Films, cinema

1. Liza Minnelli

Kids, Wait Till You Hear This!

The long-awaited memoir from stage and screen icon, Liza Minnelli

Paint by Sticker: Music Icons

Paint by Sticker is the most exciting new idea in activity books, both for grown-ups and kids. A compelling activity for crafters and artists, doodlers and colorers of all ages, each Paint by Sticker book includes everything you need to create twelve vibrant, full-color "paintings." The original images are rendered in low-poly, a computer graphics style using geometric polygon shapes to create a 3D effect. As in paint-by-number, each template is divided into dozens of spaces, each with a number that corresponds to a particular sticker. Find the sticker, peel it, and place it in the right space. Add the next, and the next, and the next--it's an activity that's utterly absorbing, both in the pleasure of peeling and sticking and the growing satisfaction of watching a "painting" come to life, emerging from a flat black-and-white illustration to a dazzling image with color, body, and spirit.Paint by Sticker: Music Icons brings us face-to-face with Elvis, The Beatles, Beyoncé, Katy Perry, David Bowie, Cher, Prince, and other legendary stars.

1. Reinhard , Kleist

Nick Cave

Musician, novelist, poet, actor: Nick Cave is a Renaissance man. His wide-ranging artistic output - always uncompromising, hypnotic and intense - is defined by an extraordinary gift for storytelling. Reinhard Kleist employs a cast of characters drawn from Cave's music and writing to tell the story of a formidable artist and influencer. Capturing everything from Cave's performances in Berlin to the moments he spent with love Anita Lane, Reinhard Kleist's graphic biography, like Cave's songs, is by turns electrifying, sentimental, morbid and comic - but always engrossing.

1. Paul Lang

Eurovision

Paul Lang is a pop-culture writer from the United Kingdom whose earliest Eurovision memory is watching Bucks Fizz win when he was six years old — and he’s seen every show since, usually while telling everyone else in the room to shut up and listen to the songs. By a strange twist of fate he ended up with Gina G as his landlady for ten years, and enjoyed the Contests from 2006–2016 sitting on her actual sofa. If you ask him, he will tell you that his favourite Eurovision act is ABBA, but it’s actually Nicki French.

1. Dave Grohl

The Storyteller

In The Storyteller, een verzameling van gebeurtenissen uit alle periodes van zijn leven, biedt Dave Grohl iets zeldzaams: een echt, rauw en eerlijk portret van een buitengewoon leven bestaande uit alledaagse momenten. Hij schrijft over zijn diepgewortelde liefde voor muziek en zijn collega-muzikanten, zijn hechte verbondenheid met zijn geboorteplaats Springfield, Virginia, en het ontzag dat hij voelt tijdens het opvoeden van zijn dochters. Dave Grohl vertelt verhalen zoals hij liedjes schrijft: vanuit zijn ziel. Over toeren met Scream, toetreden tot Nirvana en alles zien afbrokkelen, de oprichting van Foo Fighters toen zijn leven zich op een kruispunt bevond, het kriskras reizen over de wereld als familieman en zijn heldere perspectief op roem. The Storyteller zit boordevol leven en humor. We kenden Dave Grohl al als een van de meest gewaardeerde muzikanten, maar in dit boek ontpopt hij zich daarnaast als een begaafd en boeiend schrijver.

1. Cynthia , Erivo

Simply More

It is never too late to build the life you're seeking. Part-memoir, part-inspirational manual for better living, Simply More by Cynthia Erivo is for anyone seeking greater harmony and fulfilment in their lives.Cynthia Erivo learned the music to Wicked a decade before she needed it, not knowing that those same lyrics would change her life. Ten years later, she performed those songs on a world stage, showing us that there is always time to keep discovering ourselves, and that the journey of becoming is not a finite one.In Simply More, through a series of powerful, personal vignettes, Cynthia reflects on the ways that she has grown as an actor and a person, shares the lessons she's learned over years of performing, and reminds us how we are capable of so much more than we think.In this profoundly honest and moving memoir, Cynthia draws from her experiences running marathons, both real and metaphorical, on stage and on screen, to show how each challenge can help us. Through personal anecdotes, lessons and advice, she urges readers to lean into the wisdom of their bodies and to understand and strive for a physical and mental balance. Because when we chase our deepest desires, each small step leads us closer to where we want to go.