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72036 CITY OF DARK HEARTS by James Conan


It is 1893 and Anna Zemeckis, a young New Yorker, goes missing in America’s most dangerous city, Chicago. Home to the World’s Fair, Chicago is a city of glitz and razzmatazz, intoxicated by its own wealth, but beneath the sophisticated façade lies a sinister underworld of pornography, prostitution and violence. It’s a lethal place for the weak or vulnerable, and Anna isn’t the first young woman to disappear without trace. Emily Strauss, an inexperienced but ambitious reporter from the New York World, is given a treacherous assignment - to find out what happened to Anna and to the other missing women. 572pp, paperback. £6.99 NOW £3


73015 PAPILLON by Henri Charrière An immediate sensation upon its publication in 1969, Papillon is one of the greatest true tales of courage, resilience and an unbreakable will. This edition includes a new exclusive essay by Howard Marks. Condemned for a murder he did not commit, Henri Charrière, known as Papillon, was sent to the penal colony of French Guiana. 42 days after his arrival,


he made his first break, travelling a thousand gruelling miles in an open boat. Recaptured, his spirit remained untamed - in 13 years he made nine amazingly daring escapes, including one from the notorious Devil’s Island. 560pp in chunky paperback. £9.99 NOW £4.50


72378 PRAGUE FATALE: A Bertie Gunther Thriller by Philip Kerr


Featuring the wartime German Kripopolitzei (Criminal Police) detective Bernie Gunther treading the fine and deadly line between doing his job and not upsetting the increasingly paranoid and deranged Nazi leadership. It is September 1941 and, returning to his hometown of Berlin from the horrors of the Eastern Front, he finds that things have changed decidedly for the worse, with blackouts, RAF bombing, rationing and terrorism making his already difficult job even harder. But no sooner is he settled than he is obliged to travel to Prague to stay for the weekend at the country house of his old boss Reinhard Heydrich of the Sicherhietsdienst (SD), the chief intelligence-gathering organisation of the SS. Then a body is found inside a room that was locked from the inside. 439pp. £17.99 NOW £4


72054 LOSS by Tony Black


Michael Dury is found dead with a bullet hole beneath his heart. His brother Gus is a washed-up hack who has been living on a knife-edge, but he has turned the most unexpected corner and is off the Edinburgh streets and back with his wife Debs. He has promised her he won’t get involved in any more dodgy cases which the police can’t or won’t solve and above all he is off the drink. He hasn’t so much as loosened the cap on the half bottle of scotch he carries everywhere, but with Michael’s death, Gus’s life beings to unravel all over again. How can he keep those promises and still avenge his brother’s murder? Strong language. 277pp, paperback. £7.99 NOW £2.25


72950 STOLEN: Sunday


Times Bestsellers by Tess Gerritsen


The sinking of a cargo ship and the slaughter of its crew seemed a senseless act of violence, but Clea Rice knows the truth and is determined to expose the culprits. When Jordan Tavistock is asked to steal the indiscreet letters of a friend, he reluctantly obliges only to be caught red-handed by another burglar. That burglar is Clea, looking for something else


entirely. Only together can they find the answers to the sinister questions surrounding the sinking of the ship, answers that some are prepared to kill for to keep buried. 330pp in paperback. £6.99 NOW £3.50


72949 IN THEIR FOOTSTEPS: Sunday Times Bestsellers by Tess Gerritsen


The quiet scandal surrounding her parents’ deaths 20 years ago has always haunted Beryl Tavistock and now she has decided that the only way to exorcise the ghosts of the past is to search for the truth, but answers are proving that old secrets die hard. Caught in a game of cat-and-mouse, her quest takes her from the rain-slick streets of Paris to the sun-drenched isles of Greece. As she gets pulled into a world of international espionage, Beryl quickly discovers that she needs help. 329pp in paperback. £6.99 NOW £3.50


72956 NEVER SAY DIE: Sunday Times Bestsellers by Tess Gerritsen


20 years after her father’s plane crashed in the jungles of Southeast Asia, Willy Jane Maitland was finally tracking his last moves. Without knowing who to trust, Willy turns to ex- army officer turned mercenary Guy Barbard who knows the jungles like the back of his hand. As deadly assailants chase them,


Willy and Guy realise they are investigating secrets that people will kill to protect. 277pp in paperback. £6.99 NOW £3.50


73490 TESS GERRITSEN: Set of Three by Tess Gerritsen


Buy all three paperbacks and save more. £20.97 NOW £9


72665 RETURN OF CAPTAIN JOHN EMMETT: A Mystery by Elizabeth Speller


Post-World War I England in the 1920s is still devastated by violence and loss. In the aftermath of a devastating family tragedy, Laurence has turned his back on the world, but then an old love of his asks for his help. Her brother has apparently killed himself while in the care of a remote veterans’ hospital, but she does not believe that he would do such a thing. With the help of his friend Charles, who has learnt all his detecting skills from mystery novels, Laurence begins asking awkward questions. What connects a group of war poets, a bitter feud in the dead man’s former regiment and a hidden love affair? Was the death a missing piece in a puzzling series of murders? 442 pages. $26 NOW £5


72945 MIDNIGHT CLUB by James Patterson John Stefanovitch is a tough New York cop. Nobody knows the underbelly of the city like him. He is out to nab the most treacherous and powerful member of the Midnight Club, a secret international society whose membership is limited to an élite group of ruthless crime czars, all of whom are ‘respectable’ businessmen. Stef’s the ideal man for the job, until he’s levelled by a blast from a shotgun and left for dead. Now he is back, wheelchair-bound, yet sworn to destroy his enemy with the help of a beautiful journalist and a Harlem cop. 293pp in paperback. £7.99 NOW £3.50


ENTERTAINMENT 73650 GROUCHO AND ME:


The Autobiography by Groucho Marx The “me” of the title is that comparatively unknown Marx called Julius Henry Marx - Groucho and Julius are one, but not the same. Julius is a writer from way back. When the New Yorker was just six months old in 1925 it commissioned four articles from one Julius H. Marx; when they asked the author for three more in 1929 they were signed Groucho Marx - Groucho had


finally come out from behind his real name. In this autobiography, first published in 1959 and here in 2008 paperback reprint, he hits the ground running in inimitable style “...if you write about yourself, the slightest deviation makes you realise instantly that you are just a dirty liar.” What is so amazing about this book is that he tells it at the machine-gun rate of quips, bon mots and wisecracks that characterised his films and stage shows, and the reader is left quite breathless by the speed and rib-cracking hilarity of his delivery. Here is his rags to riches story, from being the middle of five sons born to a Yorkville, New York tailor to a career that took in writing, vaudeville, game shows and conquering Hollywood on the way. The triumphs, disasters, unconsummated loves and yearning for youth - they are all here in this riot of a book. 256pp. £12.99 NOW £6


73324 LEPER’S BELL: The Autobiography of a Changeling


by Norman Maclean Variously described as ‘the Billy Connolly of the Gàidhealtachd’, and ‘a 24-carat comedy jewel that just keeps sparkling’, comedian, singer, musician, actor and acclaimed novelist Norman Maclean is a living legend in the Gaelic world, and a household name across the


Highlands and Islands of Scotland. Yet his career has been marked with enormous highs and lows - a reflection of the turmoil of his private life. In this frank and compelling autobiography, he reveals the man behind the comedy, and the crippling horrors of alcoholism. Full of extraordinary reminiscences from a rich and varied, if harrowing, life which has seen him perform in hundreds of places across the world - from Brigitte Bardot’s bedroom to the roughest bars of Detroit, as well as more conventional venues - his book is in turn tragic and uplifting, devastating and hilarious, elegant and heartbreaking. 327 paperback pages. £9.99 NOW £4


73625 MARILYN by Sandra Forty


In this brief history of the life of one of the best-loved movie stars and sex goddesses of all time, the author reveals that Marilyn may have played the dumb blonde but that was just one more role. She


worked with some of the best directors of her day and pushed herself to excel in comedy, dramatic and musical roles and was only the second female movie star to create her own production company. She overcame the trauma of her many foster homes and an early, war- time marriage, to become the wife of two of America’s most famous men - the baseball star Joe DiMaggio and the playwright Arthur Miller. She was also more than a friend to President John F. Kennedy. During her last years, a life-time struggle with self-confidence, tumultuous marriages, ill-health, and drug and alcohol addictions caused her career to suffer and her last film was never completed. She died tragically at the age of 36. A moving 96 pocket-sized pages crammed with photos in colour and b/w, with timeline and filmography. ONLY £5


73628 SOPHIA LOREN by Kathryn Dixon


With a career spanning six decades, Sophia Loren is one of the grandes dames of cinema, but she is not only a beautiful film star. She has acted in numerous TV roles,


authored multiple cooking and beauty books and recorded several chart-topping musical hits. The one milieu she has never been able to conquer is the stage - surprisingly in someone of such stature - because she suffers from stage fright. Her face has sold millions of magazines, and both her personal and professional life have been profiled in books, on TV interviews, documentaries and autobiographical drama. After a lifetime of love and support from her husband, the director Carlo Ponti, now with two sons - produced with great fortitude following a series of miscarriages - and four grandchildren, she is an inspiration to all women. This enchanting book captures her in all her different roles and varying moods. 96 pocket-sized pages with filmography and photos in colour and b/w. ONLY £3.50


73630 TAINTED BY EXPERIENCE: A Life in the


Arts by John Drummond There are many words that can be used to describe Sir John


Drummond (1934-2006), famed arts administrator and ex-controller of BBC Radio 3, but we like “outspoken” the best. Outspoken, as in referring to Tony Blair as a “professional Philistine”, his Radio 3 audience as “30 minority tastes, each of which is characterised by its


intense dislike of the other 29”, Nigel Kennedy as akin to Liberace and, speaking of the increasingly popularist BBC under John Birt in the ’90s, that the Corporation “has been an organisation which has seen itself as leading society, not following taste. If it no longer wishes to be that, I can’t see any reason for its existence.” Great stuff! As well as being deliciously candid with his opinions, Drummond held an unshakeable belief in the importance of the arts and lived a life of heroic defiance of those who would “dumb down” or seek to broadcast or create anything that was of less than the highest quality. These acclaimed and, as you would probably expect, fiery and controversial memoirs were first published in 2000. “A witness to a remarkable and honorable life” said the Telegraph at the time. Photos, 478pp paperback. £14.99 NOW £6


71728 FOR YOUR EYES ONLY: Ian Fleming and James Bond


by Ben MacIntyre


One morning in February in 1952, sitting at his desk at Goldeneye, his holiday hideaway on the north coast of Jamaica, journalist Ian Fleming said to himself “I am going to write the spy story to end all spy stories”. A month later, Casino


Royale was complete, and James Bond was born. Here is an investigation into the intersection of the two lives, one factual, one fictional. Sometimes we observe more subtle parallels in women, food and drink, pastimes, military prowess, villains, plots, gadgets, guns and other gizmos. 150 superb colour and b/w photos. 224pp. £20 NOW £5


72121 HIGH SOCIETY: Grace Kelly and Hollywood by Donald Spoto


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In just seven years, 1950-1956, Grace Kelly made 11 feature films and established herself as one of the screen’s iconic beauties, a performer of rare intelligence and wit. She worked with Alfred Hitchcock on Dial M For Murder and Rear Window, Clark Gable in Mogambo, and as Georgie Elgin in The Country Girl, in To Catch a Thief and as Princess Alexandra in The Swan, 1955, before High Society in 1956. Then there is her life as Grace Kelly Grimaldi, HSH The Princess of Monaco. From a series of taped interviews with Kelly herself. 236pp, photos. £8.99 NOW £4


72129 SOUND OF LAUGHTER by Peter Kay


Growing up in his beloved Bolton, Peter Kay spent his schooldays under the watchful eyes of the nuns who taught him as he amused all the children around him and dreamed of being a comedian. Working in a factory packing toilet rolls, as a garage attendant, in a bingo hall, as a cinema usher and mobile disc jockey all helped shape Peter’s vivid, funny and endearing


observations of everyday life with his unerring gift for finding the comedy in family life with all its tragic and hilarious elements. Elderly relatives, armed raids, pet cremations and Trevor Macdonald’s nose all find their way into this warmly nostalgic autobiography. 357pp, photos.


£7.99 NOW £2.75


72376 ROBERT REDFORD: The Biography by Michael Feeney Callan


Quite apart from his iconic roles in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, All the President’s Men and The Natural and his two Oscars and countless other awards and nominations for acting, directing and producing, Robert Redford’s Sundance Film Festival transformed the world of filmmaking and his political activism, friendships and romances have made headlines around the world. Here is the scattered family background and restless, poor but loving childhood, his rocky start in acting, the tragic death of his two month old son Scott in 1959, his big, star- making break and relationship with Sydney Pollack, his successes and failures, the creation of Sundance, his eco- activism and championing of Native American rights, love life and much more. Photos, 468pp. £20 NOW £6


72522 ERIC MORECAMBE LOST AND FOUND edited by Gary Morecambe


Revealing the private side of a public icon who, as one half of the comic duo Morecambe and Wise, occupied a special place in the nation’s affections, Eric Morecambe. 28 years after his death, the country still mourns and misses ‘the one with the glasses’. Here are intimate family portraits and with a wealth of heroes of humour


from Tommy Cooper to Ronnie Barker. Packed with insider information from Eric’s son Gary, the snapshots are accompanied by previously unpublished material from Morecambe’s own notebooks, plus heartfelt memories from friends, families and colleagues. 230 pages, illus.


£18.99 NOW £6


72525 GRETA GARBO: Divine Star by David Bret


In the male-orientated studio system, Greta Garbo wielded a power no other actress has ever possessed before or since. Be it producer, director, lover or journalist, she called the shots and left her public begging for an encore that never came when she withdrew from Hollywood completely. This is the first biography to investigate fully the two so-called missing periods in her life - the first during the late 1920s, forcing MGM to employ a lookalike to conceal what was almost certainly a pregnancy, and the second during World War Two when Garbo was employed by British Intelligence to track down Nazi sympathisers. It also analyses in detail the original, uncensored copies of her films, with the exception of The Divine Woman, of which no complete print survives. Her true affections lay with the gay, Sapphic and Scandinavian members of her very intimate inner circle. Photos. £20 NOW £6.50


72530 JANE FONDA: The Private Life of a Public


Woman by Patricia Bosworth Who is the real Jane Fonda? Sixties sex kitten, revolutionary campaigner against the Vietnam War, world-renowned fitness guru, dedicated philanthropist and fund- raiser. Fonda’s whole life has been dominated by her mother’s suicide and the challenge of living under the shadow of her father Henry


Fonda, global star of films such as The Grapes of Wrath. Bosworth believes that Jane is her mother’s daughter in her obsession with her looks, money and sex, but the drive to achieve is the legacy of her complex relationship with Henry. The book covers Jane’s childhood, her work with Lee Strasberg at the Actors’ Studio, her controversial marriage to director Roger Vadim, the Oscar for Klute and Jane’s work with her award-winning father in On Golden Pond. Sympathetic but not uncritical. 596pp, photos. £20 NOW £6


72873 ELIZABETH TAYLOR: The Lady, The


Lover, The Legend 1932-2011 by David Bret Elizabeth Taylor was arguably the very last of the Hollywood greats. She was exceptionally beautiful, yet hated to be seen by strangers without full ‘war paint’. Her illnesses were multiple - including a brain tumour - and her personal life often an indescribable mayhem, yet through it all she showed that she was an unbowed survivor. Her selection of husbands was debatable and must have caused her great suffering. Nicky Hilton was abusive and Michael Wilding weak. She claimed that Mike Todd taught her to appreciate rough sex. Eddie Fisher was a womaniser and Richard Burton was so exciting that she married him twice and never stopped mourning his death. What a woman and what a life! 304 pages, colour and b/w photos and list of films. £17.99 NOW £6


72874 LITTLE ERN! The Authorized Biography of Ernie Wise by Robert Sellers and James Hogg


Based on interviews with his widow, Doreen, on discussions with fellow entertainers and on previously unpublished photos, this volume fully explores the important contribution that Ernie made to the act. It takes readers from Ernie’s


childhood in Leeds where he helped to support his family by dancing, singing and cracking jokes on stage, to being left in London to fend for himself at the tender age of 13. We read about his fateful meeting with the young comic Eric. Here is the touching story of how the Morecambe and Wise double act evolved, how they survived numerous setbacks on the road to TV stardom, and the impact fate had on their lives. 333 pages with b/w photos.


£18.99 NOW £5


72879 PAUL AND ME: 53 Years of Adventures and Misadventures with My Pal


Paul Newman by A. E. Hotchner Hotchner first met Paul Newman in 1955, when the virtually unknown actor assumed the lead role in the writer’s first TV play, based on an Ernest Hemingway story. The project elevated both men from relative obscurity to recognition, and began a close and trusted relationship that lasted until Newman’s death from cancer in 2008. The pair travelled extensively, skippered a succession of bizarre boats, confounded the business world, scored triumphs on the stage, and sustained their friendship through good times and bad. They started the line of cooking sauces and dressings named Newman’s Own as a prank. 234 pages, colour photos. £18.99 NOW £4.75


73231 JUDY GARLAND: The Day-by-Day


Chronicle of a Legend by Scott Schechter The first day-by-day account of the legend’s life succeeds in its daunting task of tracking Judy’s professional pursuits, the personal crises over which she triumphed and her many accomplishments. Here are her performance dates, concert set lists, recording session schedules, the evolving critical reception to her work, the many celebrities with whom she came into contact - from the Beatles to Elvis and Sinatra - her filming itineraries and guest appearances, excerpts from rare interview and press conferences, and much more. One of the most loved and popular entertainers of all time, singer and actress Judy Garland appeared in 40 films, including the cinematic classics The Wizard of Oz, Meet Me in St. Louis, Easter Parade and A Star is Born. 438 pages 28.5 cm x 22cm, 80 rare photos. $26.95 NOW £6


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