A wryly funny and moving account of an extraordinary life lived almost entirely in the public eye.Teen idol at fifteen, international icon and founder of the Brat Pack at twenty, and one of Hollywood's top stars to this day, Rob Lowe chronicles his experiences as a...

Editeur : Transworld Digital
Parution : 2011-05-26

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No-holds-barred account of one of Britain's most gifted and creative musical talentsIn 2003, at the age of 17, Dizzee Rascal became an overnight name to drop when his debut album, Boy In Da Corner, beat Coldplay, Radiohead and The Darkness to the Mercury Music...

Editeur : Orion
Parution : 2011-04-28

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'One of the great British comedians and all-round entertainers of her generation' Guardian'Bittersweet but scalpel sharp' Radio Times'One of Britain’s finest ever performers ... a sublime and unparalleled crafter of words' Independent Victoria Wood's wit and humour...

Editeur : Virgin Digital
Parution : 2011-03-31

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This is the remarkable memoir of the small girl (5 foot 1 inch tall) with the huge voice. At the age of 15, in 1964, Lulu - born Marie Lawrie in Glasgow - was already a star with her international hit song 'Shout'. At 18 she stole hearts as an English schoolgirl to...

Editeur : Piatkus
Parution : 2011-02-17

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* Haydon's first attempt at suicide ended when the low calibre bullet fired from his pistol fractured his skull but failed to penetrate his brain.* His second attempt also failed: a deep slash across his throat left a large pool of blood at the entrance to his studio,...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2011-01-11

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'In this comprehensive volume, we see the actor in a range of roles: loving son, wicked gossip, star actor, indecisive director, anguished lover, brilliant anecdotist. This splendid book reveals an infinitely complicated and attractive character. We may not look upon...

Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2010-12-23

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In 2016, Bob Dylan received the Nobel Prize in Literature ‘for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition’. This collection of essays by leading poets and critics – with a new foreword by Will Self – examines Dylan’s poetic genius, as...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2010-12-15

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Marina Picasso remembers being six years old and standing awkwardly in front of the gates of Picasso's grand house near Cannes. She was there with her father and eight-year-old brother to collect from her grandfather the weekly allowance that Picasso grudgingly gave his...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2010-12-15

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Eminem is currently the world's biggest and most controversial music star. He has been blasted for what many of his critics regard as overtly homophobic and misogynistic lyrics, and resented both for his record-breaking commercial success and being a white man in a...

Editeur : Transworld Digital
Parution : 2010-11-30

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Nicholas Parsons enjoyed a long and varied career encompassing theatre, television, film and radio. He was perhaps best known as the straight man to Arthur Haynes in the '60s, as the presenter of Sale of the Century in the '70s and as the chairman of the long-running...

Editeur : Mainstream Digital
Parution : 2010-11-22

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From a filthy flat in Tufnell Park to the starship Enterprise, it's fair to say that Simon Pegg's career didn't go quite the way he expected. Zombies in North London, death cults in the West Country, a warp engine beyond the final frontier: Simon Pegg has been ploughing...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2010-10-14

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Discover the real Michael McIntyre through his remarkable and hilarious journey to comedy stardom in his first official autobiography'This book showed me the REAL Michael McIntyre' 5***** READER REVIEW'It made me laugh, cry, laugh, laugh and laugh some more' 5*****...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2010-10-14

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Growing up in the eighties in East London was no picnic. Proper hard bastards, wannabe villains and cockney wide boys everywhere you went, all looking to make their mark. With trouble at home and more at school, Danny Dyer didn't have many options. He was a rascal,...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2010-09-30

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David Sedaris's remarkable ability to uncover the hilarious absurdity teeming just below the surface of everyday life is elevated to wilder and more entertaining heights than ever in this new book of stories.Sedaris proceeds from bizarre conundrums of daily life - the...

Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2010-09-16

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THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER'Far and away the best writer of the lot . . . his turn of phrase is a joy.' The Sunday TimesBirkenhead, 1973. The eighteen-year-old Paul O'Grady gets ready for a big Saturday night out on the town. New white T-shirt, freshly ironed...

Editeur : Transworld Digital
Parution : 2010-09-16

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'There are always regrets in life, among them things we've done that we wish we could take back and erase. I have significant ones that will haunt me forever and which I hope I have been brave enough to confront in this book' Jane Fonda in the preface to My Life So...

Editeur : Ebury Digital
Parution : 2010-08-31

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A collection of personal essays - surprising, disarming, heartbreakingly funny - from the #1 bestselling writer Time named America's Favorite Humorist.A riotous collection of memoirs which explores the absurd hilarity of modern life and creates a wickedly incisive...

Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2010-08-05

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A collection of surprising, disarming and 'extremely funny' essays from the internationally bestselling author of Me Talk Pretty One Day (Sunday Times) Santaland Diaries collects six of David Sedaris's most profound Christmas stories into one slender volume perfect for...

Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2010-08-05

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Film musicals: you either love them or they make you want to kill yourself slowly with plastic cutlery. Nothing has the power to lift your heart or turn your stomach like Howard Keel in fake sideburns singing Bless Your Beautiful Hide or Julie Andrews singing...well,...

Editeur : Transworld Digital
Parution : 2010-06-30

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Classic rags-to-riches story by entrepreneur and Dragons' Den star Theo PaphitisTheo Paphitis is the outspoken and charismatic star of Dragons' Den who has turned round a string of household names, from Ryman to La Senza, in a high-profile business career that has...

Editeur : Orion
Parution : 2010-06-10

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