Performing arts

'Can you smell what The Rock is cooking?

Written with all the ingenuity and twisty tautness of a thriller The TimesFrom the Booker-winning Irish author, a brilliant and moving novel about fame, sexual power, and a daughter s search to understand her mother s hidden truths.

Mans here to help you help yourself.

'Fire Cannot Kill a Dragon has it all.

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Rivals, now a major series on Disney+'No one else can make me laugh and cry quite like Jilly Cooper.

Where can the human animal seek its energy in this era of lockdowns and social distancing?

Black Mirror is hands down the most relevant program of our time, if for no other reason than how often it can make you wonder if we re all living in an episode of it.

The most iconic concert hall in the world celebrates 150 years with a stunning review of history's finest performances and performers.

How do you reply to your colleague's weird email?

'Groundbreaking.

'With spot-on injections of humour and a frequently raised sardonic eyebrow, joy and warmth shine from this fascinating and funny book' Jo BrandA joyful celebration of amateur theatreFrom the Mystery Plays of the Middle Ages, via the Georgian aristocrats who built opulent private theatres in their own homes, to the radical lefties taking political theatre to the streets, this is the story of amateur dramatics in Britain.

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWelcome to Hawkins, Indiana.

Live life with a little more sparkle.

'The life-affirming expression of an artist engaged in living to the full' The Times Smiling in Slow Motion is Derek Jarman's last journal, stretching from May 1991 until a fortnight before his death in February 1994.

Derek Jarman was one of our most celebrated artists- painter, poet, film-maker - and the author of many books, including the bestsellers Modern Nature and At Your Own Risk.

Read this meditative and inspiring diary of Derek Jarman's famous garden at Dungeness, which is also a powerful account of his life as an HIV positive man in the 1980s.

Infuse a drop of magick into your everyday life.

'Brilliantly written.

The Time Lords are an immensely civilised, and immensely powerful, race.

Be inspired this New Year by a young woman's journey through life, love and lyricsWhen I feel like I'm going mad, I write.

With season 2 now released, don't miss out on getting the perfect gift for any Stranger Things fan in your life.

**As seen in the upcoming Sony Pictures film Ghostbusters**Years before they made headlines with the Ghostbusters, Erin Gilbert and Abby L.

'A beautiful and clever book about being human' Russell BrandCOMEDY.

Stuart Heritage got where he is today by being decent, thoughtful, hardworking and kind.

Few could explain, let alone seek out, a career in criticism.

In One-Man Band, the third volume in his epic survey of Orson Welles life and work, Simon Callow again probes in comprehensive and penetrating detail into one of the most complex artists of the twentieth century, looking closely at the triumphs and failures of an ambitious one-man assault on one medium after another theatre, radio, film, television, even, at one point, ballet in each of which his radical and original approach opened up new directions and hitherto unglimpsed possibilities.

The Sunday Times BestsellerThis is the inside story of twelve years at the helm of Britain s greatest theatre.

The gripping life story of the great war correspondent Marie Colvin told by one of her closest friendsSHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARDWINNER OF THE JAMES TAIT BLACK AWARD Marie Colvin was glamorous, hard-drinking, braver than the boys, with a troubled and rackety personal life.

'Smart and funny .

THE PERFECT BOOK FOR FESTIVAL-GOERSWellies?

With his easy charm, down-to-earth personality and natural good looks, it's no wonder that Peter Andre has legions of fans across the globe.

It is said that fact is sometimes stranger than fiction, and nowhere is that more true than in the case of black holes.

*The Sunday Times Number One Bestseller*Well hark at you, stumbling upon my autobiography.

Bargain Hunt is a British institution, entertaining audiences for over 20 years, and encouraging us to look for diamonds in the rough at antique fairs and shops across the country.

Who played the best pranks on his fellow team-mates?

Football isn't life or death - it's much more serious than that.

** The No.

Vital stories for hungry minds.

Do you know which Cluedo character was killed off in 2016?

Jude Angelini s tales of depravity are uncompromising, brutally honest and shocking.

A funny and brutally honest book about what it means to be a woman and what it takes to be a creator, She Wants It is deeply personal but always universal in its unapologetic recounting of a life lived and raw talent shared.

Leave it all on the floor.

Don't dance for the audience.

We should leave.

The rhythmic lullaby of North Utsire, South Utsire has been lulling the nation s insomniacs to sleep for over 90 years.

23 November 1963: The first ever episode of Doctor Who An Unearthly Child is broadcast.

From Grange Hill to Top of the Pops, Reggie Yates has been on camera nearly all of his life, but it s as a documentary filmmaker and a pretty fearless one at that where he has truly been making his mark, investigating everything from gun crime in Chicago, to life as a refugee in Iraq.

From distant galaxies in the far-flung future, to ancient history on the planet Earth, Doctor Who is unique for the breadth of possibilities that it can offer a designer.

A lavish and definitive view of the oceanic world - accompanying the landmark 7-part BBC series narrated by Sir David Attenborough.

RuPaul's Drag Race UK returns to our screens with a stellar cast of incredible Queens ready to slay the runway.