Spencer Tracy

During his lifetime (1900-67), Spencer Tracy was known as Hollywood's 'actor's actor'. Critics wrote that what Olivier was to theatre, Tracy was to film. Over his career he was nominated for nine Academy Awards, and won two. But there has been no substantial, intimate biography of the man. From his earliest days in stock theatre, Tracy was a publicist's trial, guarding his private life fiercely. Most of the people associated closely with him also shunned the fanzine limelight - notably his wife, his children and the great actress Katharine Hepburn, with whom he had an affair that lasted over 26 years. Although his screen roles often depicted a happy, twinkling Irishman, Tracy was a periodic alcoholic and a not very agreeable drunk. But the studios managed to keep him out of the papers. With the help of Tracy's daughter, Susie, and access to previously unseen papers, James Curtis has now produced the definitive biography of a tortured, complex and immensely talented man. The book contai

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Hutchinson

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Arts & Literature

Arrow

<p>Writer-director Preston Sturges set a new standard for creativity in Hollywood. Three volumes of his screenplays have been published, and he is acknowledged as one of the grand masters of screen comedy. Between Flops was the first full-length biography of this great American humorist."One of the most entertaining and engrossing film biographies I've encountered, doing justice not only to that truly eccentric genius at the core, but also to his time and place in both Hollywood and our culture." Judith Crist"A sobering picture of the sweat and disappointment that lie beneath the Hollywood hoopla." Newsweek</p>

Between Flops: A Biography of Preston Sturges

HARCOURT, BRACE

'The Gilt Kid' focuses on a convicted burglar and Communist sympathiser, freshly released from prison. Instead of going on the straight and narrow, he wastes little time in plunging back into the London underworld.

The Gilt Kid

Literary

London Books

When Shorty Mathews leaves prison after two years he goes to visit 'nice little bit' Alice, only to find that she has been strangled. Shorty panics and goes on the run, leaving the city behind and hitching rides with lorry drivers, going through various adventures before returning to London.

They Drive by Night

JONATHAN MEADES

<p>Tommy Mutch is a working-class lad from the slums of West London, eager to escape the mean streets of Notting Dale. Boxing is in its 1930s heyday and, like many in his position, Tommy sees it as an escape route from poverty. As a preliminary boy on the verge of making the breakthrough this is more than just a dream, but he hasnt bargained for the obstacles he has to face outside the ring - crooked promoters, hucksters, pimps and prostitutes, small-time gangsters. Tommy has strong morals and a fierce sense of justice, but these are about to be put to the test.</p>

There Ain't No Justice

The Thomas Jefferson Beale Treasure: The Dream

History

World

Independently published

1st James 23: The Unseen Giant

Memoirs

Becoming You: A Boys Guide to Growing up and Navigating Puberty

Parenting & Relationships

Parenting

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