5.0★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Clara & Olivia by Lucy Ashe Tim Hochstrasser 19/02/2023 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...
4.0★ ★ ★ ★ Pick A Pocket or Two – A History of British Musical Theatre By Ethan Mordden Tim Hochstrasser 22/02/2022 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...
5.0 CARY GRANT The Making Of A Hollywood Legend by Mark Glancy Mel Cooper 17/01/2022 “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 Grace Creaton-Barber 04/09/2021 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) Mel Cooper 03/10/2019 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 Nelly Wolman 05/07/2019 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 Mel Cooper 25/04/2017 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 Mel Cooper 19/02/2016 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 Mel Cooper 09/12/2015 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 Mel Cooper 08/12/2015 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...
