Biography: arts & entertainment

A pawtobiography

It’s hard to believe Ted was once a skinny, unwanted pup who was dumped outside an animal shelter, before he found fame and fortune alongside Bob Mortimer and Paul Whitehouse on the BBC hit s...

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We All Shine On

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A personal and revealing look at the last 10 years of John Lennon’s life and his partnership with Yoko Ono, written by the friend who knew them best, publicist and music industry insider Elli...

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I Haven’t Been Entirely Honest with You

£25.00

Hello to you, I am with news. Basically, I have had an unexpectedly difficult decade – there have been surprising joys but also deep revelations and challenging lows. I shall be honest about ...

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Ian Fleming

£14.99

Here is a fresh portrait of the man behind James Bond, and his enduring impact, by an award-winning biographer with unprecedented access to the Fleming family papers. Ian Fleming’s greatest c...

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In the western imagination, a Black man is always a stranger. Outsider, foreigner, intruder, alien. One who remains associated with their origins irrespective of how far they have travelled from th...

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Studios of their own

£19.99

Studios of Their OwnÂ travels around the world, examining the unique spaces in which famous artists created their most notable works.Â

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Wild thing

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Paul Gauguin is chiefly known as the giant of post-Impressionist painting whose bold colours and compositions rocked the Western art world. It is less well known that he was a stockbroker in Paris ...

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The last action heroes

£11.99

From the editor of Empire magazine, this is the behind-the-scenes story of the larger-than-life action stars who ruled 80s and 90s Hollywood, from Sly Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger to J...

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