Biography & Autobiography, Entertainment & Performing Arts
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Red Robinson: The Last Broadcast
by Robin Brunet
Red Robinson: The Last Broadcast is the sequel to the best-selling Red Robinson: The Last Deejay. It details the legendary Canadian deejay’s last radio broadcast in the summer of 2017, and provides an in-depth look at the careers of his equally ...
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Once Upon a Red Eye
Life on the Road with Gordon Lightfoot by Richard Harison
Once Upon a Red Eye is a compelling memoir that offers rare insight into the behind-the-scenes life of a Canadian musical icon. Here are the colourful recountings of Richard Harison, who spent a dozen years serving as Gordon Lightfoot’s road/stage ...
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FIZ
and some Theatre Giants by Eleanor Fazan
“Tell the truth,” her friend the director Lindsay Anderson urged Eleanor Fazan. “It’s seldom heard.” Nor is it easy to tell. But that’s what “Fiz” has done: delivering frank and intimate accounts of her not-always-peaceful collaborations with the ...
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5 Squares
by Bonita McIlvaine
It was Boston in the 1960’s – a time when nightclubs, bars and lounges had the city alive at night and a good time could continue after hours; and when entertainers frequented the city taking advantage of the climate. Add the world of the sporting ...
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The Real Mandrake the Magician
by Linda Mandrake and Lon Mandrake
This biography not only gives you an idea of the brilliant career of Mandrake with over 100 show photos, but also provides a glimpse behind the scenes. What was it like to live on the road with small children while constantly performing magic ...
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California Slim
The Music, The Magic and The Madness by Andrew J. Bernstein
There are literary reminiscences that reek of self-congratulation over the authors’ proximity to famous movers and shakers. Andy Bernstein’s California Slim aspires to far more than that—and achieves it. Andy was there, at the onset of the ...
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I Am Tommy
On Stage and Backstage by Tom Wilson
The uncensored Insider Story of Three Decades in the Canadian Music Business. I was in a unique position. I was a musician who recorded hit songs and performed on stage in front of millions of fans. I was also an agent who met, booked and performed ...
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A Nobody's Dream ... Came True
by Gordon Crossland
When Gordon Crossland was growing up in the 1940’s in Orillia, Ontario, the town was not about to embrace a boy wanting to be a figure skater or ballet dancer. Male figure skaters were so rare that boys’ figures skates were hard to come by. However, ...
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The Canadian Nightingale
Bertha Crawford and the Dream of the Prima Donna by Jane Cooper
April 4, 1915, Bertha Crawford bowed to tumultuous applause before a glittering audience at the Tsar’s Imperial Mariinsky Theatre. How had a young soprano from Ontario become a darling of the Russian capital eight months into the First World War? ...
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Still Competition
The Listener's Guide to Cheap Trick by Robert Lawson
Following the success of his 2016 book Razama-Snaz! The Listener’s Guide to Nazareth, Robert Lawson returns with this meticulous reviewing of every Cheap Trick album, song by song. In his book, Still Competition: The Listener’s Guide to Cheap Trick, ...
