To several generations, actor, playwright, songwriter and filmmaker Noel Coward was the very personification of wit, glamour and elegance. This biography was written with unprecedented access to the private papers…

This collection of recipes, comments and the quotations that inspired them began with a lifetime study of Noel Coward's written work. His interest in food was evident from the first…

Written in 1841, Blithe Spirit remained the longest-running comedy in the history of the British theatre. Plotted around the central role of a spirit medium Madame Arcati, this play is…

In the 1920s and 1930s, Noel Coward mastered and defined the art of the revue sketch, short and often topical or satirical stage pieces. This volume collects Coward’s best and…

The second part of the autobiography of one of the most astonishing characters in British theatrical history.

One of the Tonight At 8:30 series, produced in London and New York. In the middle class drawing room of amiable and hard working Henry Gow passes most of the…

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At the centre of his own universe sits matinee idol Garry Essendine: suave, hedonistic and too old, says his wife, to be having numerous affairs. His line in harmless, infatuated…