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READ BY DAME VERA LYNN AND HER DAUGHTER VIRGINIA LEWIS-JONES. Forbidden love and family secrets In World War Two Liverpool in the heartrending new saga from the author of Goodnight Sweetheart.Born Vera Welch on 20 March, 1917 in the East End of Lo...

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A remarkable memoir from the legendary drummer with The Police.Stewart Copeland is a genuine rock legend. As the drummer with The Police he was part of the biggest rock band in the world. They sold over 50 million records, won 2 Brits and 5 Grammy...

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I Know This Much ? written and read by Gary Kemp ? Spandau Ballet''s prime mover ? is simply the freshest, most exciting and best read memoir to arrive for yearsGary''s story begins in North London, where the Kemp family rented a home with no bath...

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A lavishly illustrated tribute to the greatest entertainer of a generation?The world has lost one of the greats but his music will live on forever? - MadonnaMichael Jackson was the undisputed King of Pop and his untimely death has provoked tribute...

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Have you ever been carried away by a piece of classical music? The sad song of a single violin might make us cry, but the idea of finding out more about classical music can often be intimidating. In this funny, evocative, personal book, Gareth tak...

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With a no.1 album selling over 1.5 million copies, three no. 1 singles, two Brit awards, two MOBO awards, a sell-out UK tour and a no. 1 bestselling book, it has been quite a year for JLS! Download the audiobook and hear their full story so far an...

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The extraordinary life and times of Carl Barat, Libertine.READ BY CARL BARAT!READ BY CARL BARAT. From his childhood in suburban Basingstoke, through times of literally being down and out in London and Paris, to success as one of the co-founders of...

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In Listen to This, Alex Ross, the music critic for The New Yorker, looks both backward and forward in time, capturing essential figures and ideas in classical-music history as well as giving an alternative view of recent pop music that emphasizes ...

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?This is the truth as we know it. I have read so much about what people think they know about Michael, but this is about what really happened.? Jermaine JacksonYou Are Not Alone is an intimate, loving portrait of Michael Jackson, illuminating the ...

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A magical short novel from the author of All My Friends are Superheroes.A robber holds up a Canadian bank but instead of stealing money he takes from each person the item of most sentimental value.As time passes the loss of these items have a dram...

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A short life of Dickens which celebrates the impact of the theatre on his life and workAcclaimed actor and writer Simon Callow captures the essence of Charles Dickens in a sparkling biography that explores the central importance of the theatre to ...

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A fond farewell to the many inanimate objects, cultural icons and general stuff around us that find themselves on the verge of extinction.We?ve all heard of the list of endangered animals, but no one has ever pulled together a list of endangered i...

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Former prime minister John Major takes a remarkable journey into his own unconventional family past to tell the richly colourful story of the British music hallMusic hall was one of the glories of Victorian England. Sentimental, vulgar, class-cons...

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Amy Winehouse needs no introduction. A critically acclaimed recording artist, she touched millions with her music during her short but extraordinary life.Following her tragic death in July 2011, Mitch Winehouse wants to tell her incredible story i...

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He is one of the greatest musical talents Britain has ever produced. But even as the principle songwriter and lead guitarist for The Who, it would be unjust to define Pete Townshend?s life simply through his achievements with bandmates Daltrey, Mo...

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE BERGER PRIZE FOR BRITISH ART HISTORY 2017SHORTLISTED FOR THE SLIGHTLY FOXED BEST FIRST BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2017A SUNDAY TIMES ART BOOK OF THE YEARA SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEARAN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEARA NEW YORK TIMES ART BOOK OF...

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An informative, fun and rather charming essay on the nature and history of one of life?s most desirable assets, Charm, by renowned culture and design critic, Stephen Bayley.Aiming to wound, a schoolmaster wrote on future design-guru Stephen Bayley...

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A heart-warming nostalgia memoir from a member of the world famous dance troupe, The Tiller Girls. Based in London in the 1930s, 40s and 50s, Irene?s story will transport readers back to a more innocent, simple way of life.This is the story of a l...

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Aristocrat, literary celebrity, 'Rose Queen', devoted wife, lesbian, recluse, iconoclast - Vita Sackville-West was many things, but she was never straightforward. Her life is re-told here in a dazzling new biography.In this stunning portrait of Vi...

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For the first time EVER, global superstars One Direction are releasing their 100% official autobiography, offering a new, intimate insight into their lives as never before seen or heard! In their first in-depth autobiography, pop sensations Niall,...

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The perfect introduction to the Master.Over a century after his death, Richard Wagner?s music dramas stand at the centre of the culture of classical music. He was a walking contradiction: aggressive, flirtatious, disciplined, capricious, heroic, v...

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On a freezing night in January 2013, an assailant hurled acid in the face of the artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet, Sergei Filin. The crime, organized by a lead soloist, dragged one of Russia's most illustrious institutions into scandal. Und...

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Founder of one of the most influential and successful rock bands of all time, legendary Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page has nevertheless remained an enigma. In this definitive and comprehensive biography of his life so far, Chris Salewicz draws ...

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?I was spotty, wore an anorak, had biro-engraved flared blue jeans with ?purple? and ?Sabbath? written on the thighs, and rode an ear-splittingly uncool moped. Oh yes, and I wanted to be a drummer??Bruce Dickinson ? Iron Maiden?s legendary front m...

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For the first time, more than 15 years after four boys from London were first thrown together to form what would go on to become one of the most successful and infamous groups of the boyband era, Lee, Antony, Duncan and Simon tell their full, no-h...

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Featuring exclusive additional content and guest contributions from Chris Stein and Clem Burke. I was saying things in songs that female singers didn t really say back then. I wasn t submissive or begging him to come back, I was kicking his ass, k...

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?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, warts and all that I have in that wondrous little corner of show business called musical theatre.?One of the most successful...

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The Times Art Book of the Year 2021 FINALIST FOR THE PLUTARCH AWARD 2022 'Must surely be the definitive life of Francis Bacon A biography that no Bacon fan - or indeed foe - can afford to overlook Mesmerising' THE TIMES 'A magnificent triumph I wa...

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A GUARDIAN AND INDEPENDENT BEST MUSIC BOOK OF 2017.?At last an expert classicist gets to grips with Bob Dylan? Mary Beard?Thomas?s elegant, charming book offers something for everyone ? not just the super-fans? IndependentWhen the Nobel Prize for ...

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A GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, PITCHFORK, NPR, METRO AND HERALD SCOTLAND BEST MUSIC BOOK OF 2018?The definitive grime biography? NME?A landmark genre history? PitchforkThis audiobook is narrated by Ash Hunter, stage and screen actor who is currently playin...

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