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  • White Male Stand-Up
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    White Male Stand-Up

    Alan Davies

    On the Waterstones Best Books of 2025 List'Davies has done it again, damn him. Irritatingly good. Maddeningly funny. Annoyingly fine.' STEPHEN FRY'Emotional, entertaining and startlingly honest. I...
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  • Beautiful doom
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    Beautiful doom

    Jacqueline Bolton

    Dennis Kelly's award-winning plays have been translated into over thirty languages and produced on six continents. His endlessly inventive vision has produced a diverse body of work for a variety of...
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  • Screening Sherlock
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    Screening Sherlock

    James Chapman

    Screening Sherlock is the first book-length academic study of the film and television career of the most famous detective in fiction. Chapman explores the contexts, adaptation strategies and critical...
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  • LOST: Back to the Island
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    LOST: Back to the Island

    Emily St. James

    A comprehensive and critical companion to the blockbuster TV show LOST, revisiting its core themes, lore, and impact on cultureBefore it premiered in the fall of 2004, LOST looked doomed to be an...
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  • Image coming soon
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    Doctor Who: The Art of Time Travel

    Mckinstry, Peter

    Step into the fantastical worlds of Doctor Who Peter Mckinstry's stunning concept art and illustration is collected for the first time in this visually captivating book that takes you behind the...
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  • Plays, Prose, Pieces, Poetry
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    Plays, Prose, Pieces, Poetry

    Hughes, Harauld

    Richard Ayoade edits and introduces this defining work of the great midcentury visionary of stage and screen -- rediscovered and republished by Faber & Faber. Comprising Hughes's monumental works...
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  • Tall in the Saddle
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    Tall in the Saddle

    Jones, Kathryn

    Tall in the Saddle: The Life of Ben Johnson, Hollywood's Real Cowboy is the definitive biography of Ben Johnson (1918-1996), the only man to win both an Academy Award and a world rodeo championship...
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  • Parks and Rec
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    Parks and Rec

    Armstrong, Jennifer Keishin

    From New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Keishin Armstrong, the definitive guide to beloved sitcom Parks and Recreation. Featuring exclusive cast and creator interviews and unparalleled...
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  • Official Stranger Things Cookbook
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    Official Stranger Things Cookbook

    Stein, Joshua David

    Prepare to have your mind flayed with over fifty recipes from the denizens of Hawkins in this first official cookbook from the hugely popular Netflix series. Pull up a chair to the Stranger Things...
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  • Peaky Blinders - The Real Gangs and Gangsters
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    Peaky Blinders - The Real Gangs and Gangsters

    Chinn, Carl

    You know who the Peaky Blinders are ... It's time to see where they began. By the spring of 2024, it will be four and a half years since the publication of Chinn's Sunday Times number 1 best-selling...
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  • On Location
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    On Location

    Whitlock, Cathy

    Feed your wanderlust and love for film by immersing yourself in the stunning locations of iconic movies and TV shows. The cinema possesses the ability to transport us to new worlds and exotic...
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  • When Gavin Met Stacey and Everything in Between
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    When Gavin Met Stacey and Everything in Between

    Jones, Ruth

    The story of a remarkable friendship between two people whose creative chemistry ignited the perfect storm of drama, comedy and heart. Explores how the characters and the story lines came into being,...
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  • Umbrella Academy: The Commission Handbook
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    Umbrella Academy: The Commission Handbook

    Matt Epstein

    From the world of Netflix's Umbrella Academy comes The Commission Handbook, an officially licensed, in-universe guide to protecting the space time continuum. The Umbrella Academy: The Commission...
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  • Official Wednesday Cookbook
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    Official Wednesday Cookbook

    Mancusi, Mari

    Re-create macabre meals from Nevermore Academy in the comfort of your own oh-so-normal kitchen with 60 recipes inspired by the hit series Wednesday. Re-create macabre meals from Nevermore Academy in...
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  • Chrysalids
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    Chrysalids

    Wyndham, John

    \"In a decade marked, much like our own, by simple fears, John Wyndham refused to make simple metaphors\". -M John Harrison. A world paralyzed by genetic mutation: Wyndham takes the reader into the...
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  • Fry Chronicles
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    Fry Chronicles

    Fry, Stephen

    National Treasure: noun - someone or something regarded as emblematic of a nation's cultural heritage, such as Stephen Fry (OED 2010) Spanning 1979-1987, The Fry Chronicles charts Stephen's arrival...
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  • Roll! Shooting TV News
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    Roll! Shooting TV News

    Rich Underwood

    Roll! Shells fly overhead as night-scopes capture deadly fire fights with an eerie green hue, a category 5 hurricane devastates the Big Easy, hidden cameras enter a Cambodian village of brothels and...
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  • Music in Twin Peaks
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    Music in Twin Peaks

    Reba Wissner

    In this edited volume, contributors explore an essential element of the influential television series Twin Peaks: the role of music and sound. From its debut in 1990 to its return to television in...
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  • Playwrights on Television
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    Playwrights on Television

    Hillary Miller

    Playwrights on Television features interviews with writers of award-winning stage plays and celebrated television shows reflecting on the successes and challenges of being a playwright in the...
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  • Science Fiction Film, Television, and Adaptation
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    Science Fiction Film, Television, and Adaptation

    Jay Telotte

    While film and television seem to be closely allied screen media, our feature films and television series have seldom been successfully adapted across those screens. In fact, rather than functioning...
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  • My Little Golden Book About Country Music
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    My Little Golden Book About Country Music

    Dong, Monique

    Yeehaw! Read all about the people, the songs, the clothes, and the history of country music in this beautifully illustrated, fact-filled Little Golden Book! Yeehaw! Read all about the people, the...
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  • 1% Club Book 3
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    1% Club Book 3

    Studios, BBC

    Third official The 1% Club quiz book, compulsive general knowledge quiz for all the family from the hit TV show. Do you have what it takes to join The 1% Club? Find out in this BRAND NEW quiz book...
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  • Art of Rise of The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
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    Art of Rise of The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

    Stein, Colin

    Explore the bold and dynamic world of the celebrated animated series with this comprehensive art book that showcases the unique artistic vision behind the show. Explore the bold and dynamic world of...
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  • To Tell a Story
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    To Tell a Story

    Berger, John

    Despite their status as intellectual giants of the twentieth century, John Berger and Susan Sontag's artistic collaboration - and intense friendship - remains virtually unknown. Published for the...
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  • 1% Club Book 1
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    1% Club Book 1

    Studios, BBC

    The Official 1% Quiz Book, a compulsive general knowledge quiz for all the family from the hit TV show. THE PERFECT GIFT FOR FANS OF THE HIT TV SHOW! Are you in the top 50% of the country? The top...
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  • Stranger Things: The Complete Scripts, Season 4
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    Stranger Things: The Complete Scripts, Season 4

    Netflix

    Go deeper into the groundbreaking Emmy-winning series with the complete, authorized scripts of Stranger Things: Season Four, including an exclusive introduction from the Duffer Brothers. Go deeper...
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  • Citizen Kim
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    Citizen Kim

    Van Meter, Jonathan

    An unprecedented and intimate account of one of the most business-savvy, influential and defining public icons of our time 'We worked on it for five years together. I trust Jonathan. I read a copy...
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  • Stranger Things
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    Stranger Things

    McIntyre, Gina

    THE OFFICIAL COMPANION NOVEL FOR ONE OF THE BIGGEST AND MOST-WATCHED TV SERIES ON NETFLIX. The official behind-the-scenes companion to all five seasons of Stranger Things, straight from the team who...
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  • Wednesday: Friend or Woe
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    Wednesday: Friend or Woe

    Studios, MGM

    Step into the shadowy halls of Nevermore Academy to try and uncover who is trying to wreak havoc and ruin the school's reputation before it gets shut down. In this officially licensed game based on...
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  • Normal People: The Scripts
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    Normal People: The Scripts

    O'Rowe, Mark

    'You know, I did used to think that I could read your mind at times.' 'In bed you mean.' 'Yeah. And afterwards but I dunno maybe that's normal.' 'It's not.' Connell and Marianne grow up in the same...
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  • Ayoade on Ayoade
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    Ayoade on Ayoade

    Ayoade, Richard

    In this book Richard Ayoade - actor, writer, director, and amateur dentist - reflects on his cinematic legacy as only he can: in conversation with himself. Over ten brilliantly insightful and often...
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  • Chrysalids
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    Chrysalids

    Wyndham, John

    John Wyndham's classic science fiction novel, published as an Essential for the first time David Strorm's father doesn't approve of Angus Morton's unusually large horses, calling them blasphemies...
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  • Writing for News Media
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    Writing for News Media

    Ian Pickering

    Writing for News Media is a down-to-earth guide on how to write news stories for online, print and broadcast audiences. It celebrates the craft of storytelling, arguing for its continued importance...
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  • Better Broadcast Writing, Better Broadcast News
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    Better Broadcast Writing, Better Broadcast News

    Greg Dobbs

    Better Broadcast Writing, Better Broadcast News teaches students how to write with the conversational simplicity required for radio and TV. This text draws on the Emmy Award-winning author's decades...
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  • Managing Television News
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    Managing Television News

    B. William Silcock

    Managing Television News provides a practical introduction to the television news producer, one of the most significant and influential roles in a newscast. Recognizing the need for formal training...
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  • Westerns
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    Westerns

    Gary R. Edgerton

    For nearly two centuries, Americans have embraced the Western like no other artistic genre. Creators and consumers alike have utilized this story form in literature, painting, film, radio and...
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  • On Camera
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    On Camera

    Nancy Reardon

    From the Foreword by Bob Schieffer:"This is a real 'how to' book by two people who really know how. But it is more than just a fine manual on broadcast journalism, journalists and non-journalists...
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  • Westerns
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    Westerns

    Gary R. Edgerton

    For nearly two centuries, Americans have embraced the Western like no other artistic genre. Creators and consumers alike have utilized this story form in literature, painting, film, radio and...
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  • Global Media Ecologies
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    Global Media Ecologies

    Doris Baltruschat

    In this study, Baltruschat calls attention to dramatic changes in worldwide media production. Her work provides new insights into industry re-organization, digital media, and audience interactivity...
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  • Television in Post-Reform China
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    Television in Post-Reform China

    Ying Zhu

    This book explores the political, economic, and cultural forces, locally and globally that have shaped the evolution of Chinese primetime television dramas, and the way that these dramas in turn have...
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  • Music in Science Fiction Television
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    Music in Science Fiction Television

    K.J. Donnelly

    The music for science fiction television programs, like music for science fiction films, is often highly distinctive, introducing cutting-edge electronic music and soundscapes. There is a highly...
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  • Screening Characters
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    Screening Characters

    Johannes Riis

    Characters are central to our experiences of screened fictions and invite a host of questions. The contributors to Screening Characters draw on archival material, interviews, philosophical inquiry,...
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  • Heroism, Celebrity and Therapy in Nurse Jackie
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    Heroism, Celebrity and Therapy in Nurse Jackie

    Christopher Pullen

    This book presents an examination of the television series Nurse Jackie, making connections between the representational processes and the audience consumption of the series. A key point of reference...
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