Biography: Arts & Entertainment

This is the fascinating story of Mary Maguire, a 1930s Australian ingenue who sailed for Hollywood and a fabulous life, only to have her career cut...

Elvis Presley: Caught in a Trap is one of the most comprehensive accounts of Elvis Presley and his career. With unique material and exclusive inter...

A tell-all biography of the epic in-fighting of the Grateful Dead in the years following band leader Jerry Garcia's death in 1995The Grateful Dead ...

Known to many as GODinski, Michael Gudinski is unquestionably the most powerful and influential figure in the Australian rock'n'roll music business...

Leo Black, a pupil of Rubbra in the 1950s, presents a full-scale study of his symphonies (the first for twenty years). A biographical sketch throw...

On the tenth anniversary of his death, The Dirty Version is the first biography of hip hop superstar and founding member of the Wu-Tang Clan, Ol' D...

Johnny O'Keefe was a human dynamo, a rock 'n' roll powerhouse whose influence still looms large on the Australia musical landscape. He was brillian...

Born into a civil service family in India in 1907, Helen Muspratt was a lifelong communist, a member of the Cambridge intellectual milieu of the 19...

Few American artists are as important, beloved and endlessly examined as Bob Dylan, yet he remains something of an enigma. This kaleidoscopic biogr...

Gripping narrative nonfiction that tells the dramatic story of a remarkable young Texan pianist, Van Cliburn, who played his way through the wall o...

For nearly two decades Alan Trammell displayed an all-around game as a fielder, hitter, and base runner that was rare for shortstops of his era....

This is the first book-length study of the career and life of Ann Savage, whose performance in Detour earned her a place in Time Magazine ''s li...

Since launching his career at the Village Voice in the early 1980s Greg Tate has been one of the premiere critical voices on contemporary Black mus...

Robert Rauschenberg (19252008) was a breaker of boundaries and a consummate collaborator. He used silk-screen prints to reflect on American promise...

Inventing Edward Lear is an exceptional, valuable, original study, presenting new materials on aspects of Lears life and work.Jenny Uglow, author o...

The world has a way of defining you if you dont know who you are before you get out there. Candace Cameron BureAs a woman in todays world, you know...

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As heard on BBC 6 Music with Shaun Keveny, BBC Radio 5 Live and Talk Radio with Eamonn HolmesThe age of the rock star, like the age of the cowboy, ...

BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK 18-22nd FEBRUARY 2019Marking the 50-year anniversary of the legendary banned song Je t'aime. moi non plus, Véronique M...

John Sigismond Cousser, as performer and composer, was a pioneering figure in the musical history of the European Baroque era. John Sigismond Cous...

In Rewrite Man, Alison Macor tells an engrossing story about the challenges faced by a top screenwriter at the crossroads of mixed and conflicting ...