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Two Decades Naked: A true story of dancing, dreams and desire

By Leigh Hopkinson

Don't You Leave Me Here: My Life

By Wilko Johnson

It's All in the Playing

By Shirley MacLaine

A Genius in the Family: An Intimate Memoir of Jacqueline du Pre

By Piers du Pre, Hilary du Pre

God Bless This Mess: Learning to Live and Love Through Life's Best (and Worst) Moments

By Hannah Brown

Grinning At The Edge: A Biography of Alan Ayckbourn

By Paul Allen

My Autobiography

By Charles Chaplin, David Robinson

Being an Actor

By Simon Callow

Elizabeth

By Alexander Walker

My Life in Art

By Constantin Stanislavski

My First Forty Years

By Placido Domingo

Forty Four: A Dublin Memoir

By Peter Sheridan

The Lear Diaries: The Story of the Royal National Theatre's Productions of Shakespeare's Richard III and King Lear

By Brian Cox

The Theatre Makers: How Seven Great Artists Shaped the Modern Theatre

By David Chadderton

House of Music: Raising the Kanneh-Masons

By Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason

Instrumental

By Rhodes, James, James Rhodes

American Prince: A Memoir

By Tony Curtis (University of Plymouth Business School), Peter Golenbock

The Queen: Elizabeth II and the Monarchy

By Ben Pimlott

Joan Myers Brown and the Audacious Hope of the Black Ballerina: A Biohistory of American Performance

By Brenda Dixon Gottschild, Robert Farris Thompson, Ananya Chatterjea

New Performance/New Writing

By John Freeman

A Modern Man: The Best of George Carlin

By George Carlin

Blues of a Lifetime: The Autobiography of Cornell Woolrich

By Cornell George Hopley Woolrich, Mark T. Bassett

A Monk Swimming

By McCourt, Malachy

Shostakovich

By Eric Roseberry

Bloomsbury Ballerina: Lydia Lopokova, Imperial Dancer and Mrs John Maynard Keynes

By Judith Mackrell

Robin

By Dave Itzkoff

Living Out Loud

By Anna Quindlen

Bob Dylan: Performing Artist: 1974-1986

By Paul Williams

Judy Garland: A Biography

By Anne Edwards

The Accidental Adventurer

By Ben Fogle