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All My Shows Are Great: The Life of Lew Grade by Lewis Chester
Lew Grade was the last of the old-time media moguls. From humble Jewish immigrant beginnings, he became world Charleston champion (and could dance it well into his eighties), then, with brothers Bernard and Leslie, a top impresario, promoting variety bills, owning theatres, and booking showbiz’s biggest names.
The birth of commercial television saw him win a franchise with ATV and produce pioneering hits like Sunday Night at the London Palladium and Jesus of Nazareth while also bringing Thunderbirds and The Muppets to British screens. Then he went into films, most notoriously Raise the Titanic!, quipping ‘It would have been cheaper to lower the Atlantic’.
Still working in his early nineties, uncle of Michael Grade, puffing on his trademark giant Montecristo cigars, he never lost his love of a deal. ‘Some of my shows are good, some are bad,’ he once said. ‘All of them are great.’ Lewis Chester’s biography – the first to be written – is the story of a genuine tycoon.
ISBN: 9781845135089 £20 February 2010
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Gregor Muir
In 1988 no-one outside a semi-derelict, little frequented backwater of East London had heard of Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin or the Chapman brothers, let alone envisioned putrefying sharks or fried eggs and a kebab as pioneering works of art. But Gregor Muir, the ‘embedded journalist’ of the nascent community of Young British Artists, was there to witness their outrageous, hilarious and very badly-behaved rise to fame.
Gregor Muir is now the director of Hauser and Wirth (London), one of the world’s leading art galleries. Muir curated YBA group shows such as ‘Lucky Kunst’ and ‘Liar’, as well as seminal video programmes including ‘Speaking of Sofas’ and ‘Drugs’ with Carsten Höller. He has been a critic and writer for various cutting-edge publications such as Dazed and Confused, Parkett and Frieze magazine.
Praise for Gregor Muir and Lucky Kunst
‘Muir doesn’t put a foot wrong…this lucid, lurid, indiscreet memoir of gilded gutters, ‘more drugs than milk’, Sensation, Hirst’s shark and Emin’s bed, is an unrivalled record of 1990s Cool Britannia, when British art wowed the world’ – Jackie Wullschlager Financial Times Books of the Year
‘A fantastic historical document….Gregor was actually there.’ - Tracey Emin
‘Art history as told through the bottom of the pint glass’ – The Herald
ISBN: 9781845135287 Available now £8.99
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Am I Alone In Thinking
Am I Alone in Thinking, Unpublished Letters to the Daily Telegraph (ISBN 9781845135027 £9.99) has been Aurum's Christmas Bestseller. Sales have reached 70,000 and it was a Number 1 bestselling title for the independent bookshops. PR coverage included the Today programme on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Breakfast News, which was backed up by an advertising campaign on LBC radio. Keep an eye out later in the year for the follow-up!
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