Gilliamesque - A Pre-Posthumous Memoir (HB) by Terry Gilliam
$59.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment
From his no-frills childhood in the icy wastes of Minnesota, to some of the hottest water Hollywood had to offer, via the cutting edge of '60s and '70s counter-culture in New York, LA and London, Terry Gilliam's life has been as vivid and unorthodox as one of his films. Telling his story for the first t ...Show more
Bonkers: My Life in Laughs by Jennifer Saunders
$39.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment
Bonkers: My Life in Laughs by Jennifer Saunders - the hilarious, touching life story of the iconic comedian and national treasure Jennifer Saunders' comic creations have brought joy to millions. From Comic Strip to Comic Relief, from Bolly-swilling Edina in Ab Fab to her takes on Madonna or Mamma Mia, h ...Show more
Tom Petty: Rock 'n' Roll Guardian by Andrea M. Rotondo
$24.95 AUD
Category: Entertainment
Tom Petty may be one of rock'n'roll's preeminent artists today - having sold more than 60-million records - but his rise to superstardom was never a foregone conclusion. His band Mudcrutch was a household name in his hometown of Gainesville, Florida, in the mid-1970s, but the band self-destructed just m ...Show more
More Fool Me by Stephen Fry
$24.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment | Reading Level: very good
Stephen Fry invites readers to take a glimpse at his life story in the unputdownable More Fool Me. It is a heady tale of the late Eighties and early Nineties, in which Stephen - ever more driven to create, perform and entertain - burned bright and partied hard with a host of famous and infamous friends ...Show more
Something to Believe In by Andrew Stafford
$32.95 AUD
Category: Entertainment | Series: Music | Reading Level: 3 Biography
For Andrew Stafford, music was a way up and a way out. There was just one little problem: he couldn’t play. Because those who can do and those who can’t review, he carved out a niche writing about it instead. This is the story of a self-confessed wannabe’s life: of growing up in public, of family, of ...Show more
Notes from the Velvet Underground - The Life of Lou Reed by Howard Sounes
$39.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment
Lou Reed, who died in 2013, was best known to the general public as the grumpy New Yorker in black who sang 'Walk on the Wild Side'. To his dedicated admirers, however, he was one of the most innovative and intelligent American song writers of modern times, a natural outsider who lived a tumultuous and ...Show more
What's It All About? by Michael Caine
$27.95 AUD
Category: Entertainment
Michael Caine is the best-loved film actor Britain has ever produced. Here, for the first time, he reveals the truth about his childhood, his family and his hard-fought journey from London to Hollywood, bringing to life the lean years and the triumphs with astonishing candour. And with typical charm and ...Show more
Memories of Milligan by Norma Farnes
$35.00 AUD
Category: Entertainment
An arresting collection of interviews, collated by Norma Farnes, Spike Milligan's close friend and longstanding agent, bringing to life the late, great Milligan in all his various guises. Heralded as brilliant and difficult in equal measure, Spike Milligan is one of the most prolific and mould-breaking ...Show more
Family Law by Benjamin Law
$22.95 AUD
Category: Entertainment
Meet the Law family - eccentric, endearing and hard to resist. Your guide: Benjamin, the third of five children and a born humorist. Join him as he tries to answer some puzzling questions: why won't his Chinese dad wear made-in-China underpants? Why was most of his extended family deported in the 1980s? ...Show more
Gandolfini: One of a Kind by Dan Bischoff
$27.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment
An intimate, intelligent portrait of a man destined to be regarded as one of television's most enduring icons. When James Gandolfini died suddenly at the age of 51, there was an outpouring of sympathy and sorrow around the world. As Tony Soprano, Gandolfini was the face of a new golden age of television ...Show more
Curious: True Stories and Loose Connections by Rebecca Front
$29.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment
CURIOUS is a collection of delightfully witty stories by actress, comedy writer and columnist Rebecca Front. Rebecca has always used anecdotes from her own life to inform not only the characters she plays in such series as THE THICK OF IT and NIGHTY NIGHT, but also her frequent observational comment pie ...Show more
Colin Firth - The Biography by Alison Maloney
$34.95 AUD
Category: Entertainment | Reading Level: very good
From the moment Colin Firth took on the role of Mr Darcy in the 1995 BBC adaptation of "Pride and Prejudice", emerging from the lake in 'that scene', he was set on a path from sex symbol to national treasure and Hollywood star. This biography reveals his early life in Nigeria; the secrets of his escape ...Show more