Carlton rushes Christie biography

18.02.08 writes Tom Tivnan in The Bookseller

In the wake of a nomination for next week's Oscars, Carlton Books imprint Andre Deutsch is rush-releasing a biography of Julie Christie. The British movie legend is the bookmakers' favourite to take home the Best Actress gong for her role as Alzheimer's sufferer Fiona in "Away From Her".

Fleet Street show business journalist Tim Ewbank and TV critic Stafford Hildred's Julie Christie (£17.99, h/b), originally scheduled as a summer release, has been pushed forward to early April.
The book tracks Christie from her troubled Sussex childhood until the present. It focuses on her sixties and seventies heyday, when she appeared in iconic films such as "Billy Liar" and "Dr Zhivago", won an Oscar for "Darling" and dated a number of Hollywood leading men, including Warren Beatty. In recent years she has opted for a more quiet life in Wales, only occasionally being lured back to acting.

Jim Greenhough, UK sales & marketing director at Andre Deutsch, said: "We are delighted to be publishing this biography on such a well-loved screen icon