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Poetics, Politics and Protest in Arab Theatre - The Bitter Cup and the Holy Rain (Paperback): Mas'ud Hamdan Poetics, Politics and Protest in Arab Theatre - The Bitter Cup and the Holy Rain (Paperback)
Mas'ud Hamdan
R963 Discovery Miles 9 630 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Syrians have always revelled in political theatre, which has flourished in Damascus since 1967. But to date there has been very little research on the protest plays written by the Syrians Durayd Lahham (b. 1934) and Muhammad al-Maghout (b. 1934). This book highlights the so far unappreciated merit of these plays, which for so long have been unexplored by the world theatre community, and which are representative of the new wave of Arab theatrical realization. The author surveys the semi-theatrical phenomena their popular orientation and their Eastern carnivalesque folk sources in the Arab world from the Hellenic period to the beginning of the twenty-first century. A primary focus is to explain the reasons behind the tendency towards comedy rather than tragedy, an issue long neglected by scholars. The plays are discussed in terms of former plebeian Arabic theatrical manifestations, and as an aesthetic medium for alternative mass communication. Ghawwar, the famous character type created by Lahham symbolizes a poetical link between the bitter cup of a miserable present and the holy rain of a better future.

Dwars - Rare Karakters Onder Ons (Afrikaans, Paperback): Daniel Lotter Dwars - Rare Karakters Onder Ons (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Daniel Lotter
R306 Discovery Miles 3 060 Ships in 4 - 8 working days

Dwarstrekkers, nonkonformiste, buitestaanders, randeiers...Noem hulle wat jy wil, Suid Afrika het meer as sy deel eksentrieke karakters opgelewer wat mense van die vroegste tye af na hulle asem laat snak of verstom agter hulle hand laat fluister het.

Hierdie rare mense het met die jare hul merk gemaak op vele terreine.

Dis hulle wat Daniël Lotter aan 'n nuwe geslag lesers bekendstel.

Star Trek Designing Starships: Deep Space Nine and Beyond (Hardcover): Ben Robinson Star Trek Designing Starships: Deep Space Nine and Beyond (Hardcover)
Ben Robinson
R776 Discovery Miles 7 760 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
ISE Film History: An Introduction (Paperback, 5th edition): Kristin Thompson, David Bordwell ISE Film History: An Introduction (Paperback, 5th edition)
Kristin Thompson, David Bordwell
R1,805 Discovery Miles 18 050 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This new edition of Film History has been revised to include recent films, new examples, and updated comprehensive overviews of the rise of streaming services as purveyors of cinematic content as well as the massive disruptions of film production, distribution, and exhibition caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. It is a comprehensive global survey of film and its many genres - from drama and comedy to documentary and experimental - written by three of the discipline's leading scholars. Concepts and events are illustrated with frame enlargements taken from the original sources, giving students more realistic and relevant points of reference than publicity stills. There are 100 new film clips with commentary in McGraw Hill Connect (R) - the web-based assignment and assessment platform that helps you connect your students to their coursework. Film History is a text that any serious film scholar - professor, undergraduate, or graduate student - will want to read and keep.

The Routledge Companion to Applied Performance - Two Volume Set (Paperback): Tim Prentki, Ananda Breed The Routledge Companion to Applied Performance - Two Volume Set (Paperback)
Tim Prentki, Ananda Breed
R2,060 Discovery Miles 20 600 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Routledge Companion to Applied Performance provides an in-depth, far-reaching and provocative consideration of how scholars and artists negotiate the theoretical, historical and practical politics of applied performance, both in the academy and beyond. These volumes offer insights from within and beyond the sphere of English-speaking scholarship, curated by regional experts in applied performance. The reader will gain an understanding of some of the dominant preoccupations of performance in specified regions, enhanced by contextual framing. From the dis(h)arming of the human body through dance in Colombia to clowning with dementia in Australia, via challenges to violent nationalism in the Balkans, transgender performance in Pakistan and resistance rap in Kashmir, the essays, interviews and scripts are eloquent testimony to the courage and hope of people who believe in the power of art to renew the human spirit. Students, academics, practitioners, policy-makers, cultural anthropologists and activists will benefit from the opportunities to forge new networks and develop in-depth comparative research offered by this bold, global project.

The Films of Danny Dyer (Paperback): Jonathan Sothcott, James Mullinger The Films of Danny Dyer (Paperback)
Jonathan Sothcott, James Mullinger
R238 Discovery Miles 2 380 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Danny Dyer is Britain's most popular young film star. Idolized by Harold Pinter and with his films having taken nearly $50 million at theUK box office, Dyer is the most bankable star in British independent films with one in 10 of the country's population owning one of his films on DVD. With iconic performances in such cult classicsas "The Business," "The Football Factory," "Dead Man Running," "Outlaw," and now "Vendetta," Dyer is oneof the most recognizable Englishmen in the world. For the first time, and with its subject's full cooperation, this book chronicles his film career in depth, combining production background with critical analysis to paint a fascinating picture of the contemporary British film industry and its brightest star. Packed with anecdotes from co-stars and colleagues, as well as contributions from the man himself, "The Films of Danny Dyer" is the ultimate companion to the work of Britain's grittiest star.

Dramatic Battles in Eighteenth-Century France - Philosophes, Anti-Philosophes and Polemical Theatre (Paperback, New ed.): Logan... Dramatic Battles in Eighteenth-Century France - Philosophes, Anti-Philosophes and Polemical Theatre (Paperback, New ed.)
Logan J. Connors
R2,924 Discovery Miles 29 240 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The mid-eighteenth century witnessed a particularly intense conflict between the Enlightenment philosophes and their enemies, when intellectual and political confrontation became inseparable from a battle for public opinion. Logan J. Connors underscores the essential role that theatre played in these disputes. This is a fascinating and detailed study of the dramatic arm of France's war of ideas in which the author examines how playwrights sought to win public support by controlling every aspect of theatrical production - from advertisements, to performances, to criticism. An expanding theatre-going public was recognised as both a force of influence and a force worth influencing. By analysing the most indicative examples of France's polemical theatre of the period, Les Philosophes by Charles Palissot (1760) and Voltaire's Le Cafe ou L'Ecossaise (1760), Connors explores the emergence of spectators as active agents in French society, and shows how theatre achieved an unrivalled status as a cultural weapon on the eve of the French Revolution. Adopting a holistic approach, Connors provides an original view of how theatre productions 'worked' under the ancien regime, and discusses how a specific polemical atmosphere in the eighteenth century gave rise to modern notions of reception and spectatorship.

The Making of Star Wars (Hardcover): J. W. Rinzler The Making of Star Wars (Hardcover)
J. W. Rinzler; Foreword by Peter Jackson 2
R1,474 R1,183 Discovery Miles 11 830 Save R291 (20%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

George Lucas spent nearly ten years bringing his dream project to life: a ground-breaking space fantasy movie. It would be a swashbuckling sci-fi saga inspired by vintage Flash Gordon serials, classic American westerns, and mythological heroes. Its original title: The Star Wars. The rest is history. Yet its production is a story as entertaining and exciting as the film itself. Now, recounted in the words of those who were there, it is finally being told, for the first time.

During the years 1975 to 1978, over fifty interviews were conducted with key members of the cast and crew. Remarkably these interviews have sat, undisturbed, in the Lucasfilm Archives for three decades. Until now.

The interviews are fresh, candid and – above all – more accurate than many other reported accounts. George Lucas, Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Anthony Daniels, composer John Williams, legendary production designer John Barry, and a host of others share their fascinating tales of overcoming obstacles – storms, crises, technical limitations, high stress and bitter disappointment – while displaying real ingenuity, heroism and creativity.

Using his unprecedented access to the Lucasfilm Archives and this trove of never-before-published ‘lost’ interviews, photographs, production notes, factoids and anecdotes, J. W. Rinzler hurtles readers back in time for a definitive look at the making of Star Wars. For the first time, it’s all here:

* The evolution of the now-classic story and characters – including ‘Annikin Starkiller’ and a ‘huge green-skinned monster with no nose and large gills’ named Han Solo

* Excerpts from George Lucas’s numerous, ever-morphing script drafts

* The birth of Industrial Light & Magic, the special-effects company that revolutionised Hollywood film-making

* The studio-hopping and budget battles that nearly derailed the entire project

* The director’s early casting saga

* The gruelling, nearly catastrophic location shoot in Tunisia and the following breakneck dash to Elstree Studios in London

Lavishly illustrated with hundreds of images spanning the creation of the film, The Making of Star Wars is a piece of cinema history. It is the true story of human endeavour and creativity that led to the production of one of the most outstanding and innovative movies of all time.

NOTE: The books contains 372 pages. These comprise: 362 pages in Arabic numbered pages (ie. 1 - 362) and 10 Roman numbered pages (i - x).

I Know What I'm Doing -- And Other Lies I Tell Myself - Dispatches from a Life Under Construction (Paperback): Jen Kirkman I Know What I'm Doing -- And Other Lies I Tell Myself - Dispatches from a Life Under Construction (Paperback)
Jen Kirkman
R443 R367 Discovery Miles 3 670 Save R76 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Avatar: The Last Airbender Appa Figurine - With sound! (Paperback): Running Press Avatar: The Last Airbender Appa Figurine - With sound! (Paperback)
Running Press
R305 R244 Discovery Miles 2 440 Save R61 (20%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

"Appa, yip yip!" Show off your love and appreciation for the Aang's adorable and loyal sky bison with this "flying" Appa collectible figurine. - Unique "flying" figurine: 3-inch Appa figurine with translucent plastic support post and base to make it appear that he is flying above his cloud base - Includes sound feature: Figurine plays Appa's growl - Illustrated mini book included: Learn about your favorite characters with this 32-page, 2-1/2 x 3" mini book of quotes and full-color art from the show - Perfect gift for Avatar: The Last Airbender fans: Display on a shelf, desk, or bookcase and show off your love for Appa - Officially licensed: Authentic collectible from Avatar: The Last Airbender (c) Viacom International Inc. All Rights Reserved. Nickelodeon, Nickelodeon Avatar: The Last Airbender and all related titles, logos and characters are trademarks of Viacom International Inc.

Nicole Kidman (Paperback): Pam Cook Nicole Kidman (Paperback)
Pam Cook 1
R803 Discovery Miles 8 030 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Pam Cook's study of the star persona of Nicole Kidman traces Kidman's career trajectory through an examination of her (sometimes controversial) film choices and places her in the context of a globalised media and celebrity culture.

Representing Autism - Culture, Narrative, Fascination (Paperback, New): Stuart Fletcher Murray Representing Autism - Culture, Narrative, Fascination (Paperback, New)
Stuart Fletcher Murray
R928 Discovery Miles 9 280 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

From concerns of an 'autism epidemic' to the MMR vaccine crisis, autism is a source of peculiar fascination in the contemporary media. Discussion of the condition has been largely framed within medicine, psychiatry and education but there has been no exploration of its power within representative narrative forms. Representing Autism is the first book to tackle this approach, using contemporary fiction and memoir writing, film, photography, drama and documentary together with older texts to set the contemporary fascination with autism in context. Representing Autism analyses and evaluates the place of autism within contemporary culture and at the same time examines the ideas of individual and community produced by people with autism themselves to establish the ideas of autistic presence that emerge from within a space of cognitive exceptionality. Central to the book is a sense of the legitimacy of autistic presence as a way by which we might more fully articulate what it means to be human.

Visions of Aging - Images of the Elderly in Film (Paperback): Amir Cohen-Shalev Visions of Aging - Images of the Elderly in Film (Paperback)
Amir Cohen-Shalev
R885 Discovery Miles 8 850 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The interface of old age and cinema provides a fascinating yet uncharted territory in the humanities and social sciences. Two central perspectives are explored: movies on old age by old filmmakers; and movies on old age by younger artists. The first perspective focuses on the cinematic representation of ageing from within, whereas the second examines the ways ageing is viewed from the outside. The distinction is based on the schism between the phenomenology of ageing and its social representation: The one hinges on intrinsic qualities of 'old age style' or 'late style'; the second addresses attitudes towards old age in general as well as towards ageing artists and the reception (or rejection) of their late films. The author combines these general perspectives as it shifts between text and context, beginning with ageing from the outside in order to introduce the semantics and pragmatics of the context (reception and filmmaking stylistic change, midlife images of old age), and continuing into the world of ageing as cinematically represented from within, by old filmmakers, an often idiosyncratic, metaphysical and sometimes unapproachable world. By providing a roadmap that charts previous scholarly paths of inquiry, this book offers a panoramic view of the direction of this new field of cinematic gerontology, and is essential reading for students and scholars of cinema, humanistic gerontology, psychology of art, and the sociology of old age and popular culture.

Disney Tim Burton's the Nightmare Before Christmas Cross-Stitch Kit (Paperback): Tim Burton Disney Tim Burton's the Nightmare Before Christmas Cross-Stitch Kit (Paperback)
Tim Burton 3
R244 R179 Discovery Miles 1 790 Save R65 (27%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Interstellar - Beyond Time and Space: Inside Christopher Nolan's Sci-Fi Epic (Hardcover): Mark Cotta Vaz Interstellar - Beyond Time and Space: Inside Christopher Nolan's Sci-Fi Epic (Hardcover)
Mark Cotta Vaz 2
R963 R786 Discovery Miles 7 860 Save R177 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This book documents the making of Christopher Nolan's Interstellar in fascinating detail. Featuring interviews with the acclaimed director, screenwriter Jonathan Nolan, and key cast, with candid pictures from the set, the book will also focus on scientist Kip Thorne, whose revelatory theories about the nature of time and space inspired the movie's narrative.INTERSTELLAR and all related characters and elements are trademarks of and (c) Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc (S14)

Elvis Ignited - The Rise of an Icon in Florida (Hardcover): Bob Kealing Elvis Ignited - The Rise of an Icon in Florida (Hardcover)
Bob Kealing
R760 R637 Discovery Miles 6 370 Save R123 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

It was his most electric and influential time as a live performer. The young and hungry Elvis, the rising star, burst onto stages large and small-sexy, controversial, brimming with talent and ambition. One lightning-hot year in Florida fueled his rise from novelty act to headlining megastar. Elvis Ignited follows the immensely talented musician through his tour of Florida in 1955-1956, where he played more concerts than in any other state in the country and where he first became the object of worship, scorn, and controversy. Bob Kealing interviews people who saw the King up close in high school gymnasiums, nightclubs, radio stations, and shopping centers, recalling the time-stands-still memories of hearing his hit songs for the first time and the shrieks of young fans at the sight of the young rockabilly god. Struck by a new kind of music and performances so different from anything they had known before, Floridians saw how special Elvis was before the rest of the world caught on. Kealing continues the story through Elvis's years in the army and the filming of Follow that Dream in Florida in 1961. Elvis's rise to fame in the Sunshine State was a turning point in American music history. It was the arrival of rock and roll.

Loose Leaf for Theatre: The Lively Art (Loose-leaf, 11th ed.): Edwin Wilson, Alvin Goldfarb Loose Leaf for Theatre: The Lively Art (Loose-leaf, 11th ed.)
Edwin Wilson, Alvin Goldfarb
R5,185 Discovery Miles 51 850 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Priceless Memories (Paperback): Bob Barker, Digby Diehl Priceless Memories (Paperback)
Bob Barker, Digby Diehl
R392 R325 Discovery Miles 3 250 Save R67 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In front of the camera, he has been invited into the homes of millions of Americans as host of The Price Is Right, Truth or Consequences, Miss USA, Miss Universe, The Rose Parade, and many other programs and specials. Now Bob Barker shares stories of favorite contestants, episodes, celebrity encounters, and behind-the-scenes happenings.
Beyond his public persona, he will open up about his personal life. From being raised on a Native American reservation by a single mother through the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl, to training as a pilot in the Navy during World War II, through his romance with the love of his life and high school sweetheart, Dorothy Jo, and his success at retirement.
His support of animal rights has always been a central part of his life. Bob delves into stories of how he has taken on Hollywood and the government in his crusade, including his anti-fur stand-off with beauty pageants, his involvement in uncovering animal abuse in movies and television, and the legislation he helped to pass. He also shares stories of rescuing animals, from dogs to elephants.
For the innumerable fans who have welcomed Bob into their homes over the last fifty years, this book will be like catching up with a dear and familiar friend who continues to lead a full and endlessly interesting life.

Empire and Film (Paperback): Lee Grieveson, Colin MacCabe Empire and Film (Paperback)
Lee Grieveson, Colin MacCabe
R1,177 Discovery Miles 11 770 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

'This important new volume reconstructs the forms of production, distribution and exhibition of films made in and about the colonies. It then ties them to wider theoretical issues about film and liberalism, spectacle and political economy, representation and rule. The result is one of the first volumes to examine how imperial rule is intimately tied to the emergence of documentary as a form and, indeed, how the history of cinema is at the same time the history of Empire.' BRIAN LARKIN, Barnard College 'This superb collection of new scholarship shows how cinema both communicated and aided the imperialist agenda throughout the twentieth century. In doing so, it shows film can be understood as one of the tools of empire, as much as the technology of weaponry or modes of administration: a means of education and indoctrination in the colonies and at home.' TOM GUNNING, University of Chicago At its height in 1919, the British Empire claimed 58 countries, 400 million subjects, and 14 million square miles of ground. Empire and Film brings together leading international scholars to examine the integral role cinema played in the control, organisation, and governance of this diverse geopolitical space. The essays reveal the complex interplay between the political and economic control essential to imperialism and the emergence and development of cinema in the late nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century. Contributors address how the production, distribution and exhibition of film were utilised by state and industrial and philanthropic institutions to shape the subject positions of coloniser and colonised; to demarcate between 'civilised' and 'primitive' and codify difference; and to foster a political economy of imperialism that was predicated on distinctions between core and periphery. The generic forms of colonial cinema were, consequently, varied: travelogues mapped colonial spaces; actuality films re-presented spectacles of royal authority and imperial conquest and conflict; home movies rendered colonial self-representation; state-financed newsreels and documentaries fostered political and economic control and the 'education' of British and colonial subjects; philanthropic and industrial organisations sponsored films to expand Western models of capitalism; British and American film companies made films of imperial adventure. These films circulated widely in Britain and the empire, and were sustained through the establishment of imperial networks of distribution and exhibition, including in particular innovative mobile exhibition circuits and non-theatrical spaces like schools, museums and civic centres. Empire and Film is a significant revision to the historical and conceptual frameworks of British cinema history, and is a major contribution to the history of cinema as a global form that emerged amid, and in dialogue with, the global flows of imperialism. The book is produced in conjunction with a major website housing freely available digitised archival films and materials relating to British colonial cinema, www.colonialfilm.org.uk, and a companion volume entitled Film and the End of Empire.

The Road to Riverdance HB (Hardcover): Bill Whelan The Road to Riverdance HB (Hardcover)
Bill Whelan
R1,055 R927 Discovery Miles 9 270 Save R128 (12%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Riverdance exploded across the stage at Dublin's Point Theatre one spring evening in 1994 during a seven-minute interval of the Eurovision Song Contest hosted by Ireland. It was a watershed moment in the cultural history of a country embracing the future, a confident leap into world music grounded in the footfall of the choreographed kick-line. It was a moment forty-five years in the making for its composer. In this tenderly unfurled memoir Bill Whelan rehearses a lifetime of unconscious preparation as step by step he revisits his past, from with his Barrington Street home in 1950s Limerick, to the forcing ground of University College Dublin and the Law Library during the 1960s, to his attic studio in Ranelagh. Along the way the reader is introduced to people and places in the immersive world of fellow musicians, artists and producers, friends and collaborators, embracing the spectrum of Irish music as it broke boundaries, entering the global slipstream of the 1980s and 1990s. As art and commerce fused, dramas and contending personalities come to view behind the arras of stage, screen and recording desk. Whelan pays tribute to a parade of those who formed his world. He describes the warmth and sustenance of his Limerick childhood, his parents and Denise Quinn, won through assiduous courtship; the McCourts and Jesuit fathers of his early days, the breakthrough with a tempestuous Richard Harris who summoned him to London; Danny Doyle, Shay Healy, Dickie Rock, Planxty, The Dubliners and Stockton's Wing, Noel Pearson, Sean O Riada; working with Jimmy Webb, Leon Uris, The Corrs, Paul McGuinness, Moya Doherty, John McColgan, Jean Butler and Michael Flatley. Written with wry, inimitable Irish humour and insight, Bill Whelan's self deprecation allows us to to see the players in all their glory, vulnerability and idiosyncracy. This fascinating work reveals the nuts, bolts, sheer effort and serendipities that formed the road to Riverdance in his reinvention of the Irish tradition for a modern age. As the show went on to perform to millions worldwide, Whelan was honoured with a 1997 Grammy Award when Riverdance was named the 'Best Musical Show Album.' Richly detailed and illustrated, The Road to Riverdance forms an enduring repository of memory for all concerned with the performing arts.

AQA A Level Drama Play Guide: Our Country's Good (Paperback): Annie Fox AQA A Level Drama Play Guide: Our Country's Good (Paperback)
Annie Fox
R583 Discovery Miles 5 830 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This Play Guide is specifically written for A Level students who are studying Our Country's Good as part of the AQA A Level Drama & Theatre specification. It provides structured support for Component 1: Section A - Drama and theatre. This book is divided into three sections: 1) How to explore a text for A level Drama and Theatre, with vocabulary-building sections on acting, directing and design; 2) An extended exploration of the play to enrich students' understanding and response to the text; 3) Targeted examination preparation to improve writing and test-taking skills. - Fully supports the written examination and helps students develop their key knowledge and understanding of key A Level drama & theatre skills. - Knowledge and understanding of the play are developed with a synopsis, character and scene studies, contextual and practical exploration. - Includes a wide range of practical drama tasks, activities, and research and revision exercises. - Advice on how to interpret and prepare for exam questions with examples of effective responses.

Far From Heaven (Paperback): John Gill Far From Heaven (Paperback)
John Gill
R390 R323 Discovery Miles 3 230 Save R67 (17%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Todd Haynes's 2002 film Far From Heaven has been hailed as a homage to 1950s Hollywood melodrama, although anyone tempted to take the film at face value should be warned that it aims to subvert as much as celebrate that genre. Impeccably constructed, with a care for detail unknown in films from the era, it sets out to make key themes from the genre - romance across racial barriers and class lines, and perhaps the period's greatest taboo, romance between members of the same sex - utterly explicit, when half a century ago those themes had to be encoded in allusion and metaphor. Haynes took as his main source Douglas Sirk's 1955 classic, All That Heaven Allows, although Far From Heaven also references Rainer Werner Fassbinder's bleak portrayal of inter-racial love, Fear Eats the Soul (1974). In the context of Haynes's background in the New Queer Cinema movement, with films such as Superstar, Poison and [safe], this admixture makes Far From Heaven a rather more complex film than just another well-dressed period pastiche. John Gill provides a revealing insight into how Haynes confronts issues of race, sexuality and class in a suburban 1950s American neighbourhood. Haynes has been evasive when pressed for a definitive explanation of his film, although as Gill contends, he has left enough evidence lying around on screen for the keen viewer to pick up on numerous disturbing strands at work beneath the glossy surface of this sumptuously presented weepie. While it may affect to pass as a classic of the genre, Haynes's ultimate aim, Gill contends, is to undermine the nature and notion of cinema and storytelling.

A Merry Little Meet Cute (Paperback): Julie Murphy, Sierra Simone A Merry Little Meet Cute (Paperback)
Julie Murphy, Sierra Simone
R232 Discovery Miles 2 320 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

'The audacity of this magical author duo to sneak in and steal Christmas in the sexiest way possible . . . the charming holiday romp you absolutely need in your life!' TESSA BAILEY 'The holiday romcom of my dreams! Sexy, progressive, hilarious, and full of good cheer' HELEN HOANG When Bee Hobbes takes the lead in a squeaky-clean romantic Christmas movie, there are only three rules: 1. Don't get involved with anyone on set. 2. Don't tell anyone what you do for a living. 3. Definitely don't get involved with anyone on set. 3b. Seriously. Now, she's filming in Christmas Notch, a small town with Christmas trees and festive tunes all year round. But Bee's got a secret identity to hide, and it's not family-friendly. And her co-star, Nolan Shaw, an ex-boyband member infamous for his own x-rated antics, not only knows it, but is secretly her biggest fan. When things start to heat up on set, Bee and Nolan must keep this steamy affair under wraps, or risk ruining everything . . . _________________ 'Funny and saucy, this certainly puts the X-rated into Xmas' Heat 'A merry little masterpiece . . . this is a read for those who want a winter romcom but with some X-rated antics' Metro 'The holiday rom-com of your dreams!' Cosmopolitan 'Looking for a little bit of spice from your Christmas romance? . . . A refreshingly entertaining and sexy read, which also features some great plus-size representation' Popsugar 'For something a little spicy this Christmas, try this holiday romcom' Yours 'With plenty of cheeky charm and a cast of superbly nuanced characters, this brilliantly executed rom-com both cleverly skewers and unabashedly celebrates the appeal of squeaky-clean holiday romances, while also championing body positivity in life and love' Booklist

Beethoven, A Life (Hardcover): Jan Caeyers Beethoven, A Life (Hardcover)
Jan Caeyers; Foreword by Daniel Hope; Translated by Brent Annable
R665 R628 Discovery Miles 6 280 Save R37 (6%) In Stock

The authoritative Beethoven biography, endorsed by and produced in close collaboration with the Beethoven-Haus Bonn, is timed for the 250th anniversary of Beethoven's birth. With unprecedented access to the archives at the Beethoven House in Bonn, renowned Beethoven conductor and scholar Jan Caeyers expertly weaves together a deeply human and complex image of Beethoven-his troubled youth, his unpredictable mood swings, his desires, relationships, and conflicts with family and friends, the mysteries surrounding his affair with the "immortal beloved," and the dramatic tale of his deafness. Caeyers also offers new insights into Beethoven's music and its gradual transformation from the work of a skilled craftsman into that of a consummate artist. Demonstrating an impressive command of the vast scholarship on this iconic composer, Caeyers brings Beethoven's world alive with elegant prose, memorable musical descriptions, and vivid depictions of Bonn and Vienna-the cities where Beethoven produced and performed his works. Caeyers explores how Beethoven's career was impacted by the historical and philosophical shifts taking place in the music world, and conversely, how his own trajectory changed the course of the music industry. Equal parts absorbing cultural history and lively biography, Beethoven, A Life paints a complex portrait of the musical genius who redefined the musical style of his day and went on to become one of the great pillars of Western art music.

Footprints and other plays (Paperback): Vijay Padaki Footprints and other plays (Paperback)
Vijay Padaki
R626 Discovery Miles 6 260 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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