France eagerly awaits the day the young King, Louis XV, comes of age & breaks free from the rule of his ministers. The country hopes Louis will bring back glory & prosperity to France. However, he is too preoccupied with the thrills of hunting & gambling to notice the power struggle going on in his own court. Soon, the King is introduced to the pleasures of mistresses & a succession of lovers follows. From the gentle persuasions of Madame de Mailley to her overtly ambitious sister, Madame Vintimille, France stands by & watches a King ruled by his women ...

France eagerly awaits the day the young King, Louis XV, comes of age & breaks free from the rule of his ministers. The country hopes Louis will bring back glory & prosperity to France. However, he is too preoccupied with the thrills of hunting & gambling to notice the power struggle going on in his own court. Soon, the King is introduced to the pleasures of mistresses & a succession of lovers follows. From the gentle persuasions of Madame de Mailley to her overtly ambitious sister, Madame Vintimille, France stands by & watches a King ruled by his women ...

X-Factor judge, Louis Walsh, has managed acts such as Westlife, Girls Aloud, Shayne Ward & G4. He formerly steered Boyzone to chart topping success & 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 & has starred alongside Simon Cowell & Sharon Osbourne on X-Factor for three years. Now he is sharing his expertise with a new generation of pop wannabees.

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. The book is peppered throughout with contributions & anecdotes from many of Louis's stars, stories of their own successes & setbacks, & lavishly illustrated with exclusive colour photographs. Essential reading for anyone, of any age, dreaming of becoming a star.



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A Russian ballet company comes to town with a production of COPPELIA & Louisa just has to see it. But first she has to scrape the ticket money together through lots of get-rich-schemes. By the time she's got enough disaster strikes
- the show's sold out! But with a little help from her guardian-angel neighbour, Mrs Posnansky, Weezer finds herself not only at the ballet, but in the wings as well & of course, in heaven too!
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Louisa & her sister are off to Florida to enjoy some fun in the sun with their dad. But for Louisa that means missing her school's end-of-year display & the thought of Phoebe dancing the lead role instead of her is just unbearable. Until, that is, she is given the chance to appear in a TV commercial. ...

LOUISA'S SECRET
When Louisa's ballet class have to choose partners, her new neighbour Tony is the perfect choice. But Tony thinks
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New boy, Tony moves into the neighbourhood & he Weezer become instant friends. Weezer wants Tony to come to ballet with her, but he reckons it's just for 'sissies'. Somehow Weezer manages to persuade him to at least help her practice at home & Tony soon finds out that, not only is he quite good at this dancing lark but, he actually rather enjoys it too! ...

New boy, Tony moves into the neighbourhood & he Weezer become instant friends. Weezer wants Tony to come to ballet with her, but he reckons it's just for 'sissies'. Somehow Weezer manages to persuade him to at least help her practice at home & Tony soon finds out that, not only is he quite good at this dancing lark but, he actually rather enjoys it too! ...

May, Christine, Heed, Junior, Vida
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- all are women obsessed by Bill Cosey. More than the wealthy owner of the famous

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Love is Angela Carter's fifth novel & was first published in 1971. With surgical precision it charts the destructive emotional ...