Music & Performing Arts - "You should be at Abbey's man. It's like... WOW!"

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Meghan: A Hollywood Princess

Andrew Morton

Individual actors & performers; Biography; Biography: historical, political & military; Biography: royalty; Charities, voluntary services & philanthropy

Paperback

From #1 New York Times bestselling author of Diana: Her True Story and Wallis in Love, comes the inside story of Meghan Markle... [more]

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Charlton Heston: Hollywood's Last Icon

Marc Eliot

Film, TV & Radio; Individual actors & performers; Films, movies & cinema; Biography: arts & entertainment

Paperback

-The award-winning author of Walt Disney draws on firsthand diaries, letters and estate records in a portrait of the Hollywood... [more]

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Girls at the Piano

Virginia Lloyd

Keyboard instruments; Biography; Memoirs

Paperback

A brilliant memoir about how learning the piano shaped the lives of two women worlds and generations apart that will resonate... [more]

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RAW: My Journey into the Wu-Tang

Lamont U-God Hawkins

Music; Rap & Hip-Hop; Individual composers & musicians, bands & groups; Autobiography: arts & entertainment

Paperback

Part social history, part confessional memoir, U-God's intimate portrait of his life - and those of his Wu-Tang brothers -... [more]

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When The World Stopped To Listen

Stuart Isacoff

Music; Music reviews & criticism

Paperback

April of 1958--the Iron Curtain was at its heaviest, and the outcome of the Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition seemed... [more]

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Unmasked

Andrew Lloyd Webber

Musicals; Individual composers & musicians, bands & groups; Biography; Autobiography: arts & entertainment

Paperback

You have the luck of Croesus on stilts (as my Auntie Vi would have said) if you've had the sort of career, ups and downs,... [more]

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The Duke in His Domain

Truman Capote

Individual actors & performers; Films, movies & cinema; Biography: arts & entertainment

Paperback

Now Brando looked at people with assurance, and with what can only be called a pitying expression, as though he dwelt in spheres... [more]

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The Coffee Break Screenwriter... Breaks the Rules: A Guide for the Rebel...

Pilar Alessandra

Film, TV & Radio; Screenwriting techniques

Paperback

Pilar Alessandra's popular book, The Coffee Break Screenwriter, taught writers how to outline quickly, write efficiently,... [more]

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High Noon: The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of an American Classic...

Glenn Frankel

Film, TV & Radio; Film theory & criticism; History

Paperback

From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Searchers, the revelatory story behind the classic movie High Noon and the... [more]

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Making a Meal of It: Writing About Film

Brian McFarlane

Film, TV & Radio; Film theory & criticism

Paperback

For more than forty years, readers of Melbourne newspapers and journals - and radio listeners - have learned about the latest... [more]

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Bowerbird: The Art of Making Theatre Drawn From Life

Alana Valentine

Theatre Studies

Paperback

Alana Valentine has carved a career bringing other people's lives to the stage. Often labelled a verbatim playwright, Alana... [more]

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Tragedy: The Sad Ballad of the Gibb Brothers

Jeff Apter

Music; Rock & Pop music; Individual composers & musicians, bands & groups; Biography: arts & entertainment

Paperback

The rise and fall of the... [more]

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Messiah

Jonathan Keates

Music; Baroque music (c 1600 to c 1750)

Paperback

The story of the composition, first performances and cultural afterlife of one of the best-loved and most widely performed... [more]

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Fast Times and Excellent Adventures: The Surprising History of the '80s...

James King

Film, TV & Radio; Films, movies & cinema; Popular culture

Paperback

Fast Times and Excellent Adventures is an inside look at the surprising history of the Eighties teen movie - how the movie... [more]

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Memphis Rent Party: The Blues, Rock & Soul in Music's Hometown

Robert Gordon

Music; Rock & Pop music

Hardback

Blues, being the wellspring of all American music for over a century, is always worth studying. Robert does it right. - Keith... [more]

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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: An Art Book

Drawing & drawings; Music; Rock & Pop music; Individual composers & musicians, bands & groups

Hardback

A beautifully produced collection of illustrations by Reinhard Kleist, capturing Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds' thirty-year career... [more]

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Vision: Color and Composition for Film

Hans P. Bacher, Sanatan Suryavanshi

Film, TV & Radio; Animated movies & films

Hardback

Featuring hundreds of carefully hand-crafted illustrations as well as significant tuition on how to best compose and use images... [more]

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Marvels Avengers: Infinity War Hardcover Ruled Journal

Insight Editions

Film & movie: styles & genres; Graphic novels; Fiction-related items

Hardback

Assemble your heroic ideas and turn them into actions with this hardcover ruled journal inspired by the Avengers: Infinity... [more]

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Wonderland: Alice on Screen

Emma Mcrae, Alexandra He

Film, TV & Radio; Film movie guides & reviews

Hardback

Wonderland follows Alice's journey through her many cinematic appearances from 1930's silent Alice in Wonderland to the recent... [more]

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Steven Spielberg: A Life in Films

Molly Haskell

Film, TV & Radio; Film theory & criticism; Individual film directors, film-makers; Biography: arts & entertainment

Paperback

A film-centric portrait of the extraordinarily gifted movie director whose decades-long influence on American popular culture... [more]

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We'll Always Have Casablanca: The Legend and Afterlife of Hollywood's Most...

Noah Isenberg

Film, TV & Radio; Films, movies & cinema

Paperback

A Los Angeles Times bestseller A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice Selection Even the die-hardest Casablanca fan... [more]

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The Beatles on the Roof

Tony Barrell

Music; Rock & Pop music; Individual composers & musicians, bands & groups

Paperback

Beatles on the Roof studies the rooftop concert in penetrating detail, uncovering new truths and debunking old myths about... [more]

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Symphony of Seduction: The Great Love Stories of Classical Composers

Christopher Lawrence

Music; Classical music (c 1750 to c 1830)

Paperback

Love-crazed geniuses, a killer soundtrack and a garnish of imagined pillow talk - here are the real love stories of the great... [more]

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Stairways to Heaven: Rebuilding the British Film Industry

Geoffrey MacNab

Film, TV & Radio; Films, movies & cinema; Cultural studies; Cinema industry

Hardback

Essential guide to the resurrection of British film [more]

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Is There Life Outside the Box?: An Actor Despairs

Peter Davison

Film, TV & Radio; Individual actors & performers; Television; Autobiography: arts & entertainment

Paperback

His fans have spoken, but despite their requests, Peter Davison has gone ahead and written his autobiography anyway. It wasn't... [more]