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Author: Val GielgudBinding: HardbackPublished: Collins, 1953Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsVal Gielgud's classic mystery, The High Jump, introduces readers to the astute...

'In this comprehensive volume, we see the actor in a range of roles: loving son, wicked gossip, star actor, indecisive director, anguished lover, brilliant anecdotist...This splendid book reveals an infinitely...

Sir John Gielgud's career as an actor was perhaps the most distinguished of any of his generation, and, in a lifetime that spanned almost a century, he appeared in hundreds...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew figures in twentieth-century theatre command the reverence accorded to Sir John Gielgud, and this celebratory anthology — assembled to mark the great actor's...

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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. Author: Sheridan Morley Format: Hardback...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFew figures in the history of English theatre command the reverence accorded to Sir John Gielgud, an actor whose voice alone was...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Signed with inscriptionCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA life lived in the long shadow of theatrical greatness unfolds in Zita: Her Story,...

The memoirs of the actor Sir Alec Guinness. The book includes pen portraits of such characters as Ralph Richardson, Sybil Thorndike and John Gielgud, as well as accounts of Guinness's...

Author: Val McDermidBinding: HardbackPublished: Little, Brown, 2020, First Edition, First Impression Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: UnblemishedPages: GoodMarkings: SignedIn '1989', Allie Burns returns to navigate the challenges of investigative journalism in...

THE BRAND-NEW WARTIME SAGA SERIES BY MAGGIE MASON, MUCH-LOVED AUTHOR OF THE HALFPENNY GIRLS Troubles lie ahead - will friendship see them through? BLACKPOOL, 1918. Martha is seventeen and alone...

Fact or fiction? An imaginative collection of statements about Vincent van Gogh that challenges what we think we know about the artist's much mythologized existence. Van Gogh is the most...

**WINNER OF THE VAL McDERMID DEBUT AWARD 2024** ** The Times ' best crime and mystery books of 2024 so far** ** Daily Mail's best new books to read this...

Thirteen-year-old Ava Bonney is unlike other children. Exceptionally bright, she has an obsessive interest in the rate at which dead animals decompose. The motorway she lives by regularly offers up...

HIGHLY COMMENDED FOR BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE TRUE CRIME AWARDS 2023 'Jaw-dropping' -Val McDermid 'A police memoir like no other' -Kerry Daynes, bestselling author of The Dark Side...

An insightful and comprehensive biography of the great twentieth century sculptor Alberto Giacometti. Alberto Giacometti was one of the most enigmatic and memorable personalities of the twentieth century. Born in...

'The most sought-after tenor in the world', the greatest tenor of today', 'the new king of tenors' - for years Jonas Kaufmann has occupied a unique status among the world's...

'A searing, nourishing journey through a history the world needs' - Bettany Hughes, bestselling author of The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World 'Please read it!' - Philippa Gregory, bestselling...