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How to Be an Artist: The New York Times bestseller
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Shakespeare: The instant Sunday Times Bestseller from our most beloved stage and screen actress
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“I wish I had read these rules forty years ago and carried them around like a bible. By chance or design I’ve followed most of them at some point but it took me a lifetime as an artist to find what worked. They are the generous, loving, enthusiastic, bullshit-free advice of a master communicator, just reading them makes me want to charge back into the studio” – Grayson Perry
“Being an artist is a lonely pursuit – twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, for the rest of your life. Most of the time it hurts. This book will help the pain” – Tracey Emin
“Joy is palpable in these pages. We need such thinking right now” – Apollo Magazine
*One of Elizabeth Gilbert’s 2020 Quarantine Book Recommendations*
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As the witty and passionate chief art critic for New York magazine, Jerry Saltz is often approached by artists, both amateur and professional, asking him for advice: How do I get started? How do I get better? Is what I’m doing even art at all? They want to know, in short, how to be an artist.
Now, expanding on his viral cover story for New York magazine – and drawing on his decades of immersion in the art world – Saltz has the answers. How to Be An Artist is an indispensable book of practical inspiration for creative people of all kinds. Brimming with dozens of brand new rules, prompts, exercises, and tips designed to break through creative blocks, ignite motivation, and conquer bad habits, this book is designed to help artists of all kinds – painters, photographers, writers, performers – realize their dreams.
Includes such advice as:
– Make art for now, not the future
– No, you don’t need graduate school
– Recognize convention, and resist constraint
– Get lost
– Listen to the wildest voices in your head
– Know what you hate (it’s probably you)
– Finish the damn thing!
– How to recover from critical injuries
From the Publisher
Publisher : Ilex Press; 1st edition (17 Mar. 2020)
Language : English
Hardcover : 144 pages
ISBN-10 : 178157782X
ISBN-13 : 978-1781577820
Dimensions : 13 x 1.5 x 19 cm
Price:£10.99 - £8.99
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This Christmas discover the greatest writer in the English language as told by actor Dame Judi Dench in SHAKESPEARE The Man Who Pays The Rent :- a witty, insightful journey through the plays and tales of our beloved bard
‘Wonderfully inspiring. A delightful spell in the company of one of our greatest actresses’ Daily Mail, Books of the Year
‘Gloriously entertaining. Reading it feels like a chat with an old friend’ Observer
‘A magical love letter to Shakespeare’ Kenneth Branagh
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For the very first time, Judi Dench opens up about every Shakespearean role she has played in her seven-decade career, from Lady Macbeth and Titania to Ophelia and Cleopatra.
Here, she reveals her behind the scenes secrets; inviting us to share in her triumphs, disasters, and backstage shenanigans, all brightened by her mischievous sense of humour and striking honesty.
This is Judi’s love letter to William Shakespeare – the man who pays the rent.
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Praise for The Man Who Pays the Rent
‘This book is pure enchantment’ Daily Mail
‘This is a gloriously entertaining tour through the canon in the company of perhaps the most experienced living Shakespearean actor’ Observer
‘An utterly delightful book. An unstoppable stream of anecdotes, recollections and asides’ Telegraph
‘Companionable and compelling, mischievous and convivial – it genuinely feels like you’re sitting at her kitchen table with Judi Dench’ Guardian
‘Gorgeous’ Literary Review
‘A wonderful mixture of appreciation and anecdote’ Financial Times, Books of the Year
Instant Sunday Times bestseller, November 2023
From the Publisher
Publisher : Penguin (26 Sept. 2024)
Language : English
Paperback : 400 pages
ISBN-10 : 1405956429
ISBN-13 : 978-1405956420
Dimensions : 12.8 x 2.5 x 19.6 cm
Price:£5.40
(as of Oct 08, 2024 18:08:36 UTC – Details)
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
WINNER OF DYMOCKS BOOK OF THE YEAR
A GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF 2021
A BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICK
WINNER OF THE INWORDS LITERARY AWARD
‘Sheer joy’ Graham Norton
‘Utterly beautiful … filled with hope’ Joanna Cannon, author of Three Things About Elsie
’A gorgeous, generous story of kind hearts and kindred spirits’ Daily Mirror
From the author of When God was a Rabbit and Tin Man, Still Life is a big-hearted story of the families we forge and the friendships that make us.
1944, Italy. As bombs fall around them, two strangers meet in the ruined wine cellar of a Tuscan villa and share an extraordinary evening.
Ulysses Temper is a young British soldier, Evelyn Skinner a 64-year-old art historian living life on her own terms. She has come to salvage paintings from the wreckage of war and relive memories of her youth when her heart was stolen by an Italian maid in a particular room with a view. Ulysses’ chance encounter with Evelyn will transform his life – and all those who love him back home in London – forever.
Uplifting, sweeping and full of unforgettable characters, Still Life is a novel about beauty, love, family and friendship.
‘THE most beautiful book … it will stay with me a long time’ Sara Cox, BBC Two’s Between the Covers
‘Extraordinary . . . my book of the year’ Liz Nugent, author of Our Little Cruelties
‘Moving, wise, poetic and funny’ Daily Mail
‘Winman’s pages teem with boisterous, exuberant life’ Sunday Times
Sunday Times bestseller 09/06/2021
From the Publisher
ASIN : B08N5NZ8PZ
Publisher : Fourth Estate (1 Jun. 2021)
Language : English
File size : 1273 KB
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Enabled
Word Wise : Enabled
Print length : 449 pages
Price:£16.99 - £9.00
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Celebrate the incredible career of pop music’s biggest star in this sparkling biography.
We’re all living in the Taylor Swift Era. Since her 2006 debut album she’s sold more than 200 million records, sold out countless arenas and become one of the most influential artists of her generation. Her Eras tour is on track to gross more than $1 billion by the time it concludes in December 2024, and her most recent studio album hit No. 1 in more than 25 countries.
In this revealing and entertaining biography, author and music journalist Caroline Sullivan charts Taylor’s journey from budding country starlet to pop music phenomenon, encompassing her evolution as an artist, her high-profile relationships and the stories behind her songs. Each of Taylor’s Eras is explored in depth, detailing her influences, her collaborators and the aesthetics that have become such a crucial part of her performance.
Featuring a stunning photographic section with pictures spanning her entire career, this is the most complete portrait yet of one of the most popular artists on the planet.
From the Publisher
Celebrate the incredible career of pop music’s biggest star in this sparkling biography.
We’re all living in the Taylor Swift Era. Since her 2006 debut album she’s sold more than 200 million records, sold out countless arenas and become one of the most influential artists of her generation.
In this revealing and entertaining biography, author and music journalist Caroline Sullivan charts Taylor’s journey from budding country starlet to pop music phenomenon, encompassing her evolution as an artist, her high-profile relationships and the stories behind her songs. Each of Taylor’s Eras is explored in depth, detailing her influences, her collaborators and the aesthetics that have become such a crucial part of her performance. Featuring a stunning photographic section with pictures spanning her entire career, this is the most complete portrait yet of one of the most popular artists on the planet.
Publisher : Michael O’Mara (6 Jun. 2024)
Language : English
Hardcover : 256 pages
ISBN-10 : 1789296862
ISBN-13 : 978-1789296860
Dimensions : 15.3 x 2.35 x 23.4 cm
Price:£12.99 - £10.34
(as of Oct 07, 2024 19:26:21 UTC – Details)
The Sunday Times bestseller
Growing up in Liverpool in the 1960s and ’70s, when skinheads, football violence and fear of just about everything was the natural order of things, a young Will Sergeant found the emerging punk scene provided a shimmer of hope amongst a crumbling city still reeling from the destruction of the Second World War.
From school-day horrors and mud flinging fun to nights at Liverpool’s punk club, Eric’s, Sergeant was fuelled by and thrived on music. It was this devotion that led to the birth of the Bunnymen, to the days when he and Ian McCulloch would muck around with reel-to-reel recordings of song ideas in the back parlour of his parents’ council estate house, and to finding a community – friends, enemies and many in between – with those who would become post-punk royalty from the likes of Dead or Alive, Frankie Goes to Hollywood and the Teardrop Explodes to name a few.
It was an uphill struggle to carve their name in the history of Liverpool music, but Echo and the Bunnymen became iconic, with songs like ‘Lips Like Sugar,’ ‘The Cutter’ and ‘The Killing Moon’. By turns wry, explicit and profound, Bunnyman reveals what it was really like to be part of one of the most important British bands of the 1980s.
Publisher : Constable (27 Jan. 2022)
Language : English
Paperback : 336 pages
ISBN-10 : 1472135016
ISBN-13 : 978-1472135018
Dimensions : 12.6 x 3.2 x 19.6 cm
Price:£0.99
(as of Oct 07, 2024 12:18:49 UTC – Details)
For the first time ever, Melanie C, aka Sporty Spice, tells her amazing life story in her own words and gives a full and honest account of what life was really like in The Spice Girls.
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
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‘What a woman and what a book!’ Elizabeth Day
‘Fabulous … There is so much I really relate to, growing up as a young girl, the 90s, all the stuff you went through.’ Zoe Ball
‘Amazing … Absolutely brilliant.’ Chris Evans
‘Sporty Spice telling it like it is.’ Independent
‘An amazing story … An incredibly profound, vulnerable and honest look into the highs and lows of the Spice Girls.’ Steven Bartlett
‘Really lovely.’ Chris Moyles
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For the first time ever, Melanie C, aka Sporty Spice, tells her amazing life story in her own words and gives a full and honest account of what life was really like in The Spice Girls.
I never told my story before because I wasn’t ready. Now, finally, I am.
25 years ago, The Spice Girls, a girlband that began after answering an advert in the paper, released our first single. ‘Wannabe’ became a hit and from that moment, my life changed for ever.
I was suddenly part of one of the biggest music groups in history, releasing hit after hit, performing to our wonderful fans and spreading the message of Girl Power to the world. It was everything I’d dreamed of growing up, and I’ve had some incredible times… The BRITs! The movie! Travelling the world playing iconic venues like Madison Square Garden, The O2, Wembley Stadium and The London 2012 Olympics!!!
When you’re a woman, though, that power can be easily taken away by those around you, whether by pressure, exhaustion, shaming, bullying or a constant feeling like you aren’t enough. I have been known as Sporty Spice, Mel C, Melanie C or just plain old Melanie Chisholm, but what you will read within the pages of this book is who I truly am, and how I found peace with that after all these years.
I have really enjoyed reminiscing and getting everything down on the page, and, though revisiting some of my darkest times was hard, I hope this book can be inspiring and empowering as well as entertaining and give you a bit of a laugh.
Price:£16.99 - £14.19
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THE BOOKSHOP WOMAN IS A LOVE STORY, A LOVE STORY ABOUT BOOKS…>
‘An irresistible treat for all bibliophiles’ WATERSTONES
Nanako Hanada’s life has hit rock bottom. Separated from her husband, she’s living between 4-hour capsule hostels and pokey internet cafes in Tokyo. Work is going no better as sales at her eccentric bookstore dwindle. Reading is the only thing keeping her alive.
That’s until Nanako downloads an app called Perfect Strangers which offers 30 minutes with someone you’ll never see again. Introducing herself as a sexy bookseller, she recommends strangers ‘the book that will change their life’. In the ensuing year, Nanako meets hundreds of people, some of whom want more than just a book…
THE BOOKSHOP WOMAN offers a glimpse into the quirky side of Tokyo in this story about the beauty of free diving into a book and resurfacing on the last page, ready to breathe a different kind of air…
READERS LOVE IT:
‘This fits the healing fiction genre, but it’s even better’ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
‘A beautiful ode to the power of books’ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
AND BOOKSELLERS LOVE IT TOO:
‘If you like books, you will love this one’ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
‘This was SO GOOD’ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
From the Publisher
Publisher : Brazen; 1st edition (6 Jun. 2024)
Language : English
Hardcover : 224 pages
ISBN-10 : 1914240774
ISBN-13 : 978-1914240775
Dimensions : 13.8 x 2.6 x 21.6 cm
Price:£5.49
(as of Oct 06, 2024 08:46:34 UTC – Details)
‘A big hit of dopamine’ EMILY GIFFIN
*The instant New York Times bestseller!*
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She’s rewriting his love story. But can she rewrite her own?
Emma has big dreams, though she hasn’t let herself think about them in years. Until her big break comes along: the chance to re-write a screenplay with her hero, Charlie-freaking-Yates! Even better: it’s a rom-com – Emma’s dream come true.
Charlie is a Hollywood legend. He’s also, as it turns out, kind of a jerk. He’s written the worst rom-com Emma’s ever read – and it turns out Charlie doesn’t believe in love at all…
But Emma’s not going down without a fight. To help Charlie write the perfect rom-com, she needs to make him understand true romance. But the more she tries to teach him about love, the more real it all starts to seem . . .
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PRAISE FOR THE ROM-COMMERS:
‘Center, the prolific author of many romances understands what it takes to create a winning romantic comedy… A winning romance that deftly balances heft and humour’
KIRKUS
‘Winsome and charming, Center’s latest is that perfect blend of romance and overcoming life challenges that her readers treasure’
BOOKLIST (starred review)
‘a delightful, hilarious love story that fans of Emily Henry will be eager to dive into this summer’
BOOKTRIB
‘Grumpy Boy and Sunshine Girl is one of the best tropes!’
BETCHES
ASIN : B0CNRNTVXL
Publisher : Orion (11 Jun. 2024)
Language : English
File size : 2327 KB
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Not Enabled
Word Wise : Enabled
Print length : 317 pages
Page numbers source ISBN : 1250283809
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