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The Look [Bok / Inbunden]

<i>'Living in Corfu was rather like living in one of the more flamboyant and slapstick comic operas'</i><br/><br/>It is 1935 and the Durrells have escaped the leaden summer skies of Bournemouth to arrive 'like a troupe of medieval tumblers' on the sun-drenched island of Corfu for a new life. Gerald Durrell's beloved portrayal of his chaotic family - beatific Mother, Roger the dog, diet-obsessed Margo, book-loving Lawrence and gun-wielding Leslie - as well as his own adventures with a burgeoning menagerie of beasts, birds and insects (including an owl called Ulysses), is a timeless account of an idyllic childhood and an uproarious portrait of the English abroad.

<b>A celebration of Tim Curry's life's work - including the iconic Dr. Frank-N-Further in The Rocky Horror Picture Show - and a testament to his profound impact on the entertainment industry as we know it today.</b><br/><br/>There are few stars in Hollywood today that can boast the kind of resume Emmy award-winning actor Tim Curry has built over the past five decades. From his breakout role as Dr. Frank-N-Furter in The Rocky Horror Picture Show to his iconic depiction as the sadistic clown Pennywise in It to his critically acclaimed role as the original King Arthur in both the Broadway and West End versions of Spamalot, Curry redefined what it meant to be a "character actor," potraying heroes and villains alike with complexity, nuance, and a genuine understanding of human darkness. He's had dozens of roles across movies, TV shows, and musicals; lent his instantly recognizable voice to dozens of voice roles, audiobooks, and videogames; and he's changed the lives of countless fans in the process.<br/><br/>Now, in his memoir, Curry takes readers behind-the-scenes of his rise to fame from his early beginnings as a military BRAT with difficult family dynamics, to his formative years in boarding school and university, to the moment when he hit the stage for the first time. He goes in-depth about what it was like to work on some of the most emblematic works of the 20th century, constantly switching between a camera and a live audience. He also explores the voicework that defined his later career and provided him with a chance to pivot after surviving a catastrophic stroke in 2012 that nearly took his life.<br/><br/>With the upcoming 50th anniversary of The Rocky Horror Picture Show and the 40th anniversary of Clue, there's never been a better time for Tim to share his story with the world.

<b>"Outrageously good ... An unforgettable book" - OLIVIA LAING</b><br/><br/><b>"Reverie and road-trip, <i>Aqua</i> succeeds in turning the Cadillac Desert and Land of Little Rain into something lush and unexpected ... Chiara Barzini ducts and dives through a wonderful and revelatory journey" - GEOFF DYER</b><br/><br/>In 1913, William Mulholland finished building the Los Angeles Aqueduct - a 233-mile engineering masterwork transporting water from the Owens Valley, across the desert, to a barren corner of California that would become the home of filmmaking.<br/><br/> Over one hundred years later, award-winning Italian author and filmmaker Chiara Barzini traces the geography of the aqueduct, from its source, across the desert, to the city that it helped into existence, all while reckoning with her personal history with the landscape. From the 'fake' waters of the Universal Studios <i>Jaws</i> attraction to Salton Sea - California's largest lake and 'the only man-made mistake visible from space' - <i>Aqua</i> explores how water, and its absence, shaped both a modern landscape and the history of film.<br/><br/> A blend of travel writing, philosophy, cultural history and memoir, <i>Aqua</i> is a hugely entertaining and wide-ranging exploration of water, film, dreams versus reality and an empire on the brink of catastrophe.

<b>A bold and brilliant short work by the author of the Goldsmiths Prize-winning <i>Cuddy</i></b><br/><br/><b>November, 1971. Berlin, Germany. Opening night. </b><br/><br/>Klaus Kinski, Germany's most controversial actor, steps into the spotlight to a crowd of thousands.<br/><br/>After years of making movies abroad, he has returned to the stage for a much-publicized one-man performance about Jesus Christ. As the crowd turn on him and violence is threatened, it is also very nearly his last. After this week, he will never perform on stage again.<br/><br/>Exactly fifty years later, a hypochondriac writer, housebound by winter snowstorms, becomes fixated with video footage of Kinski at his most manic.<br/><br/>In this forensic analysis, he strays into the darker corners of modern culture, and finally begins to understand the compulsive urge that drives artists to the edge of sanity in their pursuit of perfection.<br/><br/><b><i>Jesus Christ Kinski</i> is a novel about a film about a performance about Jesus. It is a daring act of literary ventriloquism, a meditation on censorship, creativity, loneliness - and just how far our tolerance is tested by bad people who make great art.<br/></b><br/><b>Praise for Benjamin Myers</b><br/><b>'One of our finest, and most deftly imaginative, writers' <i>i news </i></b><br/><b>'Radical and gorgeous' Max Porter</b><br/><b>'A writer of extraordinary and incandescent talent' Alex Preston</b>

<b>Beautifully illustrated with more than 200 photographs, including never-before-seen images, <i>The Look</i> is a stunning journey through Michelle Obama's style evolution, in her own words for the first time.</b><br/><br/>In this celebration of style, from the moment she entered the public eye during her husband's U.S. Senate campaign through her time as the first Black First Lady of the United States and today as one of the country's most influential figures, Michelle Obama shares how she uses the beauty and intrigue of fashion to draw attention to her message.<br/><br/>Featuring the voices of Meredith Koop, Obama's trusted stylist, as well as her makeup artist Carl Ray, hairstylists Yene Damtew and Njeri Radway, and many of the designers who have dressed Obama for notable events, <i>The Look </i>brings readers behind the scenes not only to reveal how her most memorable looks came together but also to tell a powerful story about how we present ourselves.<br/><br/>Obama's intimate and candid stories illuminate how her approach to dressing has evolved throughout her life - from the colourful sheath dresses, cardigans, and brooches she wore during her time as First Lady to the bold suits, denim, and braids of her post-White House life and all the active looks and beautiful gowns in between.<br/><br/>In <i>The Look</i>, Michelle Obama explores the joy and the purpose of fashion and beauty and how - when wielded with grace and care - they can uplift and affirm the values one holds most dear. Confidence, she concludes, cannot be put on. But when you're wearing something that's intentional or beloved, clothing can make you feel like the best version of yourself.

<b>From the Academy Award-winning actor and #1 <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>Greenlights </i>comes an inspiring, faith-filled, and often hilarious collection of personal poetry and prayers about navigating the rodeo of life and chasing down the original dream, belief. </b><br/><br/><b><i>My prayers are my poems are my prayers.</i></b><br/><br/>I've always relied on logic to make sense of myself and the world.<br/><br/>A prescriptionist at heart, I've always looked to reason to find the rhyme, the practical to get to the mystical, the choreography to find the dance, the proof to get to the truth, and reality to get to the dream.<br/><br/>I've been finding that tougher to do lately. It's more than hard to know what to believe in; it's hard to believe.<br/><br/>But I don't want to quit believing, and I don't want to stop believing <i>in . . .</i> humanity, you, myself, our potential.<br/><br/>I think it's time for us to flip the script on what's historically been our means of making sense, and instead open our aperture to enchantment and look to faith, belief, and dreams for our reality.<br/><br/>Let's sing more than we might make sense, believe in more than the world can conclude, get more impressed with the wow instead of the how, let inspiration interrupt our appointments, dream our way to reality, serve some soul food to our hungry heads, put proof on the shelf for a season, and rhyme our way to reason.<br/><br/>Forget logic, certainty, owning, or making a start-up company of it; let's go beyond what we can merely imagine, and believe, in the poetry of life.