Individual actors and performers

** Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award **Fanatical about cricket since he was a boy, Miles Jupp would do anything to see his heroes play.

A true great of British comedy, Ronald Ronnie Corbett, is hailed as one of the finest comedians of his generation.

Known for his intelligent and often surreal humour, Paul Merton s weekly appearances on BBC1 s Have I Got News For You as well as Radio 4 s Just A Minute and his travel documentaries have seen him become an artfully rebellious fixture in our lives for over 25 years.

When Fred Dibnah debuted on television in 1979, British audiences immediately embraced a new cultural icon: a steeplejack from Bolton who fell in love with England's decaying industrial landscape and an exhaustive storyteller whose charm and wit was matched only by his down-to-earth manner.

A companion volume to Being an Actor, Callow's classic text about the experience of acting in the theatre, Shooting the Actor reveals the truth about film acting.

'Genius' The New York TimesIn 1973, Norman Mailer published Marilyn, his celebrated in-depth account of the life of Marilyn Monroe, as a glossy, fully illustrated coffee-table tome.

In this first major study of the captivating life of Audrey Hepburn, Ian Woodward uncovers the truly sensational story of one of Hollywood's most enduring legends.

There is and could only ever be one Billy Bob Thornton: actor, musician, Academy Award-winning screenwriter, and accidental Hollywood badass.

In June 1994, Michael Barrymore, television celebrity and gameshow host, checked himself out of an American clinic where he was receiving treatment for alcohol and drug abuse.

For over 25 years, Dale Winton (1955-2018) was one of Britain's most popular stars.

The reigning queen of Albert Square, Laila Morse shares her incredible story for the first time.

This is Bob Monkhouse's classic autobiography.

From Alfred to Zulu, Michael Caine has been Britain's best-loved actor for half a century.

In this revised and updated biography, Maureen Paton encompasses the private, professional and political life of this most enigmatic, charismatic and intensely private of actors.

Hugh Grant is the quintessential English movie star.

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.

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

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.

Firmly established in the world of entertainment, The Cat's route to fame has been through corporate and sporting dinners.

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.

This antiquarian volume contains Upton Sinclair's uniquely insightful and veritably thrilling biography of one of the most important and influential figures in motion picture history - the founder Fox Film Corporation, William Fox.

"e;Acting - The First Six Lessons"e; is a collection of essays by Richard Boleslavsky.

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.

***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.

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.

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 superb account of journalists, soldiers and the experience of modern battle, written by one of the greatest war reporters of our time' - Robert Harris, author of An Officer and a Spy'Gripping and compulsively readable' - Saul David, Sunday TelegraphMax Hastings grew up with romantic dreams of a life amongst warriors.

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.

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.

From his days as a club face alongside Philip Sallon, Marilyn and Steve Strange, through the years of global pop superstardom with Culture Club, his rebirth as a world-class DJ, as a leading light of musical theatre with the award-winning Taboo, a cutting edge photographer and a confrontational and acclaimed fashion designer, one of the many things you can say about George is: he's never stood still.

'They say you can always remember where you where when pivotal moments happen, such as losing your virginity or Elvis dying.

Jane Fonda, no.

The Sunday Times Bestseller.

For as long as he can remember, Ben Fogle has been surrounded by creatures great and small.

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTOBIOGRAPHYSo.

Very amusing Daily MirrorBeloved wit and raconteur, star of stage and screen, multitalented writer, director and humanitarian few stars of the twentieth century were as highly regarded as Sir Peter Ustinov.

Norman Wisdom's early years could easily have come straight from the pages of a Dickens novel.

As a boy, Michael Simkins always wanted to be someone.

At the age of five, Ingrid Pitt found herself in a concentration camp.

In this fascinating autobiography Erics son, Gary Morecambe, describes what it s like to grow up in the presence of one of the best-loved and most fondly remembered of all British comedy greats.

In September 1998, Michael J.

'Looking back, perhaps the single biggest problem was fear.