Product Description: This new edition of Contemporaries and Snobs, a landmark collection of essays by Laura Riding, offers a counter-history of high modernist poetics.  Laura Riding’s Contemporaries and Snobs (1928) was the first volume of essays to engage critically with high modernist poetics from the position of the outsider...read more

Product Description: A look at the personal life and artistic accomplishments of the famously elusive actorRegarded by many as the finest actor of his generation, Daniel Day-Lewis is one of Hollywood's most bankable stars. His diverse performances in roles such as cerebral palsy sufferer Christy Brown in My Left Foot and Butcher Bill in Gangs of New York have cemented his reputation as a chameleon method actor...read more

Product Description: This fascinating biography of Freddie Mercury which received outstanding acclaim from Queen and rock fans worldwide, has now been updated for reissue to coincide with the release of the film about his life. Laura Jackson addresses topics including:* The reality behind Queen's flamboyant front man and lead singer* Mercury the star of mystery - amusing, loyal and generous, yet revealing a dark side to his personality* His frequent use of cocaine and how it heightened his tendency to excess - both on and off stage* The women in his life - his bizarrely enduring relationships with his first love, Mary Austin, and his long-time confidante, Barbara Valentin, who speaks for the first time in this bookThe book also includes new and intimate stories by those who knew him well, such as Tim Rice, Richard Branson, Cliff Richard, Bruce Dickinson, Mike Moran, Wayne Eagling, Zandra Rhodes and Susannah York...read more

Product Description: A portrait of a man who has become a rock legend. Jon Bon Jovi is Bon Jovi's focus and figurehead and this volume charts his relationship with the other band members who have their fair share of rock and roll stories. Laura Jackson explores the personality, character, drive and determination that has taken Jon Bon Jovi from playing the New Jersey clubs through all the groupie excess and glamorous indulgence to where the band is in 2003...read more

The Eagles have enjoyed colossal success spanning three decades. They are a remarkable mesh of lyrical and musical talent, twined with an explosive blend of personalities. This book follows their fascinating story from the early '70s, through their career and personal highs and lows, to their break up in 1982 and their eventual reform in 1994.

As the lead guitarist of Queen, Brian May is one of rock's most recognisable stars. This book charts his life from his childhood, through his years studying astro physics and teaching, his success with Queen, his projects and his volatile relationship with actress Anita Dobson. It reveals Queen's struggles to get to the top.

Product Description: A volume in the Poets on Poetry series, which collects critical works by contemporary poets, gathering together the articles, interviews, and book reviews by which they have articulated the poetics of a new generation. In The Failure of Poetry, The Promise of Language, Laura (Riding) Jackson examines the subjects of poetry, language, and truth; the conflict between truth and art; and the range of human attitudes to the prospect of truth-speaking...read more

Kiefer Sutherland has not always led the pampered life of a son of celebrity parents. He has carved his own path, made his own mistakes, as well as some unusual and surprising life decisions. This biography traces the actor's life from his childhood, through his parents' divorce to his struggle to break into acting and the success he has achieved.

Product Description: Neil Diamond, writer and singer of some of the most memorable songs in history, is the focus of this biography. From his childhood struggle to get out of Brooklyn through five decades of global stardom, this book marries his personal history with his public persona.

Laura (Riding) Jackson, renounced poetry in mid-life because it hampered the way to something 'further' in language. Divided into 62 numbered sections, this book stands central to her work. It articulates that language needs to be precise and unambiguous, and that human fulfilment should be attainable through truth-speaking.

Product Description: Consisting of essays of the 1960s and 1970s, and assembled by Laura (Riding) Jackson herself, this previously unpublished collection is both a substantial addition to the work of her later period, after she had renounced poetry, and also a spirited contribution to later twentieth-century debates about language, literature, and life...read more

Product Description: The story of Paul Simon, whose evocative lyrics have articulated the fears, dreams and everyday dilemmas of several generations. It gives insights into Paul Simon's life and music, from his roots to the 21st century, dealing with the years he partnered Art Garfunkel, his subsequent solo career, and how he later went on to embrace experimentation with world music and develop an interest in musicals and film...read more

A fascinating glimpse into the life of U2's complex, genuine, and compassionate front man, from his origins in Dublin to his current status as an international rock icon, details his many personal and politcal causes, including speaking out against apartheid and nuclear testing. Reprint.

Product Description: Leader of the most illustrious rock band in history, and father of 7 children (by 4 different women), Mick Jagger, at the age of 60, shows no signs of slowing down. Here, Laura Jackson traces his path to fame and notoriety, from his school days to his most recent tour with the Stones...read more

Traces the more than four-decade career of the top-hit songwriter and musician, from his first chart hit with Art Garfunkel at the age of sixteen through his 2002 receipt of the Kennedy Center Honors, discussing his private life, political involvements, and troubled relationships.

Examines the life of rock singer Bono, from his forming of the band U2 in high school, to his activist campaigning for the reduction of Third World debt.

Product Description: A Shoujo Manga! DEEDLIT and PARN join up with the wizard SLAYN to free the village of HANAM from an evil warlord. They are hopelessly outnumbered and, to make matters worse, an Elf named ESTAS, is trying to come between Deedlit and Parn...read more

Product Description: Always ahead of her time, no other major poet of the last century enters the twenty-first so fresh, so essentially unexplored as does Laura Riding. Her formidable credentials as a modernist need no longer distract attention from the class-of-her-own this writer occupies...read more

Product Description: Currently seen as one of Hollywood's favourite villains, Sean Bean's life is traced from its working-class roots through to his successful TV and film career. Interviews with friends and family give insights into the actor's life and explore how he balances between the large and small screen...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Anarchism is Not Enough is a manifesto against systematic thinking, a difficult book by a famously difficult writer. For the scope of its critical imagination, it is the most radical work of Laura Riding's early period. This period extends from the end of 1925, when she left America for Europe and Robert Graves, to 1939, the year she returned to America, renounced any further writing of poetry, and soon after married Schuyler Jackson...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Laura Jackson has interviewed members of Queen, many of their close friends, and several of the world's leading rock musicians to turn the spotlight on the private lives, professional struggles and personal triumphs of the band. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)