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Following on from the success of the best-selling Paintbox (over 100, 000 copies sold), Frank Clarke is back to encourage more would-be artists to have a go. Using his foolproof ' Have Some More Fun' method, Frank shows how anyone can achieve fantastic results in next to no time.

A self-taught artist himself, Frank guides the new reader through the basic techniques needed for watercolour painting before embarking on a series of eight step-by-step lessons.

The lessons offer new artists lots of opportunity to practise their techniques & will inspire readers of the first book to continue developing their hobby.

Includes: advice on materials & equipment, brush techniques, effects & strokes & how to correct mistakes.

Franks infectious enthusiasm & straightforward method of teaching have turned millions of people into amateur artists. Paintbox 2 will have people reaching for their watercolours & creating beautiful pictures that most beginners can only dream of.

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Hailed as one of the greatest short-story writers of all time, Frank O' Connor was also a poet, lecturer linguist, playwright, broadcaster, critic & self-taught genius. His success is all the more remarkable given that he was born & brought up in the slums of Cork, his childhood characterised by poverty & sickness & his teenage years involved in the volunteer movement. After the war of Independence, he became Cork' first county librarian & it was then that his literary career truly began: as a librarian he was years ahead of his time, introducing poetry readings & musical gatherings. Eventually though he felt Cork could no longer satisfy his thirst for literature & so, in 1928 he went to Dublin. There he became great friends with WB Yeats, lady Gregory & the acclaimed George Russell among others. After the unprecedented success of his first book, GUESTS OF THE NATION, O' Connor was unstoppable as well as writing plays, short stories an poetry, he continued his library work & took on the role of managing director of the Abbey Theatre at the age of only thirty-three. ...

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Frank Skinner is undoubtedly one of the funniest & most successful comedians appearing on British screens. Born Chris Collins in 1957 he grew up in the West Midlands where he inherited his father's passion for football, a West Bromich Albion supporter, along with a liking for alcohol. Expelled from school at 16 Frank held various jobs later going on to gain an MA in English Literature. Nurturing a serious drink problem from the age of fourteen, Frank eventually turned to Catholicism in 1987 & hasn't had a drink since. He performed his first stand up gig in December 1987. His first television appearance in 1988 met with fits of laughter from the audience & 131 complaints, including one from cabinet minister Edwina Currie. He met fellow comedian David Baddiel in 1990 & the two went on to share a flat throughout the early 90's & to create the hit TV series Fantasy Football League. Winner of the prestigious Perrier Award at the Edinburgh Festival, Skinner's is a unique mixture of laddish & philosophical humour which has won him the prime time ITV show
- The Frank Skinner Show. Here, for the first time, Frank candidly tells us of the highs & lows of his fascinating life & career.
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In this new volume of memoirs, Frank Skinner describes his experience of going back on the road doing st&-up again, after many years spent working mainly on television. His adventures on tour are by turns funny & moving as he meditates on growing older, the terrors & joys of trying to make a live audience laugh night after night & on the nature of comedy itself.

For the first time we read a comedian's account, in his own words, of how his act is put together; his return to a world of dark little clubs & the strange encounters he has there. But what is perhaps most startling & original about Frank Skinner's writing is his honesty nbout not only the highs & lows of his career, but more intimate & personal issues
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Frank Skinner was one of the bestselling autobiographies of all time & perhaps the best reviewed.

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Frank Skinner Autobiography

Frank Skinner is undoubtedly one of the funniest and most successful comedians appearing on British screens. Born Chris Collins in 1957 he grew up in the West Midlands where he inherited his father's passion for football, a West Bromich Albion supporter, along with a liking for alcohol. Expelled from school at 16 Frank held various jobs later going on to gain an MA in English Literature. Nurturing a serious drink problem from the age of fourteen, Frank eventually turned to Catholicism in 1987 and hasn't had a drink since. He performed his first stand up gig in December 1987. His first television appearance in 1988 met with fits of laughter from the audience and 131 complaints, including one from cabinet minister Edwina Currie. He met fellow comedian David Baddiel in 1990 and the two
went on to share a flat throughout the early 90's and to create the hit TV series Fantasy Football League. Winner of the prestigious Perrier Award at the Edinburgh Festival, Skinner's is a unique mixture of laddish and philosophical humour which has won him the prime time ITV show - The Frank Skinner Show. Here, for the first time, Frank candidly tells us of the highs and lows of his fascinating life and career.

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