Drawing from exclusive & unpublished interviews with a variety of names & faces from throughout Alice's career, the book follows Cooper's tale from his life growing up as a preacher's son in Arizona, through the early years of struggle in Phoenix & then Los Angeles, & then onto the rollercoaster ride that has been the years since then.

Includes:: interviews with original bandmates Michael Bruce & the late Glenn Buxton, drummer Neal Smith, the late Frank Zappa, manager Shep Gordon & producer Bob Ezrin.

Includes:: tributes & recollections from many of the artists who call Alice an influence
- from the Damned & the Cramps, to White Zombie & Gwar. Session players & songwriters who have made their own contributions to the Alice story recall their days spent with this Prince of Hell-raisers. The result is a story that alternately thrills, shocks, surprises & delights.

Includes:: full discography & bibliography.






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One of the most photographed women in Britain, Coleen knows what it's like to live in the celebrity glare. The fully updated paperback of her number one bestselling style autobiography ' Welcome to My World' offers exclusive insights into her transformation from an ordinary Liverpudlian schoolgirl into a glamorous style icon. During that transformation, Coleen has become a huge inspiration to young women everywhere. We have watched in admiration as she has become sought after for the cover of the world's fashion & style magazines, featured in Vogue, presented her own TV programme, become a regular magazine columnist & worked as the face of high profile brands. The updated paperback

Includes:: the story of her star-studded 21st birthday bash & her exciting new TV plans. ' Welcome to My World' is Coleen's chance to share with her millions of fans the ways in which she has developed her taste in fashion, & the tips she can pass on from her increasingly admired style & her fitness regime. She also gives fascinating insights into what life is really like in the unrelenting celebrity spotlight & amidst the glare of the constant paparrazi flashbulbs. Along with often humorous insights into Coleen's world, the book

Includes:: her tips on fashion & style do's & don'ts based on her own experience of growing up in the limelight. It will be an inspiration to anyone interested in fashion, glamour & how one girl coped when she was thrust into the celebrity spotlight & her life changed forever.



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Rosie Hopkins thinks leaving her busy London life, & her boyfriend Gerard, to sort out her elderly Aunt Lilian's sweetshop in a small country village is going to be dull. Boy, is she wrong. Lilian Hopkins has spent her life running Lipton's sweetshop, through wartime & family feuds. As she struggles with the idea that it might finally be time to sell up, she also wrestles with the secret history hidden behind the jars of beautifully coloured sweets. ...

Fern has the voice of an angel but as an underpaid barmaid & pub singer, she's going nowhere fast. Then she enters the TV talent show Fame Game & this could be her big break. But then, things are never that simple. Evan David's exquisite tones have enthralled opera buffs throughout the world. Everyone around him panders to his every need but what he really needs now is a break
- from everything. Two worlds collide when Fern becomes Evan's assistant & neither is prepared for the dramatic effect they have on each other. Something happens when they're together, & it's more than just music...
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Miss Hester Harper, middle-aged & eccentric, brings Katherine into her emotionally impoverished life. Together they sew, cook gourmet dishes for two, run the farm, make music & throw dirty dishes down the well. One night, driving along the deserted track that leads to the farm, they run into a mysterious creature. ...

Details: Liverpool 1942. Seventeen-year-old Frankie Franconi falls in love with charismatic British officer Nick Harper
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Richard Holmes, highly acclaimed military historian & broadcaster, tells the exhilarating story of Britain's greatest-ever soldier, the man who posed the most serious threat to Napoleon. The Duke of Wellington's remarkable life & extraordinary campaigns are recreated with Holmes' superb skill in this compelling book. ...

This book reveals the sensitive child of Irish aristocrats pushed into the army, making his name in India before returning to lead the Allied armies to victory against Napoleon in the Peninsular War & at Waterloo. Swapping battlegrounds for political minefields, Wellington emerges as a Tory Prime Minister of a country demanding reform, & achieves at last the ideal he had always held out for himself: 'the retained servant of king & people'. ...

This compact, presentable & best-selling dictionary is a fully up-to-date, comprehensive & clear compact dictionary that is the ideal reference aid for learners & speakers of Welsh. It contains over 20, 000 headwords, & irregular forms of adjectives, verbs & plural nouns are included. In addition, there is an appendix of irregular Welsh verbs. Mae'r geiriadur gwerthiant uchel hwn yn glir, yn gryno, yn gyfoes ac yn gynhwysfawr. Mae'n ddelfrydol ar gyfer dysgwyr a Chymry Cymraeg. Ceir dros 20, 000 o benawdau, yn cynnwys ffurfiau afreolaidd ansoddeiriau, berfau ac enwau lluosog ynghyd ag atodiad yn rhedeg y prif ferfau afreolaidd. D. Geraint Lewis is an award-winning author of numerous Welsh dictionaries & books of grammar. He has recently completed a Welsh Children's Thesaurus & is currently working on a collegiate dictionary for the Welsh Joint Education Committee. Other works include collections of Christmas Carols for children & a major volume of Folk songs. Prior to his retirement he was an Assistant Director of Education with responsibility for Cultural Services in the County of Ceredigion. Enillodd D. Geraint Lewis wobr Tir Na N' Og am Geiriadur Gomer i'r Ifanc. Ers hynny y mae wedi cyhoeddi nifer o eiriaduron a llyfrau gramadeg. Mae wedi cyhoeddi Thesawrws Plant yn ddiweddar ac yn gweithio ar eiriadur 6ed dosbarth i Gyd-bwyllgor Addysg Cymru. Ymhlith ei weithiau eraill ceir cyfrolau o garolau Nadolig i blant a chyfrol gynhwysfawr o ganeuon traddodiadol, Can Di Bennill. Cyn ymddeol, bu'n Gyfarwyddwr Addysg Cynorthwyol yn gyfrifol am Wasanaethau Diwylliannol yng Ngheredigion. ...

Details: Welsh & Proud of It! offers thought-provoking interpretations of Welshness from the finest writers at home &
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