Collection: Adult Non Fiction - Leisure

Want your film to sizzle with danger? Then learn from the master of tension and action. Using Tarantino's secret tricks for creating conflict, keeping dialogue taut, and letting all hell break loose, you will enhance your own shooting style. Whatever your budget, get the action pumping with the c...

"A history of the making of the film Midnight Cowboy and the novel that inspired it"-- Provided by publisher.

The Short Story of Film is a new and innovative introduction to the art of film-making. Simply constructed, the book explores 50 key movies, from superhero blockbusters to indie darlings. The design of the book allows the reader to navigate their way around key genres, movements and techniques wi...

From prehistory to now, the fascinating story of why music is vital to the human experience From award-winning broadcaster and composer Andrew Ford, The Shortest History of Music is a lively, authoritative tour through several thousand years of music. Packed with colourful characters and surprisi...

Brimming with wisdom and humour, David Kynaston's diaries written over one football season offer up his most personal take on social history to date. David Kynaston was seven and a half years old when he attended his first Aldershot match in the early months of 1959. So began a deep attachment to...

The Hottest 100 is a national institution. This book is a fun retrospective: an insightful, light-hearted and deeply respectful celebration of the colourful history of 'the world's greatest musical democracy'.

The Sick Bag Song is an exploration of love, inspiration and memory shaped around the events of Cave's 2014 tour of North America. It began life scribbled on airline sick bags during the 22-city tour. It soon grew into a restless full-length contemporary epic. Spurred by encounters with modern da...

This collection is encyclopedic in its scope -- a reader gets a master's in comedy -- while being constantly funny, extraordinarily candid, and offering so many unprecedented delights that it really can't be replicated elsewhere. There is perhaps no one in world whose influence on contemporary co...

"No one knows comedy like Judd Apatow. From interviewing the biggest comics of the day for his high school radio show to performing stand-up in L.A. dive bars with his roommate Adam Sandler, to writing and directing Knocked Up and producing Freaks and Geeks, Apatow has always lived, breathed, and...

A conductor is one of classical music's most recognizable figures. Many people who have never actually been to an orchestral concert have an image of what one looks like. But rarely does such a well-known profession attract so many questions: 'Surely orchestras can play perfectly well without you...