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Baggage: My Childhood
Brilliant, brave, controversial, combative, intellectual - just how do you become Janet Street-Porter? In this mesmerising account of growing up in post-war London there is poignancy, mystery - and a trademark black humour. BAGGAGE will touch readers at many levels; it is as edgy and fearless as Janet Street-Porter herself.
Fall Out
Friends. Everyone needs them. Especially when relations between you and your family are less than perfect. And for the talented and ambitious Janet Street-Porter, her friends became her family. is the story of these vibrant characters – some famous, some infamous, all extraordinary – and their often volatile relationships with her. Above all, it is a portrait of an exciting and creative era, by someone who lived it to the full.
Don't Let the B*****ds Get You Down
Janet Street-Porter provides tips and wisdom to help you make changes and adapt to the new regime of our world today. She realizes that life is a journey and we're experiencing a bumpy patch, but if you think creatively and stick to your guns, there's no reason why you shouldn't emerge unscathed and happier.
Scandal!
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The British Teapot
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Life's Too F***Ing Short
Brazen Brit Janet Street-Porter proffers pithy pronouncements
As the Crow Flies
Following in the footsteps of her successful BBC2 1998 series,Coast to Coast,As the Crow Fliesdescribes Janet Street-Porter's attempt to walk the 350 miles from Edinburgh Observatory to Greenwich Observatory in a dead straight line. She discovers a new way of walking—the OS map isn't quite so handy when you can't stray off a line you've drawn on a map. What's more useful is a heavy clearing stick, the power of persuasion, and the patience of a saint. Janet adopts the old ramblers' cause of the "right to roam," discovering some of the most beautiful countryside in Britain—as well as bargaining and begging her way into secure properties, dodging Boeing 737s on take-off, and invading army bases and Saturday morning golf tournaments, all in the name of completing this mammoth walk strictly as the crow flies.
Coast to Coast with Janet Street-Porter
From Dungeness on England's south coast to Conwy in North Wales, Janet Street-Porter sets out on a lively and entertaining marathon journey of over 500 miles. Walking from coast to coast and climbing over 65,000 feet in the process, she travels over the South Downs, passes through the Mendips and the Cheddar Gorge, crosses the Brecon Beacons and the Black Mountains, and climbs Snowdon, to emerge just a few miles from where she used to pick Bilberries on childhood holidays in Wales. Coast to Coast is a feast of surprising discoveries, quirky observations and delighful digressions.
The Women's Room
Feminist author Marilyn French's iconic and influential novel exploring the lives of women set in the rapidly changing world of the 1940s to the 1960s. “Mira was hiding in the ladies’ room. She called it that, even though someone had scratched out the word ladies’ in the sign on the door, and written women’s underneath…” So begins the famous feminist novel that follows the transformation of Mira Ward and her circle as the women’s movement begins to have an impact on their lives. The story follows Mira as she grows from a young girl in the 1940s to a woman of the 1960s. As she experiences marriage, motherhood, and friendship as a woman of the 1950s, she grows increasingly lonely...
Live TV
When the archetypal hack, Kelvin MacKenzie, left the editorship of the SUN newspaper to set up LIVE TV for the Mirror Group the stage was set for an explosive clash of egos. For, in the other corner, stood Janet Street-Porter, the queen of trendy television, whose direction of LIVE TV was proving to be a multi-million pound flop. It is ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS meets MEN BEHAVING BADLY on the set of DROP THE DEAD DONKEY.
