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My Outdoor Life

Ray Mears is a household
name through his
television series Tracks,
World of Survival,
Bushcraft Survival, The
Real Heroes of Telemark
and many more. He is a
private individual who
shuns publicity whenever
possible and would prefer
to let his many skills
tell their own tale -
until now. In MY OUTDOOR
LIFE, Ray tells of his
childhood and the
formative years when he
first developed a passion
for both bushcraft and
the martial arts skills
that are central to his
life. Having travelled
the world several times
over, he is no stranger
to risk and has had more
than his fair share of
dangerous and
life-threatening
encounters to share with
his readers. But his life
is so much more than a
tale of derring-do.
Shortly after he returned
to England having
narrowly survived a
serious helicopter crash,
his father died. Just a
year later, he had to
face the death of his
first wife Rachel. The
book conveys the many
sides of Ray Mears,
taking us up to the
present day - including
the previously untold
story of his involvement
in the man-hunt for
murderer Raoul Moat. MY
OUTDOOR LIFE gives us all
a chance to share a
life-story as rich and as
inspirational as a walk
in woods with the man
himself, Ray Mears.

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All Cheeses Great And Small: A
Life Less Blurry

This is the story of Alex
Jamess transition
from a leading light of
the Britpop movement in
the 1990s, to gentleman
farmer, artisan
cheese-maker and father
of five. ?I was hanging
around the pigsty in the
way I?d previously hung
around at The Groucho
Club. I felt wonderfully
connected, grounded in
the real world, standing
in pig muck? Following
fifteen years in Blur,
Alex James did two wild,
unexpected things. He
fell in love and he
bought a farm. Moving
into a rambling, chaotic
farmstead in the
beautiful Cotswold
countryside, he decides
the best way to learn
about farming is the same
way he learned most about
music: by jumping in and
doing it. As his family
settles in, he discovers
the unexpected joys that
country life abounds in:
finding the first egg
from your very own
chicken, coming across a
bramble bush laden with
blackberries, roasting
home-grown pears on an
open fire, before
stumbling on a new
venture ? making cheese.
Wonderfully warm, witty
and perfectly observed,
this is the story of what
to do after you?ve been
the bass player in one of
the best bands in the
world, and a
life-affirming tale of
just how much fun growing
up and settling down can
be. ?A joy to read. Prose
flows and weaves and
curls itself into
pleasing rhythms?He can
write like a god.?

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Happy Accidents

In 1974, a
fourteen-year-old girl in
Dolton, Illinois, had a
dream. A dream to become
an actress, like her
idols. But it was a long
way from the South Side
of Chicago to Hollywood,
and it didn?t help that
she?d recently dropped
out of the school play,
The Ugly Duckling. But
the funny thing is, it
all came true. Through a
series of happy
accidents, Jane Lynch
created an improbable ?
and hilarious ? path to
success. In those early
years, despite her
dreams, she was also
consumed with anxiety,
feeling out of place in
both her body and her
family. To deal with her
worries about her
sexuality, she started
drinking almost every
night and developed a
mean and judgmental
streak that turned her
into someone similar to
Sue Sylvester. Then, at
thirty-one, she started
to get her life together.
She was finally able to
embrace her sexuality,
come out to her parents,
and quit drinking for
good. Soon after, a
Frosted Flakes commercial
and a chance meeting in a
coffee shop led to a role
in the Christopher Guest
movie Best in Show. Then,
of course, came the two
lucky accidents that
truly changed her life.
Getting lost in a hotel
led to an introduction to
her future wife, Lara.
Then, a series she?d
signed up for was
abruptly cancelled,
making it possible for
her to take the role of
Sue Sylvester in Glee,
which made her a
megastar. This is a book
for the rabid Glee fan
and for anyone who needs
a new perspective on
life, love, and
success.

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Michael Winner Tales I Never
Told You

Michael Winner's life as
a movie director, food
critic and general mover
and shaker has brought
him in touch with many of
the most famous people in
the world. In his
acclaimed autobiography
he told some stories but
kept back a wealth of
others up to the present
time which are recounted
here with his customary
wit and humour. The
stories that form the
basis of Tales I Never
Told feature stars of
film and TV, figures
from his personal life
and things in general
that have amused him and
will amuse the reader.
Names included are Simon
Cowell, Marlon Brando,
Faye Dunaway, Sophia
Loren, Charles Bronson,
Michael Caine, Anthony
Hopkins, Orson Welles,
Burt Lancaster, Ava
Gardner, Robert Mitchum,
Oliver Reed, Jack
Palance, Ernest
Borgnine, Alain Delon,
Leslie Caron, Frank
Sinatra The book also
contains the last one
year of the Winner's
Dinners reviews from The
Sunday Times so those who
keep up with the
restaurants and hotels
and glamorous places to
which he goes will have
an updated version
following his Winner's
Dinners book and his book
Unbelievable! My Life in
Restaurants and Other
Places.

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Bruno Tonioli - My Story

Bruno Tonioli is the
unmistakably flamboyant
Italian who has
entertained Strictly Come
Dancing's countless fans
for very nearly a decade.
Bruno lights up every
episode of the smash UK
show - as well as Dancing
in the Stars in the USA -
with his high-energy,
warm and deliciously
humourous critiques of
the celebrity
contestants. For the very
first time, fans can now
read all about this
highly engaging and
life-affirming man who
has rapidly established
himself as a British
national treasure. Born
to staunchly working
class parents and raised
in a very conservative
Catholic village in
northern Italy, Tonioli
knew from the age of 8
that he was not
constructed like many of
the other boys he played
with. Forced to train for
a 'proper job' as a bank
clerk, Bruno was
eventually to find a way
to express his creative
abilities and ended up a
dancer and then a
renowned choreographer,
arriving in Britain in
the early 1980s. His
career took off and he
found himself immersed in
the buzz and hedonism of
the vibrant 80s scene,
rubbing shoulders with
the great and the good
from the worlds of
theatre, music and film.
Wonderfully rich and
colourful stories from
this era abound. For
Bruno, the last decade
has - of course - been
very largely about the
Strictly phenomenon, and
his memoirs do not
disappoint in taking fans
behind the scenes to
witness for themselves
the magical ingredients
of one of the most
popular shows on TV. The
book will delight with
its warmth, depth and
wonderful sense of joie
de vivre.

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Sweet Revenge -The Intimate
Life Of Simon Cowell

Sweet Revenge offers a
detailed insider's
account of entertainment
mogul Simon Cowell's rise
to meteoric fame and all
of the controversial
highs and lows along the
way as he settles scores
with rivals. The book
will be packed with juicy
details, hard-to-get
interviews and
never-before-revealed
facts all written from an
objective journalist's
perspective. Just named
one of Barbara Walter's
"Most Fascinating People
of 2011, Cowell
continues to reign as a
pop culture icon and
media influencer.

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Denise Welch: Pulling Myself
Together

Denise Welch has been a
firm TV favourite since
the eighties, but it was
when she took on the role
of Rovers Return landlady
Natalie Horrocks in
Coronation Street that
she really became a
household name. Ten years
later she's more popular
than ever, thanks to her
award-winning run in
Waterloo Road and her
honesty, frankness and
bubbly personality,
which have secured her
place in the hearts of
millions of Loose Women
fans. It seems like
Denise has it all: the
love of her husband Tim
Healy, two wonderful
sons, Matthew and Louis,
and a hugely successful
career. But things
weren't always what that
way. After her first
child, Matthew, was
born, Denise began to
suffer from such a severe
form of post-natal
depression that she was
at times suicidal. As she
struggled to conceal her
heartbreak on the set of
Coronation Street, she
turned to alcohol and
drugs to cope. When she
was at her lowest, she
even had an affair that
very nearly ended her
marriage. And just when
she had almost got
herself back on track,
she received the
devastating news that her
son Louis was desperately
ill. In Pulling Myself
Together, Denise
describes her battle with
depression, drugs and
alcoholism, and how she
ultimately fought back to
become the inspirational
woman she is today,
helped by the love and
support of her family.
Filled with Denise's
trademark wry humour,
this is the funny,
honest and sometimes
shocking story of one of
our best-loved actresses.

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Clark Gable - Tormented Star

Gable was perceived as
the archetypal Hollywood
superman, the kind of
man that women lusted
after and their husbands
envied. However, as
David Bret reveals in
this powerful biography,
in the early days of his
career, with his squinty
teeth and fondness for
men as well as woman, he
was anything but the
wholesome figure he
appeared. Gable was
adopted by the
sewing Circle? ?
the group that included
Jean Harlow and,
ironically, Carole
Lombard, the great love
of his life. Bret also
reveals how Gables
wartime ?heroics?, which
saw him promoted through
the ranks from Private to
Major in less than a
year, were no more than
an elaborate publicity
stunt. Like an earlier
paternity suit, it was
an exercise dreamed up by
studio chief, Louis B.
Mayer to promote and
protect Gables
image. After ending an
affair with Ben Maddox in
1942, Gable seems to
have ?gone straight?,
from which point Bret
moves into more familiar
territory, focusing on
Gables great movies
including Gone With the
Wind and on his affairs
with Joan Crawford, Ava
Gardner and other famous
stars. Drawing on a
wealth of unpublished
material, Bret pulls no
punches in this
star-studded story of
Gables life, told
with candour and panache.

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Dear Cary My Life With
Carygrant Dyan Cannon

Dyan Cannon wasn't
looking for romance when
she sat own for lunch
with Cary Grant in the
studio canteen; she was a
young actress on the
outskirts of Hollywood
just hoping for her big
break. What she found was
a star-crossed soul mate
- a man who fell
instantly in love with
her, pursued her
relentlessly and
eventually persuaded her
to love him back equally.
Cary Grant and Dyan
Cannon were a glamorous
and popular celebrity
couple, the epicentre of
chic and swinging 1960s
Hollywood. For a few
brief years their romance
flourished; they married
and had a daughter. Their
romance played out like
one of Grant's movies -
bold, witty, full of
dramatic gestures, and
equally tender moments.
When the love died,
however, it ended in the
same way it had started:
dramatically, on
courthouse steps and on
the front page of every
newspaper in the world.
Sweet, sad, candid and
honest, Dear Cary
reveals a side of Cary
Grant the world has never
before seen. It has taken
Dyan Cannon two decades
to reconcile herself to
the death of Cary Grant
and to come to terms with
their stormy, difficult
love. Dear Cary is the
end result of that
acceptance; her final
love letter to her one
true love, Cary Grant.

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Happy Days

Olly Murs invites you
behind the scenes in his
official illustrated
autobiography filled with
hundreds of brand new and
exclusive photos. My life
has been a non-stop
roller-coaster of extreme
emotions, crazy days,
unexpected highs and yet
my life hasn't been
without its low points
too. I've tried to
imagine myself sitting
down with you explaining
what I was thinking and
feeling during those
times. I hope this book
will give you a
behind-the-scenes view of
my journey into a place
where I finally found
what had been missing in
my life for all those
years: music. Endearingly
written with disarming
honesty and filled with
exclusive new and unseen
photographs on and
offstage, Happy Days
takes you closer to Olly
than you've ever been
before.

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Doris Day - A Reluctant Star

With her bobbed, blonde
hair and flashing smile,
Doris Day was portrayed
as the girl next door ? a
virginal girl that you
could take home to your
parents. In real life,
she was not quite the
happy-go-lucky blonde
with the bubbly
personality promoted by
Warner Brothers who
simply wanted to market
her as a commodity.
Married young, to a
violent bully, and with
a child, Day had to work
hard, touring with
bands, to get her start
in showbusiness. A
reluctant star, all
Doris Day wanted to do
was settle down to a
happy, simple life but
somehow managed to always
attract the wrong kind of
men ? thugs and crooks
who took their anger out
on her. And yet this
didn?t stop her from
enjoying sexual exploits
with a number of leading
men. She worked hard ?
not to become a success
but for a job ? and yet
her manager managed to
defraud her of millions.
How could this happen to
such a smart lady ?
perhaps she was too
trusting? In this
revealing biography,
David Bret takes a
fascinating look at the
trials and tribulations
behind what seemed to her
adoring fans to be the
perfect woman. From her
German Jewish parents to
her donation to an
airlift of cats and dogs
in Louisiana, as well as
full discography and film
lists, this is a
captivating look at a
resilient American icon.
David Bret was born in
Paris and is a leading
celebrity biographer. His
many acclaimed books
include biographies of
Marlene Dietrich, Gracie
Fields, Freddie Mercury,
Tallulah Bankhead,
Maria Callas, Rudolph
Valentino, Edith Piaf
and Joan Crawford. He
lives in Yorkshire.

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Kris Jenner... And All Things
Kardashian

On "Keeping Up with the
Kardashians, we've
watched Kris Jenner do it
all. She runs a
household, manages her
children's blockbuster
careers, produces four
television shows
featuring her
larger-than-life family,
and still finds time to
tweet to her fans. In
this thoughtful, candid,
and no-nonsense memoir,
Kris opens up about the
parts of her life that
aren't always in the
spotlight: her marriage
to Robert Kardashian, the
late father of her four
oldest children; her
husband Olympic champion
Bruce Jenner's pivotal
role in ending the
Kardashians' messy
divorce so they could all
move forward as a family;
her close relationships
with Nicole Brown Simpson
and O. J. Simpson and her
insider knowledge about
the murder, its
aftermath, and the
infamous trial; and even
her controversial
decision to make her
charming family into an
international brand. If
you think your life is
chaotic, try keeping up
with Kris Jenner.

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All Balls And Glitter: My Life

In the paperback edition
of "All Balls and
Glitter", Craig
Revel once more turns the
spotlight on himself,
with an updated chapter
that includes gossip from
the 2008 Strictly
competition and the 2009
tour, plus new
photographs from his
private collection.
"All Balls and
Glitter" is Craigs
remarkable life story,
beginning with the tale
of his escape from his
small-town home in
Ballarat, Australia,
aged just fifteen, to
embark on a career as a
song-and-dance man (and
drag queen), and
revealing the intimate
secrets of his straight
marriage and gay
relationships, as well
as the treachery and
heartbreak that
accompanied them. Hear
all the details of Craig
Revels fascinating career
as a performer,
choreographer, director
and - most recently - as
a TV star on Strictly,
Fame Academy and
Celebrity MasterChef.
"All Balls and
Glitter" is
unmissable, packed with
breathtaking backstage
gossip and showbiz
secrets from one of the
most captivating men on
television. Show More
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Pirates - (Ross Kemp)

Pirates have been around
as long as people have
used the oceans as trade
routes, and their reign
on the world's high seas
has inspired many a
novelist. But the type of
pirate Ross Kemp is
investigating now is a
world away from the
cutlass-and-peg-leg
stereotype of Treasure
Island and Pirates of the
Caribbean. The corsairs
he meets in Somalia,
Indonesia and Nigeria are
armed with AK47 assault
rifles, RPG-7 rocket
launchers and
semi-automatic pistols.
They race towards their
targets in speed-boats
and board and capture
vessels in a flash. They
are violent, dangerous
and ruthless - they will
stop at nothing to get
the ransoms they have
demanded. Piracy is
becoming an increasingly
serious problem that is
not going away. As the
pirates he meets stretch
their operations ever
further to new hunting
grounds, Kemp finds out,
often to his cost, how
much of a force to be
reckoned with they are.

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