Performing arts

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 #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Ridiculously funny and astonishingly candid, Rod Stewart's memoir is the rock autobiography of the decade' DAILY MAIL'One of the most entertaining, revealing, captivating books of the year' INDEPENDENT___________________________________________Rod Stewart was born the working-class son of a Scottish plumber in North London.

War films have existed since the birth of cinema, typically gung-ho tales of macho derring-do.

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

Have you ever been stitched up to the national press by your best mate?

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

It s now ninety years since the BBC made its first broadcast and the British love affair with radio began.

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.

Leaving behind his life in Sunnydale and his relationship with Buffy Sunners, Angel atones for his sins by fighting for humanity in the dark seedy underworld of the superficially glamorous city of L.

From the Slick horror of Alien, Scream and The Ring and the cult classics Dracula, Frankenstein and The Mummy to the slasher icons Jason, Freddy and Leatherface, horror just won t stay dead.

Fatima Whitbread had the worst possible start in life.

Flotsam & Jetsam is the ultimate trivia book for fans of the popular BBC Radio 4 programme Desert Island Discs, and a fascinating introduction for all those who have yet to discover its delights.

In his own words, Charlie Cross is a bloke in love.

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.

'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.

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

Film is a communal dream in which our fears and fantasies are revealed.

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

John Jeremiah Sullivan takes us on a funhouse hall-of-mirrors ride through the other side of America - to the Ozarks for a Christian rock festival; to Florida to meet the straggling refugees of MTV's Real World; to Indiana to investigate the formative years of Michael Jackson and Axl Rose and then to the Gulf Coast in the wake of Katrina - and back again as its residents confront the BP oil spill.

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

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.

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.

From Mark Frost, co-creator of the landmark series, The Secret History of Twin Peaks tells the story that millions of fans spent twenty-five years waiting for .

'You'll laugh, you'll cry, especially if you're in the book like I am' - Steve Martin'An exceptionally vivid and penetrating insight into Hollywood film-making' ObserverThe star-studded, hilarious memoir from Richard E.

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

In Truevine, Virginia, in 1899 everyone the Muse brothers knew was either a former slave, or a child or grandchild of slaves.

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.

A taut, riveting drama from legendary author Cormac McCarthy, The Gardener's Son is a tale of two families in post-Civil War South Carolina: one, owners of the local cotton mill, the other a family of mill workers beset by misfortune.

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.

The touching true story of a young 1920s 'flapper', who dreamed of becoming a chorus girl 'Early that January, there was snow on the ground, and Victoria Carmen took a violent chill.

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 brilliant read.

The finest film critic in Britain at the absolute top of his form' Stephen Fry'Entertainingly incendiary stuff' EmpireA hatchet job isn't just a bad review, it's a total trashing.

Twenty-five years after the original radio series of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy exploded into the public consciousness, the further exploits of its bewildered hero Arthur Dent were finally adapted for radio by Dirk Maggs, in part using drafts written by Douglas Adams before his death.

Life for East End families like Pat's was always a struggle.

From the fierce and funny Clive James, this is Britain in the twenty-first century - from wheelie bins to plastic surgery, and from Britain's Got Talent to contemporary art.

In the late 1860s, as America was recovering from Lincoln's assassination, a man named P.

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.

The Letters of Kenneth Tynan- drama critic, talent snob, intellectual dandy, inveterate campaigner - provide a record of a soul: written between the ages of 11 and 53, they not only chart the extraordinary parabola of his career but show the constancy of his quest for grace, style and effortless wit.

A collection of Frank Skinner's most brilliant, biting, gut-bustingly funny columns for The Times.

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.