Champagne Baby


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"Fresh, charming, and wholly irresistible, Champagne Baby turns a familiar tale on its head: Instead of yet another American seeking the French secret to good living, a Frenchwoman finds her purpose--much to her surprise--in America,"--Amazon.com.




Champagne in Monte Carlo-Chips on Wigan Pier


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This is my story of trying to 'make it' in showbusiness. It's about how I got my first guitar and how I was caught up in the Merseybeat phenomenon of the 1960s.I was desperate to make music my career and I managed to go from playing on the church youth clubs of Liverpool to the Cavern Club to Television and to The Albert Hall and The London Palladium. How I went on to work with Shirley Bassey, Morecambe and Wise, Benny Hill, Jimmy Tarbuck, Rolf Harris and many more and how I went on to perform for Prince Charles, The Queen and Prince Phillip. But it's also the story of the hard times in the Workingmen's Clubs and Miner's Clubs of the North East and South Wales the late late nights and the boring travelling. It's a story with humour and sadness, elation and disappointment.How it all started and how it all ended and it's also about the many friends I met along the way.




A Baby for Eve


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Loose Diamonds


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In Loose Diamonds, an engaging collection of essays and observations, Amy Ephron, the acclaimed, award-winning author of the One Sunday Morning and A Cup of Tea, paints a rich, vivid, and comic portrait of modern living from a modern woman’s perspective. Fans of the writings of Amy Sedaris and Joan Didion’s Slouching Toward Bethlehem will enjoy Ephron’s funny, incisive take on the intricate weave of a woman’s world.




Squabbles


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The Secret Service


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Set after the events of The Secret Policemen, this story has Karla working for Number Three and the Secret Service. Karla is trapped in a dangerous world and is desperate to escape from the clutches of her controllers. Karla is given one last mission - and then promised freedom, but can she trust Number Three? After a series of terrorist attacks against the People's Republic, the Secret Service discovers information that the Americans and Canadians are behind these attacks and are planning to reinstall the monarchy. With the assistance of a compromised Venezuelan diplomat, the Secret Service start work on a plan to infiltrate the American's plan and identify and terminate the royal that they might have hidden. The Secret Service continues the story of Karla - and takes the reader on an adventure of espionage, intrigue, colorful characters, and absurdity. The Secret Service is a dark, funny, and romantic story.