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The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock: An Anatomy of the Master of Suspense
Hardback
A fresh, innovative interpretation of the life, work and lasting influence of the twentieth century’s most iconic filmmaker.
A Complicated Passion: The Life and Work of Agnès Varda
eBook
The first major biography of the French New Wave filmmaker hailed as “one of the Gods of Cinema” by Martin Scorsese
Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run
Hardback
Told in revelatory first person, this immersive account of Paul McCartney and Wings is the engrossing oral history of a band that came to define a generation.
Augustine the African
Hardback
An extraordinary work of revisionist history that centres Africa in the life of one of the greatest philosophers
Collisions: A Physicist's Journey from Hiroshima to the Death of the Dinosaurs
Hardback
A riveting biography of the Nobel Prize–winning experimental physicist hailed as “the greatest scientific detective of the twentieth century"