Biography: Arts & Entertainment

This book outlines the career of one of the most distinguished figures in Irish musical life in the first half of the twentieth century - a Bavaria...

This is a memoir as wry, funny, moving and vivid as its inimitable subject himself. This book will be a joy for both lifelong fans and for a whole ...

The first comprehensive biography of an extraordinary English poet and composer whose life was haunted by fighting in the First World War and, late...

Sun Ra (1914-93) was one of the most wildly prolific and unfailingly eccentric figures in the history of music. Renowned for extravagant performanc...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER These rollicking gabfests bring together nearly everyone who made the series a creative and ...

LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2023 From the author of Apollo's Angels, the first major biography of the figure who modernised dance: an...

Art Pepper was described as the greatest alto-saxophonist of the post-Charlie Parker generation. Straight Life, originally narrated on tape to his ...

'An extraordinary portrait of a son navigating his way through grief and loss in real time. Funny, candid, and measured' GRAHAM NORTONHappily settl...

My favourite moment is when I finish a song, that is the moment I cherish. Rod TempertonThe Invisible Man tells the remarkable story of how Rod Te...

Welcome to the jungle When youve grown up thinking your twenties are all about working hard, playing hard and try...

''A gold mine of gossip with a cast of thousands'' GUARDIANThe unexpurgated diaries of one of the greatest, most talented, and wittily flamboyant c...

Leeds, 1980. Amid the violence and decay, the city was home to an extraordinarily vibrant post-punk scene. Out of that swamp crawled the Sisters of...