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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.

    —-

    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


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    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


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    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

    Original price was: £ 1.699,00.Current price is: £ 900,00.


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    (as of Oct 08, 2024 09:40:20 UTC – Details)


    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.


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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.

    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.

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    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

    Original price was: £ 1.299,00.Current price is: £ 1.034,00.

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    (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.

    Original price was: £ 1.699,00.Current price is: £ 1.419,00.


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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:
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    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’
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    ‘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’
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    ‘Grumpy Boy and Sunshine Girl is one of the best tropes!’
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    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

    Price: £9.99 - £9.19
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    THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER ‘A wonderful book, a wonderful read’ Karen Joy Fowler, bestselling author of The Jane Austen Book Club Only a few months after the end of the Second World War, a new battle is beginning in the little village of Chawton. Once the final home of Jane Austen, the Chawton estate is dwindling, and the last piece of Austen’s heritage is at risk of being sold to the highest bidder… Drawn together by their love of her novels, eight very different people – from a local farmer to a glamorous film star – must unite to attempt something remarkable. As new friendships form, and the griefs of the past begin to fade, they rally together to create the Jane Austen Society, and to save the beloved novelist’s home and legacy. But can her words change all their lives in return? A heartbreaking and uplifting novel of hope, loss and love. Perfect for fans of Miss Austen by Gill Hornby and The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Annie Barrows and Mary Ann Shaffer ‘A charming and memorable debut, which reminds us of the power of books to unite and heal’ Pam Jenoff, New York Times bestselling author of The Lost Girls of Paris

    Publisher ‏ : ‎ Orion (21 Jan. 2021)
    Language ‏ : ‎ English
    Paperback ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
    ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1409194124
    ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1409194125
    Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.8 x 2.4 x 19.6 cm

    Customers say

    Customers find the book fabulous, well-written, and a real page-turner. They describe the story as lovely, gentle, and subtle. Readers also love all the characters and their stories.

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    (as of Oct 03, 2024 20:33:24 UTC – Details)


    Brought to you by Penguin.

    Discover the work of the greatest writer in the English language as you’ve never encountered it before by pre-ordering internationally renowned actor Dame Judi Dench’s SHAKESPEARE: The Man Who Pays The Rent – a witty, insightful journey through the plays and tales of our beloved Shakespeare

    Read by Barbara Flynn (Open All Hours, The Durrels) and the book’s co-author Brendan O’Hea. Also featuring a warm and witty exclusive bonus conversation between Dame Judi Dench and Brendan O’Hea about the making of the book.

    Taking a curtain call with a live snake in her wig…

    Cavorting naked through the Warwickshire countryside painted green…

    Acting opposite a child with a pumpkin on his head…

    These are just a few of the things Dame Judi Dench has done in the name of Shakespeare.

    For the very first time, Judi opens up about every Shakespearean role she has played throughout her seven-decade career, from Lady Macbeth and Titania to Ophelia and Cleopatra. In a series of intimate conversations with actor & director Brendan O’Hea, she guides us through Shakespeare’s plays with incisive clarity, revealing the secrets of her rehearsal process and inviting us to share in her triumphs, disasters, and backstage shenanigans.

    Interspersed with vignettes on audiences, critics, company spirit and rehearsal room etiquette, she serves up priceless revelations on everything from the craft of speaking in verse to her personal interpretations of some of Shakespeare’s most famous scenes, all brightened by her mischievous sense of humour, striking level of honesty and a peppering of hilarious anecdotes, many of which have remained under lock and key until now.

    Instructive and witty, provocative and inspiring, this is ultimately Judi’s love letter to Shakespeare, or rather, The Man Who Pays The Rent.

    Customers say

    Customers find the book a joy to read, entertaining, and a delight from start to finish. They describe the book as educational, fascinating, and spellbinding. Readers appreciate the sense of humor and mischief. They mention it’s good for prospective actors and a wonderful insight into acting Shakespeare.

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