==Entertainment==
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{{newreview
|author=Clinton Heylin
|title=Still on the Road: Songs of Bob Dylan, 1974-2008
|rating=4.5
|genre=Entertainment
|summary=Heylin is also obviously a fan, a very knowledgeable and obsessive one to boot. He has never met or directly interviewed his subject (who is known to guard his privacy quite fiercely most of the time), but his research materials include official recording sessionographies and interviews conducted by others. All this is naturally invaluable information for his analysis and history of all the 600-plus songs the man is known to have written or co-written from 1974 to almost the present day. In terms of his discography, that spans the albums from ‘Blood on the Tracks’, released in 1975 and commonly regarded as probably his best post-1960s set, to ‘Together Through Life’, which appeared in 2009.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849010110</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Marina Hyde
|summary=This may be one of the hardest books I've had to review so far; I don't think anyone who's been alive and conscious in Britain any time in the past fifty years, can approach anything James Bond related without bringing an extreme amount of prejudice with them.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747595275</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Donald Spoto
|title=Spellbound by Beauty: Alfred Hitchcock and His Leading Ladies
|rating=3
|genre=Biography
|summary=I came to this biography knowing very little about Alfred Hitchcock, and with only a fairly skeletal knowledge of his films. In itself, that was probably an advantage, as I had no preconceptions about the man and therefore hardly knew what to expect.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091797233</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Alison Bowyer
|title=Dawn French: The Unauthorized Biography
|rating=4
|genre=Biography
|summary=While reading this book, it struck me that being one of the nation's funniest people often means there's a desperately unhappy or at least rather troubled soul behind the public face. George Formby, Tony Hancock, Wilfrid Brambell and John Cleese are probably the most obvious examples. While Dawn French has generally managed to present a smiling face to the world, this thoughtful biography reveals that she too has had her difficult times.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330454528</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Ernie Malik
|title=Prince Caspian: The Official Illustrated Movie Companion
|rating=3
|genre=Entertainment
|summary=Who would have thought that Prague in the Czech Republic could so convincingly masquerade as 1940s London, complete with authentic Routemaster buses and the lions of Trafalgar Square? This sleight of hand and many more are revealed in the Official Movie Companion to the forthcoming CS Lewis adaptation, ''Prince Caspian''.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007270593</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Amy Raphael (Editor)
|title=Mike Leigh on Mike Leigh
|rating=4.5
|genre=Biography
|summary=''Mike Leigh on Mike Leigh'' is an intimidatingly chunky book. The director himself stares out of the cover, holding a camera lens up to one eye. It's a fitting image for Mike Leigh, a simple representation of a man in love with the cinematic medium, but who has never sacrificed his emphasis on characterisation and human emotion within his films.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571204694</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Ronnie Wood
|title=Ronnie
|rating=4.5
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=As a member of the Rolling Stones for over thirty years, Ronnie Wood has become virtually synonymous with the term 'hellraising'. Despite a burning-the-candle-at-both-ends lifestyle, though, he has reached his sixtieth birthday intact. Moreover, unlike Pete Doherty and the late Sid Vicious, he will always be remembered for his music than for merely making the wrong sort of headlines.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330445049</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jane Goodall
|title=Stage Presence: The Actor as Mesmerist
|rating=4.5
|genre=Entertainment
|summary=So this is a book called Stage Presence, by Jane Goodall (no, not that Jane Goodall), reviewed by John Lloyd (no, not that John Lloyd). Although, come to think of it, which John Lloyd might you be expecting? For, over the past four years I have been employed as a professional actor, and have taken on the task of becoming someone else.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0415395968</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Steven Savile
|title=Primeval: Shadow of the Jaguar
|rating=3.5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=One of the benefits, or otherwise, of being a committed Bookbag reviewer is that one misses all the TV that other people seem to enjoy. As a result, I am turning to this book, apparently the first novel to tie-in with ITV's Primeval series, having not seen hide nor hair of the thing, nor having any idea what it is about, save for dinosaurs roaming the modern-day world, and such things needing being put to rights.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184576692X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Joan Le Mesurier
|title=Dear John
|rating=4
|genre=Biography
|summary=I really enjoy reading biographies and always find I learn a lot about the subject that I didn't know before. Recently, I read the Hattie Jacques biography by Andrew Merriman. Hattie was once married to Dad's Army star John Le Mesurier and I had a biography on him in my ever-growing 'To Be Read' pile, so I chose that to read next. I felt it would add an extra dimension to what I had learned about Hattie's life – and indeed it did.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0283063726</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Anne Nolan
|title=Anne's Song
|rating=4
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=To most of us, the Nolans probably conjure up wholesome cheesy visions of TV light entertainment shows, 'I'm In The Mood for Dancing' (top three early in 1980), and the wholesome image of a squeaky-clean family act – rather like an Irish female version of the Osmonds, perhaps. But scratch almost every showbiz legend and somewhere there's going to be darkness.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846053471</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=The Autobiography
|author=Johnnie Walker
|genre=Entertainment
|rating=5
|summary=When I was in my late teens and early twenties, the Radio 1 lunchtime show presented by the man formerly known as Peter Waters Dingley was essential listening. It wasn’t non-stop chart music, neither was it too arty and Emperor’s-new-clothesness for art’s sake. It always seemed to be a healthy mix of much of the best Top 40 stuff around, plus a few interesting new names who weren’t getting the exposure on other shows that they deserved – and it was all presented by someone who communicated his enthusiasm for the music instead of sounding like an aspiring games show host.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718148533</amazonuk>
}}