Biography: arts & entertainment

Revealing the story of the man behind the jokes, this book is an ode to both Barry's incredible life and to the lessons he so generously imparted on the art of comedy during his 60-year career. Stretching from the music halls of the 50s, via working alongside everyone from Morecambe and Wise to J...

Revealing the story of the man behind the jokes, this book is an ode to both Barry's incredible life and to the lessons he so generously imparted on the art of comedy during his 60-year career. Stretching from the music halls of the 50s, via working alongside everyone from Morecambe and Wise to J...

Illustrated throughout, this book provides a fascinating behind the scenes look at the life and career of this immensely talented and enduring actor and entertainer.

&b>&i>Berserker!&/i> is the riotous, one-of-a-kind memoir from one of Britains most beloved comedians, Adrian Edmondson.&/b> The instant Sunday Times bestseller From brutal schooldays to 80s anarchy, through The Young Ones, Bottom and beyond, Berserker! is the one-of-a-kind, hilarious memoir from...

Bessie Smith lived a life of extremes, of success as a great blues singer, and of great personal tragedy. Jackie Kay's biography concentrates on her torrid personal and public life of female lovers, an unhappy marriage and hard drinking.

From Bing Crosby's early days in college minstrel shows and vaudeville, to his first hit recordings, from his 11 year triumph as star of America's most popular radio show, to his first success in Hollywood, Gary Giddins provides a detailed study of the rise of this American star. In A POCKET FULL...

Adopted into a comfortable, protestant family at an early age, BBC presenter Nicky Campbell was always aware that the family he was part of was not his birth family. But when he embarked on the trail of his natural parents, what he found came as quite a shock. This is the story of his journey and...

BOB DYLAN: MIXING UP THE MEDICINE is an unprecedented glimpse into the creative life of one of America's most groundbreaking, influential and enduring artists. 'The Dylan Center in Tulsa offers a read as endlessly fascinating, as vital to the American story, as its subject himself... Whether you ...

This illustrated biography of the American singer-songwriter, Bob Dylan, covers the 1950s and 60s and includes rare photographs, facsimiles of handwritten lyrics and rare memorabilia as well as interviews with the man himself. THE BOB DYLAN SCRAPBOOK is the highly collectable illustrated biograph...