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Young Rembrandt: A Biography
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...
My Last Supper: One Meal, a Lifetime in the Making
Author: Jay Rayner Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'You're about to die. What would your final meal be?' An awful lot of people seem to want Jay Rayner dead,...
The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
Author: Alex Ross Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 640 Winner of the Guardian First Book Award 2008 A sweeping musical history that goes from the salons of pre-war...
The Life and Afterlife of Harry Houdini
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
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...
Fried & Justified: Hits, Myths, Break-Ups and Breakdowns in the Record Business 1978-98
Author: Mick Houghton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 A Book of the Year, Uncut 'A wild rock 'n' roll fairground ride of the damned.' - Observer ***...
One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time
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
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
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
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...
Pocket Audrey Hepburn Wisdom: Inspirational Quotes From a Film Icon
Author: Hardie Grant Books Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 96 Audrey Hepburn is one of Hollywood's greatest icons, and still one of the world's most recognisable actresses. In addition to...
Scrappy Little Nobody
Author: Anna Kendrick Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 'Fearsome wit' Elle 'Charming' Buzzfeed 'Ridiculously entertaining' Associated Press 'Endearingly honest' Guardian A collection of humorous autobiographical essays by...
Love Becomes a Funeral Pyre: A Biography of The Doors
Author: Mick Wall Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 Think you know how Jim Morrison died? Think you know who wrote all their hits? Think you know why...
The Day the Music Died: A Life Lived Behind the Lens
Author: Tony Garnett Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 'An extraordinary book by an extraordinary man' Ken Loach Tony Garnett's story begins in working-class, war-torn Birmingham where he...
Medea and Other Plays
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
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
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...
Life on Air
Author: David Attenborough Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 "The memoirs of the world's leading Natural History programme maker, updated and revised for 2009" "Sir David Attenborough is...
Under Milk Wood
Author: Dylan Thomas Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 Originally commissioned by the BBC, and described by Dylan Thomas as 'a play for voices', UNDER MILK WOOD is an emotive...
Dark Road: A play
Author: Ian Rankin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 It's been 25 years since Alfred Chalmers was convicted of the gruesome murder of four young women in Edinburgh....
Mozart: The Reign of Love
Author: Jan Swafford Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 832 From his celebrated early childhood, Mozart has been caught up in myths: the superhuman prodigy, the adult who was still a...
Look Back in Anger: Faber Modern Classics
Author: David Hare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Look Back in Anger transformed the face of British theatre; legend has it that audiences gasped at the sight...
The History Boys
Author: Alan Bennett Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 In Alan Bennett's new play, staff room rivalry and the anarchy of adolescence provoke insistent questions about history and...
Scenes and Apparitions: The Roy Strong Diaries 1988-2003
Author: Sir Roy Strong Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 'Viper wit from the gardener, writer and Knight of exquisite taste' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'Funny, barbed and moving ......
Twice: The Story of K-Pop's Greatest Girl Group
Author: Jamie Heal Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 In the space of just five years, Twice have taken the K-Pop world by storm. With hundreds of millions...
IT'S ALL IN YOUR HEAD
Author: Russ Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 Instant National Bestseller! Wall Street Journal bestseller; USA Today bestseller; Publishers Weekly bestseller; international bestseller. An inspirational book by self-made musical superstar,...
This Is a Call: The Life and Times of Dave Grohl
Author: Paul Brannigan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 'Someone called and said Kurt died. I just f*****g lost it.' He has sold over 40 million albums. He's...
Daisy Jones and The Six: The must-read bestselling novel
Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 'I devoured this in a day, falling head over heels for Daisy and the band.' Reese Witherspoon THE...
This is Your Brain on Music: Understanding a Human Obsession
Author: Daniel Levitin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 The New York Times bestselling book which examines how humans experience music and unravels the mystery of our perennial...
Cash
Author: Johnny Cash Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 This fascinating autobiography of the country music legend recounts the highs and lows, the struggles and hard-won triumphs of...
The Autobiography of Pops Foster: New Orleans Jazz Man
Author: Tom Stoddard Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 242 The first famous double-bass stylist in jazz George Murphy Pops Foster enjoyed a career that spanned gigs with greats...
Keep 'Er Lit: New Selected Lyrics
Author: Van Morrison Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 I want to sing this song for you I want to lift your spirits high And in my soul I want...
Out Loud: A Memoir
Author: Mark Morris Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Before Mark Morris became 'the most successful and influential choreographer alive' (The New York Times), he was a six year-old in...
Sweet Dreams: From Club Culture to Style Culture, the Story of the New Romantics
Author: Dylan Jones (Editor) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 688 Sweet Dreams charts the rise of the New Romantics, a scene that grew out of the remnants of post-punk and...
The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays
Author: Oscar Wilde Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 Combining epigrammatic brilliance and shrewd social observation, the works collected in Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest and...
The Three Theban Plays: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus
Author: Sophocles Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 Towering over the rest of Greek tragedy, Sophocles' The Three Theban Plays are among the most enduring and timeless dramas...
Electra and Other Plays
Author: Sophocles Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Demonstrating Sophocles' aptitude for humanising figures from Greek myth and transforming simple fables into complex high tragedy, Electra and Other...
The Theban Plays
Author: Sophocles Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 The legends surrounding the royal house of Thebes inspired Sophocles to create a powerful trilogy of mankind's struggle aginst fate....
Man and Superman
Author: George Bernard Shaw Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Shaw began writing MAN AND SUPERMAN in 1901 and determined to write a play that would encapsulate the...
Pygmalion
Author: George Bernard Shaw Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Pygmalion both delighted and scandalised its first audiences in 1914. A brilliantly witty reworking of the classical tale...
Saint Joan
Author: George Bernard Shaw Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 One of Shaw's most unusual and enduringly popular plays. With Saint Joan (1923) Shaw reached the height of...
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Leaving behind both home and his beloved, a young man travels to Milan to meet his closest friend. Once...
The Merchant of Venice
Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 'Thou call'dst me dog before thou hadst a cause, But since I am a dog, beware my fangs' Antonio,...
Pericles
Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Pericles, Prince of Tyre, must solve a riddle in order to marry, or be put to death. But when...
Much Ado About Nothing
Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Beatrice and Benedick both claim they are determined never to marry. But when their friends trick them into believing...
The Winter's Tale
Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 'I doubt not then but innocence shall make False accusation blush, and tyranny Tremble at patience' A jealous King,...
Titus Andronicus
Author: Jacques Berthoud Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Part of the authoritative and acclaimed Penguin Shakespeare series, now rejacketed in the celebrated Penguin Classics livery An embittered...
Julius Caesar
Author: William Shakespeare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 A taut, profound drama exploring power and betrayal,Julius Caesarexposes the chasm between public appearance, political rhetoric and bitter reality....