Girl in High Heels" is Ellouise Moore's totally indiscreet & very sexy account of her time working as a stripper in London. Her career began at a glamorous well-known West End club where she danced for celebrities & was soon singled out as one of the owner's favourites. She then moved on to work at 'gentlemen's venues' in the East End. Her childhood was spent winning prizes for ballet at her grammar school but she never thought that one day her dance skills would help her become a hugely successful stripper attracting the attention of rich powerful men & earning thousands of pounds a night. Following her transformation from a naive & slightly awkward ordinary girl to a confident & sexy stripper " Girl in High Heels" reveals all the glamour & gossip
- as well as the horror stories
- from the world she soon found herself immersed in. We learn about the other girls & how they got into the industry the bitchiness & rivalry & the illicit sex & hands-on dancing with clients. She describes the various types of clients she danced for: the reluctant blushing men dragged into the club on their stag night the regulars who imagined she was their girlfriend & those with less savoury paedophilic tendencies that she quickly learned to avoid. Then there's the guy who paid for her boob job & the fellow lap dancer turned stalker who made her life hell. & we see how Ellouise managed to juggle her ordinary life
- that of boyfriends friends & family
- with her very unconventional job. Candid & explicit " Girl in High Heels" is a compelling memoir from a girl who through her career as a stripper really has seen it all."



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In The Girl in the Flammable Skirt" Aimee Bender has created a world where nothing is quite as it seems. From a man suffering from reverse evolution to a lonely wife who waits for her husband to return from war; to a small town where one girl has a hand made from fire & the other has a hand made from ice. These stories of men & women whose lives are shaped & sometimes twisted by the power of extraordinary desires take us to a place far beyond the imagination." ...

Set in Georgian England fifteen-year-old Sophia is trapped by the limitations of living in a mans world. Forced by her father to give up everything she loves Sophia is ordered to make a new life in Bath. By day she is trapped in the social whirl of balls & masquerades. By night she secretly swaps her ball gowns for breeches & turns to highway robbery to get her revenge.. . When one man begins to take a keen interest in her Sophia must keep her distance or risk unmasking her secret life. ...

Born into a Romany gypsy family in 1939 Eva Petulengro's childhood seemed to her to be idyllic in every way. She would travel the country with her family in their painted caravan & spend evenings by the fire as they sang & told stories of their past. She didn't go to school or visit a doctor when she was unwell. Instead her family would gather wild herbs to make traditional remedies hunt game & rabbits & while the men tended horses to make a living the young girls would join the women in reading palms. But Eva's perfect world would be turned upside down as the countryside became increasingly hostile to all travellers. Eva describes the wonderful characters in her family from her grandfather ' Naughty' Petulengro to her four beautiful aunts who entranced everyone they met as well as the fascinating people they came across on the road. Moving evocative romantic & funny The Girl in the Painted Caravan vividly captures a way of life that has now sadly all but disappeared. ...

Kim Phuc was nine years old in 1972. Severely burned by napalm she ran from her burning village & was captured on film. Denise Chong relates Kim's experience & recovery in this astonishing biography & history of America's shameful war. The photograph of Kim seen around the world was one of many to turn public opinion against the war in Vietnam. This is the story of how the picture came to be & also what happened to Kim after it was taken. It provides an insight into the country Vietnam became after the US army left & explains why Kim finally had to flee to Canada where she now lives. ...

The Girl in the Song tells the stories of 50 women who have inspired classic rock songs. Who was Emily in Pink Floyds See Emily Play? What happened to Suzanne Verdal immortalised in Leonard Cohens Suzanne? Did life change for Prudence Farrow after John Lennon penned Dear Prudence? & whatever happened to the girl with mousy hair an ex-girlfriend Bowie sings about in Life on Mars? This fascinating book explains how each song came about when it was released the impact it had on the charts & then gives a mini-biography of the songs muse. Suzanne Verdal was living a bohemian lifestyle by the river in Montreal when Cohen wrote his poem Suzanne which he subsequently set to music. Later in life she tried to get in touch with the star who blanked her backstage at a gig. She was last heard of living in a car in California. Apart from songs the book features sidebars on the performers who wrote about the women in their life
- Syd Barrett famously included four girls in the same song. Other examples include: Under My Thumb
- The Rolling Stones (Chrissie Shrimpton) Shes Leaving Home
- The Beatles Layla
- Derek & the Dominoes (Patti Boyd) Peggy-Sue
- Buddy Holly (Peggy-Sue Gerron) Maggie May
- Rod Stewart Light of Day
- Bruce Springsteen (Julianna Phillips) Sweet Caroline
- Neil Diamond (Caroline Kennedy).







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When Ann Kenny was four years old her foster mother hit her across the face with a fireplace shovel. She was left lying unconscious on the cold hard floor while the family went to mass. She almost lost an eye. This is just one of the childhood incidents Ann recalls in her vivid shocking memoir of growing up in rural Ireland in a house where she wasnt wanted. Her early story is Cinderella-like but without the happy ending: she had two older sisters who were loved but Ann was put to work on household chores & received constant neglect & physical abuse & sexual abuse from her grandfather. On growing up Ann found it hard to escape the shadows of her past marrying an alcoholic & effectively raised her children herself. Ann eventually found the road to recovery & her book is a testament to the strength of a survivor. She began writing the book as she set to find out who was the tiny child she remembered left in a wicker basket
- that child turned out to be herself.
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A stunning & powerful contemporary love story from one of the best storytellers this century. What if everything you believed ...

Liz Jones is Fashion Editor of the Daily Mail & a columnist for the Mail on Sunday. She is the former editor of Marie Claire which sounds quite an achievement but she was sacked three years in. A psychotherapist once told her ' What you brood on will hatch' & she was right. Nothing Liz ever did in life ever worked out. Nothing. Not one single thing. Liz grew up in Essex the youngest of seven children. Her mother was a martyr her dad so dashing that no other man could ever live up to his pressed & polished standards. Her siblings terrified her with their Afghan coats cigarettes parties sex & drugs. They made her father shout & her mother cry. Liz became an anorexic aged eleven an illness that continues to blight her life today. She remained a virgin until her thirties & even then found the wait wasn't really worth it; it was just one more thing to add to her to do list. She was named Columnist of the Year 2012 by the British Society of Magazine Editors but is still too frightened to answer the phone too filled with disgust at her own image to glance in the mirror or eat a whole avocado. She lives alone with her four rescued collies three horses & seventeen cats. Girl Least Likely To is the opposite of 'having it all'. It is a life lesson in how NOT to be a woman. ...

WOULD YOU GIVE UP THE WOMAN YOU LOVE IF HER DEATH COULD SAVE MILLIONS? Rachel Case went to the doctor for a routine blood donation. Now she is the most valuable woman in history. For Rachel possesses a unique gene
- a marker that holds the key to protecting the world from a pandemic that could wipe out humanity. The government are desperate for Rachel's DNA. So desperate they've sent in a squad to take her to a top-secret high-security facility. Only Donovan Creed killer-for-hire & Rachel's lover can free her. But only Rachel's husband Sam knows where she is. & he hates Creed with a passion...
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