Piano and Song - How to Teach, How to Learn and How to Form a Judgment of Musical Performance
From the award-winning author of the acclaimed bestseller The Last Painting of Sara de Vos comes a radiant new novel tracing the intertwined fates of a silent film director and his muse.The Electric Hotel winds through the nascent days of cinema in Paris and Fort Lee, New Jersey - America's first movie town - and the battlefields of Belgium during World War I. A sweeping work of historical fiction, it shimmers between past and present as it tells the story of the rise and fall of a prodigious fi...
Two very different lives… It is 2019 and Lily Jones is living her dream in LA. Sort of. It hasn’t quite turned out as she planned and instead of working as a movie producer, she is cleaning at the prestigious Beverly Hills Hotel. At least she gets to work in the renowned Paul Williams suite, site of the brutal murder of Honey Black 70 years ago, shrouded in rumour and dark glamour. It is 1949 and Honey Black is about to hit the big time. She may have started out a country girl from Hicksville...
The complete television soundtracks of all 12 episodes of the legendary BBC sitcomGround-breaking, satirical and anarchic, The Young Ones introduced alternative comedy to mainstream TV, and made household names of its writers and performers. It ran for two series on BBC Two between 1982 and 1984, winning a host of devoted fans and a BAFTA Award for its second series.A world away from the cosy suburban sitcoms that preceded it, the show centred around four degenerate students sharing a squalid No...
The Social, Psychological and Cultural Significance of Westerns
by Arthur Asa Berger
This book is about cowboy Western books and two important Western films, Shane and High Noon. Its focus is on the psychological, social, and cultural significance of Westerns, a narrative genre of major importance in American popular culture. What you will find, as you read this book, is that while the stories may have relatively simple plot lines, compared to classic novels, and are based on certain formulas, their psychological significance and cultural importance is a very complicated matter....
1920s script girl Jessie Beckett investigates the murder of a movie projectionist in this absorbing historical mystery. "Joe Petrovitch was gunned down on a sunny Saturday afternoon in early October, during the ninth reel of Charlie Chaplin's Gold Rush." Employed by Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford, Jessie Beckett has a busy time as Script Girl for Pickford-Fairbanks studios. Yet she also has a reputation as a skilled amateur sleuth. So when a projectionist is shot dead and his grieving widow...
One Extra Corpse (A Silver Screen historical mystery)
by Barbara Hambly
Hollywood intrigue, glamor . . . and murder: Enter the roaring twenties in this thrilling Silver Screen historical mystery, starring two very different female sleuths.May, 1924. It's been seven months since young British widow Emma Blackstone arrived in Hollywood to serve as companion to Kitty Flint: her beautiful, silent-movie star sister-in-law. Kitty is generous, kind-hearted . . . and a truly terrible actress. Not that Emma minds; she's too busy making her academic parents turn in their grav...
'I loved the creativity, the unpredictability, its dazzling coverage of so many ideas' Rob Cowan'Superb . . . An original character and an original book' David Quantick, Record CollectorCan John Nightly be brought back to life again?John Nightly (b. 1948) finds his dimension in pop music, the art form of his time. His solo album becomes one of 1970's bestselling records – but success turns out to have side effects.Supermaxed in LA after a dazzling career, John renounces his gift, denying music a...
The dark and suffocating tragedy of Roman Volf's life will trap his descendants for years to come.Phineas Fox is researching the life of a scandalous musician from the past. Roman Volf was a Russian violinist, whose glittering talent was undermined by his crime - assassinating a Tsar. Investigating Volf's life and execution leads Phin to Ireland and into a series of intriguing, interlocking mysteries that reach back from Volf's time into the present day.Little does Phin know that his research ma...
Rehearsals in a new West End play are disrupted by sudden, violent death in the intriguing new Charles Paris mystery.Having landed a small part in a new West End play, The Habit of Faith, Charles Paris is dismayed to discover that his good fortune has been orchestrated by his bête noire, the now-famous screen actor Justin Grover. But why has Grover become involved in this relatively obscure production - and why has he roped in Charles to star?From the outset the production is fraught with diffic...
One More Secret (Story 6) (Broadchurch)
by Chris Chibnall and Erin Kelly
'Great fun - Loretta is glorious!' Lucy Diamond'Sparkles with fun and wit' Libby Page'A fun, gossipy glimpse into Golden Era Hollywood' Julie Cohen-----You’re Loretta Darling now, welcome to your brand-new flipping life.Dreams don’t come true for girls like Loretta but she won’t let that stop her. With her sights set on becoming a make-up artist to the stars, Loretta wangles her way from Lancashire to the bright lights of Golden Age Hollywood.Only it turns out that Sunset Boulevard is less about...
The Murderer Inside the Mirror (A Theatre of Thieves mystery)
by Sarah Rayne
The Sharpest Needle (Lillian Frost & Edith Head, #4)
by Renee Patrick
Ready to mingle with the stars? Hollywood's A-list takes centre stage once again in this stylish, twisty and sharply observed Golden Age of Hollywood mystery featuring irresistible sleuthing duo Lillian Frost and Edith Head. Effortlessly blending oodles of glamour and famous (and fictional) names with a stunningly crafted whodunit, this compelling, vibrant tale is bursting with twists and shocking moments. Love gossip, rumour and scandalous secrets? This page-turning read is perfect for fans of...
The Art of the "Return of the King" (The "Lord of the Rings")
by Gary Russell
With complete access to artwork created over a five-year period, this guide illustrates the creative development of "The Return of the King". It contains over 600 images, from the earliest pencil sketches and conceptual drawings to magnificent paintings, sculptures and digital imagery that shaped the look of the film. Contributing artists include John Howe and Alan Lee, artists who have inspired Peter Jackson's vision of Middle-earth and worked with him to bring the trilogy to the big screen. Pe...