Film, TV, Music & Drama Books

Girls Aloud is one of the most successful girl bands of UK. Since winning ITV's Popstars: The Rivals in 2002 , Cheryl, Kimberley, Nadine, Nicola and Sarah have come a very long way indeed. This book follows their ride from relative obscurity to international super stardom - with plenty of style advice and celebrity gossip along the way.

Takes key elements and subjects surrounding 'DC and presents them in alphabetical order, with each entry illustrated accordingly.

A guide that can push your dancing know-how that one step further with shakers, showstoppers and sequins. It features interviews with the 2007 celebrities, and profiles of the professional dancers. It shows you some Dancersize moves to keep you fit.

Don'ts for Dancers wasoriginally printed in 1925 and contains hundreds of snippets of entertaining,timeless and amusing advice for anyone learning to dance or attending aparty.

The incredible, and moving true story of Cheeta the Chimp, star of countless Hollywood blockbusters, told in his own words

In the early days no one at the BBC realized what a success, Blue Peter would be, but it has provided some of television's most iconic moments. This book includes stories of this programme, from its evolution to the people and animals who captured the imagination and entertained and educated millions of the nation's youth across generations.

Offers listing of the key characters and places from Britain's best loved radio drama. This guide helps you master the intricate and tangled web of relations in Ambridge, uncover the secrets behind the feuds and scandals, and gain insight into the happenings on the show.

Suitable for music buffs, downloaders glued to iPods and budding Mark Ronsons, this book features charts, lists, facts and timelines as well as information, cross references and analysis from Martin Roach.

Based entirely in the fictional world of Walford, this book takes a gossip- magazine-style approach to the Square, focusing less on the public-service remit and more on Roxy's cocktail recipes. It looks in depth at key themes, such as adultery and doomed romances.

The final word on the world's greatest rock band

Examines the powers of music through the individual experiences of patients, musicians and everyday people to show that music can calm and organize, torment and heal. This work tells stories that alter our conception of who we are and how we function, and show us an essential part of what it is to be human.

The best of 50 years of letters to Britain's favourite children's programme. In this wonderfully entertaining book, Biddy Baxter - the programme's editor for 26 years, and the woman who used the Blue Peter badge to encourage children to write in with ideas, pictures and stories - reproduces some of the very best letters received. Original, engrossing, funny and sometimes remarkably rude - they ...

Features stories from rehab in a Thai monastery to riots at the Astoria, the tabloid expose of Kate Moss to countless brushes with the law.

4 million people watch the Dragons on TV, now they can read their book.

Separate from the government, outside the police, beyond the United Nations, and founded by Queen Victoria in 1879, the Torchwood Institute has long battled against alien threats to the British Empire - work done in secret, under the cover of darkness. This title offers a glimpse into what is almost one of Torchwood's serious breaches of security.

From White Riot to Rock The Casbah , The Clash were a band like no other. Rolling Stone magazine declared London Calling one of the greatest albums of all time. This title brings together personal and professional photos of the band at home, on stage, in the studio and on the road.

Explains how humans experience music and unravels the mystery of our perennial love affair with it. Using musical examples from Bach to the Beatles, this work reveals the role of music in human evolution, shows how our musical preferences begin to form even before we are born, and explains why music can offer such an emotional experience.

The final word on music's greatest legend, in which Philip Norman reveals a John Lennon the world has never seen. With ground-breaking insight into the pain, beauty and frustration that shaped the genius of modern music, John Lennon: The Life redefines a legend.

With 90 million of the band's records sold worldwide since 1987, Guns N' Roses prolonged rock music past its sell by date with controversial albums and immense, often riotous world tours. This work details the story of a band that originated in the gutters of Sunset Strip and went on to become one of the biggest, baddest band on the planet.

An irreverent, hilariously illustrated guide to the wonderful world of the dance floor, covering everything from the most basic moves to the very advanced.