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CINEMA, THEATRE & PERFORMING ARTS

Kids, Wait Till You Hear This!

Liza Minnelli

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We Are Movement: Unlocking Your Physical Intelligence ...

Wayne McGregor

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Greenblatt's The Swerve was a codex for understanding the Early Modern period. This biography of Kit Marlowe (cobbler's son, playwright, spy) is similarly sprightly and erudite.

Dark Renaissance

Stephen Greenblatt

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The late actress, singer and bohemian dream, lover of Serge and customer at Sandoe's...(We once even had the pleasure of a visit by four generations of the Birkin clan.)

Jane Birkin: Icon of Style

Sophie Gachet

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With extensive interviews and new material from the Anderson archives, this will accompany his upcoming retrospective. His signature style has never been compromised by his vast success.

Wes Anderson: The Archives

Matthieu Orlean

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His first original screenplay in twenty years, written for his longtime collaborator Nicholas Hytner to direct (History Boys, A Man With a Van). An affecting comedy set in a choral society i... read more

The Choral

Alan Bennett

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When the Rocky Horror Show was still running in Chelsea, its star regularly caused eyes to swivel in Blacklands Terrace. Here, he looks back on his upbringing in an English military family, ... read more

Vagabond

Tim Curry

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On the relationship between fact and fiction and his own concept of 'ecstatic truth' - the kind that he believes only art can drive toward.

The Future of Truth

Werner Herzog

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A memoir from childhood in Port Talbot to his time at RADA under the mentorship of Laurence Olivier, and on through his illustrious career and frequent battles with sobriety. Hopkins writes ... read more

We Did Ok, Kid: A Memoir

Anthony Hopkins

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Not only Lynch's commercial successes and cult classics but also his sallies into art, photography and music, as well as his influences and philosophies. Many photos and stills, nicely produ... read more

David Lynch: His Work, His World

Tom Huddleston

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Tolstoy loathed the ballet and thought it should be got rid of... Here is a fascinating, scholarly book on the aesthetics of Russian ballet from the mid-C19th to the mid-C20th, both conserva... read more

Impossible Project: The Story of Russian Ballet and Its Survival ...

Daria Khitrova

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Lahr was the New Yorker's leading theatre critic for over twenty years. Here his portraits of actors and directors (incl Helen Mirren, Al Pacino and Judi Dench) are brought together for the ... read more

Razzle Dazzle ‘Em: New Yorker Profiles of Show-Biz Legends ...

John Lahr

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This is Marilyn Monroe's legendary life through an intimate lens: the writing and photography of Shaw, her close friend and confidant. Shaw's unselfconscious photos are credited with redefin... read more

Dear Marilyn: The Unseen Letters and Photographs

Sam Shaw

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As elegant and tasteful a book as you'd expect. Including film stills, previously unpublished photography and contributions from Olivia Laing, Joanna Hogg and Luca Guadagnino.

Tilda Swinton

Tilda Swinton

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A delightful memoir of CT's dance tour from Nova Scotia to Sweden, London and Paris in the late 1930s. It's an unusually funny portrait of pre-war Europe, with a plucky, adventurous young ba... read more

Les Girls

Constance Tomkinson

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A first (and big) biography of the reviver of the Hollywood symphonic score. Includes interviews with Hans Zimmer, Mia Farrow, Oliver Stone et al.

John Williams: A Composer’s Life

Tim Greiving

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Crafting the Ballets Russes: Music, Dance, Design: The Robert Owen Leh ...

Robinson McClellan

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First edition, first printing in very good condition, with a very good dust jacket; minor foxing and shelf wear.

The Kenneth Williams Diaries

Kenneth Williams

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A huge biography - by a seasoned practitioner - of this zany, difficult, unhappy and brilliant man.

The Life and Death of Peter Sellers

Roger Lewis

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Of Walking In Ice

Werner Herzog

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From hauling steamships through the jungle to living among grizzly bears, the man who ate his shoe tells all. Book of recipes to follow?

Every Man for Himself and God against All: A Memoir ...

Werner Herzog

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Published to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the great impresario's birth. The names of those he worked with, those great and fabulous beings like Goncharova, Stravinsky, Picasso, Fokine,... read more

Diaghilev’s Empire: How the Ballets Russes Enthralled the World ...

Rupert Christiansen

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In a series of interviews, Dame Judy talks through three score years and ten of Shakespearean roles.

Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays The Rent

Judi Dench

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A memoir from the funny, clever, supreme interpreter of Shakespeare, giant of the contemporary stage, and thoroughly Good Egg.

A Piece of Work: Playing Shakespeare and Other Stories ...

Simon Russell Beale

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Vertigo, The Birds, Psycho, Rear Window... He kept up the suspense for 60 years. This chronology includes his collaborations with designers such as Edith Head and Saul Bass.

Alfred Hitchcock All the Films: The Story Behind Every Movie, Episode, ...

Bernard Benoliel

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Now in his nineties, Caine shows no signs of retiring although he has spent more time writing than acting in the last few years.

Don’t Look Back, You’ll Trip Over: My Guide to Life ...

Michael Caine

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"The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue"/ "Don't look at me in that tone of voice" / "I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be da... read more

Dorothy Parker in Hollywood

Gail Crowther

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A Venn diagram of the gothic, the fantastical and the contemporary would have Burton at its centre, twiddling very long thumbs... This is the catalogue accompanying an exhibition at the Desi... read more

Tim Burton: Designing Worlds

Maria McLintock

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The adventures of the boy from the Bronx who wore away the boards of the avant-garde theatre scene in New York until his mid-thirties, when he had his extraordinary success in The Godfather ... read more

Sonny Boy: A Memoir

Al Pacino

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Illustrated catalogue of an exhibition in Monaco, revealing how the great director's films were influenced by classical and contemporary art - and how he in turn influenced many contemporary... read more

Pasolini in Chiaroscuro

Bartolomeo Pietromarchi

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Tiny, working-class gay... Gossipy and funny, this memoir shows how many obstacles and prejudices this mighty dancer and choreographer overcame to achieve all that he has.

Just Different: A Memoir

Wayne Sleep

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One of the 'betweens' for this comic genius was of course her unforgettable Mrs Bennet.

Out of Character: From Abigail’s Party to Gavin and Stacey, and ...

Alison Steadman

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Blissful facsimile of the 1932 Golden Cockerel Press edition, with wood engravings by Eric Ravilious.

Twelfth Night or What You Will

William Shakespeare

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My Cinema: Writing & Interviews

Marguerite Duras

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A biography of this brilliant and complicated choreographer.

Mr. B: George Balanchine’s Twentieth Century

Jennifer Homans

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Combines humour with an embracing generosity towards human failings.

My Family: The Memoir

David Baddiel

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