For the first time ever, a fascinating look at the remarkable life of Barbara Taylor Bradford, one of the world's bestselling authors, which is every bit as dramatic as any of her novels. From her childhood in Leeds, and her meteoric rise to editor on Fleet Street at the age of 20, to her amazing career as one of the world's best-loved and most successful novelists, this is an intimate look at an extraordinary woman. This is the first time Barbara Taylor Bradford has collaborated on a memoir of her amazing life. Full of revelations, it's as absorbing a read as any one of her bestsellers.

The woman of substance: the life and works of Barbara Taylor Bradford

Biographies & Memoirs

DUDGEON, Piers

Arts & Literature

Harpercollins

Village Voices a Portrait of Change In E

History

Europe

Sidgwich Jackson Ltd

The definitive biography of Barbara Taylor Bradford, author of twenty-one top-of-the-lists blockbuster bestsellers, starting with A Woman of Substance For the first time ever, take a fascinating look at the remarkable life of Barbara Taylor Bradford. Her first book, A Woman of Substance, is one of the bestselling novels of all time and has made her one of the most successful authors in the world. Yet her rise to fame and fortune was not an easy one. Barbara came from humble beginnings in Yorkshire, the only daughter of a laborer and a nanny. From an early age, her mother Freda had marked her daughter out for glory---at any cost. This drive, ambition, and desire to triumph helped Barbara take the Yorkshire Evening Post and Fleet Street by storm. But her biggest achievement was undeniably A Woman of Substance. The novel's unforgettable heroine, Emma Harte, was a powerful, success-fuelled woman whose rise from kitchen maid to international business woman was an inspiration to women the world over. Emma's life is a testament to Barbara's imagination but here, for the first time, Piers Dudgeon unearths amazing parallels in the lives of Barbara's fictional characters and her real-life family. More remarkable still is that Barbara herself was previously completely unaware of these deeply buried secrets. In this incredible story, fact and fiction exist side by side and art unwittingly imitates life. This is the first time Barbara Taylor Bradford has collaborated on a memoir of her amazing life. Full of revelations, it's as absorbing a read as any one of her bestsellers.

The Woman of Substance: The Secret Life That Inspired the Renowned Storyteller Barbara Taylor Bradford

St.Martin's Press

With the help of material only made available since Catherine's death, Piers Dudgeon lays bare the true nature of this complex and fascinating woman. Close family contributed material they had always refused to share when Catherine was alive, and Catherine's written records, letters, and diaries, only recently lodged in the Catherine Cookson archive at the University of Boston, were made available. What emerges is a documentary portrait, illustrated with contemporary photographs, that explains for the first time the fears that cast Catherine into the nightmare of mental breakdown.

Kate's Daughter: The Real Catherine Cookson

Transworld Publishers

'Your transposing of my character into the characters in the book is simply amazing.' - CATHERINE COOKSON This remarkable book will be welcomed by the millions of readers who know know and love Catherine Cookson. Catherine Cookson's first book, KATE HANNIGAN, was published in 1950, when she was forty-four. It had been accepted by the first publisher to whom it had been submitted. Kate Hannigan's world, a place of darkness, was the same nightmare world into which her creator had herself been born on Tyneside. Catherine was exorcising her own demons. Since then, books have followed at an incredible rate, all of them huge bestsellers. Here, Piers Dudgeon unlocks Catherine's complex character, using her many books as a key, and explores with Catherine herself the tortured drama of her personal life and its resolution.

The Girl From Leam Lane (CH)

Charnwood

Enchanted Cornwall: Her Pictorial Memoir

The English novelist recounts how her life and works have been affected by her long association with Cornwall and her acquaintance with its history

Du Maurier, Daphne, Dame

Wright,Nick

Memoirs

Michael, Joseph

Born to an impoverished young Tyneside woman in 1906, Catherine Cookson lived a life marked by cruelty and neglect. At the age of 27, she was able to buy a house of her own—a hopeful sign that the escape from her past was complete. In fact, her struggle had barely begun. Following the loss of four babies, a nervous breakdown, and confinement in a psychiatric hospital, she was brought to the brink of suicide and forced to confront the tragedies of her life. The author has known Catherine Cookson for many years and was given full cooperation on this biography by the novelist and her husband Tom, who provided many of the photographs for the book. Originally published in 1997, it tells the story of her long and eventful life through the heroines in her books.

The Girl from Leam Lane: The Life and Writing of Catherine Cookson

Headline Book Publishing

Breaking Out of the Box: The Biography of Edward De Bono

Professionals & Academics

Headline Book Pub Ltd

Gamesman, tactician, provocateur, Edward de Bono is an entrepreneur whose product is thinking. In this biography, Piers Dudgeon reveals the man and the way he developed his thinking systems and provides a synthesis of his ideas, showing how they have been employed in businesses around the world.

Breaking Out of the Box

Our East End

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