George Clooney: Anatomy of an Actor by Jeremy Smith
$59.95 AUD
Category: Entertainment | Series: Anatomy of an Actor
A comprehensive study of George Clooney's work through the lens of ten of his most iconic roles. A new title in the fascinating Anatomy of an Actor series from world-renowned cinema magazine Cahiers du cinema. This book explores the career of George Clooney (b.1961). A TV heartthrob doctor for five year ...Show more
Never Broken: Songs are Only Half the Story by Jewel
$49.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment
Multi-platinum singer-songwriter Jewel explores her unconventional upbringing and extraordinary life in an inspirational memoir that covers her childhood to fame, marriage and motherhood. In Never Broken she reflects on how she survived instability, abuse and trauma, and how writing songs, poetry and pr ...Show more
Take It Like a Man: The Autobiography of Boy George by Boy George; Spencer Bright
$39.95 AUD
Category: Entertainment
"Where else but in Boy George's autobiography would there be an index with these sorts of headings: Heroin; Michael, Geor≥ Hair, Dyeing. . . . Now that's entertainment." --Rolling Stone Boy George--the iconic leader of the eighties' pop and new wave band Culture Club--offers a candid look at his life, ...Show more
So, Anyway...: The Autobiography by John Cleese
$22.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment | Reading Level: very good
Read by John Cleese with an introduction by Michael Palin. This is the story of how a tall, shy youth from Weston-super-Mare went on to become a self-confessed legend. En route, John Cleese describes his nerve-racking first public appearance, at St Peter?s Preparatory School at the age of eight and five ...Show more
Maggie Smith : A Biography by Michael Coveney
$32.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment
No one does glamour, severity, girlish charm or tight-lipped witticism better than Dame Maggie Smith, one of Britain's best-loved actors. This new biography shines the stage-lights on the life and work of a truly remarkable performer, one whose career spans six decades. From her days as a star of West ...Show more
Grace Kelly a Life in Pictures by Pierre-Henri Verlhac
$29.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment | Series: A\Life in Pictures Ser.
An illustrated celebration of Grace Kelly, one of Hollywoods brightest stars, is already long overdue. Following on from the popular full-sized edition, this must-have gift-sized version was published to coincide with the 25th anniversary of Grace Kelly's death and is now reissued to coincide with the r ...Show more
Shane Jacobson: The Long Road to Overnight Success by Shane Jacobson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment
From the star of the film Kenny, the story of his long road to overnight success. After the film 'Kenny' catapulted him to national and international fame, actor, writer, producer Shane Jacobson was told by people that he had a talent for acting. Which was great news as he'd been on the stage since the ...Show more
Mr Showbiz: The Biography of Robert Stigwood by Stephen Dando-Collins
$34.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment
Born in Port Pirie, South Australia and moving to the UK in the 1950s where he soon established a theatrical agency, at the height of his success, in the 1970s, Robert Stigwood 'Stiggy' was the entertainment industry's most powerful tycoon. He came to renown managing the careers of the Bee Gees, Cream a ...Show more
A Man's Got to Have a Hobby : Long Summers With My Dad by William McInnes
$19.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment
William McInnes is a talented writer and a natural storyteller. A tail-end baby boomer, he recalls summer holidays that seemed to go on forever, when he and his mates would walk down to fish in the bay; a time when the Aussie battler stood as the local Labor candidate and looked out for his mates; and a ...Show more
No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality by Michael J. Fox
$32.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment | Reading Level: near fine
A moving account of resilience, hope, fear and mortality, and how these things resonate in our lives, by actor and advocate Michael J. Fox. The entire world knows Michael J. Fox as Marty McFly, the teenage sidekick of Doc Brown in Back to the Future; as Alex P. Keaton in Family Ties; as Mike Flaherty in ...Show more
The House of Hidden Meanings: A memoir by RuPaul
$34.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment
From international drag superstar and pop culture icon RuPaul, comes his most revealing and personal work to date. A brutally honest, surprisingly poignant, and deeply intimate memoir of growing up Black, poor, and queer in a broken home to discovering the power of performance, found family, and self-ac ...Show more
Year of the Monkey by Patti Smith
$29.99 AUD
Category: Chat10Looks3 Recommendations | Reading Level: very good
From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train, a profound, beautifully realized memoir in which dreams and reality are vividly woven into a tapestry of one transformative year. Following a run of New Year's concerts at San Francisco's legendary Fillmore, Patti Smith finds herself ...Show more