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Uncommon Youth
St. Martin's Press 2013; US$ 25.99The glamorous life, gilded family, and tragic times of J. Paul Getty III, whose kidnapping made headlines in 1973 J. Paul (?Little Paul?) Getty III, the grandson of Getty Oil founder J. Paul Getty, may have been cursed by money and privilege from the moment he was born. Falling in with the wrong people and practically abandoned by his famous... more...
Greta and Cecil
Quercus 2013; US$ 21.83Greta Garbo first met society photographer Cecil Beaton in Hollywood in 1932. Both were caught in turbulent same-sex affairs. Yet Garbo flirted and danced with Beaton, told him he was pretty, presented him with "a rose that lives and dies and never again returns" and at dawn drove away in her black Packard. Cecil took the rose home to England, framed... more...
Mary and Lou and Rhoda and Ted
Simon & Schuster 2013; US$ 26.00W hen writer-producers James L. Brooks and Allan Burns dreamed up an edgy show about a divorced woman with a career, the CBS executives they pitched replied: ?American audiences won?t tolerate divorce in a series? lead any more than they will tolerate Jews, people with mustaches, and people who live in New York.? Forty years later, The Mary Tyler... more...
Mary and Lou and Rhoda and Ted
Simon & Schuster 2013; Not AvailableW hen writer-producers James L. Brooks and Allan Burns dreamed up an edgy show about a divorced woman with a career, the CBS executives they pitched replied: ?American audiences won?t tolerate divorce in a series? lead any more than they will tolerate Jews, people with mustaches, and people who live in New York.? Forty years later, The Mary Tyler... more...
Mary and Lou and Rhoda and Ted
Simon & Schuster 2013; Not AvailableW hen writer-producers James L. Brooks and Allan Burns dreamed up an edgy show about a divorced woman with a career, the CBS executives they pitched replied: ?American audiences won?t tolerate divorce in a series? lead any more than they will tolerate Jews, people with mustaches, and people who live in New York.? Forty years later, The Mary Tyler... more...
Natalie & Romaine: The Lives and Loves of Natalie Barney and Romaine Brooks
Quercus 2013; US$ 21.83Natalie Barney, 'the wild girl of Cincinnati', and Romaine Brooks were both rich, American and grandly lesbian. They met in Paris in 1915 and their tempestuous affair lasted more than fifty years. By the end of their lives together, Natalie and Romaine had entertained, slept with, fallen in love with, tutored or tortured a range of figures including... more...
It's Only Rock 'n' Roll
HarperCollins 2013; US$ 21.99In this wild, behind-the-scenes portrait of one of the biggest rock bands in history, Jo Wood comes clean about her three decades as the girlfriend and eventually the wife of Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood. This startlingly honest, laugh-out-loud memoir vividly describes life on tour, in the studio, at the legendary parties?and every raucous... more...
Strangeland
Hodder & Stoughton 2013; US$ 18.11The intimate memoirs of one of the most acclaimed and controversial artists of her generation. more...
Strangeland
Hodder & Stoughton 2013; Not AvailableThe intimate memoirs of one of the most acclaimed and controversial artists of her generation. more...
Cagney
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2013; US$ 29.95John McCabe's participation in the writing of James Cagney's autobiography, the many years of friendship that followed, and an intense period of interview and discussion in preparation for a musical comedy based on Cagney's life--a show that never saw the light of day--make him Cagney's ideal biographer. And, indeed, he has written a searching chronicle... more...









