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| "Blockbusters : Why Big Hits - And Big Risks - Are the Future of the Entertainment Business" |
| "What is behind the phenomenal success of entertainment businesses such as Warner Bros Marvel Enterprises and Manchester United - along with such stars as Jay-Z and Lady Gaga? Which strategies give leaders in film television music publishing and sports an edge over their rivals? Anita Elberse Harvard Business School's expert on the entertainment industry has done pioneering research on the worlds of media and sports for more than a decade Now in this groundbreaking book she explains a powerful truth about the fiercely competitive world of entertainment building a business around blockbuster products - the movies television shows songs and books that are hugely expensive to produce and market - is the surest path to long-term success Along the way she reveals why entertainment executives often spend outrageous amounts of money in search of the next blockbuster why superstars are paid unimaginable sums and how digital technologies are transforming the entertainment landscape Full of inside stories emerging from her unprecedented access to some of the world's most successful entertainment brands Blockbusters is destined to become required reading for anyone seeking to understand how the entertainment industry really works - and how to navigate today's high-stakes business world at large 'Convincing Elberse's Blockbusters builds on her already impressive academic resume to create an accessible and entertaining book' Financial Times"
Price: 11.49 |
| "Girl in a Band" |
| "In Girl in a Band Kim Gordon founding member of Sonic Youth and role model for a generation of women tells her story She writes frankly about her route from girl to woman and pioneering icon within the music and art scene of New York City in the 1980s and 90s as well as marriage motherhood and independence Filled with the sights and sounds of a changing world and a remarkable life Girl in a Band is a moving evocative chronicle of an extraordinary artist"
Price: 6.99 |
| "The Faber Pocket Guide to Ballet" |
| "The essential easy-to-use classical ballet guide - spanning nearly two centuries of classical dance - with entries for more than eighty works from ballet companies around the world from Giselle and Swan Lake to Cinderella and Steptext This new edition has been revised to include new ballets by Wayne McGregor Alexei Ratmansky and Christopher Wheeldon alongside classics by Tchaikovsky Diaghilev and BalanchineFeatures include- plot summaries- an analysis of each ballet's principal themes- useful background and historical information- a unique behind-the-scenes performer's-eye viewDip in at random or trace the development of dance from cover to cover Written by former Royal Ballet principal Deborah Bull and leading dance critic Luke Jennings this ever popular Faber Pocket guide is a must for all ballet-goers - regulars and first-timers alike"
Price: 7.49 |
| Solaris |
| "When Kris Kelvin arrives at the planet Solaris to study the ocean that covers its surface he is forced to confront a painful hitherto unconscious memory embodied in the physical likeness of a long-dead lover Others suffer from the same affliction and speculation rises among scientists that the Solaris ocean may be a massive brain that creates incarnate memories but its purpose in doing so remains a mystery Solaris raises a question that has been at the heart of human experience and literature for centuries can we truly understand the universe around us without first understanding what lies within?"
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| "Dark Entries" |
| "Robert Aickman (1914-1981) was the grandson of Richard Marsh a leading Victorian novelist of the occult Though his chief occupation in life was first as a conservationist of England's canals he eventually turned his talents to writing what he called 'strange stories' Dark Entries (1964) was his first full collection the debut in a body of work that would inspire Peter Straub to hail Aickman as 'this century's most profound writer of what we call horror stories'"
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| "Original Rockers" |
| "2015 BOOKS OF THE YEAR - THE TIMES UNCUT ROUGH TRADESHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 GORDON BURN PRIZETwenty years ago every town had one From Bangor to Bradford Bognor Regis to Bournemouth independent record shops could be found on every High Street and many back streets across the length and breadth of the land But as the principal format for music switched from vinyl to CD these places - synonymous with the thrill of discovery experienced by every serious fan and collector - started to disappear Vinyl has recovered but its natural environment - the record store - is a rare and precious beast Richard King's book about several years spent working in Bristol's Revolver is a clear-eyed yet romantic account of life behind the counter in a business run from the heart not the head with a tendency towards dysfunction In ten chapters of elegiac prose King brings this lost environment back to life the smells the people and of course the sounds We see the landscape of a young person's taste come into view with magnificent passages on CAN Captain Beefheart Augustus Pablo Rod Stewart Sun Ra Arkestra and the free jazz of Cornelius Cardew And we see the development of Bristol as one of the key musical cities from its roots sound systems through the parties run by the Wild Bunch collective to the emergence of Massive Attack Original Rockers evokes a golden moment about to turn to dust in the history of British record stores and celebrates the abandon with which we hear music and it does so magically without recourse to nostalgia"
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| Snow |
| "'No breath of wind No gleam of sun Still the white snow Whirls softly down'As the day draws to a close a family prepares for Christmas - decorating the tree hanging stockings by the fire putting out a plate of mince pies Outside the world turns to white"
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| Handbagged |
| "Handbags hairspray and sensible shoesThe monarch - LizHer most powerful subject - MaggieOne believed there was no such thing as society The other had vowed to serve itOpening the clasp on the antipathy between two giants of the twentieth century Handbagged by Moira Buffini premiered at the Tricycle Theatre in September 2013"
Price: 7.49 |
| "The Girl in the Red Coat" |
| "Shortlisted for the 2015 Costa First Novel AwardEight-year-old Carmel has always been different - sensitive distracted with an heartstopping tendency to go missing Her mother Beth newly single worries about her daughter's strangeness especially as she is trying to rebuild a life for the two of them on her own When she takes Carmel for an outing to a local festival her worst fear is realised Carmel disappears into the crowd Unable to accept the possibility that her daughter might be gone for good Beth embarks on a mission to find her Meanwhile Carmel begins an extraordinary and terrifying journey of her own But do the real clues to Carmel's disappearance lie in the otherworldly qualities her mother had only begun to guess at?"
Price: 5.99 |
| "The Doll Funeral" |
| "My name is Ruby I live with Barbara and Mick They're not my real parents but they tell me what to do and what to say But there are things I won't say I won't tell them I'm going to hunt for my real parents I don't say a word about Shadow who sits on the stairs or the Wasp Lady I saw Or that I'm a hunter for lost soulsI'm going to be with my real family And I won't let anyone stop me"
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| "The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler" |
| "The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler is considered one of the children's classics of the twentieth century and contains one of the most amazing and affirming twists in all of literature Tyke Tiler and Danny Price are best friends much to the despair of the headmaster of Cricklepit Combined School - because wherever the pair go trouble is never far behind Stolen money a sheep's skeleton fights in class And somehow it's always trouble that Tyke has to sort outCan Tyke help the hapless Danny stay out of trouble for their last term? And what final surprise does Tyke have in store?Mischief and astonishment abound in this hilariously funny classic story from award-winning author Gene Kemp"
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| "The Building Boy" |
| "All at once it was as if the stars leapt closerGrandma grabbed the boy raising him high above the rooftiles on her headShe was alive!The boy's grandma was a famous architect Her garden is still full of old building materials Unwilling to accept she has gone the boy builds a giant structure from the bricks and girders he finds And then Grandma comes to life! The boy is whisked away on an epic adventure across fields through oceans and atop roofs But where is Grandma taking him?Beautiful thrilling and extremely moving the extraordinary debut picture book from much-loved author Ross Montgomery"
Price: 6.49 |
| "Hope in a Ballet Shoe : Orphaned by war, saved by ballet: an extraordinary true story" |
| "Hope in a Ballet Shoe tells the story of Michaela DePrince Growing up in war-torn Sierra Leone she witnessed atrocities that no child ever should Her father was killed by rebels and her mother died of famine Sent to an orphanage Michaela was mistreated and saw the brutal murder of her favourite teacherThen Michaela and her best friend are adopted by an American couple and Michaela begins to take dance lessons But life in the States isn't without difficulties Unfortunately tragedy can find its way to Michaela in America too and her past can feel like it's haunting her The world of ballet is a racist one and Michaela has to fight for a place amongst the ballet elite hearing the words 'America's not ready for a black girl ballerina'And yet Today Michaela DePrince is an international ballet star dancing for The Dutch National Ballet at the age of nineteen This is a heart-breaking inspiring autobiography by a teenager who shows us that beyond everything there is always hope for a better future"
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| Silver |
| "Slowly silently now the moonWalks the night in her silver shoon;This way and that she peers and seesSilver fruit upon silver trees; One spring evening the fairies gather in the woods Two sleepy children join in the parade to a wonderful dream-like fairy party Illustrated by bright new talent Carolina Rabei this Walter de la Mare poem is brought to life with shimmery ethereal illustrations making it the perfect book for bedtime One of four seasonal Walter de la Mare picture books that form a set each with complementing colour palates and illustrations by rising young star Carolina"
Price: 5.49 |
| "The Buried Giant" |
| "The extraordinary new novel from the Nobel Prize-winning author of Never Let Me Go and The Remains of the Day The Romans have long since departed and Britain is steadily declining into ruin But at least the wars that once ravaged the country have ceased The Buried Giant begins as a couple Axl and Beatrice set off across a troubled land of mist and rain in the hope of finding a son they have not seen for years They expect to face many hazards - some strange and other-worldly - but they cannot yet foresee how their journey will reveal to them dark and forgotten corners of their love for one another Sometimes savage often intensely moving Kazuo Ishiguro's first novel in a decade is about lost memories love revenge and war"
Price: 7.99 |
| "Kitty Peck and the Daughter of Sorrow" |
| "Summer 1881 the streets of Limehouse are thick with opium and menace At eighteen Kitty Peck has inherited Paradise a sprawling criminal empire on the banks of the Thames Determined to do things differently to her fearsome grandmother she now realises that the past casts a long and treacherous shadow Haunted by a terrible secret and stalked by a criminal cabal intent on humiliation and destruction Kitty must fight for the future of everyone she cares for"
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| "The Nether" |
| "I've read the studies No one has been able to draw a conclusive correlation between virtual behaviour and behaviour in-worldThe Nether is a virtual wonderland that provides total sensory immersion Just log in choose an identity and indulge your every desire But when a young detective uncovers a disturbing brand of entertainment she triggers an interrogation into the darkest corners of the imaginationWinner of the 2012 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize The Nether is both a serpentine crime drama and haunting sci-fi thriller that explores the consequences of living out our private dreamsJennifer Haley's The Nether received its UK premiere in July 2014 at the Royal Court Theatre London in a co-production with Headlong"
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| "Now You Know" |
| "Bit of a wide boy Terry Got a spot of form eye for the ladies a real rough diamond some might say Not without his virtues though as his campaign for open government shows No secrets that's Terry's secret Allied to charm that is of course Only one person finds it easy to resist his charm and counter his arguments and that's Hilary - one of the serious and dedicated young Civil Servants working in the Home Office in Westminster who just happens to know the truth about the case in which Terry is currently interested She despises him and everything he stands for But then why is she to be found one evening walking through the back streets behind the Strand to the run-down block where Terry's pressure group has its headquarters? Now You Know takes on government campaigns ambitious civil servants and determined pressure groups with Frayn's trade-mark wit Michael Frayn's other novels include Headlong which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and Spies which won the Whitbread Best Novel Award"
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| "The Goblin Princess : Smoky the Dragon Baby" |
| "SeriesEverything is topsy-turvy in Goblin world and Matty the Goblin Princess just doesn't fit in! Her mum the Goblin Queen is always telling her to un-tidy her room and eat up her slug porridge (yee-uk!) Goblins HATE nice things including their enemies the sparkly Forest Fairies Book 1Matty has a problem Her new pet baby dragon Smoky is far too good and her parents are threatening to send him away! Smoky is her best friend - can she find a way to make him naughty enough to keep? She just might need the Forest Fairies' help"
Price: 4.99 |
| "We Don't Know What We're Doing" |
| "Longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize 2016'Heart-hurtingly acute laugh-out-loud funny and not just a book of the year for me but one of the most satisfying collections I've read for years' Ali Smith GuardianA young video shop assistant exchanges the home comforts of one mother-figure for a fleeting encounter with another; a brother and sister find themselves at the bottom of a coal mine with a Japanese tourist; a Welsh stag on a debauched weekend in Dublin confesses an unimaginable truth; and a twice-widowed pensioner tries to persuade the lovely Mrs Morgan to be his date at the town's summer festivalSet in Caerphilly a sleepy castle town in South Wales Thomas Morris' debut collection reveals its treasures in unexpected ways offering vivid and moving glimpses of the lost lonely and bemused By turns poignant witty and tender - these entertaining stories detail the lives of people who know where they are but don't know what they're doing This is the work of a young writer with a startlingly fresh voice an uncanny ear for dialogue and a broad emotional range We Don't Know What We're Doing is a major launch for the Faber fiction list in 2015"
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| "Strange Star" |
| "They were coming tonight to tell ghost stories 'A tale to freeze the blood' was the only ruleSwitzerland 1816 On a stormy summer night Lord Byron and his guests are gathered round the fire Felix their serving boy can't wait to hear their creepy tales Yet real life is about to take a chilling turn- more chilling than any tale Frantic pounding at the front door reveals a stranger a girl covered in the most unusual scars She claims to be looking for her sister supposedly snatched from England by a woman called Mary Shelley Someone else has followed her here too she says And the girl is terrifiedThis breathtaking new book from Emma Carroll the critically-acclaimed author of Frost Hollow Hall The Girl Who Walked On Air In Darkling Wood and The Snow Sister is a deliciously creepy story inspired by the creation of Frankenstein and is brought to life by a leading talent in children's literature"
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| "Perijee & Me" |
| "When 11-year-old Caitlin discovers a shrimp-like alien creature on the shores of her island home she takes responsibility for teaching it about the world Mostly this just involved stopping little Perijee from eating everything! Caitlin becomes increasingly close to her alien friend treating him like a brother There's only one problem - Perijee won't stop growing Then the authorities try to hunt him down and through his fear Perijee disappears and starts causing trouble Caitlin must leave home and travel across the country to try and convince Perijee to stop destroying everything before it's too late"
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| "Six Poets: Hardy to Larkin : An Anthology by Alan Bennett" |
| "Writers like to elude their public lead them a bit of a dance They take them down untrodden paths land them in unknown country where they have to ask for directionsIn this personal anthology Alan Bennett has chosen over seventy poems by six well-loved poets discussing the writers and their verse in his customary conversational style through anecdote shrewd appraisal and spare but telling biographical detail Ranging from hidden treasures to famous poems this is a collection for the beginner and the expert alike Speaking with candour about his own reactions to the work Alan Bennett creates profound and witty portraits of Thomas Hardy A E Housman John Betjeman W H Auden Louis MacNeice and Philip Larkin all the more enjoyable for being in his own particular voiceAnybody writing poetry in the thirties had somehow to come to terms with Auden Auden you see had got a head start on the other poets He'd got into the thirties first like someone taking over the digs"
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| "Where the Wild Mums Are" |
| "The day Mum didn't get dressed and went on strike Dad called her 'a Wild Thing' and Mum said 'Cook your own dinner' and stomped off upstairs to have a bath In this hilarious touching homage to Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are a worn-out mum finds herself floating across time and space to the place where the Wild Mums are Dazzled by her party tricks they crown her Queen of the Wild Mums and try to entice her to join their conga But Mum has just remembered who she loves best of all Lovingly illustrated by the award-winning Sholto Walker this little book is the perfect gift for baby showers new mums - or any mum who's ever wanted to go on strike"
Price: 7.99 |
| "House of Windows" |
| "'The body is a house of many windows there we all sit showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us' Robert Louis Stevenson Nick hates it when people call him a genius Sure he's going to Cambridge University aged 15 but he says that's just because he works hard And secretly he only works hard to get some kind of attention from his workaholic fatherNot that his strategy is working When he arrives at Cambridge he finds the work hard and socialising even harder Until that is he starts to cox for the college rowing crew and all hell breaks loose"
Price: 6.99 |
| "Beast (Buckmaster Trilogy 2) Paperback" |
| "What kind of man am I? I wonder what I think about that now that I have spent a year here watching the layers peel off stripping myself back Beast plunges you into the world of Edward Buckmaster a man living alone on a west-country moor What he has left behind we don&39;t quite know; what he faces is a battle with himself the elements and with the animal he begins to see in the margins of his vision A creature that will become an obsession "
Price: 5.99 |
| "Zoo Boy" |
| "Hello Dear Reader Are you sitting lying down standing on your head eating a jam sandwich comfortably? Then I'll begin I want to introduce you to a boy called Vince whose birthday it is todayVince is an normal boy with an unusual dislike for animals Well you'd feel the same if your father was always working at a zoo and your mother had run off with a lion tamer Then on his eighth birthday Vince discovers he has the gift He can talk to animals! You think this is amazing? Perhaps you should meet the spoiled and demanding zoo animals that Vince encounters There's a penguin who wants fish fingers a flamingo that wants pink candyfloss and an owl that wants sugared mice Now Vince is expected to meet their demands on his birthday! But everyone seems to have forgotten about thatA hilarious delightful debut for 6 readers by actress Sophie Thompson with black and white illustrations by the wonderfully talented Rebecca Ashdown"
Price: 4.99 |
| "Time for Jas : The Diaries of Bluebell Gadsby" |
| "Bluebell and her siblings are beginning a new school year Suddenly everyone is freaking out Twig has taken up violent team sports poor Jas is being bullied by the ghastly Cupcake Crew and Blue has a big decision to makeThere are fights and crying fits Halloween parades gone wrong and secret graffiti artists Confusing friendships and life-changing choices But there is also laughter and above all there is love - and that's what being a family is all about"
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| "Sex & Death : Stories" |
| "How we come in and how we go out sex and death these are the governing drives our two greatest themesIn this provocative haunting and sexy collection of short stories a group of acclaimed writers from across the globe probe the nature of and connection between two of the most powerful exhilarating and terrifying forces that define and shape the human experience sex and deathHere we see the events that mark the lives of the young and old of men and women of those meeting only briefly and of others reflecting on shared pasts In these intense often traumatic and sometimes humorous interactions we are confronted not just with our urges and anxieties but with the very limits of mortality and morbidityHonest compassionate and psychologically astute the stories in Sex & Death are daring in their approaches to the form and relentless in their pursuit of what it is to be humanFeaturing stories byKevin BarryLynn CoadyCeridwen DoveyRobert DreweDamon GalgutPetina GappahSarah HallPeter HobbsYiyun LiAlexander MacLeodBen MarcusJon McGregorGuadalupe NettelCourttia NewlandTaiye SelasiAli SmithWells TowerAlan WarnerClaire Vaye WatkinsClare Wigfall"
Price: 13.49 |
| "The Long Room" |
| "What happens to a man who has his ear pressed to the lives of others but not much life of his own? When Stephen Donaldson joins the Institute he anticipates excitement romance and new status Instead he gets the tape-recorded conversations of ancient communists and ineffectual revolutionaries until the day he is assigned a new case the ultra-secret PHOENIX Is PHOENIX really working for a foreign power? Stephen hardly cares; it is the voice of the target's wife that mesmerises him This is December 1981 Bombs are exploding a cold war is being waged another war is just over the horizon and the nation is transfixed by weekly instalments of Brideshead Revisited Dangerously in love and lonely Stephen sets himself up for a vertiginous fall that will forever change his lifeAs beautiful as it is intense The Long Room is the dazzling new novel from an award-winning writer With her mastery of the perfect detail Francesca Kay explores a mind under pressure and the compelling power of imagination"
Price: 5.99 |
