Results for: books tagged ‘Celebrity’
12:23: Eoin McNamee
August 1997. As the century grinds to a close Diana Spencer and her Egyptian lover are to visit Paris. According to some accounts they will become engaged. According to some ... More
1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: James Shapiro
An intimate history of Shakespeare, following him through a single year that changed not only his fortunes but the course of literature.How did Shakespeare go from being a talented poet ... More
Alma Cogan: Gordon Burn
How does it feel to be never allowed to die? In his classic début novel, Gordon Burn takes Britain's biggest selling vocalist of the 1950s and turns her story into ... More
American Desert: Percival Everett
Theodore Street is driving towards the ocean where he plans to drown himself. But on the way he is hit by a van and he sails through the windscreen, his ... More
Arthur Miller: Martin Gottfried
Arthur Miller is an icon: one of the great playwrights in western stage history and a stirring participant in the major political and cultural events of his time. His life ... More
Ball of Fire: Stefan Kanfer
To viewers all over the world, Lucille Ball remains the ultimate screwball housewife, getting in and out of outlandish scrapes with hilarious finesse. But Stefan Kanfer's biography looks behind the ... More
Best and Edwards: Gordon Burn
In Best and Edwards, Gordon Burn looks at two of football’s brightest talents. United by the club they played for, but divided by the tragedy of Munich, they came in ... More
Blade Runners, Deer Hunters & Blowing the Bloody Doors Off: Michael Deeley
Adventures in motion pictures - from Swinging London to New Hollywood to Spielberg blockbusters. More
Born Yesterday: Gordon Burn
Summer 2007 was an extraordinarily rich time for news. Floods. Foot and mouth. The disappearances of Tony Blair and Madeleine McCann. The arrival of Gordon Brown. Terror attacks in Glasgow. ... More
Byron: Fiona MacCarthy
Fiona MacCarthy's Byron: Life and Legend is a breakthrough in reinterpreting Byron's life and poetry for a new generation, showing him as a formative figure in European romanticism, as Byron ... More
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