Music, Stage, Screen & TV

Synopsis From one of BBC Radio 4's best-loved programmes. With foreword by Kirsty Young. For 70 years now Desert Island Discs has managed that ra...

Synopsis The official tie-in book to the smash hit Channel Four show, from 2015. Channel 4's Gogglebox is one of the most loved shows on TV. Ever...

Synopsis A History of Jazz in Britain 1919-1950 was the first truly comprehensive survey of this phenomenon from a British perspective. Despite t...

Synopsis Subtitled : The Extraordinary Birth & Troubled Life of The BBC. Charlotte Higgins, the Guardian's chief culture writer, steps behind...

Synopsis Subtitled : The Stories Behind Every Nirvana Song. Spawned in the intensely fertile music scene that blossomed in and around Seattle in ...

Synopsis Authors : Cavan Scott & Mark Wright. "All of time and space. All things that ever happened or ever will. Where do you want to start?...

Synopsis In 2003, an independent film called The Room - starring and written, produced, and directed by a mysteriously wealthy social misfit name...

Synopsis The New York Times Number 1 Best Seller. This last book from beloved Hollywood icon Carrie Fisher is the crown jewel of ideal Star Wars gi...

Synopsis This book tells the story of the revolution in music that is Chicago Blues. If one man can be credited with creating the language of rock ...

Synopsis 31 Songs is best-selling author Nicky Hornby's ultimate desert island disks. Through thirty-one songs that he either loves or has loved, N...

Synopsis Subtitled : My Life With The Greatest Rock Band of The 20th Century. Imagine being alongside one of the greatest bands in the history of r...

Synopsis From Cowcaddens to the Colosseum, from Hope Street to Hollywood, for entertainment, drama, pantomime, music and song, this is the fascinat...

Synopsis Subtitled : Opera History As It Ought To Be Taught. David. W. Barber has delighted readers all around the world with the quirky definition...

Synopsis Subtitled : Memories of Scottish Variety Theatre Edited by : Frank Bruce, Archie Foley & George Gillespie Forward by Sir Alistair Dunn...

Synopsis The first and only companion guide available to Emmy and Golden Globe award winning TV drama Breaking Bad. "I am not in danger . . . I am ...

Synopsis Discover the places where iconic songs were written, groups were formed, music legends were born and extraordinary talent is celebrated. ...

Synopsis Queen are unique among the great rock bands. It is a long time since frontman Freddie Mercury’s death brought the band to an end - yet the...

Synopsis Complete Lyrics & Chords of over 70 Rock Classics. Over 70 timeless rock classics in a pocket-sized collection that will fit easily in...

Synopsis In It's Only a Movie, the incomparable Mark Kermode showed us the weird world of a film critic's life lived in widescreen. Now, in The Goo...

Synopsis Soon after creating the experimental pop group, Pink Floyd, in 1966, Syd Barrett took to using hallucinogenic drugs, which led to schizoph...

Synopsis A chronological list of events in The Who's career. The introduction describes it like this: "Virtually every word in this book was spoken...

Synopsis Blood Simple, Barton Fink, Raising Arizona, Miller's Crossing, Fargo, Hudsucker Proxy, and The Big Lebowski - moviegoers either love the C...

Synopsis A busker is a wee guy (or woman) who plays on the streets for tips. In bands, to busk, means to bluff your way through a song that you hav...

Synopsis The Stones - their story - the band's meteoric rise to fame, the Marianne Faithfull, Brian Jones and Altamont scandals, the groundbreaking...