Archive for the ‘Biography Books’ Category

Coleen’s Real Style - Coleen Rooney

Monday, December 1st, 2008

What Coleen Rooney doesn’t know about style and shopping isn’t worth knowing, and she is a fashion inspiration to girls everywhere. Now she’s put together a glossy, gorgeous style guide that contains everything you could EVER want to know about high-street fashion, beauty, hair and makeup, body care and style. Coleen’s style guide is bursting with fashion and beauty tips to inspire and inform, showing you how to achieve a stylish, high-fashion look without spending a fortune or stepping out of the high street. Glossy and gorgeous, accessible and fun, Coleen’s Real Style is your ideal high-street shopping partner: chatty, friendly, honest and open, and highly knowledgeable about fashion. It also includes fabulous ’splurge or steal’ features in which Coleen shows you how to recreate a designer look on a high-street budget and is crammed with stunning photographs of Coleen’s outfits and looks you can easily create yourself.

Dawn French - Dear Fatty

Wednesday, November 26th, 2008

Dawn French is one of the greatest comedy actresses of our time, with a career that has spanned nearly three decades, encompassing a vast and brilliant array of characters. Loved for her irreverent humor, Dawn has achieved massive mainstream success while continuing to push boundaries and challenge stereotypes. Here she describes the journey that would eventually establish her as a perhaps unlikely, but nevertheless genuine, national treasure.

Dawn began her career as part of the groundbreaking alternative comedy group, the Comic Strip, marking a radical departure from the more traditional comedy acts of the time. Later came the all-female Girls On Top, which teamed Dawn with Jennifer Saunders, Ruby Wax and Tracy Ullman and firmly established women in British comedy.

As part of the wildly successful and much loved duo French and Saunders, Dawn helped create a repertoire of brilliantly observed characters, parodying popular culture and impersonating everything from Madonna and Harry Potter to The Exorcist. Dawn’s more recent role in the Vicar of Dibley showcased not only her talent but also her ability to take a controversial and topical issue and make it mainstream - and very funny.

From her early years as an RAF child and her flat-sharing antics with Jennifer Saunders, to her outspoken views on sizism and her marriage to Lenny Henry, “Dear Fatty” will chronicle the extraordinary, hilarious rise of a complex, dynamic and unstoppable woman.

Look Who it Is!: My Story - Alan Carr

Tuesday, November 11th, 2008

 

Famed for his gentle innocence and brilliant observational wit, comedian Alan Carr describes his childhood growing up in a football-mad family in Northampton and his rise to become one of Britain’s best-loved comedians.

Johnny Kingdom: A Wild Life on Exmoor

Saturday, November 8th, 2008

Johnny Kingdom: A Wild Life on Exmoor

In Johnny Kingdom - A Wild Life on Exmoor, we see how integral both the landscape and the creatures of Exmoor have been to Johnny’s often hair-raising life story. The beauty of Exmoor, captured in lavish colour photographs in this book, forms a stunning backdrop to his story. Johnny lives in the same area near Exmoor as his father and his father before him. Married to his childhood sweetheart, he took on his father’s official job as the local gravedigger (and his unofficial living as a poacher) before a horrific accident made him change his lifestyle and seek solace in the less physically demanding work of wild-life photography.

Lewis Hamilton: New Kid on the Grid

Friday, November 7th, 2008

This is the definitive record of a talented but little known driver’s elevation to the highest level of motor racing in one dramatic and eventful Formula 1 season. Given the chance to drive one of the best cars of 2007 Hamilton surpassed all expectations when he was leading the drivers’ championship after just 6 races. In the end the championship went down the wire to the last race and, despite the result, Hamilton has secured a golden future.

Louis Walsh’s Fast Track to Fame

Wednesday, October 8th, 2008

Louis Walshs Fast Track to Fame

X-Factor judge, Louis Walsh, has managed acts such as Westlife, Girls Aloud, Shayne Ward and G4. He formerly steered Boyzone to chart topping success and also propelled Ronan Keating to solo stardom.

Now he plans to guide other budding pop stars to superstar success with his Fast Track to Fame. Louis has succeeded in notching up a staggering 28 number one singles through his stable of artists and has starred alongside Simon Cowell and Sharon Osbourne on X-Factor for three years.

Fast Track to Fame takes us through the A-Z of the music business (or from A is for Agents to X is for X-Factor) with the honest truth of how the pop industry really works.

Paul O’Grady - At My Mother’s Knee….and Other Low Joints

Wednesday, October 1st, 2008

Paul O’Grady is known and adored by millions, whether as the creator of the acid-tongued Blonde Bombshell, Lily Savage, or the presenter of the fantastically successful, award-winning “Paul O’Grady Show” on Channel 4. Now, in his own unique voice, Paul O’Grady tells the story of his early life in Irish Catholic Birkenhead that started him on the long and winding road from mischievous altar boy to national treasure.

If Not Now, When? - Esther Rantzen

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

Esther Rantzen has spent her life tirelessly campaigning on behalf of children and mental health sufferers.

In this personal and anecdotal handbook, she turns her attention to the baby boomer and shows how, ultimately, reaching your fifties and beyond is just the beginning.

Interspersed with practical advice and the occasional nostalgic rant, this is a fun celebration and an inspiration for the nation’s 17 million baby boomers.

Scarred - Sophie Andrews

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008

When Sophie was jsut a few months old, she was adopted by a couple who seemed perfectly respectable but behind closed doors, Sophie’s life was a living hell. In the most horrific ways imaginable, she was her father’s slave. Feeling unable to cope, she spiralled into self-harm and suicidal misery. At 16, she ended up in a psychiatric unit and began the painful journey of rebuilding her life.

Ma, He Sold Me for a Few Cigarettes

Sunday, September 14th, 2008

Ma, He Sold Me for a Few Cigarettes - Martha Long

 

Martha Long was born to an unmarried teenage mother in the slums of 1950s Dublin. They lived hand-to-mouth in squalid, freezing tenements, clothed in rags and forced to beg for food as Martha’s mother moved from man to man. But just when it seemed things couldn’t get any worse, her mother met Jackser…