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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 19 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book A Pocketful of Happiness by Richard E. Grant
    A Pocketful of Happiness - by Richard E. Grant

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781398519503 | ISBN 10: 1398519502

    'A gorgeously candid account of acting and show business. And an intimate and heartfelt story of love, loss and a life spent together. It is an honour to be invited in on these diaries. I cannot remember being so moved by a book' Dolly Alderton  ... more

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  • Cover image of book Oh Miriam! Stories from an Extraordinary Life by Miriam Margolyes
    Oh Miriam! Stories from an Extraordinary Life - by Miriam Margolyes

    £25.00   hardback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781399803359 | ISBN 10: 1399803352

    'Oh Miriam! risks the curse of the sequel, and pulls it off... A force of nature, a tour de farce. Bold, brave and bright, but also revealing, shocking and touching. Miriam is an icon, a cocksucker - and the star of her show' ROBERT McCRUM, Independe ... more

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  • Cover image of book What Are You Doing Here? My Autobiography by Floella Benjamin
    What Are You Doing Here? My Autobiography - by Floella Benjamin

    £10.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781529071061 | ISBN 10: 1529071062

    Winner at the 2022 Parlimentary Book Awards   Baroness Floella Benjamin is an inspiration, an actress and much-loved children’s television presenter who is a member of the House of Lords. But how did the girl from Trinidad end up lunching with t ... more

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  • Cover image of book Rising to the Surface by Lenny Henry
    Rising to the Surface - by Lenny Henry

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780571368792 | ISBN 10: 0571368794

    The rise and fall and triumphant rise from the ashes of Lenny Henry during the 80s and 90s.  ‘Moving and ebullient’ Daily Telegraph ‘Relayed with characteristic exuberance and self-deprecation’ Guardian  Rising to the Surface tra ... more

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  • Cover image of book An Actor
    An Actor's Alphabet: An A to Z of Some Stuff I've Learnt and Some Stuff I'm Still Learning - by Julie Hesmondhalgh

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781839041211 | ISBN 10: 1839041218

    In this candid and empowering A to Z of being an actor, Julie Hesmondhalgh draws on her decades of experience on stage and screen – including in massively popular television shows such as Broadchurch, Happy Valley and Coronation Street – to lift ... more

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  • Cover image of book Let
    Let's Do It: The Authorised Biography of Victoria Wood - by Jasper Rees

    £9.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781409184119 | ISBN 10: 1409184110

    'I was born with a warped sense of humour and when I was carried home from being born it was Coronation Day and so I was called Victoria but you are not supposed to know who wrote this anyway it is about time I unleashed my pent-up emotions in a bitt ... more

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  • Cover image of book I Love the Bones of You: My Life, My Family, My Father by Christopher Eccleston
    I Love the Bones of You: My Life, My Family, My Father - by Christopher Eccleston

    £9.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781471176340 | ISBN 10: 1471176347

    Be it as Nicky Hutchinson in Our Friends In The North, Maurice in The A Word, or his reinvention of Doctor Who, one man, in life and death, has accompanied Christopher Eccleston every step of the way – his father Ronnie. In I Love The Bones Of You, ... more

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  • Cover image of book Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death and Jazz Chickens by Eddie Izzard
    Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death and Jazz Chickens - by Eddie Izzard

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781405922012 | ISBN 10: 140592201x

    A memoir of love, death and jazz chickens, Eddie Izzard's fabulous Believe Me is his one and only autobiography...   'I know why I'm doing all this,' I said. 'Everything I do in life is trying to get her back. I think if I do enough things... that ... more

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  • Cover image of book Open the Cage, Murphy! Further Savage Adventures... by Paul O
    Open the Cage, Murphy! Further Savage Adventures... - by Paul O'Grady

    £10.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780552169875 | ISBN 10: 0552169870

    From Britain's most beloved TV star, Open the Cage, Murphy is an action-packed roller-coaster ride through a decade of Paul O'Grady's life, stuffed full to the gunwales with hilarious stories, extreme situations and outrageous one-liners.  A must r ... more

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  • Cover image of book Black Acting Methods: Critical Approaches by Sharrell Luckett and Tia M. Shaffer (Editors)
    Black Acting Methods: Critical Approaches - by Sharrell Luckett and Tia M. Shaffer (Editors)

    £29.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781138907621 | ISBN 10: 1138907626

    Black Acting Methods seeks to offer alternatives to the Euro-American performance styles that many actors find themselves working with.    A wealth of contributions from directors, scholars and actor trainers address afrocentric processes an ... more

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  • Cover image of book Travelling to Work: Diaries 1988-1998 by Michael Palin
    Travelling to Work: Diaries 1988-1998 - by Michael Palin

    £12.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781780225326 | ISBN 10: 1780225326

    The third volume of Michael Palin's celebrated diaries.   Travelling to Work is a roller-coaster ride driven by the Palin hallmarks of curiosity and sense of adventure. Michael was not the BBC's first choice for the travel series Around the World i ... more

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  • Cover image of book What the **** is Normal?! by Francesca Martinez
    What the **** is Normal?! - by Francesca Martinez

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780753555354 | ISBN 10: 0753555352

    What do you do when you're labelled abnormal in a world obsessed with normality? In a world where wrinkles are practically illegal, going bald is cause for mental breakdown, and women over size ten are encouraged to shoot themselves, what the **** do ... more

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  • Cover image of book More Fool Me by Stephen Fry
    More Fool Me - by Stephen Fry

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781405918831 | ISBN 10: 1405918837

    Stephen Fry invites readers to take a glimpse at his life story in the unputdownable More Fool Me.  'Oh dear I am an arse. I expect there'll be what I believe is called an "intervention" soon. I keep picturing it. All my friends bearing dow ... more

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  • Cover image of book Bonkers: My Life in Laughs by Jennifer Saunders
    Bonkers: My Life in Laughs - by Jennifer Saunders

    £9.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780241967263 | ISBN 10: 0241967260

    Bonkers: My Life in Laughs by Jennifer Saunders - the hilarious, touching life story of the iconic comedian and national treasure.   Jennifer Saunders' comic creations have brought joy to millions. From Comic Strip to Comic Relief, from Bolly-swi ... more

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  • Cover image of book Jim Henson: The Biography by Brian Jay Jones
    Jim Henson: The Biography - by Brian Jay Jones

    £14.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780753555149 | ISBN 10: 075355514x

    For the first time ever—a comprehensive biography of one of the twentieth-century’s most innovative creative artists: the incomparable, irreplaceable Jim Henson.   He was a gentle dreamer whose genial bearded visage was recognized around the w ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Happy Hoofer by Celia Imrie
    The Happy Hoofer - by Celia Imrie

    £10.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781444709292 | ISBN 10: 1444709291

    'I've always been wilful...I've always been stubborn and always determined'   One of our best-loved actresses, Celia Imrie would rather have been a dancer. As a child she planned to join the Royal Ballet and marry Rudolf Nureyev. Now she h ... more

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  • Cover image of book Teenage Revolution: How the 80s Made Me by Alan Davies
    Teenage Revolution: How the 80s Made Me - by Alan Davies

    £12.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780141041803 | ISBN 10: 0141041803

    When Alan Davies was growing up he seemed to drive his family mad. 'What are we going to do with you?' they would ask - as if he might know the answer.  Perhaps it was because he came of age in the 1980s. That decade of big hair, greed, camp ... more

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  • Cover image of book At My Mother
    At My Mother's Knee...and Other Low Joints - by Paul O'Grady

    £10.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780553819489 | ISBN 10: 0553819488

    Paul O'Grady is one of Britain's very best loved entertainers. He is known and adored by millions, whether as the creator of the acid-tongued Blonde Bombsite, Lily Savage, or the presenter of the fantastically successful, award-winning Paul O'Grady S ... more

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  • Cover image of book Here We Stand: Politics, Performers and Performance - Paul Robeson, Charlie Chaplin, Isadora Duncan by Colin Chambers
    Here We Stand: Politics, Performers and Performance - Paul Robeson, Charlie Chaplin, Isadora Duncan - by Colin Chambers

    £20.00   hardback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781854599209 | ISBN 10: 1854599208

    Paul Robeson's international achievements as a singer and an actor made him the most celebrated black American of his day (he would have said 'Negro'). But his outspoken criticism of racism in the USA, his unflinching support of African independence, ... more

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