Ticket to the World: My 80s Story

Biographies & Memoirs

MARTIN KEMP

Arts & Literature

HarperCollins, Publishers

Game

HarperCollins Publishers, Limited

Writing his own story Martin Kemp talks frankly about his upbringing in working-class Islington, stardom and success with Spandau Ballet and the break up of the band. He writes openly about his film career, the huge success of The Krays, his tremendous fight against brain cancer and on to today with fame again in EastEnders. This is a stunningly written account of a fascinating life written with candour and wit. 
‘There are tears and laughter, and it’s all told with honesty, style and unexpected humour. This inspiring tale reveals his hopes and fears as he battled for his life while trying to get his career back into the groove. It will have you glassy-eyed, torn between the Kleenex and digging out your old Spandau Ballet albums’ The Mirror

True : The Autobiography of Martin Kemp

Humor & Entertainment

ORION PAPERBACKS

15 Days to Freedom

It was 1943 and the Allied war machine was quickly building toward it''s peak. The invasion of western Africa provided their bombers with a platform from which they could strike the under belly of Europe At the same time, the German defense forces, both anti-aircraft and aircraft fighters, were reaching the peak of their efficiency. Aircraft B-17, 0837 had made thirty four sorties over enemy targets when her luck ran out.On August nineteenth she was going after a power station at Foggia, Italy. Combining the flack and the enemy fighters, this was her last mission. Shortly after noon, eight of her surviving crew members parachuted down into Italian hands. Bruce and Ken were quickly moved into an Italian interrogation camp. The next stop was a permanent camp and two days after their arrival, the Italian Government surrendered to the Allies. Now prisoners of the Germans, they were moved to a third camp in preparation for a move northward. That''s when these two airmen decided to try an escape. On the outside, an Italian-American put the escapees into non-descript civilian clothes, pointed to the southeast and the Allied lines, and sent them on their way. Even thought they remained in the "back country," it quickly became clear that the enemy not only included the German army but the local Facists and numerous groups of young boys hiding out to avoidconscription. Ten days later the civilian dressed airmen discovered their position was accidently right in the middle of the German lines. With infantry positions dead center in front, heavy weapons somewhere behind them, there simply was no direction left to go. For the next interesting five days they had but one goal: evade the German army and get to the Allied forces not more that a couple miles away.

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

AuthorHouse

This volume provides an insight into the working of Leonardo da Vinci's visual mind. It features pages of his notebooks that deal with inventions, visions of the earth in age-long transformation, the governance of mathematical proportion in the design of the universe, observations and theories of the motions of waters, and more.

Leonardo Da Vinci: Experience, Experiment and Design (Victoria & Albert Museum: Exhibition Catalogues)

V&A Publications

This magnificently illustrated book accompanies the most ambitious exhibition in the Hayward Gallery's program for the year 2000. Spectacular Bodies: The Art and Science of the Human Body from Leonardo da Vinci to Now is a ground-breaking exhibition with the potential to be a visual, cultural, and academic revelation with profound impact. The project encourages a new way of looking at visual objects from the territories that are conventionally labeled "medicine" and "art." The human body is an astounding feat of engineering. For centuries man has striven to understand its complexities, both artistically and anatomically, often resorting to human dissection. Illustrating the point at which medicine and art collide, Know Thyself brings together an extraordinary range of more than 250 objects from more than eighty medical and art museums and collections worldwide. Works of art from across the centuries include the anatomical drawings of Leonardo, Michelangelo, Dürer, and Stubbs, seventeenth-century portraits of surgeons and paintings by great masters including Rembrandt, Hogarth, Courbet, Gericault, and Degas. These works will be shown in a new context alongside medical instruments, prints, and drawings used in the medical study of the human face and body, and life-size anatomical models. Today, as forensic and medical sciences advance as never before—with the development of genetic fingerprinting, cryogenics, and designer babies—artists continue to find inspiration in the human body. Video installations, photography, and sculpture will present new perspectives on the historic material. The eight contemporary artists involved range from internationally celebrated video artists Bill Viola and Tony Oursler, to younger artists like Gerhard Lang, Christine Borland, and Marc Quinn.

Spectacular Bodies: The Art and Science of the Human Body from Leonardo to Now (Art Catalogue)

Hayward Gallery

The Chapel of Trinity College, Oxford, completed in 1694, is a magnificent essay in integrated form, effect, function and meaning.  The harmonious ease of the design draws on the architectural vocabulary of Christopher Wren, yet speaks with its own distinct accent.  A remarkable campaign of interior decoration resulted in one of the most effective and integrated ensembles of painting and sculpture in any chapel in Britain, including sculpture by Grinling Gibbons and a ceiling painting of "Christ in Glory" by Pierre Berchet.Martin Kemp, the renowned art historian, has been a Fellow of Trinity since 1995, and in this volume he pays tribute to the masterpiece of art and architecture within his own college's walls that has fascinated him over the years.  He argues that Ralph Bathurst, the sixteenth-century President of the College, is the effective 'author' of the Chapel.  The book is illustrated with specially commissioned photography by Tim Rawle, as well as historic documents from the college and university archives.Appendix by The Reverend Emma Percy

The Chapel of Trinity College Oxford

'A really emotional read... it's wonderful' - Zoe Ball, BBC Radio 2 
'It's such a lovely book!' - Holly Willoughby, This Morning 
'A lovely read... it's got everything - emotion and lots of laughs' - Alex Jones, The One Show 
'A gorgeous book!' - Lorraine 
'From Wham! to Spandau Ballet, from success to chaos in the blink of an eye - Martin and I are two ordinary people who have been on an extraordinary adventure together. Through it all, our commitment to each other and to our family is what has always mattered the most.' Shirlie Kemp\nWith a heartwarming foreword by Noel Fitzpatrick, IT'S A LOVE STORY tells the incredible story of Martin and Shirlie Kemp from the moment they set eyes on each other, through their stellar careers, to raising a family together.\nFor the first time, fans and readers will have an insight into their journey together, the lessons they have learned in the spotlight and behind the scenes, and their secrets to success, happiness and raising a loving family. The book will uncover the personal highs and lows of Britain's favourite couple, and the unbreakable bond that has kept them strong, no matter how hard the fight gets.\n'40 years together has been filled with incredible highs, when every teenage dream and every wish literally came true, to the most horrifying of lows that belonged in our nightmares. Shirlie and I are always asked, "What's the secret to a long marriage?" - well, hopefully within the pages of this book we all might find the answer to that question!' Martin Kemp

Shirlie and Martin Kemp: It's a Love Story

Shirlie Kemp

Mirror Books

When it was sold at auction in 1998, the drawing La Bella Principessa ("The Beautiful Princess") was listed as an anonymous 19th-century German work, created in homage to Renaissance art. Suspecting that this incomparable drawing might actually be the work of Leonardo da Vinci, Martin Kemp subjected it to a variety of forensic tests, the results of which make a strong case for the piece's authenticity. In this exhibition catalogue, Kemp explains his working methods and relates the intriguing history of this drawing, which is shown here in 34 color reproductions, including some two-page close-ups as large as 13 x 17 inches.

La bella Principessa di Leonardo da Vinci

Scripta Maneant

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