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The Tube mapper project: Capturing moments on the London Underground
by Luke Agbaimoni
The Tube Mapper project deliberately captures moments of subconscious recognition and overlooked interests, showcasing images that can be seen near or at every Underground, Overground and DLR station in London. Photographer Luke Agbaimoni gave up city-scape night photography after the birth of his first child, but creating Tube Mapper allowed him to continue being creative, fitting photography around his new lifestyle, and adding stations on his daily commute.
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| Walking with ghosts by Gabriel ByrneCelebrated Irish actor Gabriel Byrne's humble and intimate memoir details his working-class origins and his 40-year career.
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Between the covers: Jilly Cooper on sex, socialising and survival
by Jilly Cooper
A classic collection of journalism from the legendary Jilly Cooper. Wonderfully warm and astonishingly acerbic, Jilly's observations from her days as a much-loved newspaper columnist cover everything on sex, socialising and survival, from marriage and friendship; the minutiae of family life and the tedium of going to visit people for the weekend; to the stress of hosting dinner parties and the descent of middle age. Entertaining and full of heart, join Jilly Between the Covers to explore the very highs and lows of everyday life.
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David Bowie
by Robert Dimery
Explore the years Bowie spent struggling to find the right artistic outlet to the dramatic breakthrough in 1972 with Ziggy Stardust - and afterwards, the excessive lifestyle that nearly cost him his sanity. It continues with his artistic rebirth in Berlin during the late Seventies, the mainstream success he achieved with Let's Dance in 1983 and the artistic price that he paid for it.
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Mastering street photography
by Brian Lloyd Duckett
Mastering Street Photography is a practical guide to capturing the candid moments that reveal life at its most dramatic, absurd or beautiful. A guide to equipment and technical skills leads into lessons in finding inspiration, developing projects and composing different subjects and scenes.
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The Windsor diaries, 1940-45: My childhood with the Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret
by Alathea Fitzalan Howard
The never-before-published diaries of Alathea Fitzalan Howard-who spent her teenaged years living out World War II in Windsor Great Park with her close friends Princess Margaret and Princess Elizabeth, the future queen of the United Kingdom-provide an extraordinary and intimate look at the British Royal Family. Published for the first time, these unique diaries unveil a candid and vivid portrait of the British Royal Family and of Princess Elizabeth in particular, the warm, quiet young girl who was already on her journey to her ultimate destiny: the Crown.
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Vogue: Fantasy & fashion
by Rebecca Kaplan
Lavishly illustrated, Vogue: Fantasy & Fashion celebrates the magazine's strong and deeply rooted tradition of storytelling through magical, narrative portfolios. Fashion's greatest power is its ability to make people dream; to create new worlds. Featuring well-known images as well as unexpected gems from the archive, Vogue: Fantasy & Fashion documents fashion at its most magical and affirms its transformative power.
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Accidentally Wes Anderson
by Wally Koval
Fuelled by a vision for distinctive design, stunning photography, and unexpected narratives, Accidentally Wes Anderson is a passport to inspiration and adventure. Perfect for modern travellers and fans of Wes Anderson's distinctive aesthetic, this is an invitation to look at your world through a different lens.
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She Bop: The definitive history of women in popular music
by Lucy O'Brien
For She Bop, Lucy O'Brien conducted over 250 interviews with female artists and women working behind the scenes in A and R, marketing, music publishing, and production to write a groundbreaking exploration of sexism in the music industry. Fusing many untold stories, O'Brien presents a feminist history of women in popular music, from 1920s blues to the present day. Published to celebrate the original book's 25th anniversary, this new She Bop will appeal to a huge cross-section of readers, from music fans to the LGBT audience and women of all generations.
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Kensington Palace: An intimate memoir from Queen Mary to Meghan Markle
by Tom Quinn
Kensington palace has been described as a royal menagerie, a hive of industrious freeloaders, an ant heap and even a lunatic asylum. Tom Quinn takes the reader behind the official version of palace history to discover intriguing, sometimes wild, often scandalous, but frequently heart-warming stories.
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| Just as I am by Cicely TysonAn engaging memoir by iconic Emmy and Tony Award-winning actress Cicely Tyson, published just two days before her death in January at age 96. Read how Tyson broke barriers and combatted stereotypes in the entertainment industry, including being the first Black actress to wear her natural hair on TV and earning an Oscar nomination for 1972's Sounder, her first lead film role and her volatile relationship with Miles Davis, to whom she was married for eight years. |
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Empire of the superheroes: America's comic book creators and the making of a billion-dollar industry
by Mark Cotta Vaz
Empire of the Superheroes is a history of the creation and evolution of America's comic book superheroes, as revealed through the experiences of the young creators that built the myth and medium but did not profit from it. From the seminal introduction of Superman in 1938--when comics were ten cents per copy and considered pulp fiction for kids--the superhero genre has transformed into a global phenomenon and multi-billion-dollar business.
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