charli D'Amelio Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Charli D'Amelio is the only TikTok personality to have surpassed 100 million followers. But who's the girl behind the posts? For...
The Musical Child: Using the Power of Music to Raise Children Who are Happy, Healthy, and Whole

The Musical Child: Using the Power of Music to Raise Children Who are Happy, Healthy, and Whole

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Author: Joan Koenig Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 'Wonderful ... we need music in our lives now more than ever' HERBIE HANCOCK 'Joan Koenig is on a...
The Last Leonardo: The Secret Lives of the World's Most Expensive Painting

The Last Leonardo: The Secret Lives of the World's Most Expensive Painting

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Author: Ben Lewis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 An epic quest exposes hidden truths about Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi, the recently discovered masterpiece that sold for $450 million-and...
Gone: A Girl, a Violin, a Life Unstrung

Gone: A Girl, a Violin, a Life Unstrung

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Author: Min Kym Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 The spellbinding memoir of a violin virtuoso who loses the instrument that had defined her both on stage and off --...
The Ring of the Nibelung

The Ring of the Nibelung

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Author: Richard Wagner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 816 A superb translation of one of the greatest nineteenth century poems- the libretto to Wagner's Ring cycle The scale...
Electra and Other Plays

Electra and Other Plays

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Author: Euripides Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Of all the ancient Greek tragedians, Euripides was the most sensitive to the lives of women and other outcasts in...
Warhol: A Life as Art

Warhol: A Life as Art

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Author: Blake Gopnik Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 976 The definitive biography of one of the most famous and influential artists the world has ever seen When critics...
Tracey Emin

Tracey Emin

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Author: Jonathan Jones Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 This accessible and expertly written introduction and overview of Tracey Emin's life offers a completely up-to-date view on the...
Chasing The Light: How I Fought My Way into Hollywood - THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

Chasing The Light: How I Fought My Way into Hollywood - THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

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Author: Oliver Stone Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 *** "I loved it. An amazing book." - Louis Theroux "A rip-roaring read. It left me breathless." - Chris...
Splendours and Miseries: The Roy Strong Diaries, 1967-87

Splendours and Miseries: The Roy Strong Diaries, 1967-87

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Author: Roy Strong Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 800 'The Alan Clark diaries of cultural politics' Sunday Times 'At every word a reputation dies' A. N. Wilson Roy...
30-Second Classical Music: The 50 most significant genres, composers and innovations, each explained in half a minute

30-Second Classical Music: The 50 most significant genres, composers and innovations, each explained in half a minute

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Author: Dr. Joanne Cormac Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Do you know a capella from zarzuela, or your major from your minor? Can you distinguish between a...
Young Rembrandt: A Biography

Young Rembrandt: A Biography

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Author: Onno Blom Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 278 Rembrandt's life has always been an enigma. How did a miller's son from a provincial Dutch town become the greatest artist...
The Life and Afterlife of Harry Houdini

The Life and Afterlife of Harry Houdini

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Author: Joe Posnanski Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author Joe Posnanski enters the world of Harry Houdini and his legions of devoted...
Australia Day

Australia Day

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Author: Stan Grant Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 'As uncomfortable as it is, we need to reckon with our history. On January 26, no Australian can really...
One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time

One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time

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Author: Craig Brown Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 656 WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2020 A Spectator Book of the Year * A Times Book of the...
Cyrano de Bergerac

Cyrano de Bergerac

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Author: Edmond Rostand Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Poet and soldier, brawler and charmer, Cyrano de Bergerac is desperately in love with Roxane, the most beautiful woman...
The Barber of Seville and The Marriage of Figaro

The Barber of Seville and The Marriage of Figaro

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Author: Pierre-Augustin Beaumarchais Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 A French courtier, secret agent, libertine and adventurer, Beaumarchais (1732-99) was also author of two sparkling plays about the...
Antony and Cleopatra

Antony and Cleopatra

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Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Part of the authoritative and acclaimed Penguin Shakespeare series, now rejacketed in the celebrated Penguin Classics livery A battle-hardened...
Medea and Other Plays

Medea and Other Plays

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Author: Euripides Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Penguin Classics relaunch. That proud, impassioned soul, so ungovernable now that she has felt the sting of injustice''Medea', in which...
Mao's Last Dancer

Mao's Last Dancer

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Author: Li Cunxin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 Before you can fly, you have to be free. A new edition of the phenomenal international bestseller. From bitter...
The Fry Chronicles

The Fry Chronicles

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Author: Stephen Fry Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 National Treasure- noun - someone or something regarded as emblematic of a nation's cultural heritage, such as Stephen Fry...