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The Hilarious Number One Sunday Times Bestseller! In his first book David Jason told us about himself from his early years training as an electrician through to making it as one of Britain's greatest actors. This autumn, in a follow up autobiography, he tells us about the many other lives he has lived - his characters. From Del Boy to Granville, Pop Larkin to Frost, he takes us behind the scenes and under the skins of some of the best loved acts of...
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John Blake
Pub. Date
2010
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Energetic and charismatic, David achieved international acclaim for his riveting portrayal of the tenth Time Lord in the cult sci-fi television series at the same of building himself a reputation as a respected classical actor. This biography traces the events that helped shape David?s career and transform him into both a hugely influential artist and, for a time, the coolest man on television. It provides details about his relationships with an impressive...
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The History Press
Pub. Date
2013
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But off screen he was troubled and addicted to every pleasure life could offer. Coming from a repressed Irish Catholic background, he was forced by a teenage illness to abandon his beloved rugby, but not his macho appetites. Discovering theatre saved him. He had found his calling. Despite marrying the daughter of a peer, he ever tried to fit in. He was always a hell-raiser to the core, along with legendary buddies Richard Burton and Peter O'Toole....
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2022
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Alan Rickman remains one of the most beloved actors of all time across almost every genre, from his breakout role as Die Hard?s villainous Hans Gruber to his heart-wrenching run as Professor Severus Snape, and beyond. His air of dignity, his sonorous voice and the knowing wit he brought to each role continue to captivate new audiences today. But Rickman?s artistry wasn?t confined to just his performances. Rickman?s writing details the extraordinary...
5) Brave
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HQ
Pub. Date
2018
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"BRAVE is the story of how I fought my way out of these cults and reclaimed my life. I want to help you do the same." -Rose McGowanA revealing memoir and empowering manifesto - A voice for generationsRose McGowan was born in one cult and came of age in another, more visible cult: Hollywood.In a strange world where she was continually on display, stardom soon became a personal nightmare of constant exposure and sexualization. Rose escaped into the...
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2021
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Joan Collins has been a diarist from the age of 12, writing enthusiastically over the years. She dictated most of these entries in real time into a mini-tape recorder at the end of the day, and now she is spilling the beans - well, nearly all of them. What you will discover was written when Joan ?felt like it? between 1989 and 2009. Whether it is an encounter with a superstar or a member of the Royal Family, or her keen and honest insights into other...
7) All over you
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Secret Lives of Daytime Divas volume 2
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Mills & Boon Blaze
Pub. Date
2009
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Sometimes reality is better than fantasy!Millions of women drool over soap star Mac Harrison. And scriptwriter Grace is no different - this blue-eyed Adonis headlines all her wildest fantasies. But Grace knows nothing can happen. Besides, she has no room in her life for an ego-driven man.Then she and Mac are thrown together on a project and fantasy becomes blissful reality! All of Grace?s secret, naughty desires come to life under Mac?s sizzling attentions....
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Valentine Valley volume 1
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Open Road Media Romance
Pub. Date
2012
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A horror-movie-obsessed killer stalks a soap-opera starlet Anything can happen on Valentine Valley. People recover from amnesia, awake from comas, and rise from the dead-all to the delight of the daytime soap?s millions of fans. But while Valentine Valley may be glamorous onscreen, behind the camera the soap?s grueling production schedule punishes actors, directors, and writers in the name of ratings. Soap star Jennifer Connolly is near her breaking...
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Charles Paris volume 4
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Severn House Digital
Pub. Date
2011
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?Dear Old Shakespeare!? Charles Paris can hardly wait. He?s already endured the amateur theatre company?s production of ?Dear Old Chekhov?. God only knows what this self-centred group will do to the Bard. But before Charles can escape to the nearest bar, the company?s young and beautiful leading lady turns up dead, Charles?s friend Hugo is charged with the crime, and Charles?s interest is very much revived.
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The biography of Matt Smith, an aspiring youth footballer before a back injury in 2003 forced him to reconsider. He left his hometown of Northampton to study drama and creative writing. Graduating after 3 years he turned professional and starred in various roles before replacing David Tennant as Doctor Who.
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2011
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At the age of three she was singing, acting and directing plays for family and friends. 'I want to be a household name, like Fairy Liquid,' she told them. Ever the joker, for once Amanda wasn't kidding.From a bit-part in EastEnders she went on to star in hit TV series Cutting It and Wild At Heart and took the lead role in West End musical Thoroughly Modern Millie before Simon Cowell made her a judge in Britain's Got Talent.In this first ever biography...
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Michael O'Mara
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From the moment Colin Firth took on the role of Mr Darcy in the 1995 BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, emerging from the lake in 'that scene', he was set on a path from sex symbol to national treasure and Hollywood star. With roles ranging from Hugh Grant's love rival in Bridget Jones to an Oscar-nominated turn as a gay university professor in A Single Man, Firth's skills as a versatile actor have known no bounds. Yet, it was his recent portrayal...
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Fourth Estate
Pub. Date
2014
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Lena Dunham is many, many things. Creator, actor, producer and writer of the award-winning cult television show Girls, the first thing you have to know about Lena is that she's unafraid to say exactly what she thinks. She's also provocative, very funny, original, dead-pan, disturbing, neurotic, simultaneously deep and shallow, and often way, way out there. This book is a collection of her experiences, stories that have, as she describes them, "little...
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John Blake
Pub. Date
2015
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Benedict Cumberbatch has played detective and monster, barrister and scientist, politician and painter, comic and spy. Still only in his thirties, and with a string of starring and supporting roles, he has portrayed contemporary icons, historical figures, and fictional favorites, from Stephen Hawking, to William Pitt the Younger, to Frankenstein. But inevitably, he is still best known for his idiosyncratic and boldly 21st century incarnation of Sherlock...
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Hello there. Welcome to my autobiography. Throughout this audiobook I talk about my life and work, including Little Britain, Come Fly with Me, Bridesmaids, Les Miserables, Alice in Wonderland and, of course, Shooting Stars. The thing is, this is a bit different to most memoirs you may have listened to, because it comes in the form of an A-Z. For instance, B is for Baldy! Which is what people used to shout at me in the playground (not much fun). G...
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2013
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Robert De Niro is the pre-eminent Hollywood character performer of our time: film portraits like the young Don Vito Corleone in THE GODFATHER II, Jake La Motta in RAGING BULL and Travis Bickle in TAXI DRIVER are some of the most vivid ever put on celluloid. De Niro cannot be cast to type, prefers to work for old friends like Martin Scorsese, and (apart from FRANKENSTEIN) has never played anything but 20th-century roles. John Baxter calls him ?the...
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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, Eccleston unveils a vivid portrait of a relationship that has shaped his entire career trajectory, mirroring and defining his own highs and lows, from stage and screen triumph to breakdown, anorexia and...
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2015
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This novel tells the story of Peter and Zina Marchand. It joins them when they have been married some ten years and he is at the height of his career, a film star who is a household name on both sides of the Atlantic. At the time of their marriage, Zina had already started up the ladder of success as a solo violinist, but she gave up her career whe
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Viv and Charlie Mystery volume 1
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Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
2016
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Bright lights. Big city. Brutal murder. Chicago, 1938. Late one night before the ten o'clock show, the body of a prominent radio actress is found in the station's lounge. All the evidence points to murder-and one young, up-and-coming radio actress, Vivian Witchell, as the next victim. But Vivian isn't the type to leave her fate in the hands of others-she's used to stealing the show. Alongside charming private detective Charlie Haverman, Vivian is...
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