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Clara & Olivia
by Lucy Ashe
This original and exquisitely written novel is a highly accomplished debut from Lucy Ashe. Lucy trained at the Royal Ballet School, so it is written f...
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Pick A Pocket or Two – A History of British Musical Theatre
By Ethan Mordden
This new and welcome study of the history of the musical in Britain fills -incredibly – a major gap in the literature, as there is no other single vol...
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CARY GRANT
The Making Of A Hollywood Legend
by Mark Glancy
“Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant!” said Cary Grant.
And that is pretty much one of the main themes of the new biograp...
Breaking into Song: why you shouldn’t hate musicals
I was so excited to read this book and to come away fully equipped with the verbal ammunition I need for the defence of my biggest passion, musical th...
The Contender: The Story of Marlon Brando (New York: Harper Collins, 2019)
Central to the post-World War II generation of pioneer artists who helped redefine the practice and purpose of theatre, Marlon Brando was considered t...
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4 – The Musical
This musical adaptation of the late Sue Townsend’s novel immerses you in the urban East Midlands of the early Thatcherite era, as seen through the eye...
High Noon: The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of an American Classic
This book is a fascinating companion to Victor Navasky’s Naming Names, which was a fairly comprehensive general history of that era of scoundrels and ...
Sinatra: Behind the Legend
Not Quite Totally Frank
To celebrate the 100th birthday of Frank Sinatra, J Randy Taraborrelli has revised and updated his original biography of ...
Maggie Smith: A Biography
In many ways this is not so much a biography of Maggie Smith as it is a catalogue raisonné of her work.
There is certainly enough information here ...
Imprudent King: A New Life of Philip II
Anyone interested in Schiller’s play Don Carlos, or in the great Verdi opera based upon it, must be curious about the real historic background to thes...