Out of This Century: Confessions of an Art Addict

Guggenheim, Peggy

Arts & Photography

Chameleon

Comic, poet, singer, songwriter and glasses-wearer, John Hegley has captivated and devastated audiences all over the country, in theatres, at gigs at the Edinburgh Festival, and with numerous appearances on radio and television. In the Observer's Expert's Expert feature, he was chosen as a top fringe comedian by his peers. Time Out describes him as fabulously funny. Glad to Wear Glasses is Hegley's first full-length collection. It includes several of his pieces regularly featured in the Guardian. It includes over seventy of Hegley's surprising, comic, serious, disconcerting, economical and always original poems.

Glad to Wear Glasses

Literature & Fiction

HEGLEY, JOHN

Poetry

Born in 1755, the daughter of a portraitist and a former hairdresser, Vigee Le Brun triumphed over institutional prejudice to make a career as Marie-Antoinette's favourite portraitist and the painter-confidante of royalty all over Europe. Her connections in Parisian high society made the revolution dangerous for her, and after the fall of the Bastille she fled France both to save her own skin and to go on painting beautiful women and powerful men. Her wandering, cosmopolitan life took her to Bourbon Naples, Habsburg Vienna, imperial St Petersburg and Georgian London, and wherever she went she attracted attention for her alluring portraits. Vigee Le Brun, in both her personal and her public life, was a woman of contradictions. A revolutionary female artist, she was a political reactionary who yearned for what she saw as the lost paradise of France before the revolution. A proud and independent woman, she raised her daughter single-handedly, only tragically to lose her affection. Angelica Goodden's illuminating account of this extraordinary woman - the first biography of the artist in English for seventy-five years - is also a vivid portrait of an age of society scandal and political turmoil. Drawing on contemporary records and Vigee Le Brun's own fascinating memoirs, Goodden brings to life the remarkable range of friends and acquaintances the artist made through her work, from Catherine the Great and Madame de Stael to Emma Hamilton, whose suggestive portrait won Vigee Le Brun some notoriety. As her art regains favour, this definitive biography is a long-overdue reassessment of this sometimes scandalous, often devious but prodigiously gifted woman.

Sweetness of Life: A Biography of Elizabeth Louise Le Brun

Biographies & Memoirs

Goodden, Angelica

Arts & Literature

George Michael is one of Britain''s top pop s tars. In this book, Mick Middles charts the singer''s career from the days of Wham through Freedom and Listen Without Pre judice to his latest hit album, Older. '

George Michael

UNKNOWN

Tips of two corners slightly damage. CLEAN, loaded with photos and info. Stories of race life.

Life's the Pits

Sports & Outdoors

Crowe, Dave

Miscellaneous

A photographic guide to sporting history.

Sports N'All

The outrageous, unstoppable and hilarious Je remy Clarkson is back with another blockbusting book of cars , featuring a beautiful collection of machines that are film , T.V., music and sports stars in their own right. '

Jeremy Clarkson's Planet Dagenham: Drivestyles of the Rich and Famous

Engineering & Transportation

jeremy-clarkson

Automotive

The Essential Elton John

Bright, Spense

Ronnie Barker has had a number of successful television roles: as Fletcher, the cynical prisoner in Porr idge; as the shopkeeper, Arkwright; and as one half of the T wo Ronnies. This biography was written with his full coopera tion. '

Ronnie Barker: the authorised biography

MCCABE, Bob

The story of Neil Young from early days in Canada to his established career as a rock star.

Essential Neil Young

Grant,Steve

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