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  • My Life in Pieces

    An Alternative Autobiography

    by Simon Callow ...
    An alternative autobiography of the well-loved actor and man of the theatre, winner of the Sheridan Morley Prize for Theatre Biography.In My Life in Pieces Simon Callow retraces his life through the multifarious performers, writers, productions and events which have left their indelible mark on him.The story begins with Peter Pan – his first ever visit to the theatre – before transporting us to ... Read more

    $22.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Love Is Where It Falls

    An Account of a Passionate Friendship

    by Simon Callow ...
    Simon Callow's candid and moving memoir of his passionate friendship with legendary literary agent Peggy Ramsay.' Exquisite... Perhaps the best theatrical memoir of our day' David Hare ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Being an Actor

    by Simon Callow ...
    A revised and expanded edition of the classic book for actors starting their careers."The most honest book written about us all." —Sir Ian McKellanFew actors have ever been more eloquent, more honest, or more entertaining about their life and their profession than Simon Callow, one of the finest actors of his time and increasingly one of the most admired writers about the theater.Beginning with ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Orson Welles, Volume 3: One-Man Band

    by Simon Callow ...
    **• A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice •The third volume of Simon Callow’s acclaimed Orson Welles biography, covering the period of his exile from America (1947–1964), when he produced some of his greatest works, including Touch of Evil**In One-Man Band, the third volume in his epic and all-inclusive survey of Orson Welles’s life and work, the celebrated British actor Simon Callow again ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Shooting the Actor

    by Simon Callow ...
    When Simon Callow met the Yugoslav film director Dusan Makavejev to discuss his new film Manifesto, they both greatly looked forward to working together. Only months later the two were barely speaking.A companion volume to Being An Actor, Shooting the Actor is a funny and disastrous account of a film made in the former Yugoslavia, together with new essays on film and film acting including Callow's ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Night of the Hunter

    by Simon Callow ...
    Series series BFI Film Classics
    This is an examination of 'The Night of the Hunter', Charles Laughton's only outing as a film director. It looks at the symbolism of the piece, at Willa, her throat cut sitting in the Model-T Ford, and the Preacher, a silhouetted threat on the horizon. ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • At Freddie's

    by Penelope Fitzgerald ...
    A London theater school resists the cultural shifts of the 1960s in this novel by the Booker Prize-winning author—with an introduction by Simon Callow.It is the 1960s, and London's West End theaters all rely on Freddie Wentworth, the formidable proprietress of the Temple Stage School, to supply them with child actors for their productions of everything from Shakespeare to musicals to Christmas ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Thriller Playhouse Box Set

    EIGHT thrilling episodes from the popular BBC Drama series

    by Mr Punch ...
    Narrated by Tony Robinson, Simon Callow, & full supporting cast, Alice Arnold, Bill Nighy, Bonnie Langford, Christopher Benjamin, Christopher Cazenove, Jack Klaff, John Woodvine, Jon Glover, Kerry Shale, Leslie Phillips, Lionel Jeffries, Lynsey Baxter, Neville Jason, Stephen Tompkinson ...
    Series Audiobook 11 - Thriller Playhouse

    Unabridged

    5 hours 52 min

    “Murder mysteries always work well… and Mr Punch’s Thriller Playhouse is particularly good… Atmospheric and Great Fun” Daily Express“To all concerned “Jolly good show, chaps.” The TimesBen Sees it ThroughA hat lost in the English Channel, a dagger buried in a toff’s back and an incriminating letter from an MP entice Ben into the world of arms dealers and smugglers as he battles to save Europe from ... Read more

    $26.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Death in Venice

    by Thomas Mann ...
    Narrated by Simon Callow, Michael Cunningham ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 9 min

    The world-famous masterpiece by Nobel laureate Thomas Mann—here in a new translation by Michael Henry HeimPublished on the eve of World War I, a decade after Buddenbrooks had established Thomas Mann as a literary celebrity, Death in Venice tells the story of Gustave von Aschenbach, a successful but aging writer who follows his wanderlust to Venice in search of spiritual fulfillment that instead ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

    Also available as: eBooks

    Also available as: eBooks

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    Shakespeare's Sonnets

    by William Shakespeare ...
    Narrated by Simon Callow ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 18 min

    The bard's sonnets read by a leading actor of stage and screen Simon Callow.Savor the most celebrated love poems in the English language. Written almost 400 years ago, the sonnets of William Shakespeare are passionate and exalted, rich in imagery and alliteration, and full of mystery and intrigue.This selection presents all 154 sonnets composed from 1593-1601. In words and rhyme, he reveals his ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

    Also available as: eBooks

    Also available as: eBooks

  • Charles Dickens and the Great Theatre of the World

    by Simon Callow ...
    A short biography of Charles Dickens by acclaimed actor and writer Simon Callow that offers a fresh perspective on one of the greatest novelists in the English language in a lively, highly readable account. "It has all the gusto that a popular biography of Dickens—a man who “could do nothing by halves”—should possess. . . . The best biography for Dickens newcomers and a wonderful read for all." ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Being Wagner

    The Story of the Most Provocative Composer Who Ever Lived

    by Simon Callow ...
    Simon Callow, the celebrated author of Orson Welles, delivers a dazzling, swift, and accessible biography of the musical titan Richard Wagner and his profoundly problematic legacy--a fresh take for seasoned acolytes and the perfect introduction for new fans.Richard Wagner's music dramas have never been more popular or more divisive. His ten masterpieces, created against the backdrop of a continent ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook