In this follow-up to her critically acclaimed memoir 'Home', the enchanting Julie Andrews picks up her story with her arrival in Hollywood, sharing the career highlights, personal experiences and reflections behind her astonishing career, including such classics as 'Mary Poppins', 'The Sound of Music', 'Victor/Victoria', and many others. In 'Home Work', Julie describes her years in Hollywood - from the incredible highs to the challenging lows. Not...

Sir Ian McKellen is that rarest of characters: a celebrity whose distinguished political and social service has transcended his enormous fame and international stardom to reach far beyond the stage and screen.The breadth of his endeavour - professional, personal and political - has been truly staggering. Of some 400 stage and film roles, there are only 3, in his own estimation, of which he has not been proud. Iconic roles have not been in short supply:...

For over 30 years Hattie Jacques was a familiar presence on radio, television and film. This biography reveals the secrets of the sometimes strange and often sad private life that was concealed behind the matronly facade.

Packed with her wit, wisdom and unfiltered stories, The Little Book of Miriam is a memory palace of Margolyes's extraordinary life's standout moments, opinions and conclusions. Never forget that this is a woman who knocked back Warren Beatty, played to an audience of two thousand naked lesbians, injected sex into the Cadbury's caramel bunny and was Vogue's cover star aged 83. Margolyes is always full of surprises, and this audiobook is too. Deliciously...

Known for her glamorous beauty, soap-opera personal life and magnetic screen presence, Elizabeth Taylor was the twentieth century's most famous film star. Including unseen photographs and unread private reflections, this authorised biography is a fascinating and complete portrait worthy of the legend and her legacy. Elizabeth Taylor captures this intelligent, empathetic, tenacious, volatile and complex woman as never before, from her rise to massive...

Born in Swaziland in 1957, Richard E. Grant moved to the UK to pursue his acting career, and has been a fixture on our screens since his breakout role in 'Withnail and I' in 1987. When his beloved wife Joan died in 2021 after almost forty years together, she set him a challenge: to find a pocketful of happiness in every day. The result is this book. Set between the present day and flashbacks to delightfully indiscreet diary entries recalling landmarks...