Alfred Hitchcock,The Lady Vanishes,Robert Shaw,Jaws,George Sanders,All about Eve,Oasis,Liam Gallagher,Noel Gallagher,Evel Knievel

Charters & Caldicott

Take one body in the library. Add two old English gentlemen playing amateur sleuth. Mix well and serve.

Robert Shaw

'Chillingly well told' Sheridan Morley

Rex Harrison’s fifth – but not last – wife, Elizabeth said of him: ‘I was very fond of Rex before we were married, and even more fond of him after we were married – it ws the bit in between that was so difficult.’

Getting High

‘Paolo is the only person to speak about what it was like on the road with us because he’s been there. He’s been there, he’s seen it, he’s done it.’ Noel Gallagher

Alan McGee and The Story of Creation Records

The oral history of Britain's greatest independent record label

Steve Marriott

‘Revealing… sympathetic… long overdue.’
Uncut

evel incarnate

Definitive biography of the legendary American daredevil

“Forty years ago he was Slightly in Peter Pan, and you might say that he has been wholly in Peter Pan ever since.” Kenneth Tynan

‘A highly readable work … Niven emerges as gallant and gracious.’ Chicago Tribune

‘Incredibly good-looking, in a dark way … that curious quality of a man with an eternal secret. … That was what was so arresting. … That and the voice.’ Geraldine Fitzgerald

‘If Robert had a mission, it was to emphasise that life was meant to be fun; he was one of the few men I knew who strode through life instead of circumnavigating it. He died without ever growing old.’ Michael Parkinson

‘Hollywood is a chain gang and we lose the will to escape; the links of our chain are forged not of cruelties but of luxuries: we are pelted with orchids and roses; we are overpaid and underworked.’

‘She had all the charm of an electric carving knife’ Dirk Bogarde

‘She was a darling girl’ Sybil Thorndike

Memoirs of a Professional Cad

Wickedly funny lifemanship from a Hollywood original

crime on my hands

George gets the part of a lifetime – if he can only live to tell the tale!

stranger at home

Which one of you killed me? That's what Michael Vickers is dying to find out!

‘I’m Scarface. I’m just about ten times as hard-boiled as Johnny Lovo ever thought of being. I’ve bumped off six or eight myself and another one – especially a rat like you – wouldn’t mean a thing in my young life. Get me?’