Autumn of the Moguls: My Misadventures with the Titans, Poseurs, and Money Guys who Mastered and Messed Up Big Media
Автор: Michael Wolff
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FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE SHOCKING NEW BOOK SHAKING US POLITICS: FIRE AND FURY, INSIDE THE TRUMP WHITEHOUSEA riveting, barnstorming, thrilling ride through the loud, lively and all-embracing world of the modern media conglomerates – its key deals, dealmakers, divas and delusions.The global media industry has never been more powerful. And there is no more astute, forthright and entertaining chronicler of this roller-coaster world than award-winning writer Michael Wolff. In ‘Autumn of the Moguls’, a funny, frank, and incendiary account that looks hard at the great characters of this media age – from homes and gardens empress Martha Stewart to Disney czar Michael Eisner – he has written the guide we all need to the media, a world that is often more entertaining than what it produces.
There’s A Hippo In My Cistern: One Man’s Misadventures on the Eco-Frontline
Автор: Pete May
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The hilarious true-life tale of one man's journey from self-confessed planet-killing lad to eco-friendly, green-crusader Dad set against the backdrop of Cool Britannia, Blair's Britain and the rise of the green movement.Back in the nineties, Loaded journalist, Pete May was your normal twenty-something male: a football mad, beer guzzling, Dr Who watching lad's lad, quite happy surrounding himself with countless pizza boxes, beer cans and other environmentally unfriendly consumer items. Recycling to Pete was a debate about whether he should turn his socks inside out and reuse them.Then one day, out of nowhere, along came eco bunny Nicola – a greener than green environmental activist. Could two people so different really fall for each other? Would Pete ever change his ways and sign up to the green lifestyle of composting loos, freezing cold houses, multiple jumper wearing, chicken rearing, recycling, cycling, energy saving and general self-sufficiency?This is the charming and funny true-life tale of one man's struggle to grapple with the good life, go green and get the girl.
The Misadventures of Tallulah Casey 3-Book Collection: Withering Tights, A Midsummer Tights Dream and A Taming of the Tights
Автор: Louise Rennison
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Three hilarious Tallulah Casey novels by Queen of Comedy and bestselling author of Angus, Thongs and Full-frontal Snogging!Laugh your tights off at the (VERY) amateur dramatics of Talullah Casey at performing arts college in this award-winning trilogy.Withering Tights:So Dother Hall isn’t quite the showbiz experience Tallulah was expecting, but once she starts her ‘FAME! I’m gonna liiiiive foreeeeeever, I’m gonna fill my tiiiiights’ summer course things are bound to perk up.Especially when the boys arrive.When DO the boys arrive?A Midsummer Tights Dream:It’s new term at Dother Hall and Tallulah can’t wait to see her pals again, Charlie and the boys from Woolfe Academy and maybe even bad boy Cain… And could that be the bright lights of Broadway calling? And more importantly, for who?The Taming of the Tights:Tallulah is putting all thoughts of Cain behind her. He is literally an animal in trousers… oo-er. Not like nice boy Charlie (who she’s totally not thinking about either). But whilst the Tree Sisters chase those golden slippers of applause, Dr Lightowler seems hell-bent on spoiling everything. Can Tallulah make it through another term? And will she resist the call of that wild boy?
