Playwright, director, actor, songwriter, singer: few artists have influenced popular culture more than the legendary Noël Coward. He chronicled high society with sparkling wit, played a crucial role in Britain's propaganda efforts during World War II, and made a splash in Hollywood. This lavishly illustrated volume, with its elegant slipcase, celebrates everything Coward. It includes 20 removable pieces of facsimile memorabilia--letters, sheet music, manuscript drafts, drawings, and programs--as well as a DVD featuring previously unseen, personal footage.

The Treasures of Noël Coward (Y)

Day, Barry

History

Andre Deutsch

The seventh volume in Knopf’s critically acclaimed Complete Lyrics series, published in Johnny Mercer’s centennial year, contains the texts to more than 1,200 of his lyrics, several hundred of them published here for the first time. Johnny Mercer’s early songs became staples of the big band era and were regularly featured in the musicals of early Hollywood. With his collaborators, who included Richard A. Whiting, Harry Warren, Hoagy Carmichael, Jerome Kern, and Harold Arlen, he wrote the lyrics to some of the most famous standards, among them, “Too Marvelous for Words,” “Jeepers Creepers,” “Skylark,” “I’m Old-Fashioned,” and “That Old Black Magic.” During a career of more than four decades, Mercer was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Song an astonishing eighteen times, and won four: for his lyrics to “On the Atchison, Topeka, and the Santa Fe” (music by Warren), “In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening” (music by Carmichael), and “Moon River” and “Days of Wine and Roses” (music for both by Henry Mancini). You’ve probably fallen in love with more than a few of Mercer’s songs–his words have never gone out of fashion–and with this superb collection, it’s easy to see that his lyrics elevated popular song into art.

The Complete Lyrics of Johnny Mercer

Literature & Fiction

Kimball, Robert

Mercer, Johnny

Kreuger, Miles

Davis, Eric

Dramas & Plays

KNOPF

Although he wrote hundreds of songs and was a key figure in the birth of the American stage musical, P. G. Wodehouse's (1881-1975) long and influential career as a lyricist has been almost completely forgotten and unheralded - until now. Highly regarded by literati for his rich, sardonic Wooster and Jeeves books (among his more than ninety novels and volumes of short stories), Wodehouse broke new ground by writing songs that were cohesively integrated into the narrative action of musicals rather than presented as a string of unrelated tunes, which was the then-standard format. Particularly in the shows he wrote with Guy Bolton and Jerome Kern, Wodehouse transformed the musical from a poor man's Gilbert and Sullivan-style operetta into a more idiomatic and respectable form based on contemporary life. This book sets the lyrics from his nearly forty theatrical productions within the context of each individual show, providing incisive and informative commentary for each. Lavishly illustrated with photos and memorabilia, Barry Day establishes why, throughout the 1920s and 1930s, Wodehouse was considered a top-tier theatrical figure on both sides of the Atlantic.

The Complete Lyrics of P. G. Wodehouse

Humor & Entertainment

Scarecrow Press

The story of one man's dream fulfilled, This Wooden “O” tells of American actor Sam Wanamake's efforts to reconstruct Shakespeare's Globe Theater. “A tale of intrigue and bitter rivalry, it reads more like a political thriller than a slice of recent theatrical history.” –Time Out (London) “...an extraordinary document of human endeavor. When I got to the final pages I found there were tears running down my face.” –Rosemary Harris

This Wooden O: Shakespeare's Globe Reborn: Achieving an American's Dream (Limelight)

Limelight

Sherlock Holmes finds himself investigating a string of murders in London 1900 that have a common thread-- each recalls one of his earlier cases.

Sherlock Holmes and the Copycat Murders

Carey, Andrzej Klimowski @ Lynne

Second Opinion Inc

SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE APOCALYPSE MURDERS...London 1895..and the past returns to haunt Sherlock Holmes. A murder with a distinctive signature suggests that Jack the Ripper may be back and no longer confining his attention to ladies of easy virtue. And is his return somehow connected to the charismatic Janus Cain and his Church of the New Apocalypse? Is there indeed, some master plan to bring an end to civilisation as Victorian society knows it? Holmes and Watson set out to find the answer with the unlikely help of Oscar Wilde. But will they be in time to avert the Four Horsemen...Pestilence, Famine, War and Death?

Sherlock Holmes and the Apocalypse Murders (Sherlock Holmes Murders)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Second Opinion (FL)

The latest in the series has Holmes and Watson on the trail of evil genius Janus Cain with the help of Oscar Wilde and The Woman....Irene Adler

Sherlock Holmes and the Shakespeare Globe Murders (Sherlock Holmes Murders)

New writing from the Noel Coward Archive. A treasure trove of previously unpublished writing from the masterly pen of Noel Coward.

The Unknown Noel

At Oxford they jokingly called themselves THE SEVEN SINNERS. Now, thirty years later, they are being murdered - each in the manner of his particular 'sin'. Who is doing it and what is the connection with the twin serpents, the mysterious Emerald Lady and the holy Book of Kor? Holmes and Watson -with the aid of their new friend, Professor Challenger - must race against time and the killer...becore one of the victims becomes his brother, Mycroft.

Sherlock Holmes and the Seven Deadly Sins Murders

A companion to the popular Wodehouse collection, written in conjunction with the International Wodehouse Association's president, presents the story of his life as described through his own characteristic wit and drollery.

P. G. Wodehouse In His Own Words

Ring, Tony

Abrams Press

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