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70671 DIARY OF A CASTLE ADVENTURE


by Nicholas Harris


Josh and Maisie are two adventure- loving kids who discover a mysterious small door at the back of their grandpa’s bookcase. As they squeeze through the doorway, they travel back in time. Read about their amazing escapades as they


help a brave knight and his army capture a castle. Lift the flaps, find maps, charts, booklets, letters and other exciting attractions. An interactive adventure tale with a dramatic colour poster inside. First of all there is a letter addressed to the dear reader for you to open from an actual envelope. There’s even a fabric dragon stuck down onto the page. $14.99 NOW £6


70680 MASTER ENGINEER:


ROCKETS by Paul Back This fabulous book for children of all ages incorporates a kit for building your own five-foot high cardboard rocket. The author covers the history of rockets, starting 2000 years ago with the “Aeolipile”, and


takes us into the present with X-planes, the Scramjet and the X-15. Current rockets are developed by space programmes in only seven countries, though that may change, and the book looks at space development round the world before moving on to space machines, moon rockets, personal rocket power and privately-owned rockets offering space travel to ordinary people. Now get building! 40pp, outstanding graphics and photos, easy-to-understand text, model kit which stands approx. 3ft tall.


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UK MAINLAND ORDERS RECEIVED BY DECEMBER 12TH 2012 WILL BE DESPATCHED IN TIME FOR CHRISTMAS 70090 MAE WEST: It Ain’t


No Sin by Simon Louvish Mae West was not just


unbelievably seductive but also the witty author of a string of box office hits. As a playwright she pretended to dash off her scripts over a few alcohol-fuelled evenings, concealing the reality of the painstaking hard work on the repartee that made her famous. Celebrated for her one- liners, she in fact did not utter on screen the most famous of them all,


“Is that a gun in your pocket...” until her last film Sextette, released in 1976 when she was 83, into which she packed a compendium of legendary witticisms including “It’s not the men in your life, it’s the life in your men”. Her first play, Sex, and second, Drag, dealing with homosexuality, established her status as a breaker of taboos. Charts Mae’s life in meticulous detail but also considers the wider history of music hall and film, including the significance of Mae’s repertoire which included black and ragtime music. Her life, loves, husbands and iconic status are all put under the spotlight. 491pp, b/w photos. Paperback. $17.95 NOW £5


67382 MY WORD IS MY BOND: The Autobiography


by Roger Moore and Gareth Owen Opinion has it that Sir Roger’s autobiography is the funniest film memoir since David Niven’s The Moon’s a Balloon, but it is more than that. This is a warm, winning mix of self-deprecation and praise for family, friends and colleagues, from which he emerges as a figure every bit as dashing, but rather better natured, than any he has played on screen. Think of The Saint and Bond. Here, he recollects his stellar career and the amazing cast of characters he has worked and played with over the years. With a wicked sense of humour. 416 paperback pages, photos. £8.99 NOW £4.50


69017 SOMEBODY: Marlon Brando by Stefan Kanfer


ENTERTAINMENT 71032 ROBERT MITCHUM:


Baby, I Don’t Care by Lee Server


A huge and sleekly written showbiz biography about a bona fide tough guy with soulful eyes and a laconic style. Robert Mitchum was one of Hollywood’s best loved actors, starred in such moody classics as Out of the Past, Night of the Hunter and Cape Fear. But Mitchum was one of the few Hollywood icons whose real-life exploits were yet


more compelling than his on-screen persona. A hobo in the Depression, he fell into movie acting after stints as a boxer, a beach bum and a song writer. Despite early success he was famously busted on a narcotics rap. But even prison could not tame his taste for living on the wild side, and he remained an unrepentant misbehaver until his end. Here is the definitive life of the man who redefined cinematic cool and you are never far from a steamy romance or a drinking binge. ‘His aura of brooding bemusement and simmering violence found a perfect home in the thriving - yet unnamed - genre of shadows and cynicism and ambiguity now called film noir.’ Faber paperback, 722pp with 16 pages of mono photos.


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69818 BUTTERFLY BRAIN by Barry Cryer


Cryer’s big break came in the early 60s when David Frost saw his uproarious stage show written for Danny la Rue, and enquired as to its author. Soon he was a major presence on The Frost Report and a founder member of the long-running radio show I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue. Cryer enjoyed major writing partnerships with Graeme Garden and Graham Chapman but found Johnny Speight and John Cleese difficult to work with. This book is an unrivalled collection of stories from his encounters with Eric and Ernie, Peter Cook, Frankie Howerd, Kenneth Williams, Les Dawson, Humphrey Lyttelton, George Galloway, and some serious actors such as Michael Gambon and Paul Scofield. Colour photos, 199pp. £14.99 NOW £6.50


70692 ASTAIRE AND ROGERS: A Movie Book by Edward Gallafent


Of all the images conveying the richness of the film world of the 1930s, that of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers dancing is one of the happiest. This star couple seemed to exude a sense of ease or accessibility. The first two chapters deal with the nine films made by the couple at RKO between 1933 and 1939. The grace and charm of their dancing in such films as Top Hat and Swing Time are typical of their films. The context and the meaning for the song and dance is provided by dialogue, plotting and crucially the audience’s perception of this striking professional couple. Our book looks in detail how the Astaire-Rogers musicals, which were produced and originally viewed as a series, relate to one another. Their tenth and last film together was The Barkleys of Broadway. We can dance with them in Lucky Partners, Dick and Harry, Roxie Hart, You’ll Never Get Rich, Holiday Inn, You Were Never Lovelier, Ziegfeld Follies, Blue Skies, Lady in the Dark, Easter Parade and many more. 256 very large pages in well illustrated softback.


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Brando the actor and Brando the man were one and the same - complicated, dangerous, vulnerable. For his triumphs in On the Waterfront, The Godfather and The Last Tango in Paris, as well as his disasters in roles he took for money or on a whim, for the power of the portrayals he gave on screen and for his turbulent personal life, here we are given the definitive life of this iconic artist. Kanfer constructs a compassionate view of Brando, his torments and his artistic legacy. Packed with juicy morsels to satisfy film buff readers. 352pp in illus paperback.


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70496 MR S: LAST WORD ON FRANK SINATRA by George


Jacobs and William Stadiem If you really would like to know all the juicy details about Frank Sinatra’s racy showbiz life, then you can do no better than this compilation by an award-winning writer together with the man who worked as Mr S’s valet and confidant from 1953, when Ava Gardner had just left him, until the


end of his short-lived marriage to Mia Farrow in 1968. As his valet, George Jacobs had access to Mr S at his most vulnerable, and the detailed captions under the photos reveal as much as does the spicy text. He had to have all-night female company, from big stars through starlets to hookers. His valet would purchase explosives and fireworks which he would set off in his friends’ shoes, in their toilets, under their beds and wherever they would least expect them. Here is the low-down on Ol’ Blue Eyes and his entourage. 260 paperback pages, photos.


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69025 BAD BOY DRIVE by Robert Sellers Subtitled “The Wild Life and Fast Times of Marlon Brando, Dennis Hopper, Warren Beatty and Jack Nicholson”, this is precisely what you get. They boozed, snorted and shagged their way into Hollywood legend, and along the way changed the craft of film acting and the way movies were made forever. Brando, Nicholson and Beatty all lived on Mulholland Drive, a long and winding road that snakes up one of the prettiest hillsides in Hollywood and, such was the regularity of their professional visits there, the cops nicknamed it Bad Boy Hill. B/w photos and a wealth of wonderful quotes. 322pp.


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69075 KATE: The Woman Who Was Hepburn by William Mann


With the help of her never-before-interviewed family and friends, the author has created an intimate close-up that brings to life the private Katharine Hepburn. Reveals an ambitious yet vulnerable woman who overcame hurt and fierce obstacles to achieve the artistry she desired. All the women she was are cunningly woven into a definitive portrait of a fascinatingly complex personality. 621 pages, archive photos. Paperback. £9.99 NOW £2.75


69478 DAVID LEAN: A Biography by Kevin Brownlow


A massive biography of the director of Dr Zhivago, The Bridge on the River Kwai and Lawrence of Arabia. David Lean found his first great success as a director of the appropriately titled Great Expectations. There followed his legendary black and white films of the 1940s and his four-film movie collaboration with Noël Coward. Lean’s 1955 Summertime took him from England to the world of international movie making and the stunning series of spectacular colour epics that would gain for his work 27 Academy Awards and 56 Academy Award nominations. 16 pages of scenes from his colour films, 32 pages from his b/w movies plus other photos. Outsize softback, 810pp. £25 NOW £9


69528 SO YOU WANNA BE A DIRECTOR? by Ken Annakin


Endorsed by such luminaries as Julie Christie and Robert Wagner, and introduced by Lord Attenborough and Mike Leigh, it tells the personal story of one of the greatest international film directors, following him around the world as Ken Annakin directed, produced and wrote over 50 feature films. These included Around the World in 80 Days, Hotel Sahara and the popular Huggetts films. On


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this compelling journey through his life, he deals with sex-mad producers and drug-addicted actors and copes with studio politics that could scupper multi-million dollar films, all with diplomacy and humour. 285 paperback pages, photos and filmography. £16.99 NOW £3.50


70522 MAN WITH THE


GOLDEN TOUCH by Sinclair McKay


This is the story of how, with the odd mis-step along the way, the owners of the Bond franchise, Eon Productions, have managed to keep James Bond abreast of the times and at the top of the charts for nearly 50 years with 22 films featuring six Bonds, three Ms, two Qs and three Moneypennies. Fleming’s original creation, thanks to


the films, has been transformed from a black sheep of the post-war English upper classes into a figure with universal appeal keeping pace with changing social and political circumstances. Here are many inside stories of the supporting cast of Bond girls, Bond villains, Bond cars and Bond gadgetry. 396pp, colour and b/w photos. Remainder mark. $25.95 NOW £5.50


69530 STRANGE EVENTFUL HISTORY by Michael Holroyd


Subtitled The Dramatic Lives of Ellen Terry, Henry Irving and Their Remarkable Families. The dramatis personae reads like a Who’s Who of the theatre as our protagonists interact with the celebrities of their day, among them George Bernard Shaw and Sarah Bernhardt. The Terry family were strolling players who travelled the theatre circuits and Ellen made her first appearance on stage as soon as she could walk. She was an enchantress with natural beauty yet she is revealed to have had a chequered love life. Henry Irving seemed eminently unsuited to the stage. For a start he had a stammer but, miraculously, when he was on stage, it vanished. Together, they had established an incredibly influential base at the Lyceum Theatre, taking the company on sparkling and lucrative international tours. 620 paperback pages, line drawings, b/w archive photos, colour plates. £10.99 NOW £3.50


69918 MISS SHIRLEY BASSEY by John L Williams


Everyone thinks they know Shirley Bassey the explosive, red-hot singer from Tiger Bay. 17 years old, depressed, disillusioned and four months pregnant, she decided that her dream of being a professional singer was over. Yet, ten years later, she was one of the biggest stars in the world. Her latest hit, Goldfinger, was the theme tune to the year’s blockbuster film. Along the way from the Cardiff docklands, through the clubs of Soho and Las Vegas to New York’s Carnegie Hall she would have to deal with predatory managers, newspaper scandals, a homosexual husband and a range of friends from Sammy Davis Jr to Reggie Kray. 353 paperback pages, photos. £12.99 NOW £5


69920 MOVIE LONDON: Exploring the City Film-By-Film by Tony Reeves


This unique guide is packed with everything the movie- buff traveller needs to know, including movie-themed walks and full-colour features on Hitchcock’s London, The Scary City, Swinging Sixties London, Romantic Comedies, London Gangsters, Literary London and Bond Streets - James Bond, that is. If you want to know how to find the secret entrance to the Ministry of Magic, or Hugh Grant’s famous front door, or James Bond’s office, then this is the book for you. 184 paperback pages lavishly illustrated in colour and b/w, photos, maps, indices of film titles and alternative titles. £9.99 NOW £3


70719 SCENES FROM A REVOLUTION: The Birth of


the New Hollywood by Mark Harris


How clever to take just five films and from them construct a readable social history of a time in


Hollywood, during the 1960s, when America was on the cusp of profound change and these films reflected that revolutionary state. The five films, all of them vying for


Best Picture of 1967, were: Bonnie and Clyde, The Graduate, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, In the Heat of the Night and, surprisingly in that otherwise very serious company, Doctor Dolittle. The five movies had one thing in common. They had all been imagined for the first time many years earlier, in a world that bore little resemblance to the one in which they arrived in 1967. This is the fascinating story of what happened to those movies, to the hopes and ambitions of their creators and to American film-making. 490 paperback pages with b/w archive photos. £8.99 NOW £3


69923 PAST-IT NOTES by Maureen Lipman Life the Lipman way is always unexpected, and the hilarious and witty way in which she recalls her adventures and misadventures have made her a bestselling author. Here is the ultimate collection, drawing on choice material from her eight previous books, revisited and reworked and laced with a heady dose of extremely funny new autobiographical material. She includes a section of recollections of her late husband and of her mother and muse, the irreplaceable Zelma. She moved after 30 years from her house on a hill in North London to a lower ground flat in Paddington Basin, and fell in and out of a troubling and somewhat public love affair. Irrepressibly witty and stylish. B/w photos, 465pp.


£18.99 NOW £5 70069 STAGE DIRECTIONS: Writing on


Theatre 1970-2008 by Michael Frayn The author of comedy Noises Off and the dramas Copenhagen and Democracy, Michael Frayn has written about his plays over the years which form an essential commentary on his life and work. The book covers half a lifetime and a whole range of his theatrical writings to his celebrated translations. They reflect on his path into theatre and gives insight into specific plays. Never pretentious and never impenetrable, this is writing on theatre as it ought to be in an affectionate and generous account of the craft of theatre. 268pp in paperback. £9.99 NOW £3


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Entertainment 9 70452 BRING ON THE


EMPTY HORSES by David Niven


A welcome reprint of this now classic book according to the New York Times as ‘Might easily be the best book ever written about Hollywood’. David Niven was filming The Charge of the Light Brigade for director Michael Curtiz, ‘whose Hungarian-orientated English was a joy to us all’. High on the rostrum he decided the moment had


come to order the arrival on the scene of a hundred riderless chargers. ‘Okay’, he yelled into a megaphone, ‘bring on the empty horses!’ Niven lived, worked and partied in Hollywood in the 1930s and 40s. He knew everyone from producers to gossip columnists and friends included Humphrey Bogart and Errol Flynn. Hollywood was more the City of Sinners than Angels and in this box of delights the truth of the film industry as it was then and its stars and players are tantalisingly revealed. The index alone reads like a who’s who or superb reading list (books made into films). 352pp in paperback with some very funny stories indeed. £8.99 NOW £4


70715 NICE TO SEE IT, TO SEE IT, NICE: The 1970s in Front of the Telly by Brian Viner In his wonderfully warm and witty account of growing up in front of the television in the 1970s, the author pays tribute to an era which happily coincided with his own formative years. Watching the box will never again be the collective experience it was then, when programmes such as The Morecambe and Wise Christmas Show were practically part of the national psyche, attracting many millions of viewers. It was the decade of Fawlty Towers and Porridge, A Bouquet of Barbed Wire and I Claudius, The Sweeney and Starsky and Hutch. These, and many others, as well as such unlikely icons as Olive from On The Buses, are fondly remembered in this hilarious and affectionate memoir. 310 paperback pages. £12.99 NOW £4.50


EROTICA


70944 EROTICA: The Nude in Contemporary Photography


by Andrej Kulakowski A weighty, coffee table tome of exquisite beauty exploring the female form. A great number of the first half of the book are


photographs of slim, naked ladies in outdoor settings - on beaches, in woods, one hanging upside down from a fence, in shallow water, on rooftops and streets and to a series of more athletic poses and leaps before we go indoors draped on couches. They are gorgeous portraits, rather more daring full frontals, girls together (tastefully) and some close up detail where the wet, curvaceous bottoms are especially fascinating. The 59 photographers are from around the world, many German and Eastern European and they expose their work to the finest quality in both colour and black and white. 12" square 600 page luxury tome. New publication. ONLY £29.50


69059 SHOOT YOUR OWN EROTIC PHOTOGRAPHS


by Tom and Wendy Ang


Many would regard this as a jolly good excuse for getting up very close to some very beautiful bodies, but in fact there is a terrific text alongside covering scene setting, solo pictures, couples, digital tricks, equipment, timing, preparing a room, versatile props, shooting film outside, the use of shadow and light and, finally, the technical side of computer software, scanning and resources. 128pp, large softback, colour photos. £12.99 NOW £2


69452 VENUS SCHOOL MISTRESS by Anonymous


Blending flagellation with verse, drama and philosophy, this is a collection of fiction blending humour and grim fun. Includes such varied selections as the romantic recollections of Betsy Thoughtless, the fustigating philosophy of Thacery Paedagogus, a story in verse about the adventures of Miss Agnes Scophomisba Snell, the Butcher’s Daughter and her instructor Mr Mountwhackaway. 159 page Blue Moon paperback facsimile reprint. £4.99 NOW £2.25


Pulp art at its finest A Stanton retrospective


70665 THE ART OF ERIC STANTON: For the Man Who


Knows His Place by Eric Kroll


Eric Stanton (1926-1999) has been called “the Rembrandt of Pulp- Culture”. His imaginative, detailed full-colour comic strip narratives picture buxom, leggy femmes fatales having their way


with tied-up, handcuffed or simply awestruck men. Stanton’s imagery is either an empowerment of female sexuality or a caricature of female-domination fantasy, depending on whom you ask, but there is no doubt that in Stanton’s world, women rule the land. This retrospective volume covers Stanton’s work from the late 1940s until the 1990s, including over 500 comic strips, single illustrations, and magazine covers. Also featured is an in-depth introductory text exploring Stanton’s life and work by photographer Eric Kroll. Text in English, French and German. Softcover, 10" x 13", 352 pages. New Taschen publication. ONLY £25


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