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Summary of Nick Duerden's Exit Stage Left
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The Only Ones, a punk group from London, were about to embark on a tour with the Who in 1980. But they were nervous. They needed fortification. They began to take drugs more frequently. #2 Perrett had been a member of the punk rock band The Only Ones, and while on tour with the Who in 1980, he was confronted by a man who tried to strangle him. He ran to his car, started it, and drove at his attacker. He couldn’t hand himself in to the police, so he had to flee the country. #3 The Only Ones singer, Gary Perrett, had written an album’s worth of songs in the mid-seventies, but he was afraid to release them because he was afraid of being judged. He eventually formed a band with some like-minded souls, and they released the songs in the 1980s. #4 The Only Ones, a punk rock band from London, were about to embark on a tour with the Who in 1980. But they were nervous. They took drugs more frequently.
Exit Stage Left
**INDEPENDENT BOOK OF THE MONTH** **GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE DAY** **FINANCIAL TIMES 'BEST SUMMER BOOKS 2022' PICK** 'Incredibly moving.' - Guardian 'Entertaining.' - Telegraph 'Most books about pop stars focus on the way we turn average human beings into demi-gods. In writing a book about how they have to turn back into humans Nick Duerden has done both us and them a service.' - David Hepworth 'Funny, poignant and often inspirational.' - Mat Osman The desire for adulation is a light that never goes out. We live in a culture obsessed by the notion of fame - the heedless pursuit of it; the almost obligatory subsequent fallout. But what's it like to actually achieve it, and what happens when fame ...
A Life Less Lonely
This book is a call to arms – the beginning of a national conversation about how we can end the stigma attached to loneliness.
Dishing the Dirt
Most of London's house cleaners are immigrants searching for a better life. Many Britons simply couldn't do without them. Once an upper class luxury, domestic help is now a middle class necessity. Yet, what do we really know of the incomers who toil behind closed doors? What's their story? And how do they see us? Dishing the Dirt tells the story of London's house cleaners for the first time. Drawing on dozens of interviews, we hear from the eastern Europeans who mop up family homes and from south Asians who wipe down mansions. We talk to joyful cleaners and to slave labourers. We talk to women who dust nude for men, gay cleaners who fear wandering hands, and butlers who cater for millionaires in Mayfair.
The Smallest Things
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Sidewalking
Part caper, part romantic comedy, this is the story of twenty-five-year-old Jake, one of life's serial McJobbers. But when his grandfather dies leaving him an unexpected wad of dirty money, Jake finds himself plunged into calamity. At first he revels in his new-found wealth, but a confession in the wrong place, a money-hungry girlfriend, and an elderly gangster soon conspire against him. SIDEWALKING is a hilarious delve into a life gone unexpectedly awry by an enormous new talent.
People Who Like Dogs Like People Who Like Dogs
'Anyone who has ever walked a dog and found themselves falling into conversation with others doing the same will love this funny, charming and touching book' RORY CELLAN-JONES Ostensibly, Nick Duerden is a cat person, and so the acquisition of a family dog in his late-40s takes him by surprise. The border terrier, Missy, is in part a therapeutic aid - the idea being that she'll get Nick out of the house after a long period of ill health, and back into the wider, sociable world. Unexpectedly, it works. There can't be many opportunities in midlife to suddenly find yourself connecting with both hopeful young actor types and widowed octogenarians, a verbose existentialist Russian dissident and a...
The Etymologicon
'Witty and erudite ... stuffed with the kind of arcane information that nobody strictly needs to know, but which is a pleasure to learn nonetheless.' Nick Duerden, Independent. 'Particularly good ... Forsyth takes words and draws us into their, and our, murky history.' William Leith, Evening Standard. The Etymologicon is an occasionally ribald, frequently witty and unerringly erudite guided tour of the secret labyrinth that lurks beneath the English language. What is the actual connection between disgruntled and gruntled? What links church organs to organised crime, California to the Caliphate, or brackets to codpieces? Mark Forsyth's riotous celebration of the idiosyncratic and sometimes absurd connections between words is a classic of its kind: a mine of fascinating information and a must-read for word-lovers everywhere. 'Highly recommended' Spectator.
Acting Class
From the acclaimed author of Sabrina, Nick Drnaso’s Acting Class creates a tapestry of disconnect, distrust, and manipulation. Ten strangers are brought together under the tutelage of John Smith, a mysterious and morally questionable leader. The group of social misfits and restless searchers have one thing in common: they are out of step with their surroundings and desperate for change. A husband and wife, four years into their marriage and simmering in boredom. A single mother, her young son showing disturbing signs of mental instability. A peculiar woman with few if any friends and only her menial job keeping her grounded. A figure model, comfortable in his body and ready for a creative ...
Spin Cycle
Meet Flox and Danny - childhood friends careening towards a stage when lost ambition is coming back to haunt them. Danny has just lost his job to negligence, his mother to cancer and his girlfriend to another man. Flox, meanwhile, is wallowing in the kind of job that transforms tedium into an artform. And across the Atlantic, Mallory Cinnamon, sometime star of Central Park Six, knows that fourteen of her fifteen minutes have expired. Still in her prime, her Sunset Boulevard is setting early. Via a stolen car and a first-class plane ticket, both parties flee to Paris where a chance meeting allows the past to come hurtling back at speed before they take off on an adventure that throws the humdrum of their previous lives into a frantic spin cycle.
