Biography: arts and entertainment

A bawdy, brilliant and heartbreaking memoir by the award-winning Malawian-born artist.

In Here We Are Now: The Lasting Impact of Kurt Cobain, Charles R.

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**Her story.

"e;Womack and Kruppa present a thorough history of Harrison and Clapton's songmaking and recording sessions.

A blend of This Is Spinal Tap and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, the cult classic confessions of a debauched rock ’n’ roller and his adventures in excess on the ’80s hair-metal nostalgia tour through Middle America, now in a revised and updated edition.

The “virgin Bachelor” Sean Lowe reveals the challenges of finding love while championing his Christian convictions in the morally complex world of reality TV.

Sergei Tretyakov is one of those artists and intellectuals from the first half of the twentieth century whose name is known, but whose achievements are barely recognized.

'No Slade = No Oasis.

The life of actress Charlotte Charke transports us through the splendors and scandals of eighteenth-century London and its wicked theatrical worldHer father, Colley Cibber, was one of the eighteenth century's great actor/playwrights-the toast of the British aristocracy, a favorite of the king.

From Santa Claus to Buffy the Vampire Slayer, from Uncle Sam to Uncle Tom, here is a compelling, eye-opening, and endlessly entertaining compendium of fictional trendsetters and world-shakers who have helped shape our culture and our lives.

An astonishingly rich, almost encyclopedic biography of the American singer-songwriter, Prince Rogers Nelson.

A Glimpse Behind the Faade of Rich and Famous Womenwild, witty, gossipy, and glamourous.

The definitive biography of musical legend Bessie Smith: “A landmark in the writing of jazz history .

He became famous with Genesis but simply to call Peter Gabriel a pop star would be to sell him very short indeed.

Finding H2OM3 is a story that follows a young boy into adulthood, not knowing what Godhas in store for him.

Just like Memphis for Rock'n'Roll, Dusseldorf is regarded as the Mecca for electronic music.

Bob Marley was a reggae superstar, a musical prophet who brought the sound of the Third World to the entire globe.

A collection of quotations from one of America's most beloved cultural icons.

"e;Not only a rock memoir and recipe book but also a poignant work of personal self-discovery and the challenges yet joys of parenting.

ON THE TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR, IESTYN EDWARDS, BASS BARITONE, BOARDED H.

Here is the complete, no-holds-barred biography of the late, great self-made Essex lad himself!

'Against the white sand, the contours of my father's body were well defined, emphasized its existence in a world where everything was liquid, where the blue of the sea melted into the blue of the sky with nothing between.

Fans of the eccentric and edgy films of the Coen brothers know there's more going on in their films than meets the eye.

Children will be inspired by the struggles and adversities in which Black women have overcome to become important women of our history written in the form of poetry.

Anything Goes traces the life and career of John Barrowman, from his Glaswegian childhood and American adolescence to his first big break starring alongside Elaine Paige in Anything Goes.

Sir Rupert Grayson died in 1991 still looking forward, though in his 94 years he had experienced more incidents than imaginable.

This collection of interviews across the entirety of Fleetwood Mac's career features articles from many celebrated publications as well as interviews that have never previously appear in print.

This most thorough and contemporary examination of the religious features of the UK state and its monarchy argues that the long reign of Elizabeth has led to a widespread lack of awareness of the centuries old religious features of the state that are revealed at the accession and coronation of a new monarch.

From the creator of Godspeed: The Kurt Cobain Graphic and Eminem: In My Skin comes an explosive new graphic novel about the rise and fall of The Sex Pistols.

This most thorough and contemporary examination of the religious features of the UK state and its monarchy argues that the long reign of Elizabeth has led to a widespread lack of awareness of the centuries old religious features of the state that are revealed at the accession and coronation of a new monarch.

Since her win at the Brit Awards in 2012 for Our Version of Events, Emeli Sande has gone from strength to strength.

In celebration of his one-hundredth birthday, a charming, irresistibly readable, and handsomely packaged look back at the life and times of the greatest entertainer in American history, Frank Sinatra.

'I am actually just like you; that is if you are a 42-year-old stocky white bloke with sideburns and a slight limp.

The Sunday Times Bestseller and Winner of the NME Best Book Award 2017 Few groups have had a bigger impact than The Smiths and few musicians are as celebrated as Johnny Marr.

How our dominant Christian worldview shapes everything from personal behavior to public policy (and what to do about it)Over the centuries, Christianity has accomplished much which is deserving of praise.

John Jarratt, cult icon and one of Australia's best-loved screen actors, spent a bucolic boyhood in the lush countryside of Wongawilli, and his youth in the Snowy Mountains, Townsville and Aramac, with sojourns in the tropical splendour of Magnetic Island.