Ticket to the World is a joyous, nostalgic celebration of 80s culture from one man at the centre of it all.\nNew Year’s Eve, 1979. My family and I stand arm in arm around our Formica kitchen table, counting down to the new decade with each televised chime of Big Ben. We have no idea what is about to hit us, no idea of the seismic waves of change approaching.\nThe 80s transformed life as we knew it. Music, style and culture exploded in a haze of dayglo colour. There were hardships, but there were opportunities too. And I lived through – and helped to shape – Britain’s last real youth movement.\nTicket to the World is my time-warp trip down memory lane, reliving that truly unforgettable decade. Join me as I recall what it was like to lead the New Romantics, stay up all night at the Blitz with Sade and Boy George, travel the world with Spandau Ballet and contribute to the era-defining Live Aid.\nSo, grab that glass of Babycham and let’s toast the very best of the 80s: the creativity and the culture, the fashion and the FUN!

Ticket to the World: My 80s Story

MARTIN KEMP

Harpercollins

Ticket to the World is a joyous, nostalgic celebration of 80s culture from one man at the centre of it all. New Year's Eve, 1979. My family and I stand arm in arm around our Formica kitchen table, counting down to the new decade with each televised chime of Big Ben. We have no idea what is about to hit us, no idea of the seismic waves of change approaching. The 80s transformed life as we knew it. Music, style and culture exploded in a haze of dayglo colour. There were hardships, but there were opportunities too. And I lived through - and helped to shape - Britain's last real youth movement. Ticket to the World is my time-warp trip down memory lane, reliving that truly unforgettable decade. Join me as I recall what it was like to lead the New Romantics, stay up all night at the Blitz with Sade and Boy George, travel the world with Spandau Ballet and contribute to the era-defining Live Aid. So, grab that glass of Babycham and let's toast the very best of the 80s: the creativity and the culture, the fashion and the FUN!

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

HarperCollins, Publishers

People used to scream Johnny Klein's name. Now he's lost the fame. The marriage. The money. When he's offered one more throw of the dice, he grabs at the chance. But instead, Johnny's dragged down into East London's dark underbelly, and forced to face the dark corners of his past.

GAME HB

The Game

HarperCollins Publishers, Limited

In this illustrated book, Martin Kemp examines the major optically oriented examples of artistic theory and practice, from Brunelleschi's invention of perspective and its exploitation by Leonardo and Duerer to the beginnings of photography. In a discussion of colour theory, Kemp traces two main traditions of colour science - the Aristotelian tradition of primary colours and Newton's prismatic theory that influenced Runge, Turner and Seurat. His book provides information for all those interested in the interaction between science and art.

The science of art: Optical themes in western art from Brunelleschi to Seurat

Arts & Photography

Painting

Yale University Press

Writing his own story Martin Kemp talks frankly about his upbringing in working-class Islington, stardom and success with Spandau Ballet and the break up of the band. He writes openly about his film career, the huge success of The Krays, his tremendous fight against brain cancer and on to today with fame again in EastEnders. This is a stunningly written account of a fascinating life written with candour and wit. 
‘There are tears and laughter, and it’s all told with honesty, style and unexpected humour. This inspiring tale reveals his hopes and fears as he battled for his life while trying to get his career back into the groove. It will have you glassy-eyed, torn between the Kleenex and digging out your old Spandau Ballet albums’ The Mirror

True : The Autobiography of Martin Kemp

Humor & Entertainment

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15 Days to Freedom

It was 1943 and the Allied war machine was quickly building toward it''s peak. The invasion of western Africa provided their bombers with a platform from which they could strike the under belly of Europe At the same time, the German defense forces, both anti-aircraft and aircraft fighters, were reaching the peak of their efficiency. Aircraft B-17, 0837 had made thirty four sorties over enemy targets when her luck ran out.On August nineteenth she was going after a power station at Foggia, Italy. Combining the flack and the enemy fighters, this was her last mission. Shortly after noon, eight of her surviving crew members parachuted down into Italian hands. Bruce and Ken were quickly moved into an Italian interrogation camp. The next stop was a permanent camp and two days after their arrival, the Italian Government surrendered to the Allies. Now prisoners of the Germans, they were moved to a third camp in preparation for a move northward. That''s when these two airmen decided to try an escape. On the outside, an Italian-American put the escapees into non-descript civilian clothes, pointed to the southeast and the Allied lines, and sent them on their way. Even thought they remained in the "back country," it quickly became clear that the enemy not only included the German army but the local Facists and numerous groups of young boys hiding out to avoidconscription. Ten days later the civilian dressed airmen discovered their position was accidently right in the middle of the German lines. With infantry positions dead center in front, heavy weapons somewhere behind them, there simply was no direction left to go. For the next interesting five days they had but one goal: evade the German army and get to the Allied forces not more that a couple miles away.

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

AuthorHouse

The story behind the exciting discovery and authentication of an unknown masterpiece by Leonardo Da Vinci.

La Bella Principessa

History & Criticism

Hodder Hb

This volume provides an insight into the working of Leonardo da Vinci's visual mind. It features pages of his notebooks that deal with inventions, visions of the earth in age-long transformation, the governance of mathematical proportion in the design of the universe, observations and theories of the motions of waters, and more.

Leonardo Da Vinci: Experience, Experiment and Design (Victoria & Albert Museum: Exhibition Catalogues)

V&A Publications

This magnificently illustrated book accompanies the most ambitious exhibition in the Hayward Gallery's program for the year 2000. Spectacular Bodies: The Art and Science of the Human Body from Leonardo da Vinci to Now is a ground-breaking exhibition with the potential to be a visual, cultural, and academic revelation with profound impact. The project encourages a new way of looking at visual objects from the territories that are conventionally labeled "medicine" and "art." The human body is an astounding feat of engineering. For centuries man has striven to understand its complexities, both artistically and anatomically, often resorting to human dissection. Illustrating the point at which medicine and art collide, Know Thyself brings together an extraordinary range of more than 250 objects from more than eighty medical and art museums and collections worldwide. Works of art from across the centuries include the anatomical drawings of Leonardo, Michelangelo, Dürer, and Stubbs, seventeenth-century portraits of surgeons and paintings by great masters including Rembrandt, Hogarth, Courbet, Gericault, and Degas. These works will be shown in a new context alongside medical instruments, prints, and drawings used in the medical study of the human face and body, and life-size anatomical models. Today, as forensic and medical sciences advance as never before—with the development of genetic fingerprinting, cryogenics, and designer babies—artists continue to find inspiration in the human body. Video installations, photography, and sculpture will present new perspectives on the historic material. The eight contemporary artists involved range from internationally celebrated video artists Bill Viola and Tony Oursler, to younger artists like Gerhard Lang, Christine Borland, and Marc Quinn.

Spectacular Bodies: The Art and Science of the Human Body from Leonardo to Now (Art Catalogue)

Hayward Gallery

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Ticket to the World: My 80s Story

Ticket to the World: My 80s Story

GAME HB

The Game

The science of art: Optical themes in western art from Brunelleschi to Seurat

True : The Autobiography of Martin Kemp

15 Days to Freedom

La Bella Principessa

Leonardo Da Vinci: Experience, Experiment and Design (Victoria & Albert Museum: Exhibition Catalogues)

Spectacular Bodies: The Art and Science of the Human Body from Leonardo to Now (Art Catalogue)