Entertainment & Performing Arts

A K-pop band like no other, EXO have been dominating charts and stealing hearts since they debuted in 2012. For the first time, this unofficial biography will tell their extraordinary story. Extensively researched, this book weaves in the backstories of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954396732Author Michael FairleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Mifair PublishingPublisher Mifair Publishing

Mike Leigh may well be Britain's greatest living film director; his worldview has permeated our national consciousness. This book gives detailed readings of the nine feature films he has made for the cinema, as well as an overview of his work for...

J.J. Abrams is one of the most successful director-writer-producers working in Hollywood, and now that he is being offered the chance to visit a galaxy far, far away to direct the long-awaited Star Wars sequel, his reputation is set to shoot ever higher...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781951627355Author Woody AllenFormat HardbackPage Count 498Imprint Arcade PublishingPublisher Arcade PublishingWeight(grams) 680gDimensions(mm) 236mm *...

Martini Man goes beyond the simple caricature of the boozy lounge singer with a penchant for racy humor to reveal the substantive man behind that mask. Although Martin's movie roles receive in-depth attention in this incisive biography, as does his...

Oona O'Neil mixed easily among Manhattan's cafe society and was named New America Debutante of the 1941-2 social season. But at 18 she shocked the world by running off and marrying Charlie Chaplin, 36 years her senior. This text reveals Oona's story in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637631645Author Patty SullivanFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Forefront BooksPublisher Forefront BooksWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 152mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061998584Author Ali WentworthFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Harper PaperbacksPublisher Harper PaperbacksWeight(grams) 204g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910256879Author Colin UnwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Spiffing CoversPublisher Spiffing CoversWeight(grams) 168gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

Because screenwriter Robert Riskin spent most of his career collaborating with legendary Hollywood director Frank Capra, Riskin's own unique contributions to film have been largely overshadowed. With five Academy Award nominations to his credit for the...

A moving and inspirational memoir from the beloved maverick carpenter on HGTV's smash hit Fixer Upper that shows how to turn your hobbies and craft into a career and celebrates the power of meaningful work. Now known to the countless fans of Fixer Upper...

This is a moving, star-filled account of one of Hollywood's true golden ages as told by a man in the middle of it all. Walter Mirisch's company has produced some of the most entertaining and enduring classics in film history, including ""West Side...

THIRTYLIFE CRISIS Lisa Schwartz's stories and musings about being an ambitious, newly single, modern day woman in her thirties. It's about watching all her friends adult like pros, while she wonders why she doesn't want or can't seem to find all those...

David Ambrose's fascination with the world of entertainment began aged five sitting under the stairs of an isolated rural cottage, listening to the radio. He realised there was a life out there beyond anything on offer in bleak post-war Lancashire. His...

A marvelous actress, Gloria Grahame (1923-1981) was also an iconic figure of film noir. Her talents are showcased in several classic motion pictures of the 1940s and 1950s, including It's a Wonderful Life, Crossfire, In a Lonely Place, The Greatest...

Cecil B. DeMille was the most successful filmmaker in early Hollywood history. Cecil B. DeMille's Hollywood is a detailed and definitive chronicle of the screen work that changed the course of film history and a fascinating look at how movies were...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590212295Author Wakefield PooleFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Lethe PressPublisher Lethe PressWeight(grams) 426gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 17mm

The internationally acclaimed actress Patricia Neal has been a star on stage, film, and television for nearly sixty years. On Broadway she appeared in such lauded productions as Lillian Hellman's Another Part of the Forest, for which she won the very...

A wickedly funny account of celebrity, Hollywood and everything in between ...now in paperback. What's it like to be a veteran director up against the machinations of modern-day Hollywood, with its self-absorbed stars, studio executives who think...

Sir Alec Guinness was one the greatest actors of the twentieth century. With a talent recognised by discerning critics from his very first appearance on the stage he gained a world-wide reputation playing roles on the screen such Fagin in OLIVER TWIST...

John McEuen is one of the founding members of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, NGDB. Now 50-years strong, the band is best known for its evergreen bestselling album Will the Circle Be Unbroken and for its gorgeous version of the song "Mr. Bojangles." McEuen...

Nat Hiken was the driving force behind the 1950s and 1960s series ""Sgt Bilko"" and ""Car 54, Where Are You?"". This biography of the television pioneer places him in broadcast history, drawing on first-hand interviews with some well-known TV...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781843681786Author Henry Crabb RobinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Pallas AthenePublisher Pallas Athene

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316056878Author Tina FeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Little, Brown & CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm)...

NOMINATED FOR OSCAR, BAFTA AND GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS (BRYAN CRANSTON, BEST ACTOR)Dalton Trumbo was the central figure of the infamous 'Hollywood Ten,' the screenwriters who, during the McCarthy era, were charged by the House Committee on Un-American...

This work covers 840 intentional suicide cases initially reported in Daily Variety (the entertainment industry's trade journal), but also drawing attention from mainstream news media. These cases are taken from the ranks of vaudeville, film, theatre,...

Charles Burnett (b. 1944) is a groundbreaking African American filmmaker and one of this country's finest directors, yet he remains largely unknown. His films, most notably Killer of Sheep (1977) and To Sleep with Anger (1990), are considered classics,...

Often typecast as a menacing figure, Peter Lorre achieved Hollywood fame first as a featured player and later as a character actor, trademarking his screen performances with a delicately strung balance between good and evil. His portrayal of the child...

"Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me. Aren't you?" These famous lines from The Graduate (1967) would forever link Anne Bancroft (1931-2005) to the groundbreaking film and confirm her status as a movie icon. Along with her portrayal of Annie...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943201334Author Steve JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Dark InkPublisher Dark InkWeight(grams) 835gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 279mm * 17mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910151709Author Linda KitchenFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Spiramus PressPublisher Spiramus Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982107598Author Marcus J MooreFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 211mm *...

The inimitable, outrageous Janice Dickinson, America's first supermodel and the bestselling author of "No Lifeguard on Duty" and "Everything About Me Is Fake And I'm Perfect", now serves up her most scintillating kiss and tell-all yet in "Check, Please!"...

The inimitable, outrageous Janice Dickinson, America's first supermodel and the bestselling author of "No Lifeguard on Duty" and "Everything About Me Is Fake And I'm Perfect", now serves up her most scintillating kiss and tell-all yet in "Check, Please!"...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692685532Author Vital GermaineFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint EngagePublisher EngageWeight(grams) 209gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 8mm

Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics is a landmark celebration of the remarkable life and career of a country music and pop culture legend. As told by Dolly Parton in her own inimitable words, explore the songs that have defined her journey...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374534592Author Jack O'BrienFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743267052Author Simon DoonanFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 211mm *...

The distinguished playwright and memoirist recounts the intrusion of congressional and other witch-hunters, Red-baiters, and ideologues into her and Dashiell Hammett's lives in the 1950s and the losses and discomforts suffered.Book InformationISBN...