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My Old Man
By John Major
Hardback
Published 13-Sep-2012
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Shortlisted for the Theatre Book Prize; 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 hall.
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Groundhog Day
By Ryan Gilbey
Paperback
Published 01-Apr-2004
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It is becoming clearer and clearer that 'Groundhog Day', directed by Harold Ramis, is one of the masterpieces of 1990s Hollywood cinema. Ryan Gilbey begins his account of the film with the long and unlucky gestation of the script by Danny Rubin and celebrates the inspired casting of Bill Murray and Andie MacDowell.
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Vanished Years
By Rupert Everett
Hardback
Published 27-Sep-2012
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Verdi and/or Wagner
By Peter Conrad
Paperback
Published 25-Feb-2013
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Giuseppe Verdi and Richard Wagner, the two greatest operatic composers of their time, had everything and nothing in common. Their achievements were comparable, but their personalities, their approaches to music and drama, and their complex legacies made them incompatible. Verdi thought of art as a comfort to mankind.
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David Mitchell: Back Story
By David Mitchell
Hardback
Published 11-Oct-2012
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David Mitchell, who you may know for his inappropriate anger on every TV panel show except Never Mind the Buzzcocks, his look of permanent discomfort on C4 sex comedy Peep Show, his online commenter-baiting in The Observer or just for wearing a stick-on moustache in That Mitchell and Webb Look, has written a book about his life.
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'Have You Seen...?'
By David Thomson
Paperback
Published 04-Mar-2010
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Looks at a century of cinema. This title is the author's personal, irreverent, hilarious and utterly original take on the 1,000 films he has most loved - and hated - from "Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein" to "Zabriskie Point", from esteemed classics to forgotten curiosities, guilty pleasures to noir treats, horror gems to kitsch disasters.
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Ban This Filth!
By Ben Thompson
Hardback
Published 01-Nov-2012
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In 1964, Mary Whitehouse launched a campaign to fight what she called the 'propaganda of disbelief, doubt and dirt' being poured into homes through the nation's radio and television sets. Whitehouse, senior mistress at a Shropshire secondary school, became unlikely figurehead of a mass movement: the National Viewers' and Listeners' Association.
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Dawn of the Dumb
By Charlie Brooker
Paperback
Published 01-Nov-2007
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Polite, pensive, mature, reserved... Charlie Brooker is none of these things and less. Picking up where "Screen Burn" left off, this work collects the best of Charlie Brooker's TV writing, together with spleen-venting diatribes on a range of non-televisual subjects - tackling topics ranging from David Cameron to human hair.
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Good, the Bad and the Multiplex
By Mark Kermode
Paperback
Published 06-Sep-2012
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If blockbusters make money no matter how bad they are, then why not make a good one for a change? How can 3-D be the future of cinema when it's been giving audiences a headache for over a hundred years? This title is for anyone who has ever sat in an undermanned, overpriced cinema and wondered: How the hell did things get to be this terrible?
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Full Service
By Scotty Bowers
Paperback
Published 01-Feb-2013
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This bestselling book contains the jaw-dropping confessions of the man who fulfilled the secret sexual fantasies of Hollywood's most glittering stars and royalty.
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