Performing Arts

Author: Peter Shaffer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 112 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is a genius, the most brilliant musician the world will ever see. But the court of...

Author: Billie Holiday Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 The bluesy, gutsy, no-holds-barred memoir of jazz legend Billie Holiday. 'I've been told that no one sings the word...

Author: Arthur Miller Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 The Crucible is a powerful indictment of McCarthyism and the 'frontier mentality' of Cold War America, published in Penguin...

Author: Woody Guthrie Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Chronicling some from the point of view of one of the twentieth century's most influential musicians, Woody Guthrie's Bound...

Author: Ernest Hemingway Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Hemingway's classic portrait of the pageantry of bullfighting In Death in the Afternoon, Hemingway shares the sights, the sounds,...

Author: Tennessee Williams Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire is the tale of a catastrophic confrontation between...

Author: Burnett Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 200 In 1976, while on assignment in Jamaica for Time magazine, David Burnett photographed Bob Marley for the first time, and Burnett became...

Author: Irving Singer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 An exploration of the sensuous and the passionate, as expressed in operas by Mozart and Beethoven. Music, language, and...

Author: Lesley Barnes Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 14 Watch the dancers as they leap, spin and kick their way through this beautiful pop-up book. Inspired by the eccentric and...

Author: Mark Kermode Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Following a formative encounter with the British pop movie Slade in Flame in 1975, Mark Kermode decided that musical...

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...

Author: Pepin Press Format: Mixed media product Number of Pages: 224 This book is an extraordinary pictorial dictionary of musical instruments from around the world, containing over 1500 drawings. Each...

Author: Simon Morrison (Princeton University) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 On a freezing night in January 2013, a hooded assailant hurled acid in the face of the artistic director...

Author: J. T. Rogers Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 My God, Russian soldiers being shot with Chinese bullets. Sometimes the world is so beautiful. 1981. As the...

Author: Richard Kostelanetz Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 348 B.B. King is a national treasure. For more than five decades he has been the consummate blues performer. His...

Author: John Szwed Format: Hardback Number of Pages: Kirkus Best Books of 2015 selection forBiography Published in celebration of Holiday s centenary, the first biography to focus on the singer...

Author: Lisa Fitzpatrick Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 Embargoed until 13th June 2019 Men in Black: The Official Visual Companion to the Films is the ultimate retrospective to the...

Author: Joe Nazzaro Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 With the release of Star Trek Beyond in 2016, viewers were given a spectacular visual treat as a whole host of...

Author: Danny White Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 The biography of the hugely successful British band One Direction, who shot to fame after taking the seventh series...

Author: Sir Humphrey Burton, CBE Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 Since 2000, when this biography was first published, Menuhin's name has not faded from public attention, as...

Author: Henrik Ibsen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 The study of Naturalist theatre remains a staple and often foundational part of the curriculum at all levels of...

Author: Peter Ames Carlin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 A revelatory account of the life of beloved American music icon, Paul Simon, by the bestselling rock biographer Peter Ames...

Author: Simon Armitage Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 96 New play by acclaimed poet Simon Armitage.

Author: William Melvin Kelley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 At the age of five, a blind African-American boy is handed over to a brutal state home. Here...

Author: Alan Ashton-Smith Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 248 The figure of the gypsy is simultaneously vilified and romanticized. Gypsies have for centuries been associated with criminality and...

Author: Charlie Connelly Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Despite the all-pervading influence of television ninety per cent of people in Britain still listen to the radio, clocking up over...

Author: James Hamilton-Paterson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 An ode to Beethoven's revolutionary masterpiece, his Third Symphony In 1805, the world of music was startled by an avant-garde and...

Author: Poppy Rose Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 48 A gorgeous new series for girls aged 4-7 - perfect for fans of 'Pearlie in the Park' and 'Magic...

Author: Ellie Kemper Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Comedian and star of The Office and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Ellie Kemper delivers a hilarious and uplifting collection of...

Author: Sharon Gosling Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 Embargoed to 15th March 2018 This official companion book takes an in-depth look at the artwork and design of this extraordinary...

Author: Simon Braund Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 A lavish hardback containing Orson Welles' Portfolio, much of which has never been seen before. Orson Welles, famous as an accomplished...