Autobiography: arts & entertainment
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A bookshop of one’s own
£10.99A bookshop of one’s own
A Waterstones Best Memoir of 2024
An Independent and Stylist Best Non-Fiction Book for 2024
The captivating true story of an underdog business – a feminist bookshop founded in Thatcher’s Britain – from a woman at the heart of the women’s liberation movement.
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A woman’s place is in the kitchen
£22.00A woman’s place is in the kitchen
In ‘A Woman’s Place is in the Kitchen’, Sally Abé draws back the curtain on the good, and bad, and downright ugly of restaurant kitchens; and how they might be changed for the better. A stirring manifesto for change, it’s also the story of how a girl from Sheffield who used to cook herself Smash to get by is now one of the most successful fine-dining chefs working today.
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Berserker!
£10.99Berserker!
Berserker! is the riotous, one-of-a-kind memoir from one of Britain’s most beloved comedians, Adrian Edmondson.
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Bringing in the sheaves
£10.99Bringing in the sheaves
After a life of sex, drugs, and the Communards, the Reverend Richard Coles devoted himself to God and Christianity. So what is life like for the parson in Britain today? From his ordination, through Advent and Christmas to Lent and Easter, Reverend Coles gives us a unique insight into his daily experience in the ministry, with all the joy, hope, drama, and difficulty that entails.
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Brutally Honest
£10.99Brutally Honest
The tell-all memoir from the loudest, proudest Spice Girl – and the truth behind the headlines.
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Everything is everything
£10.99Everything is everything
‘I’ve realised that my skin colour, and the sensibilities acquired living in a white dominated world, have given me an interesting perspective on a myriad of topics and issues… So Everything is Everything is about the intersection of the personal and the professional and what I’ve learned. There is tough stuff, but also hope.’
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Fathomless riches
£10.99Fathomless riches
‘Fathomless Riches’ – a phrase characteristic of St Paul and his followers – is the indescribable generosity, love, and sheer surprise that Richard Coles encounters through a life of faith. The result is one of the most readable and illuminating autobiographies of the year.
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Friends, lovers and the big terrible thing
£10.99Friends, lovers and the big terrible thing
In an extraordinary story that only he could tell, Matthew Perry takes readers onto the soundstage of the most successful sitcom of all time while opening up about his private struggles with addiction. Candid, self-aware, and told with his trademark humour, Perry vividly details his lifelong battle with the disease and what fuelled it despite seemingly having it all. ‘Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing’ is an unforgettable memoir that shares the most intimate details of the love Perry lost, his darkest days, and his greatest friends.
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Halfway to Hollywood
£14.99Halfway to Hollywood
This second volume of Michael Palin’s diaries covers the 1980s, a decade in which the ties that bound the Pythons loosened as they forged their separate careers. After a live performance at the Hollywood Bowl, they made their last performance together in 1983 in the hugely successful ‘Monty Python’s Meaning of Life’.
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Home
£22.00Home
With Charlene’s own stories woven into a fine collection of recipes and interviews from a wide range of collaborators, ‘No Place Like Home’ is a powerful and varied exploration of family, food and finding your place.
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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTELLER
‘Utterly brilliant. We all need to read this book’ CLAUDIA WINKLEMAN
‘Patrick’s book is fascinating and sobering and makes a compelling argument for going back to basics’ JOE LYCETT
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Me and Mr Jones
£20.00Me and Mr Jones
Suzi Ronson was working in a Beckenham hair salon in the early seventies when Mrs Jones came in for her weekly shampoo and set. After being introduced to her son David and his wife Angie, Suzi finds herself at the Bowies’ bohemian apartment and is soon embroiled in their raucous world. Having crafted his iconic Ziggy Stardust hairstyle, Suzi becomes the only working woman in David’s touring party and joins the Spiders from Mars as they perform around the globe. Amid the costume blunders, parties and groupies she meets her husband-to-be, Mick Ronson, and together they traverse the absurdities of life in show business, falling in with the likes of Iggy Pop, Bob Dylan and Lou Reed along the way. ‘Me and Mr Jones’ provides not only a unique perspective on one of the most beguiling stars of our time but also a world on the cusp of cultural transformation.
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Normally weird and weirdly normal (PRE-ORDER)
£20.00Normally weird and weirdly normal (PRE-ORDER)
PUBLISHED 01/05/25
In Normally Weird and Weirdly Normal, author and host of Radio 4’s Infinite Monkey Cage Robin Ince uses his own late-stage diagnosis of ADHD to explore neurodivergence and anxiety.
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Re-sisters
£12.99Re-sisters
‘Re-sisters’ is the story of three women consumed by their passion for life, a passion they expressed through music, art and lifestyle – their recordings. In 2018, boundary-breaking visual and sonic artist Cosey Fanni Tutti received a commission to write the soundtrack to a film about Delia Derbyshire, the pioneering electronic composer who influenced the likes of Aphex Twin and The Chemical Brothers. While researching Derbyshire’s life, Tutti became immersed in her story and uncovered fascinating parallels with her own life. At the same time, Tutti began reading about Margery Kempe, the fifteenth-century mystic visionary who wrote the first English-language autobiography. The connections between the three women soon shifted into focus.
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The fall
£10.99The fall
Meet the Murdochs and the disastrously dysfunctional family of Fox News. Until recently, they formed the most powerful media and political force in America. Now their empire is cracking up and crashing down. Drawing on years of unprecedented access to the Murdoch family and key players, Michael Wolff plunges us behind the scenes of an empire of influence, and the result is astonishing and unforgettable. Here is Rupert Murdoch, the ninety-two-year-old billionaire – concerned about his legacy, but more concerned about profits. Here are his contentious children, jockeying to take over when the old man is gone. Here is star anchor Tucker Carlson considering a run for the presidency while his bosses have other plans for him. Sean Hannity, the richest man in television, has his own plans: to put Trump back in office.
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