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It’s Not A Rehearsal: The Autobiography

admin — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 21:14:06 +0000

The warm, funny and honest autobiography by the much-loved star, best known as Cleopatra in Carry On Cleo, Alma in Coronation Street, and for many leading roles on the West End stage. From leaving home at 13 to live in Soho as a chorus girl, her life has never been conventional. She has shared relationships with both men and women, including rock legend, Billy Fury.

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José Mourinho: Up Close and Personal

Robert Smith — Wed, 24 Aug 2016 15:53:04 +0000

This unique insider account of the private man and public manager begins at Old Trafford in 2004, when Mourinho’s Porto put Manchester United out of the Champions League. Since then, author Robert Beasley has enjoyed unparalleled access and unrivalled experiences with Mourinho both on a professional basis and on a personal level.

Touring alongside Mourinho during his first tenure at Chelsea, Beasley forged a friendship with the manager that has lasted to this day. He reveals how close Mourinho came to becoming England’s manager, and Tottenham’s attempts to secure him. He discloses the truth about his dislike of Arsène Wenger, and what he shockingly said about him off record, and how his relationship with Abramovich really played out behind the scenes. Then there are all the intriguing stories behind the players he bought, and the ones he desperately wanted, but couldn’t get.

Written by the ultimate insider with unparalleled access to and unrivalled experiences of Mourinho’s life, both on and off the pitch, this is the fascinating story of Mourinho and life at some of the biggest football clubs.

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Bill Hicks: Agent of Evolution: The definitive biography by his lifelong friend

admin — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 21:14:33 +0000

The essential biography of the excoriating and courageous American comic by his close childhood friend and “co-conspirator”, Kevin Booth, who has written an intimate and vividly insightful narrative of Bill Hicks’s brief 33 years of life in all its brilliance. Kevin and other friends who travelled the stand-up circuit with Bill, reveal the subtleties, insecurities and character of this unforgettable man, who inspired so many of his generation of comics.

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The Delectable Dollies: The Dolly Sisters, icons of the jazz age

admin — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 21:15:25 +0000

The dazzling story, richly illustrated from the author’s own collection of photographs, of the exotic Dolly Sisters, whose dancing thrilled cabaret audiences across Europe and America during the Jazz Age, and who captured the hearts of some of the world’s most powerful men, including Gordon Selfridge and the Duke of Windsor.

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Seven Years With Banksy

admin — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 21:15:43 +0000

Banky’s trusted friend and fellow Bristolian recalls entertainingly and in revealing detail, hanging out with the iconic and notoriously private graffiti artist in New York, London and the West Country.

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Loving Peter: My life with Peter Cook and Dudley Moore

admin — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 21:16:03 +0000

Peter and Judy Cook were the stunningly attractive and brilliant epitome of the Swinging Sixties. Married to Peter for more than 20 years, Judy strips away the veneer and writes candidly about her life with the tortured, hugely influential comic genius, and his obsessively competitive relationship with Dudley Moore.

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Before Marilyn: The Blue Book Modelling Years

Robert Smith — Mon, 20 Apr 2015 12:11:03 +0000

Before Marilyn tells the story of Marilyn Monroe’s modelling career, during which time she was signed to the famous Blue Book Agency in Hollywood. The head of the agency, Miss Emmeline Snively, saw potential in the young woman and kept detailed records and correspondence throughout their professional relationship and beyond. On the day of Monroe’s funeral, Snively gave an interview from her office, talking about the girl she had discovered, before announcing, rather dramatically, that she was closing the lid on her Marilyn Monroe archive that day – to ‘lock it away forever’. This archive was purchased by Astrid Franse, and together with bestselling Marilyn Monroe biographer Michelle Morgan they draw on this collection of never-before-seen documents, letters and much, much more. Before Marilyn explores an aspect of Monroe’s life that has never been fully revealed – by charting every modelling job she did, and illustrating the text with rare and unpublished photographs of the young model and her mentor.

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The News is Read….

Robert Smith — Fri, 20 Dec 2013 18:20:40 +0000

Charlotte is a hugely popular broadcaster, but more than that, she is a national treasure. Until her voluntary retirement from the BBC in 2013, Charlotte, was the voice of Radio 4 and voted “the most attractive voice on national radio”. Her warm and perfectly modulated tones (“like honey with a 99 flake crushed into it being spread on fluffy scones”) were reassuring to her devoted listeners of news stories, read to the nation over a period of 27 years. For her newscast on the day of the London bombings on 7/7/05, she garnered a Sony Gold Award. As The Times said: “Nobody wished listeners ‘a peaceful night’ quite like her.” Charlotte’s highly entertaining autobiography will be the book, which all Radio 4 and Classic FM devotees will feel compelled to buy, for the joy of reading her insider revelations, and finding out about this wonderfully warm, funny and modest woman. Her writing is as beautiful as her voice.

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Hughie and Paula: The tangled lives of Hughie Green and Paula Yates

admin — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 21:16:20 +0000

The son of TV host and entertainer, Hughie Green, unravels the web of his father’s destructive personality, so artfully hidden from his public, and touchingly describes the private hell Hughie created for his secret love-child, Paula Yates, who tragically died from a drug overdose.

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For Better for Worse: Her own story

admin — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 21:17:26 +0000

Christine’s own frank and colourful story of her adventures in life, love and politics, which is by turns surprising, revealing and touching. Married to former Tory Minister, Neil Hamilton, now a leading light of UKIP, these two stalwarts have emerged unbowed and undaunted from the many public battles, which they have fought together.

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