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Weerklink Van 'n Wanklank - Memoires Van Toe En Nou (Afrikaans, Paperback): Pieter-Dirk Uys Weerklink Van 'n Wanklank - Memoires Van Toe En Nou (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Pieter-Dirk Uys
R288 Discovery Miles 2 880 Ships in 4 - 8 working days

Met meer as 7 000 verhoogoptredes op sy kapstok is Pieter-Dirk Uys volksbesit. In Weerklink van ’n wanklank, sy skreeusnaakse, roerende memoires, tree die mens agter die ikoon te voorskyn.

Ons leer ken sy moeilike, musikaal-gedrewe pa, sy briljante, geheimsinnige ma, sy suster, die pianis-wonderkind, en Sannie Abader, “Pietertjie” se Kaapse Vlakte-ma.

Dan is daar sy Paarlse ouma wat hom neem om by die Verwoerds te gaan kuier, sy ander Oma en haar onverbeterlike strudel, sy vriendskap met Sophia Loren, die geboorte van Evita Bezuidenhout, en die vreugdes en hartseer van ’n merkwaardige lewe.

Soldaat (Afrikaans, Paperback): Reynardt Hugo Soldaat (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Reynardt Hugo
R245 R211 Discovery Miles 2 110 Save R34 (14%) Ships in 4 - 8 working days

Reynardt Hugo speel Dr Tertius Jonker in Binnelanders en was van 2011 tot 2019 lid van die Afrikaanse popgroep ADAM. Tog, agter al sy sukses, sangtoere, toekennings en die vele lofbetuigings is daar ’n diep gewonde en verlore siel. Nes duisende ander mans, het Reynardt jare lank gestoei om sy verwondheid met drank, dagga, vroue en pornografie te verdoesel. Sy oorlog was ’n soeke na betekenis en aanvaarding.

Soldaat vertel van ’n klein seuntjie en die verwarrende wêreld waarin hy grootgeword het. Hy praat eerlik en opreg oor die impak wat sy ouers se egskeiding op hom gehad het, en die invloed van drankmisbruik in hulle huis, en hoe hy dit alles as jong seun ervaar het en daarvan moes sin maak. Hy praat openlik oor sy swakheid vir vroue en die gevolge van sy dade.

Vandag is Reynardt Hugo ’n suksesvolle jong man wat ’n groot impak maak. Die pad was lank en rof en hy moes vele uitdagings oorkom, maar vandag is sy lewe ’n ware getuienis van wat God kan doen met iemand wat op moedverloor se vlakte sit, en hoe God ’n storie van verwoesting in ’n storie van hoop kan verander.

Reynardt se verhaal is boeiend. Dit bevat al die elemente van tragedie, intrige, neerlaag en oorwinning, maar ook die heel belangrikste bestanddeel: die krag van die evangelie van Jesus Christus.

Born a Crime - Stories from a South African Childhood (Paperback): Trevor Noah Born a Crime - Stories from a South African Childhood (Paperback)
Trevor Noah 1
R300 R260 Discovery Miles 2 600 Save R40 (13%) In Stock
Life's What You Make It - The Sunday Times Bestseller 2020 (Hardcover): Phillip Schofield Life's What You Make It - The Sunday Times Bestseller 2020 (Hardcover)
Phillip Schofield
R627 R413 Discovery Miles 4 130 Save R214 (34%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Discover the funny, uplifting, occasionally heartbreaking and always honest life story of Phillip Schofield '[A] fantastic read on such an interesting life' Lorraine Kelly 'A really smashing book' Michael Ball For forty years we've watched Phillip on our tellies, from children's TV to This Morning and Dancing on Ice, but what is it like on set and who is he when the camera's off? In Life's What You Make It Philip for the first time takes us behind the scenes of his remarkable career. From his idyllic childhood in Cornwall, where for years he pestered the BBC for a job, eventually landing a prize position in the Broom Cupboard with mischievous sidekick Gordon the Gopher, through hosting Going Live!, starring in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat and finally finding his on-screen home and presenting-partner Holly Willoughby on This Morning, Phillip takes us on the highs and lows of his extraordinary life. ____ 'For a long time, I felt that I couldn't write this book. At first, I didn't think I'd lived enough, then life got busy and filled with distractions. In more recent years, there was always a very painful consideration - I knew where it would eventually have to go. 'I have recently decided that the truth is the only thing that can set me free. The truth has taken a long time to make itself clear to me, but now is the right time to share it, all of it. 'Television and broadcasting has been a part of my DNA for as long as I can remember. As a young boy I would make model TV sets out of cardboard boxes, while spending long summers at home, barefoot on Cornwall's golden beaches. Landing a job at the ice-cream kiosk, I would enviously look on as my presenting heroes took to the stage of Radio 1's Roadshow, an unforgettable event when it came to town. 'In Life's What You Make It I look back with nostalgic delight on my life, from being a young boy endlessly writing letters to the BBC in pursuit of a job in broadcasting, to making it on to the Broom Cupboard, with my infamous sidekick Gordon the Gopher, to being on Going Live and starring as the lead in Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber's Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat. It has taken four decades to get here but I feel lucky to have called the sets of Talking Telephone Numbers, The Cube, Dancing on Ice and of course, This Morning, home. 'I'm going to take you behind the scenes of my television home at ITV, into my career and my dangerously funny relationship with Holly Willoughby. I'm going to introduce you to my loving and remarkable family, and I hope most of all to tell you that life, it seems, is what you make it. Take it from someone who has sat on the very edge and looked over, it's all about the people that love you, and after that anything is possible. So, finally, here we go, this is the real me.' ____ 'A beautiful book. There are amazing stories in there about meeting Princess Diana, the Red Arrows and all of our favourite telly shows. It's a delight' Zoe Ball, BBC Radio 2 'We have loved your book - you've been so honest, open, everything that anyone will have hoped to get from this book . . . you get it. A stroll through your incredible career and you also tackle, head on, in a really beautiful way what happened earlier this year' Andrea McLean, Loose Women 'One of our favourite things is the many hilarious anecdotes he has to share about his good friend Holly Willoughby' Hello! 'The book we've all been waiting for . . . we haven't been able to put it down' New 'A bona fide national treasure . . . He tells his story in his way, with great honesty' Prima 'A fantastic read!' Steve Wright, BBC Radio 2

Musicals magazine - The World of Musical Theatre from the West End to Broadway and beyond (Paperback, New edition): Sarah Kirkup Musicals magazine - The World of Musical Theatre from the West End to Broadway and beyond (Paperback, New edition)
Sarah Kirkup
R305 Discovery Miles 3 050 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
And Away... (Paperback): Bob Mortimer And Away... (Paperback)
Bob Mortimer
R208 Discovery Miles 2 080 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The number one bestseller and Sunday Times Humour Book of the Year by national treasure Bob Mortimer.'The most life-affirming, joyful read of the year' - Sunday Times 'Winningly heartfelt' - The Guardian 'A triumph' - Daily Mail Bob Mortimer's life was trundling along happily until suddenly in 2015 he was diagnosed with a heart condition that required immediate surgery and forced him to cancel an upcoming tour. The episode unnerved him, but forced him to reflect on his life so far. This is the framework for his hilarious and moving memoir, And Away... Although his childhood in Middlesbrough was normal on the surface, it was tinged by the loss of his dad, and his own various misadventures (now infamous from his appearances on Would I Lie to You?), from burning down the family home to starting a short-lived punk band called Dog Dirt. As an adult, he trained as a solicitor and moved to London. Though he was doing pretty well (the South London Press once crowned him 'The Cockroach King' after a successful verdict), a chance encounter in a pub in the 1980s with a young comedian going by the name Vic Reeves set his life on a different track. And now, six years on, the heart condition that once threatened his career has instead led to new success on BBC2's Gone Fishing. Warm, profound, and irrepressibly funny, And Away... is Bob's full life story (with a few lies thrown in for good measure.)

Amusement Parks Around America (Paperback): Lorin Driggs Amusement Parks Around America (Paperback)
Lorin Driggs
R290 R234 Discovery Miles 2 340 Save R56 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Scratching the Surface - Adventures in Storytelling (Paperback): Harvey Ovshinsky Scratching the Surface - Adventures in Storytelling (Paperback)
Harvey Ovshinsky; Foreword by Don Gonyea
R752 R629 Discovery Miles 6 290 Save R123 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Scratching the Surface: Adventures in Storytelling is a deeply personal and intimate memoir told through the lens of Harvey Ovshinsky's lifetime of adventures as an urban enthusiast. He was only seventeen when he started The Fifth Estate, one of the country's oldest underground newspapers. Five years later, he became one of the country's youngest news directors in commercial radio at WABX-FM, Detroit's notorious progressive rock station. Both jobs placed Ovshinsky directly in the bullseye of the nation's tumultuous counterculture of the 1960s and 70s. When he became a documentary director, Ovshinsky's dispatches from his hometown were awarded broadcasting's highest honors, including a national Emmy, a Peabody, and the American Film Institute's Robert M. Bennett Award for Excellence. But this memoir is more than a boastful trip down memory lane. It also doubles as a survival guide and an instruction manual that speaks not only to the nature of and need for storytelling but also and equally important, the pivotal role the twin powers of endurance and resilience play in the creative process. You don't have to be a writer, an artist, or even especially creative to take the plunge, Ovshinsky reminds his readers. ""You just have to feel strongly about something or have something you need to get off your chest. And then find the courage to scratch your own surface and share your good stuff with others."" Above all, Ovshinsky is an educator, known for his passionate support of and commitment to mentoring the next generation of urban storytellers. When he wasn't teaching screenwriting and documentary production in his popular workshops and support groups, he taught undergraduate and graduate students at Detroit's College for Creative Studies, Wayne State University, Madonna University, and Washtenaw Community College. ""The thing about Harvey,"" a colleague recalls in Scratching the Surface, ""is that he treats his students like professionals and not like newbies at all. His approach is to, in a very supportive and non-threatening way, combine both introductory and advanced storytelling in one fell swoop.

101 Marketing Tips for Dance Teachers (Paperback): Sue Wybrow 101 Marketing Tips for Dance Teachers (Paperback)
Sue Wybrow
R351 Discovery Miles 3 510 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Check out tons of amazing tips on how to get massive exposure for your dance classes, parties and workshops. From the importance of contact information, to having more time for a social life - yes, you can have a social life! - 101 Marketing Tips for Dance Teachers has it all. Easy to implement, easy to understand and massively cost effective! If you want to make an amazing living through dance - then you need this book!

Truitjie Roer My Nie - Oor Kempton en Ander K-Woorde (Afrikaans, Paperback): Schalk Bezuidenhout Truitjie Roer My Nie - Oor Kempton en Ander K-Woorde (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Schalk Bezuidenhout
R280 R241 Discovery Miles 2 410 Save R39 (14%) Ships in 4 - 8 working days

Wat beteken dit as ’n jong Afrikanerman jou beskryf as “nogals orraait”? Hoe trek jy die gehoor se aandag as die basaarpoeding hulle gemesmeraais het? En waar in die wêreld is die berugte Pomona Spur? In dié piepie-jou-nat-van-die-lag memoire verklap Schalk – en sy soortvan-bestuurder, Erns Grundling – die bisarre en hartroerende dinge wat hy oorgekom het op sy reise regoor die land na oral waar ’n mikrofoon en ’n gehoor hom inwag.

The Happy Drunk (Paperback): Rich Rose The Happy Drunk (Paperback)
Rich Rose; Contributions by Bob Slayer
R190 Discovery Miles 1 900 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Wholly Viable - An Autoblography (Paperback): Phil Kay The Wholly Viable - An Autoblography (Paperback)
Phil Kay
R391 Discovery Miles 3 910 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Wholly Viable - An Autoblography (Hardcover): Phil Kay The Wholly Viable - An Autoblography (Hardcover)
Phil Kay
R758 Discovery Miles 7 580 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Lovejoy Trail (Paperback, Revised edition): Paul Atkinson The Lovejoy Trail (Paperback, Revised edition)
Paul Atkinson
R707 Discovery Miles 7 070 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A comprehensive list of many of the locations used in the TV series 'Lovejoy'. Locations in Suffolk, Norfolk, Hertfordshire and Essex.

Better - Waking Up to Who We Could Be (Paperback): Melvin Bray Better - Waking Up to Who We Could Be (Paperback)
Melvin Bray
R600 R504 Discovery Miles 5 040 Save R96 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Helen Lewis: Shadows Behind the Dance (Hardcover): Helen Lewis, Michael Longley, Chris Agee Helen Lewis: Shadows Behind the Dance (Hardcover)
Helen Lewis, Michael Longley, Chris Agee; Illustrated by Sarah Longley
R670 Discovery Miles 6 700 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Helen Lewis' acclaimed memoir, A Time to Speak (Blackstaff Press, Belfast, 1997), tells the story of the first thirty years of her life in Czechoslovakia, from childhood to her professional training as a choreographer and dancer. It also contains her devastating account of Nazi persecution, of loss and suffering in the Holocaust: Helen came very close to death. Maddy Tongue now completes the story of this extraordinary woman who overcame unimaginable suffering to become a creative force in Ireland. The author's friendship with Helen lasted for more than fifty years. As a dancer she performed in many of Helen's significant works. Shadows Behind the Dance describes Helen's creative approach, her struggle to overcome an Irish indifference to modern dance, her pursuit of perfection and her unshakeable belief in humanity. In Ireland today the presence of modern dance owes much to her innovative teaching and practice. Shadows Behind the Dance is supplemented with Chris Agee's 2002 interview with Helen, "An Irish Epilogue", and a folio of Holocaust poems and drawings by Michael Longley and Sarah Longley (who was a pupil of Helen's). Helen's sons, Robin and Michael, have also written a Foreword. The book has been generously funded through subscription by family, friends, colleagues and admirers of the unforgettable Helen Lewis.

Steps by steps (Book): Don Edkins, Iikka Vehkalahti Steps by steps (Book)
Don Edkins, Iikka Vehkalahti
R500 Discovery Miles 5 000 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Steps for the future documentary film project began in 2000, as a shared journey by talented African filmmakers and well-known professionals from around the world. The experience of the North combined with the knowledge of the South was an auspicious fusion that helped create 38 unique films. It was also the catalyst for new documentary projects such as Why Democracy? All the films produced dealt with the question of death and the enormous problem of HIV and AIDS in Southern Africa. Films that millions of people have seen worldwide, that have received awards from Cannes to Zanzibar, and - dubbed into local languages - are still used throughout southern Africa. Steps by steps provides an honest and thorough picture of the process, step by step. Detailed accounts of the logistics of making the series are mingled with reflections on the art of direction, working with other people and the reality of the lives of those people affected by HIV and AIDS. Steps by steps gives a rare behind-the-scenes look at the making of documentary films and the building of a worldwide project, complete with its problems and triumphs, mistakes and unique results.

The Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee Book (Hardcover): Jerry Seinfeld The Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee Book (Hardcover)
Jerry Seinfeld
R1,080 R914 Discovery Miles 9 140 Save R166 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A celebration of and behind-the-scenes look at Jerry Seinfeld’s groundbreaking streaming series Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.

Over eleven seasons and eighty-four episodes, Jerry Seinfeld drove around in classic cars, grabbing coffee and chatting with the funniest people alive. He reminisced with the late Garry Shandling; bantered with legends Steve Martin, Tina Fey, and Eddie Murphy; reunited with the cast of Seinfeld; and even paid a visit to President Barack Obama in the Oval Office. These and dozens of other guests talked about the intricacies of stand-up, the evolution of their careers and personal lives, and whatever else popped into their brilliant minds. The result was not only a hilarious collection of casual yet intimate conversations—a rare opportunity for viewers to witness their favorite performers unscripted and unvarnished—but arguably the most important historical archive about the art of comedy ever amassed.

Now that archive is preserved in the form of a gorgeously designed and carefully curated book. Seinfeld has hand-picked the show’s keenest insights and funniest exchanges. Also included is a fascinating oral history featuring interviews with dozens of crew members, executives, guests, and Seinfeld himself that details how this scrappy creative experiment landed unprecedented access to the White House, earned multiple Emmy nominations, and helped lead the streaming revolution.

Featuring a newly written introduction by Seinfeld and filled with beautiful never-before-seen production photos, this book is essential reading for comedy lovers, car aficionados, coffee connoisseurs, and Jerry Seinfeld fans.

Star Trek - The Original Series: A Celebration (Hardcover): Ben Robinson, Ian Spelling Star Trek - The Original Series: A Celebration (Hardcover)
Ben Robinson, Ian Spelling
R884 Discovery Miles 8 840 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Dream Brother (Paperback): David Browne Dream Brother (Paperback)
David Browne
R475 R395 Discovery Miles 3 950 Save R80 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

When Jeff Buckley drowned at the age of thirty in 1997, he not only left behind a legacy of brilliant music -- he brought back haunting memories of his father, '60s troubadour Tim Buckley, a gifted musician who barely knew his son and who himself died at twenty-eight. Both father and son made transcendent music that mixed rock, jazz, and folk; both amassed a cadre of obsessive, adoring fans.

This absorbing dual biography -- based on interviews with more than one hundred friends, family members, and business associates as well as access to journals and unreleased recordings -- tells for the first time the intriguing, often heartbreaking story of these two musicians. It offers a new understanding of the Buckleys' parallel lives -- and tragedies -- while exploring the changing music business between the '60s and the '90s. Finally, it tells the story of a father and son, two complex, enigmatic men who died searching for themselves and each other.

Storytelling - A Sort of Memoir (Paperback): Storytelling - A Sort of Memoir (Paperback)
R584 R523 Discovery Miles 5 230 Save R61 (10%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

During a remarkable lifetime, Andrew Sinclair has bridged the worlds of university and literature, art and cinema. A child of the Second World War, he has known many of the leading figures of the past seventy years - ranging from William Golding to Ted Hughes, Harold Pinter to Francis Bacon, Robert Lowell to Graham Greene, as well as publishing such classic screenplays as 'The Blue Angel', 'The Third Man' and 'Stagecoach'. He also directed a number of films including Dylan Thomas's 'Under Milk Wood' starring Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor and Peter O'Toole. This unique `anti-memoires' of episodes and encounters captures new insights into many of the leading creative talents and stars of their times. In his own adventures, Andrew became involved in the revolt against the Suez invasion and overground nuclear tests, the Cuban revolution led by Fidel Castro and Che Guevara, the 1968 global student uprisings and finally in the worldwide digital revolution in education and the arts. Now in his ninth decade, this author of some 40 books, including the much-lauded The Breaking of Bumbo and Gog, Andrew Sinclair in the tradition of John Aubrey's Brief Lives looks back on a rich life and fond memories of the people he has studied and known.

A History of Pre-Cinema V2 (Paperback): Stephen Herbert A History of Pre-Cinema V2 (Paperback)
Stephen Herbert
R950 Discovery Miles 9 500 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A History of Pre-Cinema Volume 2 (and volumes 1 and 3) cover the optical devices used for entertainment and instruction that proliferated before the introduction of cinema. Volume 2 is divided into the following sections: Peepshows; The Panorama; The Diorama; Magic Mirrors; Shadowplay; Magic Lanterns; Pepper's Ghost; Recreative Science; Various Optical Devices.

A History of Pre-Cinema V3 (Paperback): Stephen Herbert A History of Pre-Cinema V3 (Paperback)
Stephen Herbert
R909 Discovery Miles 9 090 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Volume 3 of A History of Pre-Cinema contains a complete reprint of Olive Cook's book Movement in Two Dimensions. In it, the author carefully describes how each of the technologies worked, but she is more concerned with the aesthetic and cultural than the technical.

Now Playing at the Valencia: Pulitzer Prize Winning Essays on the Movies (Paperback, 1st Simon & Schuster pbk. ed): Stephen... Now Playing at the Valencia: Pulitzer Prize Winning Essays on the Movies (Paperback, 1st Simon & Schuster pbk. ed)
Stephen Hunter
R472 R399 Discovery Miles 3 990 Save R73 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

From Pulitzer Prize-winning movie critic and New York Times bestselling author Stephen Hunter comes a brilliant, freewheeling, and witty look at the movies. Evanston, Illinois, was an idyllic 1950s paradise with stately homes, a beautiful lake, a world-class university, two premier movie houses, and one very seedy movie theater--the Valencia. This was the site of Washington Post film critic Stephen Hunter's misspent youth. Instead of going to school, picking up girls, or tossing a football, Hunter could be found sitting in the fifteenth row, right-hand aisle seat of the Valencia, sating himself on one B-list movie after another. The Valencia had a sticky floor, smelly bathrooms, ancient popcorn, and a screen set in a hideously tacky papier-mache castle wall. It was also the only place in town to see westerns, sci-fi pictures, cops 'n' robbers flicks, slapstick comedy, and Godzilla. In Now Playing at the Valencia, the bestselling thriller author Stephen Hunter has compiled his favorite movie reviews written between 1997 and 2003, bringing to the discussion the passionate feelings for cinema he discovered in the '50s, a time when genres were forming, mesmerizing stars played unforgettable characters, and enduring classics were made. While filmmaking has changed tremendously since Hunter first frequented the Valencia, the view from the fifteenth row, and the thrill of down and dirty entertainment, has remained the same.

The Echo Of A Noise - A Memoir Of Then And Now (Paperback): Pieter-Dirk Uys The Echo Of A Noise - A Memoir Of Then And Now (Paperback)
Pieter-Dirk Uys
R335 R241 Discovery Miles 2 410 Save R94 (28%) Ships in 4 - 8 working days

South African icon Pieter-Dirk Uys has been on stage over 7 000 times. In this funny and tender memoir, Uys reveals the person behind the persona.

We meet his forbidding, musically driven Afrikaner father, his brilliant but troubled mother, and Sannie Abader, his Cape Flats ma who raised him in Pinelands, Cape Town.

Filled with photographs from the family album and 40 years of satire, The Echo Of A Noise also features Pieter’s Paarlse ouma, his strudel-baking German Oma, his devotion to Sophia Loren, the invention of Evita Bezuidenhout, and the joys and sorrows of a remarkable life.

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