1,459円 Canadian composer Louis Applebaum devoted his life to the cultural awakening of his native land, and this "magnificent obsession" drove him to become a founder of the Canadian League of Composers and the Canadian Music Centre. He was an instrumental figure in the early development of the National...

1,326円 "You’ll like Louis Mayer," Mary Pickford told Charles Foster in 1943. "He is from Canada, too." As Foster was soon to discover, Mayer was not alone: a great many of those who helped shape Hollywood into the movie capital of the world were Canadian. Stardust and Shadows brings together the stories...

3,522円 Whenever stripper Gypsy Rose Lee encountered public criticism, she spoke frankly in her own defense. "Thousands have seen me at my--ah--best; and thousands have made no objections." Noralee Frankel's lively biography, Stripping Gypsy, the first ever published about the highly mythologized Gypsy, ...

383円 Alesha Dixon has not followed the easy path to fame. Suffering heartbreak, rejection and struggles that would test any of us, her strength of will and character were pushed to the limit. After early fame with R&B girl band Mis-Teeq, Alesha was dropped from her record label and experienced the bre...

586円 A middle-aged man abandons his corporate life to follow his dream to become a painter. On the way, he develops an unlikely but beautiful relationship with an older woman. Jack is a middle-aged American living as a squatter in a Paris attic. He paints in a public square and sells his work to survi...

2,080円 An unusually brilliant generation of film-makers emerged from British television drama in the 1960-70s - none more formidable than Alan Clarke. Yet Clarke enjoyed only a vague renown among the public, even though some of his most incendiary productions - Scum, The Firm, Made in Britain - attracte...

549円 Everyone wants to know how EL James, a middle-aged mom of two from the London suburbs became the best-selling author of all time, with over a million books selling worldwide in less than a year, and now a major motion picture. Read this book to find out exactly how she did it. Inside you’ll learn...

2,334円 The definitive biography of a man with one of the most iconic and fascinating careersーand livesーin Hollywood. For six decades, Jack Nicholson has been part of film history. With three Oscar wins and twelve nominations to his credit and legendary roles in films like Easy Rider, Five Easy Pieces,...

1,657円 Dave Hull, “The Hullabalooer,” is recognized as one of the most iconic of all the Top 40 DJs to ever spin the wax over 50,000 watts of AM radio power. The Hullabalooer lived every wacky plotline that we laughed with on WKRP in Cincinnati; he was there as the drama of personalities like Alan Freed...

2,427円 ‘For seventy years now Desert Island Discs has managed that rare feat – to be both enduring and relevant. By casting away the biggest names of the day in science, business, politics, showbiz, sport and the arts, it presents a cross-sectional snapshot of the times in which we live. As the decades ...

1,780円 What do Postman Pat, Tommy Cooper, Norman Wisdom and George Best have in common with being abandoned in a Costa Rican jungle after a severe bout of flatulence? Indeed, how are they also connected to trying to buy an Australian brewery just to get a beer, owning twenty-two cars, an American soccer...

619円 Aldiss’ acclaimed 1979 essay collection reissued for the first time in over thirty years. Most of the arts – architecture, music, painting, cinema – come under review in this thought-provoking collection of essays first published in 1979. Aldiss writes here with characteristic humour the complex ...