Results for: books tagged ‘Celebrity’
Prick Up Your Ears: Alan Bennett
Colquhoun and MacBryde: John Byrne
Fresh from artistic triumph in their native Glasgow come the two painters, Colquhoun and MacBryde, swaggering down to London's wartime Bohemia to take the art world by storm.This is the ... More
W. G. Grace: A Life: Simon Rae
W. G. Grace burst onto the cricket scene in the 1860s with spectacular force. He dominated the game until the end of the century, and influences it to this day. ... More
Gates of Gold: Frank McGuinness
Conrad and Gabriel are lovers but when Alma arrives to tend the sick Gabriel, their lives are unpicked and remade. Frank McGuinness's powerful, subtle and funny play explores the territory ... More
Charles Hawtrey 1914-1988: Roger Lewis
This is a small masterpiece of biographical investigation, and fitting testament to a comic genius whose place in British cultural history is now assured. Charles Hawtrey, the skinny one with ... More
San Diego: David Greig
San Diego weaves together a series of connecting and diverging stories, merging threads that stretch around the globe into a single compelling narrative of tremendous scope; stories of illegal immigrants, ... 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
The Kid Stays in the Picture: Robert Evans
The Kid Stays in the Picture by Hollywood 'bad boy' Robert Evans is an intimate and fascinating account of his rise, fall and rise again in show business. The only ... 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
Personality: Andrew O'Hagan
Maria Tambini is a 13-year-old girl with an amazing singing voice. Growing up above her mother's chip shop on the Scottish island of Bute, living at the centre of her ... More
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