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An informative A-Z guide to every aspect of the silver screen, which takes in biographies of film stars and directors, accounts of films from all parts of the world, articles on the history of cinema and explanations of technical terms and film makers' jargon. It explores the myths and legends of cinema, giving insights into famous successes, disasters and scandals. With a foreword by Richard Attenborough. -
A very beautiful and detailed book on the exhibition, history, discovery, translation and conservation of the Dead Sea Scrolls, published in association with the Israel Antiquities Authority. With coloured photos of the Dead Sea and surrounding areas, reproductions of the Scroll fragments and possible translations that offer a fascinating insight to life in Old Testament times and interpretation of the Scripture. -
From the spring of 1913 to the autumn of 1923, Rebecca West was the woman in Wells' life. He was forty-six; she was twenty and already showing literary promise toward a notable career. Their relationship was not public and Wells maintained his home life with his wife Jane, who was fully aware of the liaison while Rebecca existed in harassing, isolated and unhappy conditions. Over 800 of Wells' letters to Rebecca survive, although he destroyed all but five of hers. Rebecca presented the letters to the Beinecke Library at Yale University with the proviso that they should not be accessible until after her death. But the publication of inadequate and incorrect accounts of her life at this period caused her to change her mind and the letters were made accessible to author Gordon Ray. His record makes a fascinating, stimulating and often profoundly moving story. -
Long before his death in 1988, Robert A. Heinlein had expressed the desire to have a selection of his letters published, after he was gone, and entitled 'Grumbles from the Grave'. But increasing pressure from his work and a series of major illnesses made it impossible for him to undertake the job of editing this himself. His wife, Virginia, took on the labour of fulfilling his wish. These are his letters from his first one to an editor in 1939, through the long years of writing for pulp magazines, to his conquest of slick magazines and for major book publishers. Many of his later letters are to his long-time agent, Lurton Blassingame. It's a record of his thoughts and opibnions on publishers. travel, juvenile novels, adult novels, fiction, work habits, fan mail and house-building; reviews, his writing methods and the ethics he saw in writing good science fiction. A fascinating insight into Heinlein the man and Heinlein the writer. -
From the book: 'To talk about the art of living has come to sound more artificial than artistic. But St. Francis did, in a very definite sense, make the very act of living an art, though it was an unpremeditated art.' This edition has beautiful colour illustrations and is a very beautiful portrait of the most lovable of saints, the man who began as a poet and became a living legend. -
A true story. Patsy was an innocent teenager when she was swept off her feet by Chaim Yarden, the handsome, romantic Israeli soldier. Suddenly there as a whirlwind marriage, three children and Patsy was living in Israel. But her charismatic husband had a dark side that included a criminal record and a violent temper. After years of abuse, she and the children fled to her parents' home in Belgium. Her husband set out to track her down and destroy her. With the help of newfound religious friends, he kidnapped the children and Patsy began a long, heart-breaking search throughout Europe and New York as well as the battle to get her children back. Jacket design by Andrew Newman. -
These are the REAL below-stairs stories from the time of servants, lords, ladies and the great divide between Upstairs and Downstairs. Margaret Powell - shrewd, unabashed and wickedly funny - was originally interviewed on radio in the late sixties to talk about her life as a servant and the response was so intense that it spawned a series of books of her experiences. Read about the household where she had to iron the bootlaces; the guest who kept hot potatoes in her cleavage...not to mention the gentleman who like to stroke the housemaid's curlers (!). You couldn't invent these stories. -
Merle Oberon: unforgettable with Charles Laughton in The Private Life of Henry VIII, overnight stardom in The Scarlet Pimpernel and her greatest role - Cathy to Laurence Olivier's Heathcliffe in Wuthering Heights. Beautiful, romantic and passionate, the men in her life were many and famous. She moved in high society, charming everyone around her. Yet her early life was a mystery so well hidden that it was only after her death and after dedicated, determined research that it was possible to unravel her true story - a story as bizarre and dramatic as any film script. With black and white photographs. -
When Anna Mary Robertson Moses, a farmer's widow, was seventy eight, she found that her hands were too stiff to sew fine embroidery. Her sister Celestia suggested that she might try painting instead. The rest really is history. This book was written when she was 92 and still going strong. Her ability to portray simple farm life and rural countryside won her a wide following: the excitement of winter's first snow, Thanksgiving preparations and the new, young green of oncoming spring. In person, Grandma Moses charmed wherever she went. A tiny, lively woman with mischievous gray eyes and a quick wit, she could be sharp-tongued with a sycophant and stern with an errant grandchild. And apart from her artistic talent, we can learn of her life: starting with her employment as a live-in housekeeper at the age of 12, her marriage and children. A fascinating look at a truly one-of and great lady. Contains 16 full colour reproductions of her paintings.
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