Biography: arts and entertainment

*** Accompanies BBC2's major new TV series and The Story of Music in 50 Pieces on Radio 3 *** In his dynamic tour through 40,000 years of music, from prehistoric instruments to modern-day pop, Howard Goodall leads us through the story of music as it happened, idea by idea, so that each musical innovation harmony, notation, sung theatre, the orchestra, dance music, recording, broadcasting strikes us with its original force.

Through nigh-on forty years of laconic brilliance on Radio 1, a musical taste which defined a culture and his wildly popular Radio 4 show, Home Truths, John Peel reached out to an audience that was as diverse as his record collection.

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERIn A Lotus Grows in the Mud, Goldie Hawn takes us on an inspiring odyssey and, with her trademark effervescent humour, reveals the lessons she's learned and the wisdom she's gained along the way.

Possibly the only drawback about the bestselling How To Be A Woman was that its author, Caitlin Moran, was limited to pretty much one subject: being a woman.

I ve lived through ten iOS upgrades on my Mac and that s just something I use to muck about on Twitter.

He came from Outer Space.

As one of Britain's leading psychic mediums, Colin Fry has helped countless people find peace and inspiration during the darkest and most challenging times of their lives.

'I fight hard and love strong.

Of all the actors and personalities thrown up by that strangest of periods.

Rosemary Ackland began writing her diary in 1945, aged just fifteen.

Meat Loaf's bizarre and spectacular life story is scarcely credible.

Music historian and journalist Tim Riley's biography challenges many popular assumptions about Lennon's life, from his widely misunderstood 'Working Class Hero' origins to his epic romance with Yoko Ono.

When George Klein was thirteen, he couldn't have known how important the new kid in class - the one with the guitar, the boy named Elvis - would become in his life.

Just weeks after completing Enter the Dragon, his first vehicle for a worldwide audience, Bruce Lee - the self-proclaimed world's fittest man - died mysteriously at the age of thirty-two.

John Irving's memoir begins with his account of the distinguished career and medical writings of the novelist's grandfather Dr Frederick C.

David Bellamy is a natural story teller whose memoir will be packed full of funny anecdotes and observations.

The book that made Harry Styles believe he could run a marathon.

During his lifetime, Spencer Tracy was known as Hollywood's 'actor's actor'.

Richard Attenborough and Diana Hawkins have been friends and colleagues for nearly 50 years.

Of all Italian painters, Caravaggio (c.

In this collection of profiles, essays and travel stories, Chatwin takes us to Benin, where he is arrested as a mercenary during a coup; to Boston to meet an LSD guru who believes he is Christ; to India with Indira Ghandi when she attempted a political comeback in 1978; and to Nepal where he reminds us that 'Man's real home is not a house, but the Road, and that life itself is a journey to be walked on foot'

Writer, musicologist, archivist, singer, DJ, filmmaker, record, radio and TV producer, Alan Lomax was a man of many parts.

The Chieftains have become international superstars as well as being an institution in Folk Music.

The life story of Rudolph Walker, an actor whose career on stage and television in the UK spans 42 years.

Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post and The New Yorker Longlisted for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography Eisner Award Nominee for Best Comics-Related Book A definitive and ideal biographypound for pound, one of the sleekest and most judicious Ive ever read.

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'A virtuosic memoir .

'A remarkable story of subterfuge and brainwashing that few Hollywood scriptwriters could have made up' Simon Heffer, author of The Age of DecadenceIn 1967, at the height of the Vietnam War, an exodus begins.

A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for General NonfictionA number one New York Times BestsellerA Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is the moving memoir of a college student who, in the space of five weeks, loses both of his parents to cancer and inherits his eight-year-old brother.

***NOMINATED FOR THE NME BEST BOOK AWARD 2017 *** The first and only OFFICIAL book from ZAYN, for his ultimate fans.

With an introduction by Steve MartinTwo pages into the script and an ache has developed in my gonads - I am both laughing out loud and agonized by the fact that the Withnail part is such a corker that not in a billion bank holidays will they ever seriously consider me.

My father comes into focus for me on a Liars' Club afternoon.

The New York Times number one bestseller from the Saturday Night Live and Parks and Recreation star.

The first instalment of his famed autobiography, Unreliable Memoirs is a hilarious and touching introduction to the life of the author, broadcaster, critic and poet, Clive James.

'The best book I have ever read on men and war in our time' - John Le CarreThe groundbreaking work of journalism which inspired Stanley Kubrick's classic Vietnam War film, Full Metal Jacket.

Jon Ronson's Frank: The True Story that Inspired the Movie is a memoir of funny, sad times and a tribute to outsider artists too wonderfully strange to ever make it in the mainstream.

A vivid account of the love triangle between an American journalist and adventurer, a wealthy expatriate businessman and a Chinese poet in Shanghai in the late 1930s.

For fans of David Sedaris, Tina Fey and Caitlin Moran comes Furiously Happy from Jenny Lawson, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Let's Pretend This Never Happened.

A wonderfully rich and evocative biography of the great war photographer, Robert Capa, whose life was every bit as dramatic as the pictures he took.

Peter Sellers was a genius, whose unique mastery created enduring comic characters.

For ten years after WWII, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis weren't only the most successful show business act in history, they were history.

The first and best Beatles biography, Norman had close working relationships with each of the Fab Four, having interviewed them many times since 1965 and observed first hand the events that led to the split during 1969-70.

Buddy Holly is the best-known yet most elusive and enigmatic of all Rock 'n' Roll legends.

Elizabeth Taylor is known internationally as one of the most beautiful and talented women ever to grace the silver screen.

Greta Garbo's enduring legend derives from her incandescent performances as a woman in love in such classics as Camille, Queen Christina and Grand Hotel.

Paolo Hewitt has known Paul Weller since they were both teenagers in the depths of Woking, through his ascent to fame with The Jam, the halcyon years of The Style Council and for all of his critically acclaimed solo career.

You're about to turn thirty, all your friends are getting engaged and pregnant - and your body-clock is ticking.

When Edward Thomas died at Arras in 1917 few people thought of him as a poet.

This biography draws on a series of unpublished interviews and offers a startling and intitmate portrait of one of the most glamourous icons of the 20th century.

A masterclass in media studies from the creator of Grange Hill, Brookside and Hollyoaks.

Bowen's Court describes the history of one Anglo-Irish family in County Cork from the Cromwellian settlement until 1959, when Elizabeth Bowen was forced to sell the family house she loved.