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Queens of Noise
Da Capo Press 2013; US$ 25.99The first narrative biography of the Runaways, told with the participation of many of the band?s surviving members more...
You're Only as Good as Your Next One
Atria Books 2013; Not Available"If I had a talent for anything, it was a talent for knowing who was talented." Mike Medavoy is a Hollywood rarity: a studio executive who, though never far from controversy, has remained well loved and respected through four decades of moviemaking. What further sets him apart is his role in bringing to the screen some of the most acclaimed Oscar-winning... more...
You're Only as Good as Your Next One
Atria Books 2013; US$ 26.95"If I had a talent for anything, it was a talent for knowing who was talented." Mike Medavoy is a Hollywood rarity: a studio executive who, though never far from controversy, has remained well loved and respected through four decades of moviemaking. What further sets him apart is his role in bringing to the screen some of the most acclaimed Oscar-winning... more...
You're Only as Good as Your Next One
Atria Books 2013;"If I had a talent for anything, it was a talent for knowing who was talented." Mike Medavoy is a Hollywood rarity: a studio executive who, though never far from controversy, has remained well loved and respected through four decades of moviemaking. What further sets him apart is his role in bringing to the screen some of the most acclaimed Oscar-winning... more...
What Fresh Lunacy is This?
Constable & Robinson 2013; US$ 18.94Oliver Reed may not have been Britain's biggest film star - for a period in the early 70s he came within a hairsbreadth of replacing Sean Connery as James Bond - but he is an august member of that small band of people, like George Best and Eric Morecambe, who transcended their chosen medium, became too big for it even, and grew into cultural icons.For... more...
What Fresh Lunacy is This?
Constable & Robinson 2013; US$ 18.94Oliver Reed may not have been Britain's biggest film star - for a period in the early 70s he came within a hairsbreadth of replacing Sean Connery as James Bond - but he is an august member of that small band of people, like George Best and Eric Morecambe, who transcended their chosen medium, became too big for it even, and grew into cultural icons.For... more...
Britten's Century
Bloomsbury Publishing 2013; US$ 22.99Britten's Century considers various aspects of Britten's life and work. The book is written by biographers, performers and music critics. Here is a wealth of subject matter - Britten's operatic output, his orchestral works, his contribution to the revival of English song. Biographically, this book moves on beyond the relationship with Peter... more...
Jack Be Nimble
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2013; US$ 34.99A warm, witty tell-all and history of American regional theater, from one of our best-loved directors For Jack O?Brien, there?s nothing like a first encounter with a great performer, nothing like the sound of an audience bursting into applause. In short, there?s nothing like the theater. Following a fairly normal Midwestern childhood, O?Brien hoped... more...
Wear Your Dreams
St. Martin's Press 2013; US$ 27.99The memoir of iconic tattoo artist Ed Hardy from his beginnings in 1960s California, to leading the tattoo renaissance and building his name into a hugely lucrative international brand ?Ed Hardy? is emblazoned on everything from t-shirts and hats to perfumes and energy drinks. From LA to Japan, his colorful cross-and-bones designs and ribbon-banners... more...
Recollections of Gustav Mahler
Faber and Faber 2013; US$ 18.94First published in English in 1980, this important early memoir of Gustav Mahler is by Natalie Bauer-Lechner (1858-1921), a viola player and close and devoted friend of Mahler until his marriage to Alma Schindler in 1902. She visited him in Hamburg and frequented his circle in Vienna, also accompanying him and his family on a number of the summer... more...









