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Author
Publisher
Blink Publishing
Pub. Date
2018
Description
Gary Barlow is one of the most successful British musicians and songwriters of all time, but fifteen years ago, as he himself admits, he hit rock bottom - he was out of shape, out of work, depressed. Food for him had become an addiction, a means not only of comfort but almost of self-medication as he grappled with the cruel twists of fate of musical stardom. In 2003, as he struggled with the disappointment of an underperforming solo career alongside...
Author
Publisher
Blink Publishing
Pub. Date
2021
Description
From the star of Netflix's The Duchess and host of 'Telling Everybody Everything' 'I've come to accept that being audacious is a gift I can't escape.' People 'know' my on-stage comedy persona or my scripted ballsy characters and wrongly assume that at home, I must stomp around all day in designer dresses eviscerating those who dare to cross my path and denouncing the existence of men in general. But mostly, I'm just sat eating pickles and being nice...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2017
Description
For three years the Goss twins, Luke and Matt, had the world at their feet. Their records ripped to the top of the charts, they filled concert halls and were mobbed wherever they went.Their fall was as fast and spectacular as their rise. From being pop?s golden boys they became the band that everyone loved to hate, amidst spectacular rumours of bankruptcy and media manipulation.What went wrong? In this compelling book Luke Goss tells the whole incredible...
Author
Publisher
Picador
Description
London, 1850. The Great Exhibition is being erected in Hyde Park and among the crowd watching the spectacle two people meet. For Iris, an aspiring artist, it is the encounter of a moment - forgotten seconds later, but for Silas, a collector entranced by the strange and beautiful, that meeting marks a new beginning. When Iris is asked to model for pre-Raphaelite artist Louis Frost, she agrees on the condition that he will also teach her to paint. Suddenly...
5) Andie's moon
Author
Series
The Historical House volume 6
Publisher
Usborne Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
2015
Description
1969: Andie dreams of becoming an artist. Her best paintings are inspired by the moon and so she's fascinated by news of the moon landing. But will it be the same magical place once man has set foot on it, and will her paintings win the attention they deserve? A thrilling story set at No.6 Chelsea Walk. Linda Newbery has been twice shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal, and is the winner of a Silver Medal Nestle Children?s Book Prize and the Costa Children?s...
Author
Publisher
Transworld Digital
Pub. Date
2021
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In March 2020, Kate Garraway's husband, Derek Draper, contracted Covid-19 and was placed in a medically-induced coma. Initially, Kate was told that he would not survive. A year later he was still in hospital. Now at home but requiring round-the-clock care, he is thought to be the UK's longest-fighting Covid-19 patient. In this intimate book, Kate shares her deeply personal story. As well as recounting how the illness took hold of their lives, she...
11) Edgar Degas
Author
Publisher
Watts
Pub. Date
2015
Description
Biography for younger readers of the artist Edgar Degas.
13) Vincent Van Gogh
Author
Publisher
Raintree Pub
Pub. Date
2007
Description
The life and works of Vincent Van Gogh.
14) Frida Kahlo
Author
Publisher
Frances Lincoln
Pub. Date
2016
Description
A simple, illustrated biography of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo.
16) A del of a life
Author
Publisher
Cornerstone Digital
Pub. Date
2021
Description
''So lithe,' they say. 'So spry and sparkling. So uncannily youthful. How on earth do you do it?' Well, what can I tell you? An hour of tai chi first thing in the morning, an HIIT work-out with my personal trainer, a bowl of steamed kale and a handful of almonds for lunch, and then two hours of yoga in the afternoon followed by an ice bath - this is a routine which I'm sure would work miracles for anyone of any age, although I can't be entirely sure...
18) Private view
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorpe
Pub. Date
2016
Description
Behind universally admired works of art - THE LAUGHING CAVALIER by Hals, THE BIRTH OF VENUS by Botticelli, THE THINKER by Rodin, and many more - are the artists themselves, whose lesser-known eccentricities are revealed in PRIVATE VIEW. Here is Fra Filippo Lippi, a friar who had to be locked in a room by the Pope in order to keep him at the easel and away from the bedroom. William Blake, who talked to the dead - and Theodore Gericault, who brought...