Here is an index of books I have reviewed on LouReviews. I welcome titles on a range of topics and will happily accept either print or PDF copies.
Theatre
Theatre blogging / Megan Vaughan
Breaking into song: why you shouldn’t hate musicals / Adam Lenson
Time to act / Simon Annand
Musicals at the margins: genres, boundaries, canons / ed. Julie Lobalzo Wright & Martha Shearer
Astonish me: first nights that changed the world / Dominic Drumgoole
Round in circles: the story of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Carousel / Barry Kester
Notes from the rehearsal room / Nancy Meckler
Hamlet’s mirror / Elma Linz Kanefield
Running the room / Rosemary Waugh
Decolonizing the theatre space: a conversation / ed. Simelia Hodge-Dallaway with Kwame Kwei-Armah and Olivia Poglio-Nwabali
Reviewing the situation – the British musical from Noel Coward to Lionel Bart / John Snelson
Contemporary British musicals – out of the darkness / ed. Clare Chandler and Gus Gowland
Film
Send in the clowns: the yo-yo life of Ian Hendry / Gabriel Hershman
Strolling player: the life and career of Albert Finney / Gabriel Hershman
Black sheep: the authorised biography of Nicol Williamson / Gabriel Hershman
Greatness and grief: an appreciation of Richard Burton / Gabriel Hershman
Ian McShane in profile / Gary Wharton
The extraordinary life of an ordinary man: a memoir / Paul Newman
Vampire cinema: the first 100 years / Christopher Frayling
Well-documented / Ian Haydn Smith
Rita Tushingham in profile / Gary Wharton
Sherlock Holmes – the man with a thousand faces / David McGregor
Television
Avengerworld: The Avengers in our lives / ed. Alan Hayes
With umbrella, scotch and cigarettes: an unauthorised guide / Richard McGinlay, Alan Hayes
Biddy Baxter – the women who made Blue Peter / Richard Marson
Star Trek – discovering the TV series / Tom Salinsky
Music
A licence to rock and pop / James Fry
Finding Kate / Michael Byrne and Marius Herbert
Biography/Memoir
The illustrated Vivian Stanshall / Ki Longfellow-Stanshall
My life with Michael: 10 years of Thriller Live! / Gary Lloyd
A million miles from Broadway / Mel Atkey
Elizabeth Taylor’s kiss / David Wood
Musicals, marigolds and me / Paul Nicholas
Key changes / Denis King
Missing, a memoir / Cornelia Maude Spelman
It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that zing! / Colin Copperfield
The girl in the green jumper / Renske Mann
George – a magpie memoir / Frieda Hughes
Frank exchanges / David Wood
Fiction & poetry
The wacky man / Lyn G Farrell
Death on the pier / Jamie West
No more giants / Joaquina Ballard Howles
Stop the world, I want to get off / Jacky Power
A cat may look at a king / Ramsay Wood
Dick Whittington / Petite Pantos
White cat series / Simon Cole
Sport
Just a bus stop in Hounslow / Greville Waterman
Art & photography
London unseen / Paul Scane
London Underground symmetry & imperfections / Luke Agbaimoni
General non-fiction
F*ck off, Chloe: surviving the OMGs and FMLs in your media career / Jeremy Murphy
Messages on Edwardian postcards / Freda Gittos