For the first time, the full story of what happened when Frank brought his best pals to party in a land called Vegas
January 1960. Las Vegas is at its smooth, cool peak. The Strip is a jet-age theme……続きを見る
There's only one book that ever truly got inside the Beatles and this is it. The landmark, worldwide bestseller that has grown with the Beatles ever since.
During 1967 and 1968 Hunter Davies spent e……続きを見る
Michael Palin's bestselling diaries of the 1980s.
After a live performance at the Hollywood Bowl, The Pythons made their last performance together in 1983 in the hugely successful MONTY PYTHON'S MEA……続きを見る
In a series of essays, Hope Anderson explores the life and death of Peg Entwistle, a talented young actress who became the only person to have committed suicide off the Hollywood Sign. In discussing……続きを見る
著者:Eugene R. Gaddis
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2011年11月09日
The story of Chick Austin is the story, in Virgil Thomson's words, of "a whole cultural movement in one man." Becoming director of Hartford's Wadsworth Atheneum at the age of twenty-six, Austin imme……続きを見る
Canadian composer Louis Applebaum devoted his life to the cultural awakening of his native land, and this "magnificent obsession" drove him to become a founder of the Canadian League of Composers an……続きを見る
"You’ll like Louis Mayer," Mary Pickford told Charles Foster in 1943. "He is from Canada, too." As Foster was soon to discover, Mayer was not alone: a great many of those who helped shape Hollywood ……続きを見る
著者:Anna Tripp
出版社: Michael O'Mara
発売日: 2012年03月29日
Alesha Dixon has not followed the easy path to fame. Suffering heartbreak, rejection and struggles that would test any of us, her strength of will and character were pushed to the limit. After early……続きを見る
A middle-aged man abandons his corporate life to follow his dream to become a painter. On the way, he develops an unlikely but beautiful relationship with an older woman.
Jack is a middle-aged Ameri……続きを見る
An unusually brilliant generation of film-makers emerged from British television drama in the 1960-70s - none more formidable than Alan Clarke. Yet Clarke enjoyed only a vague renown among the publi……続きを見る
Everyone wants to know how EL James, a middle-aged mom of two from the London suburbs became the best-selling author of all time, with over a million books selling worldwide in less than a year, and……続きを見る
The definitive biography of a man with one of the most iconic and fascinating careersーand livesーin Hollywood.
For six decades, Jack Nicholson has been part of film history. With three Oscar wins a……続きを見る
Dave Hull, “The Hullabalooer,” is recognized as one of the most iconic of all the Top 40 DJs to ever spin the wax over 50,000 watts of AM radio power. The Hullabalooer lived every wacky plotline tha……続きを見る
‘For seventy years now Desert Island Discs has managed that rare feat – to be both enduring and relevant. By casting away the biggest names of the day in science, business, politics, showbiz, sport ……続きを見る
著者:Rick Wakeman
出版社: Random House
発売日: 2010年01月26日
What do Postman Pat, Tommy Cooper, Norman Wisdom and George Best have in common with being abandoned in a Costa Rican jungle after a severe bout of flatulence? Indeed, how are they also connected to……続きを見る
Aldiss’ acclaimed 1979 essay collection reissued for the first time in over thirty years.
Most of the arts – architecture, music, painting, cinema – come under review in this thought-provoking colle……続きを見る
著者:Leigh Montville
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2011年04月26日
From New York Times bestselling author Leigh Montville, this riveting and definitive new biography pulls back the red, white, and blue cape on a cultural iconーand reveals the unknown, complex, and ……続きを見る
Forest Lawn Memorial-Park in Glendale, Calif., is one of the best-known cemeteries in the world, and one of the top tourist attractions in Southern California. Covering more than 300 acres, its more……続きを見る
著者:Mel Watkins
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2010年07月14日
In the late 1920s and '30s Lincoln Perry, aka Stepin Fetchit, was both renowned and reviled for his surrealistic portrayals of the era’s most popular comic stereotype–the lazy, shiftless Negro. Perr……続きを見る
著者:Johan Bakker
出版社: Music Sales Limited
発売日: 2013年09月26日
"Eva Cassidys story if one of the most compelling and poignant in recent music history. In this thoughtful and probing biography Johan Bakker re-evaluates her brief performing career and the fa……続きを見る
著者:Frank Rich
出版社: Random House Publishing Group
発売日: 2002年04月09日
There is a superstition that if an emptied theater is ever left completely dark, a ghost will take up residence. To prevent this, a single "ghost light" is left burning at center stage after the aud……続きを見る
In Shark Infested Waters, Michael Whitehall contrasts the glamorous image of theatrical life with the mundane realities of the business, while passing on some startling trade secrets along the way. ……続きを見る
著者:Clinton Heylin
出版社: Penguin Publishing Group
発売日: 2013年01月03日
The celebrated popular music scholar presents an intimate portrait of The Boss and his legendary band
Bruce Springsteen fans know that the band makes the man, which is why millions of people have ja……続きを見る
著者:James Spada
出版社: Author & Company
発売日: 2012年08月27日
Grace Kelly was the incredibly beautiful, talented and elegant American movie star who became a real-life princess. In six short Hollywood years she had starred in eleven films, eight of which are r……続きを見る
Burdened with a face only a mother could love, Stan Cattermole determined to find a woman. Lugging his man-boobs along for the ride, Stan shows Bridget Jones how it's done in this hilarious, heart-w……続きを見る
Lights, camera, and a LOT of action…
Available for the first time in eBook, the classic sex comedy from the 70s.
Can Timmy make it in the glamorous world of film? And just what kind of films is he t……続きを見る
著者:Selina Hastings
出版社: Random House Publishing Group
発売日: 2010年05月25日
He was a brilliant teller of tales, one of the most widely read authors of the twentieth century, and at one time the most famous writer in the world, yet W. Somerset Maugham’s own true story has ne……続きを見る
Whicker’s War and Journey of a Lifetime in one ebook for the first time.
Alan Whicker joined the Army Film and Photo Unit as an 18-year-old army officer, following the Allied advance through Italy, ……続きを見る
Glenn Gould, one of the world’s most renowned classical musicians of the twentieth century, was also known as an eccentric geniusーsolitary, headstrong, a hypochondriac virtuoso. Abandoning stage pe……続きを見る
著者:Melissa Joan Hart
出版社: St. Martin's Publishing Group
発売日: 2013年10月29日
Melissa Joan Hart explained it all-from dating to bullies-in her groundbreaking role as Clarissa Darling on Clarissa Explains It All. She cast a spell on millions more viewers as Sabrina, the Teenag……続きを見る