Roger Corman - Blood-sucking Vampires Flesh-eating Cockroaches and Driller Killers by former Corman alumni Beverly Gray is an enlightening, respectful but honest appreciation of the cult movie icon making it an essential companion piece to Corman's own mythmaking biography.

A British Picture, an autobiography by Ken Russell is every bit as garish, scandalous, shocking and as witty as you would expect. It is filled to the brim with salacious anecdotes and gossip whilst also giving you plenty of insight into Ken Russell the artist and aesthete.