Homebird

Eager to save his parents' marriage, Nicky Morrison escapes from boarding school and heads for London, but the harsh realities of life on the run could change his plans.

Teen & Young Adult

TERENCE BLACKER

Literature & Fiction

Simon&Schuster Children's Publishing

The life of Willie Donaldson ended in June 2005 when he was found dead in the seedy rented flat in Chelsea where he had lived for 35 years. His computer, situated in the study he used to call the literary room, was still logged to a website called Lesbian Mud Wrestlers. Willie Donaldson's extraordinary, perverse career of writing, drug-taking, brilliance and underachievement put him in the same holy bracket as Peter Cook, Jeffrey Bernard, Peter Sellers, Hunter Thompson and Alan Clark, although his talent for sabotaging his own achievements has meant that his legend has up until now remained a secret to the few. Born into privilege, he was an unlikely social anarchist. By the age of 25 he had published Sylvia Plath, produced Beyond the Fringe and was about to promote Bob Dylan. At the epicentre of Sixties hedonism, he had affairs with the most desired women of the time, notably Sarah Miles and Carly Simon. But deviance and self-destructiveness were never far away. Though he could switch company with enigmatic ease, he was always happiest in the company of tarts and criminals. The impresario became a serial bankrupt, and the man about town ended up living as a ponce in a Chelsea brothel. When Donaldson started writing, his work was compared to Waugh and Nabokov, but his best-known achievement would be the Henry Root Letters, a bestselling practical joke that heralded the new age of celebrity. Yet financial success merely led him deeper into a dark underworld of crack addiction, fraud and sexual perversion. For some Willie Donaldson was a great unsung comic genius. For others, he was irresponsible and diabolical. But his most lasting work of art was undoubtedly his own life u a story that he was never fully capable of telling himself. Friend and collaborator Terence Blacker's intimate biography will finally turn him into the iconic anti-hero of British non-conformism that he truly was, telling Willie's strange story in all its glamour, hilarity and pain.

You Cannot Live As I Have Lived and Not End Up Like This: The Thoroughly Disgraceful Life and Times of Willie Donaldson

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Ebury Press

You Cannot Live as I Have Lived and Not End Up Like This: The Thoroughly Disgraceful Life and Times

You Cannot Live As I Have Lived and Not End Up Like This

Cynthia Payne's Book of Home Entertainment

Humor & Entertainment

Cynthia Payne

Humor

Penguin Books, Ltd.

"I go wherever magic is needed," said Ms Wiz. "Wherever things need livening up." Things are certainly livened up at St Barnabas School when Class Three's new teacher arrives. She has a magic rat, a rather rude owl, and some very special powers. But when Podge's dad is turned into a warthog and the School Inspector loses his trousers, Class Three has to admit—Ms Wiz spells trouble!

Ms Wiz Spells Trouble (Piper)

Children's Books

Macmillan Children`s Books

The sixth title in the "Ms Wiz" series. Class three's favourite Paranormal Operative - Ms Wiz - is back at St Barnabas' school, this time as Head Teacher! The author also wrote "If I Could Work", "Henry and the Frights", "Here's Houdini" and "The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen".

Ms Wiz Banned! (Young Piper)

Matthew Burton`s life has been fine until his American cousin crash-lands into it. Sam was only ever a distant rumour, a hippy kid who travels around the States with his wacky mother. Now he`s an orphan, dumped suddenly on the Burtons` doorstep. According to Sam, everything in England sucks, and pretty soon he`s making trouble for Matthew and his friends. They want revenge - and Operation Samantha is born. For Sam - small, long-haired and blond - is the perfect secret weapon in the war at school between the boys and a gang of snooty girls. And when Sam sets about rewriting the rules for how boys and girls behave, he discovers an entirely new side to his personality. Soon it`s not only Sam that is changing..." Boy2Girl" is one of the funniest comic novels you will ever read. This is a classic cross-dressing comedy like " Some Like It Hot" , set in a contemporary school.

Boy2Girl

Pan Childrens

Three fantastically funny stories about the magical Ms Wiz.: In Control Ms Wiz Ms Wiz Goes Live Ms Wiz Banned Praise for Ms Wiz: 'Hilarious and hysterical' Sunday Times 'Terence Blacker has created a splendid character in the magical Ms Wiz. Enormous fun' The Scotsman 'Sparkling zany humour...brilliantly funny' Children's Books of the Year

MS Wiz Magic 'in Control, MS Wiz?', 'MS Wiz Goes Live', 'MS Wiz Banned

Pan/Macmillan

Matthew Burton's life has been fine until his American cousin crash-lands into it. Sam was only ever a distant rumour, a hippy kid who travels around the States with his wacky mother. Now he's an orphan, dumped suddenly on the Burton's doorstep.

Macmillan Childrens

Danny Bell is an ordinary twelve-year-old with an ordinarily messed-up life. His mum has left home and his has-been rock star dad sits in front of the TV all day. So when Danny hears of ParentSwap – an organization that helps kids with failing families to find new and better ones – he’s willing to give it a go. Life with the rich and powerful Harrisons is pretty cool, until Danny discovers that he has been specially picked as the unwitting subject of a reality TV show, with hidden cameras following his progress. Now he must play the manipulating producers at their own deceptive game, in a secret, nerve-racking battle of wits that leads to an astonishing climax at a rock concert at Buckingham Palace, where the Queen herself takes a hand in Danny’s far-from-ordinary life! Terence Blacker’s new children’s novel tells a funny, clever and fabulously entertaining story set in a subtle, cynical and crazy TV world to which young readers will instantly relate.

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Homebird

You Cannot Live As I Have Lived and Not End Up Like This: The Thoroughly Disgraceful Life and Times of Willie Donaldson

You Cannot Live As I Have Lived and Not End Up Like This

Cynthia Payne's Book of Home Entertainment

Ms Wiz Spells Trouble (Piper)

Ms Wiz Banned! (Young Piper)

Boy2Girl

MS Wiz Magic 'in Control, MS Wiz?', 'MS Wiz Goes Live', 'MS Wiz Banned

Boy2Girl

Parentswap