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What does it mean to be British in the twenty-first century? Brighton has long been perceived as being at the vanguard of English taste - in its attitudes towards homosexuality, the rise of the chav and binge drinking, as well as its music and drug cultures. "Made in Brighton" takes a critical look at the changing state of Britain, using the seaside vista of Brighton as a focal point. Julie Burchill and Daniel Raven, who have lived in Brighton for many years, interweave personal stories and experiences of Brighton with larger themes of sex, politics and class to explore the changes to British culture in the last twenty years. From punk to dance, dope to coke, the labour party to hen parties, straight to gay to bi and everything in between, "Made in Brighton" holds up a mirror to the dazed face of Britain and gives it a good hard slap.'I read Burchill's chapters as I have her columns - with amusement, occasional spluttering and huge admiration for her freewheeling gift of language' - Helen Brown, "Daily Telegraph". 'a great phrasemaker...a jukebox of funny stories and unreasonable opinions' - "Evening Standard". 'the book is fun...Burchill's writing seems fuelled as much by mischievousness as indignation' - "Guardian". ... Read more

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'Some people tread water all their lives. Not me - I'm gonna make a big splash.' Maria Sweet, aka Sugar, is back. Her husband's done a runner taking their daughter with him, but at least she has a plan: get a job, get some cash and get the hell out of Brighton. And somewhere out there in the big bad world is Kim Lewis, who might just be the Love of Sugar's Life. Sugar's landed herself a stint as a model for local fashion designers Agnew & Bagshawe. But when she discovers they've exploited her, she's hell-bent on vengeance and that can only lead to chaos ...Sugar is as defiant and outrageous as ever in this riotous sequel to "Sugar Rush", Burchill's bestselling teen novel. ... Read more

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love it
it was a good read. i was on a 22 hr bus ride and this book made it go by fast.

Very Funny
Sugar wasn't the main character in the first book Sugar Rush.In this book she takes center stage and is wonderfully funny.Awesomely brilliant one liners.I'd love to see more about Sugar as she navigates the world. ... Read more

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wait for the "unauthorised biography" to come out
I havent read many autobiogaphies. Mostly athletes. It was curious that I chose to read this. Of all the people I could have read about. Heres my reasoning. I knew she wrote for NME. I knew she was a british journalist. I knew she was about during that brilliant period of music in the UK from 78-84. I knew she had attititude. The jacket cover was hot. But. I found the read disappointing. Julie does have a sense of the comic and absurd. Her views on many issues are not mainstream. She is not afraid to make an inflammatory statement. These elements of the read were worthwhile. However dont read this as a serious autobiography because its not. Its a shame she even pretends it is. A more suitable title might have been "Random Moments with Julie". True the book does follow the due convention of childhood to the present day but I am no closer to the real Julie than I was at the start of the book. I suspect she knows what she was doing. I suspect this was purely a commercial exercise. Julie even hints at this herslf. Multiple references to wether she is telling you the truth suggest she was taking the the piss. Im looking forward to the "unauthorised biography". Then we may get some clearer glimpses into the world of the author. Further...I wonder if she considers herself an artist.Art is about self revelation and shared experience. Where was the self revelation? Where were the disappointments, the triumphs - where were the struggles, the breakthroughs, the frustrations. Where was the dirt, the passion, the regrets. Sadly all are still a secret to Julie. Maybe my fragile male ego has taken a battering as her views of men are far from complimentary. Yes men are violent. Yes man do bad things. Yes women are probably superior in so many ways. But Julie doesnt personalise any of this. What about her 3 marriages? What about her child? What about her career? All of these barely rate a mention in the book. No-one in her life is treated with any depth and we get no dirt on any famous people (and we love dirt). The editor should be sacked. Choice of cover is interesting too. Julie at 17, gothic looks and dark eyeliner. She looks like the rock chick she should have been from the late 70's. Where is this girl in the pages of the book. Julie? Where are you? ... Read more

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It's survival of the fittest at Ravendene Comprehensive - the terrifying teenage jungle for which Kim Lewis must trade her safe, posh private school. But help is at hand - in the unlikely form of the rude, raucous, toxic and tantalising Maria (aka Sugar) Sweet, queen of the 'Ravers'. As Kim falls quickly under her spell, and gambles her good-girl past for an exciting life of late-night parties and daring emotion, she must ask herself a disturbing question: has she fallen in love with her best friend? ... Read more

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Great book.
I really loved the book and the series. I watched the series before I read the book and although the story lines are quite different I enjoyed them both equally. It's an entertaining, amusing book with some serious moments thrown in but overall it's a light-hearted enjoyable book. :)

An unexpected twist
This is a good book, not just for teens but for adults as well. I bought it after I watch the tv series hoping it would give me more background stories on each characters, and indeed it did. I was expecting a lite chick lit of course and what do you know, it actually have an unexpected depth and makes one thinks. I love this book so much that I bought the sequel "Sweet"

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I've read this book many times. I strongly disagree with all these bad reviews.This book is one of my favorites.
I wasn't a huge fan of how it ended but altogether i loved this book.

Wonderful book!!!
This book was really great and had the best humor! Definitely sad at parts, but never failed to please.

A big let-down....
I saw practically all of the series on E4 and thought it was absolutely fantastic, if a bit weird. Olivia Hallinan is a fantastic actress. Then I learned it was based on a book, so I got it out the library. I was amazed at how un-like the tv show it was.
I was expecting a lot more to happen in it. The tv show is apparantly very loosely based on the book, and personally, I think that's a good thing, because the book was pretty crap.
Kim has to move to a new school, and when she arrives, bumps into Maria Sweet a.k.a. Sugar, the leader of the girls in the school. They immediately become staunch friends, and Kim finds herself falling in love with her. There are a few lesbian antics in it, but hardly anything compared to the series. You can decide whether that's good or bad, I'll leave that up to you. But as for a storyline, I couldn't really find one.
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It is a great and glorious tradition the world over - to vehemently state one thing and then do the exact opposite. Royals are doing it, reformed smokers are doing it, and politicians are virtually synonymous with it. Welcome to the heyday of hypocrisy. From the Everyday Hypocrites (cyclists, white hip-hop fans, reality television-haters) to the truly pungent Stinking Hypocrites (chav-haters, green campaigners and anti-Americans), Julie Burchill and Chas Newkey-Burden pull no punches in their witty harangue of those who shamelessly say one thing and do another. This book features the modern hypocrite's favourite holiday destinations, sporting heroes and the hilarious Hypocrites' Ultimate Weekend. ... Read more

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Took me out of my comfort zone
Julie Burchill is an independent journalist in every sense. Her iconoclastic op-ed pieces have over the years succeeded in offending people from across the political spectrum. A lifelong and unrepentant Communist, her political positions are nevertheless somewhat eclectic, and as time as gone by it has become more and more difficult to spot anything conventionally left-wing about her output.

The subject matter in this provocative collection of essays is quite wide-ranging. Many of the items are whimsical, dealing with absurdities rather than heavy issues, but are still well-written and amusing. Some of the pieces raise serious issues, however, and even challenged my preconceptions in certain areas.

One theme explored is the resurgence of class prejudice in supposedly egalitarian 21st Century Britain. In the past I'd always considered Burchill's obsession with "class" to be a rather silly anachronism, but looking at the examples she gives of the growing tendency to denigrate and ridicule members of the white working class has made me wonder whether I'm the one that's in denial. A bit light on analysis, unfortunately, but she suggests that declining levels of career satisfaction in "middle-class" jobs may be to blame.

She takes a pop at environmentalism - not concern for the environment per se, rather the elevation of the aforementioned concerns into a full-blown ideology, and the bizarre contradictions this leads to. For example, Greens promote locally-produced rather than imported food as it means a lesser carbon footprint, but their liberal principles won't allow them to oppose mass immigration, which is none other than the "importation" of labour.

In another chapter, Burchill excoriates the phenomenon of "fat pride", which started as a plea for acceptance on behalf of plump and obese women, but ended up becoming just another kind of body fascism - yet another example of a movement that is supposed to be empowering or liberating, but isn't really.

The book is a collaborative project between two authors who show a marked divergence both in style and, arguably, ability. Some of Newkey-Burden's social observations are mildly intriguing, and make you realise how tricky it is to pick your way through the minefield of political correctness in the modern world. He remarks on the selective deafness of white rap fans to the misogynistic and reactionary messages that permeate hip-hop. Another paradox he notes is that his supposedly pro-gay friends can be quite prudish and judgemental about his sexual lifestyle, whereas people he knows who are superficially homophobic actually tend to be more accepting. I don't have many gay friends, but in future I'll certainly be observing my own reactions carefully.

But I found his style rather pedestrian, with none of Julie Burchill's frothiness and inventive use of language, and was frequently irritated by his lazy generalisations and poorly-evidenced arguments. In the chapter entitled "Foreign Affairs", he lambasts what he sees as liberal hypocrisy on various global issues - the Bush presidency, the Iraq War, Cuba, etc. He makes some valid points but this sort of thing has been done before and done better (by Nick Cohen for example).

His attempts at satire are, in my opinion, too bitchy and too obviously agenda-laden to be funny, although I accept this is partly a matter of taste. E.g. we have a day in the life of two ficticious "typical modern hypocrites", Ben and Siobhan, who somewhat resemble the "cultural creative types" lampooned in Stuff White People Like: A Definitive Guide to the Unique Taste of Millions - except SWPL doesn't portray them as internet porn addicts and closet anti-Semites. In his "hypocritical travellers' guide", he berates the people of Ireland for their supposedly antidiluvian attitudes to homosexuality, based apparently on his own difficulties in getting a room with a double bed when he's been on vacation there. In fact, Ireland is a country undergoing rapid secularisation and is steadily adopting greater sexual permissiveness, so he could at least have given them some credit for having made progress. In the preface to Not In My Name, he is at pains to point out that changing your stance on something isn't hypocritical, but principled. So in his world, it seems, people can change, but countries can't.

Altogether, this is a somewhat hit-and-miss affair that almost feels like two completely different books sliced into thin sections and interleaved with each other. For this reason, it's difficult to rate it fairly. But since fairness and objectivity are evidently not very high on the authors' list of priorities, I won't lose much sleep over this!

Right on the Mark.
I bought the book after reading Julie Birchill's recent op ed piece on the British environmental movement on the LONDON TIMES' web site, hoping to read more on this issue.Although this book closes with a 15 page essay at the end about this very issue, most of the book is a compilation of expanded op ed columns into essay form.It does provide insights into the current attitudes and direction of British society.

Having worked and lived in the UK for brief, 3-month periods (1960, 1962, 1963, 1967) for six months (1969), and making short visits in 1976, 1979, 1980, 1985 and 1988, I found the book an interesting revelation on how much, but not all that much, of British society has changed since my last visit. From my perspective, it is not a pretty sight as the UK seems to have lost its societal standards much like Western Europe.

The first section on "fun and Games" turns out to be mostly psycho babble and isn't worth commentingon.

The second section on "Foreign Affairs" focuses directly on the hypocrisy of British attitudes about the world.The principal hypocrisy that is emphasized over and over is how the elitist liberal left glorifies the culture of the Arab Middle East WITHOUT REALIZING that those values would undermine the very things they believe in.Moreover, the persistent "America-Bashing" and "Israel Bashing" by the elitist liberal left is precisely exposed and dissected and revealing what it is - a cover forhigh-end class warfare both in Britain and overseas. This section comes full circle when the contradictions that are revealed indicate a love of much of what America offers and ends with the comment "we are all Americans now." Perhaps so.

The essay on `Catholic hypocrisy" was, regrettably, shocking and revealed excesses in the Irish Catholic Church that are unconscionable.

The third section on "The Cost of Fame" bares the shallowness of Britain's celebrity culture.Because I'm NOT into celebrity culture, this part of the book meant nothing to me and I skipped most of it.

The last section on "Green Unpleasant Land" is perhaps the best part of the book.Here, the authors graphically expose the continuity of class superiority that has long characterized British society, only it is now expanded into a combination of the old elite (hereditary; old schools), the educated elite, the artistic elite, the academic elite, and media elite. From my perspective, it appears that class warfare still remains a prominent part of British culture and nothing has changed.The closing essay on `greens' shows eloquently how the elite uses and supports the `green movement" as a means to keep class warfare alive and the `masses' "in their place" - in short a modern extension of the Medieval principle of "Thou shalt know thy place". Moreover, the blatant `sexism' of the green movement is also revealed in stark contrast. Their comment that"Green is the white man's Islam: really agreeable for the rich who have servants to do everything boring for them, and really super-sucky for everyone else, especially women" sums it up well. I know, I've seen it first hand as an earth scientist in the USA. Moreover, as the writer's state "For the promise of a better tomorrow for the wealthiest, most powerful and idlest of our world, Green is spoiling the lives of the poorest, weakest and most hard-working today. Far from a revolution, Greenery is a savage defense of privilege and tradition".My reaction: Well said, or as they say over there "hear hear".

The closing "Appendix" is a marvelous satirical write-up of a variety of hypocritical ways and is in itself worth reading and done with good humor.

The book has a lot of things that are germane to us all.But, you have to pick and chose according to your world view and LIFE priorities.
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A novel revealing the ambitions within a newspaper empire, by a well known and outspoken journalist. This is the story of Susan Street's fight for the top job, and an examination of modern female aspirations. ... Read more

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In the early hours of 31st August 1997, a spirited, compassionate and beautiful woman - who just happened to be the most famous woman in the world - kept her final rendezvous, in a tunnel under the streets of Paris, hunted down by her pursuers. How did this happen? In this book - part love story, part document of our times, part murder mystery - Julie Burchill explores every aspect of the "Age of Diana", to develop the first rounded, in depth look at this iconic figure of our century.Amazon.com Review
Of all the books that emerged from the death of Princess Diana, this is the most intensely personal. If historians want to understand the depth of feeling--mourning, sentimental self-identification, feminist and republican and class rage--that overtook large parts of Britain for several weeks after her death, they could do worse than look here. What sometimes count for faults in Burchill's writing--failures of logic, overstatement, the pursuit of the smart-ass remark at the expense of overall control--are her ways of saying what someone needed to say, or expressions of a person transfixed by deep emotion. Burchill sees Diana as a woman betrayed by a using and adulterous husband and distorted from childhood by the false values and iniquity of a class, who grew into a person of real compassion and social usefulness, escaping self-destructive urges and eating disorders to settle into a mature sensuality. The randomness of the car crash in a Paris underpass is seen as all the more terrible because it cut short the productive personal development for the princess. This is not the only possible reading of the facts in the case, but it is a coherent one, memorably expressed. --Roz Kaveney, Amazon.co.uk ... Read more

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A very British read for a a very British girl
I read this book in 2005. So quite some time has passed since emotion ran high in the wake of the untimely death of Diana, POW. Given that, it was quite a read. In a lot of ways a grand mea culpa for all the trash that was written about this woman in her own lifetime. Much of it was far more mean-spirited than anything written after her death. Despite all of its quick-drawn conclusions on things that we'll never really know the truth about -- nor should we, perhaps -- I have to see it as an interesting testament to its time. Maybe we've forgotten now, and if you weren't victim to the blaring everyday headlines about Diana in Britain you'd never know, but there wasn't a single aspect that was deemed personal or private for this woman during the last years of her life. And what did she ever do that was so wrong? To my mind her grand mistake -- to which she paid for dearly -- was to marry way too young. A Greek tragedy played out before our very eyes from 1981 to 1997. An interesting read.

Well Worth the Read
Julie Burchill's book "Diana" is one of the most honest, get to the point, in your face books I have ever read.Not only does she paint Diana, Princess of Wales as an ordinary person in extraordinary circumstances, she gives us some insight into what her life must have really been like in the Palace.It consist of, what I consider, very passionate writing.She expresses her opinions very strongly and quite adequately.You can "feel" her words in ways that many other books attempt to but fail.Diana struck out at getting the love she so needed from the man she adored and married but in the process received the love and adoration of the world.I've read just about every book on the subject of Diana and this is by far one of my absolute favorites and one of the most thought provoking.You do not have to agree with the general feelings towards the Royal Windsor Family or appreciate the sometimes strong language to enjoy what has to be one of the most exceptional books written on Diana.Julie Burchill has does a great job in expressing the feelings many people, the world over, have felt towards this lovely, real life, Fairy Tale Princess, who unfortunately, left this world too soon.

3 stars - for the pictures, this is one mean spirited book
I've got this book in the hardback edition and I've got to say this is one mean spirited book. Ms. Burchill writes for The Guardian, a liberal left leaning British paper and she is obviously what the British would call a strong republican. It appears to me that this book is an attack on the Monarchy from the first page to the last. Princess Diana herself would probably not have been spared if she'd gone along with the system. As with all the other Diana books you get some good photos but this one is a little too mean otherwise.

Feminist Defender of Diana against the House of Windsor
This book is partly a biography of Diana's life, with some color photographs, but mostly a commentary upon Diana's life in the context of the House of Windsor. The author is sympathetic to Diana's plight as aninnocent girl who married for love, but found out too late that PrinceCharles would not give up his mistress Camilla. The author severelycastigates Prince Charles and Camilla, and the Queen and the entire Houseof Windsor, as callous hypocrites and morally bankrupt pretenders to thethrone and the Church of England. The author concedes that Diana had someproblems and weaknesses of her own, but overwhelmingly takes the side ofDiana against the House of Windsor, and scathingly considers Prince Charlesto be a third-rate character unworthy to be king. The author has a greatway with words, sometimes angry, sometimes mocking, and sometimes wickedlyfunny, with a few obscenities interspersed, in her attacks upon PrinceCharles and Camilla, and the House of Windsor, although sometimes writtenin a subtle way that would probably only be understood by someone veryfamiliar with Diana's life and British history of the past twenty years. Ifthe reader has a similar love for Diana, and a similar very low opinion ofPrince Charles and Camilla and the House of Windsor, the book wouldprobably be enjoyable to the reader.

Garbage
This book is garbage. The writing is near-illiterate and the facts wrong. Save your money. "Diana: The Life of a Troubled Princess" is so much better as to be in a different world. ... Read more

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They were so good together!
The whole storyline was pretty... , but Matt seemed like such a sweet guy! I mean, in the blurb it goes " Nicoles met her Mr Right"! Oh and there was that really cute bit where she described how they kissed, how sexy was that?!?!
One really bad thing about the book was all the rascist comments. It doesn't matter if she follows it up by saying " I'm not a rascist". Doesn't she realize how stupid it sounds?

Thoroughly unenjoyable author
Julie Burchill is one of the most least informed, arrogant andunprofessional columnists and authors in this world. Her character isutterly sadistic and shows signs of manic depression. Her comments on howbad other people look are so ridiculous when you consider the fact that herappearance resembles that of an over-weight and hairy Greek prostitue. ... Read more

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The iconoclast of her generation, Julie Burchill - who started her infamous career aged 17 on the "NME" - has been thrilling and dismaying readers most recently in the "Guardian on Saturday". Whether lampooning the cult of celebrity, old men who behave like young lads, two ex-husbands or the hypocrisy of New Labour and the middle classes, Britain's Worst Mother (a title bestowed on her by the "Daily Mail") applies her idiosyncratic and dissecting wit to the world we think is around us. This is a collection of her "Guardian" columns from January 1998 through to December 2000, a period that has seen the Kosovan war, the decline and fall of the Dome, and the eventual election of a new American President. There is no other commentator who can turn received wisdom on its head like Burchill, whether it's applied to world events or to the latest media personality. And there is no other journalist who can combine such relentless insight, malice and warmth to deserving causes. She is one of the best columnists around - an antidote to the glut of confession columns that saturate the weekend papers - and this collection brings together the best of her writing. ... Read more

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Reactionary radical
Well this book had me laughing out loud in quite a few places and each time the laugh would come out of nowhere; Burchill's pretty good with the low blows that you didn't see coming. Each of the articles here is about 3 or so pages long and I was able to sit for hours just reading one after another. Sometimes I think she's dead on, other times slightly out to lunch, and occasionally she's got her head right up her own ass, but that's still a laugh so I didn't mind too much.

With them all collected like this and reading them in a short time span, you do realize that she recycles more than she should, with the same certain topics, rants, and funny lines wearing a little thin. But at the same time, she puts a fresh spin on so many topics that, whether I agreed with them or not, I ended up loving it if only to hear someone say something different while leaving their intelligence intact. In that way, Julie Burchill seems to be a case of "form over content". What she's hammering on about doesn't matter quite as much as the attitude with which she does it.

Her views of gender can be a bit reactionary for a self-proclaimed radical feminist though. And enough of the working class poster child schtik while bragging about making your first million before age 30!

How I learned to stop worrying and love Julie Burchill
The Guardian letters page on Saturdays is regularly filled by outraged proclomations from those offended by Julie's latest column. Her targets are widespread and her arguments fantastically inconsistent.She manages to make you actually think about many things you take for granted after being bombarded by the British media, Bosnia - how did the Serbs suddenly become intrinsically evil?, actors - what do they do? why? etc. Whilst much of it may sometimes seem like the easy baiting of unsuspecting Liberals she manages to ask questions that undermine accepted thinking - for example, why is it considered outrageous to chant racist remarks at a footballer,(she does not condone this) but when the same footballer allegedly beats up his girlfiend it all becomes a bit more complicated and people start to wring their hands and think up excuses? It's not comfortable, but it's usually funny and thought provoking. She's in a league of her own in terms of newspaper columnists, the main reason being that she can actually write. ... Read more

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Gary First is an ambitious foreign correspondent, an archetypal 80s boy contemptuous of the caring 90s, whose first big break comes with a World Service posting to Prague. Maria Vachss is a refugee with expensive tastes. They both want a short-term relationship - until they fall in love. ... Read more

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ThisBook Looks at More Than Johnny
This book features Iggy Pop, David Bowie,Blondie, with black and white photos of them.

It also includes some Sex Pistols experiences. It is a very short and easy to read book.

It was hard for me to get my copy and I keep it for its nostalgia.

...but I LIKE the Clash!!
A British history of punk, written as the history was being made.The authors went out of their way to try and be offensive and audacious, though their most pointed barbs are aimed at American rockers like the New York Dolls and Johnny Thunders who were better at being junkies than they were at toeing the line as "true punks".The Clash, the Damned, the Stranglers and pretty much everyone who wasn't the Sex Pistols get similar treatment.This is chatty and snide; just the book to curl up with at home on a rainy day, sipping tea while your old Iggy albums wreck another phonograph needle.

Nice Front Page Hatchet Job, John
This is singularly the most important and stridently semtexed analysis of the Punk Rock genesis in the late 1970s. It is completely scurrilous, vicious, nasty, alienated, cataclysmic, sinister. It belts along at ablistering pace, executing an absolute demolition job on poseurs like TheClash, The Jam and Iggy Pop and a triumphalist proclamation of the SexPistols and X-Ray specs as the real royalty of their generation . Parsonsand Burchill have nothing good to say about anybody, but have a specialcontempt for Americans. What more could you want? Buy this and put it oneBay for 100 dollars as a Rock and Roll eSwindle. ... Read more

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Chapters: Nigella Lawson, Jeremy Clarkson, Andrew Sullivan, Jani Allan, Frank Rutter, Melanie Phillips, Julie Burchill, Anne Robinson, Ronald Knox, Rod Liddle, Andrew Neil, Harold Evans, Waldemar Januszczak, A. A. Gill, Ed Vaizey, Peter Stanford, Simon Jenkins, Robert Hewison, Craig Brown, Mihir Bose, Hugh Mcmanners, Dilys Powell, Hugo Young, Simon Frith, Rachel Beer, Giles Hattersley, Richard Williams, India Knight, Rachel Johnson, John Witherow, Ariel S. Leve, Russell Davies, Kate Saunders, Chris Morgan, John Russell, Cliff Temple, Michael Smith, Peter Kellner, Sophie Grigson, Martin Jacques, Isabel Hilton, Richard Cook, Marina Vaizey, Carl Fellstrom, Brough Scott, Robin Marlar, Harold Hobson, Peter Wilby, Frank Giles, Mark Ellidge, Uzi Mahnaimi. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 269. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Top Gear (2002)Top Gear (1977)Jeremy Clarkson's MotorworldRobot WarsJeremy Clarkson's Extreme MachinesClarksonClarkson's Car YearsSpeedYou Don't Want To Do ThatJeremy Clarkson Meets The NeighboursThe Victoria Cross: For ValourInventions That Changed the WorldThe Greatest Raid Of All Time Jeremy Charles Robert Clarkson (born 11 April 1960) is an English broadcaster and journalist who specialises in motoring. He is best known for his role on the BBC TV show Top Gear along with co-presenters Richard Hammond and James May. He also writes weekly columns for The Sunday Times and The Sun. From a career as a local journalist in the North of England, Clarkson rose to public prominence as a presenter of the original format of Top Gear in 1988. Since the mid-1990s Clarkson has become a recognised public personality, regularly appearing on British television presenting his own shows and appearing as a guest on other shows. As well as motoring, Clarkson has produced programmes and...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=265586 ... Read more

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Chapters: Martin Lewis, Julie Burchill, Danny Baker, Chrissie Hynde, Lucy O'brien, Steven Wells, Stuart Maconie, David Quantick, Andrew Collins, Steve Lamacq, Mark Beaumont, Linda Solomon, Tony Parsons, Ray Lowry, Everett True, Ian Macdonald, Paul Morley, Chris Hunt, Ian Penman, Barney Hoskyns, Tony Tyler, Stuart Cosgrove, Serge Clerc, Danny Kelly, Nick Kent, Steven Appleby, Vivien Goldman, Conor Mcnicholas, Bob Stanley, David Stubbs, Anthony Thornton, Richard Cook, Charles Shaar Murray, John Harris, Savage Pencil, Neil Taylor, Roy Carr. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 161. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Martin Neil Lewis (born 24 July 1952 in Ashtead, Surrey, England) is a US-based English humorist, writer, radio/TV host, producer and marketing strategist. He is known for his participation in a variety of projects in the arts and entertainment worlds including his work as the co-creator and co-producer of the Secret Policeman's Ball benefit shows for Amnesty International (a series he created with Monty Python alumnus John Cleese and Amnesty fund-raising officer Peter Walker) and as a comedic performer and writer on American TV. He hosts his own daily radio show - heard nationally in America on Sirius Satellite Radio and worldwide on Sirius Internet Radio. He is a prolific columnist for The Huffington Post website. Described by L.A. Weekly as a true Renaissance Man, Lewis career has encompassed work in music, comedy, TV, radio, film, theatre, books and politics. Lewis' official website credits the diversity in his professional life to his having been inspired by individuals he worked with early in his career who were noted polymaths (people who excel in multiple fields) - including Sir Peter Ustinov, Peter Cook and Monty Python alumni Michael Palin and Terry Jones. Lewis has w...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=6591363 ... Read more