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What possessed her to become a professional comedian in the cut-throat world of stand-up comedy after ten years as a psychiatric nurse? How did she deal with late night drunken audiences? Raised in middle class comfort, she left home in her teens to live with someone entirely inappropriate. Her parents were aghast at her behaviour and attempted to rein in her excesses, finally giving up when she demonstrated that she was not headed for the life of a nun. From her early years growing up in a small south coast town with two brothers who toughened her up, to emerging on stage as ‘The Sea Monster’, Jo Brand tells it like it is with wit, candour and a wonderful sense that life can be ridiculous but there’s always a funny side.

This second volume of autobiography begins when Alan Titchmarsh leaves school at 15 with an O Level in art, not knowing where he is heading. A job at the local nursery sows the seeds of an idea… and before he knows it he’s studying amongst the rare and exotic plants at Kew Gardens, which eventually leads to a job as a gardening presenter and, as the saying goes, the rest is history! This wonderfully warm and honest memoir shows exactly why Alan Titchmarsh has become the nation’s favourite gardener.

This is the long-awaited follow up to “The Sound of Laughter”. Picking up from where Peter’s massive bestselling autobiography “The Sound of Laughter” left off, “Saturday Night Peter” charts the hilarious journey his career took as he developed and honed his comedy skills by taking to the road and trying out his stand up material in pubs and clubs across the country.

Each Saturday night would present Peter with a new venue, a new audience to win over, other acts appearing and the ever changing and all important performance itself. But behind the scenes there were the digs and landladies, the preparation for the show, the anxious drive there and of course the inspiration for material itself.

Alan Davies was always a hoarder. Not much that came out of his bedroom made it into the bin, never mind the uninvented bin liner. But this ‘rubbish’ sums up an era… Nostalgic and laugh-out-loud funny, My Favourite People and Me is an affectionate trip through a surburban childhood and an Eighties education. Blending genuine enthusiasm with touching personal revelations, this is an intimate portrait of one of Britain’s leading comedians.

From a wartime beach in Wales to the gleaming skyscrapers of 21st century Manhattan, the extraordinary career of Fleet Street legend Harold Evans has spanned five decades of tumultuous social, political and creative change. This moving memoir from the editor of the Sunday Times delivers a penetrating insight into some of the major events in post-war Britain and charts the incredible rise of a working class boy who failed the 11-plus but achieved so much in a lifetime.

Arguably the greatest English batsman of his generation, Mark Ramprakash is among an elite group of players who have scored 100 First Class centuries, yet his international career fluctuated between ecstatic highs and intense lows. In Strictly Me, Ramprakash covers his cricket career - from the cricketing prodigy who made his Test debut at the age of 21, to finally being cast aside by his country, and his newfound celebrity status.

This is the book everyone has been waiting for: national heroes Ant and Dec, Britain’s most successful television duo, have invited their millions of fans into their world. From youth clubs to blind school, pubs to jungles, there’s a wealth of behind-the-scenes anecdotes that have never been told until now. Ant and Dec met when they were thirteen on the set of Byker Grove in Newcastle. They didn’t warm to each other immediately, but soon enough they became best mates and have been inseparable both on and off screen ever since. Bad rap, stunts going wrong, schoolboy pranks and off-screen antics are just some of the experiences they write about in this wonderfully entertaining memoir, full of vivid observations, colourful reminiscence and charming digressions, “Ooh! What a Lovely Pair” will give millions of fans an insight into the genuine intimacy and refreshing sense of humour that the two TV icons share.

Winifred Foley grew up in the 1920s, a bright, determined miner’s daughter in a world of unspoilt beauty and desperate hardship, in which women were widowed at 30 and children died of starvation. Living in a tumbledown cottage in the Forest of Dean, bread had to be begged from kindly neighbours and ‘our Poll’ never had a new pair of shoes. But most terrible of all, at fourteen, she had to leave her beloved forest for the city, bound for a life in service among London’s grey terraces.

The author was the first celebrity chef, the swashbuckling cook who crossed the high seas, on a BBC budget, communicating his love of food to millions of viewers. This memoir focuses on the ups and downs of his career, and the fortunes won and lost. It also presents an analysis of fame and how it can destroy.

Follow the hottest new pop act on their rollercoaster ride to fame. Since their huge success on The X Factor and finalists’ tour, JLS are well on their way to becoming one of the biggest boy bands the UK has ever seen. In their very first book, Aston, Oritse, Marvin and JB each tell the story of their amazing journey from X Factor hopefuls to pop smashes. Beautifully designed, the book contains 125 exclusive never-before-seen photographs of the band including sexy portraits and captured private moments which can’t fail to excite the thousands of loyal JLS fans. With their first single a massive number 1 seller and their first album due in October, 2009 looks set to be the year of JLS!