Zoe Griffin's blog, Live Like A VIP, generates a six figure income, and she spends her life partying and writing about it—she explains how in this guide for aspiring bloggers 
If you're bored with being bossed around, frustrated that nobody is listening to your opinions, and want to work less and earn more, then you need to quit your job—and start a blog. There is no technical knowledge required: all you need is this book, a laptop, and an internet connection, and you could be blogging your way to wealth and happiness. With tips from the authors of the world's most respected and financially successful blogs on fashion, music, film, men's lifestyle, and women's lifestyle, this book explains how anyone can start up a blogging business from scratch. Contributors include The Clothes Whisperer, The Fashion Editor at Large, Mumsnet, Tech Week, Music News, and Mr Porter. Bloggers learn how to create appealing content, choose a web host, spread the word on social media, attract advertising, pitch to magazines and newspapers, and have fun along the way.

Get Rich Blogging

Business & Money

Griffin, Zoe

Personal Finance

John Blake

The place is London, and the year is 1966. It's a time when anything seems possible, especially if you are a young, free-spirited, mini-skirted girl in search of adventure and independence. An incredible explosion of pop music, fashion and youth culture has turned London into the most swinging city on earth. Youthful energy and boundless optimism are everywhere. Whatever you want—sexual freedom, jobs, fashionable clothes, social change—it's all up for grabs. It's a world of souped-up Minis, ad men, conmen, typewriters, bed-hopping, tragic love affairs, flat sharing, spies from behind the Iron Curtain, and Fleet Street's smoky, scruffy pub life. At the center of this vibrant world is Jacky Hyams, a headstrong, pleasure-seeking party girl with a tough East End background, who is determined to throw off her past and make the most of everything on offer. In the follow up to her memoir Bombsites and Lollipops, Jacky takes a nostalgia-tinged look back to the years when Britain changed forever, a decade moving swiftly from the revolutionary fervor and excitement of the freewheeling Swinging Sixties, to the bleaker times of the strike bound, cash-strapped Seventies.White Boots and Miniskirts is a down to earth, honest perspective of a fast changing world, told with wry humor by a woman in search of love and success in the most exciting city on the planet.

White Boots & Miniskirts

History

Hyams, Jacky

Europe

When Sarah Taylor suspected that her four-year-old daughter, Nadia, had been kidnapped by Fawzi, her abusive ex-husband, Sarah's whole world was turned upside down. Shadowy airport CCTV images showed Nadia had boarded a flight to Tripoli with her father, and Sarah's worst fears were confirmed. No child abducted to Libya had ever been successfully returned to their mother in England. But then Sarah Taylor was no ordinary mother. The only possibility of getting Nadia back was to give up everything that she held dear in England and move to Libya. But her journey wouldn't be easy. Nadia was moved secretly between Fawzi's relatives for two years in a desperate attempt to hide her until a dramatic car chase, through the backstreets of Tripoli, finally led to the safe reconciliation of this extraordinary mother and daughter. Sarah's quest to bring her beloved daughter is described in an unfolding story of blackmail and embezzlement, the involvement of the Libyan secret police, death threats, a meeting with Colonel Gadaffi and the intervention of Prime Minister Gordon Brown. Written with painful honesty, For the Love of Nadia is an inspirational tale of unparalleled spirit and the fierce courage of a devoted mother, whose love for her daughter knowns no bounds.

For the Love of Nadia - My daughter was kidnapped by her father and taken to Libya. This is my heart-wrenching true story of my quest to bring her home

Biographies & Memoirs

TAYLOR

Community & Culture

Stolen Girl tells the story of a schoolgirl, Katie Taylor, who was systematically groomed and raped by a group of predatory Asian men. They separated her from her friends and passed her between them, violating her and treating her as a sexual plaything. But the worst was yet to come because Katie was contacted by Zeb, the evil ringleader. He lured her with drugs and alcohol before raping her at a secret house, his private lair, where he exploited and abused young girls. Zeb was calculating and sadistic. He introduced others into the grooming ring until Katie felt she had no option but to comply with his perverse desires. The abuse continued for two agonizing years until Zeb came up with an even more sickening plan. Scared for her life, Katie was trapped. She needed to tell someone, but who could she turn to and how would she escape the clutches of these depraved men? Stolen Girl is the shocking true story of lost childhood innocence. But it is also one of hope and how Katie found the courage and strength not only to escape her abusers but also to bring them to justice.

Stolen Girl

Taylor, Katie

True Crime

Ed Sheeran is the double Brit Award-winning, Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter with a tiny guitar and a huge talent. But how did a young musician who described himself as a "spotty, chubby, ginger teenager" go from selling CDs from his rucksack to playing in front of royalty at the Queen's Diamond Jubilee—not to mention a worldwide TV audience of a billion? From his bohemian childhood to international stardom, David Nolan traces the story of Sheeran's musical life and times, featuring exclusive interviews with friends, relatives, musical collaborators, and key figures in his rise to stardom, this biography shows how Ed Sheeran made his mark on the music inductry, playing the game via his own set of fiercely independent rules and winning fans like Elton John and Jamie Foxx along the way.

Ed Sheeran A+: The Unauthorised Biography

Nolan, David

Humor & Entertainment

Say the name Chloe Sims and most people think of the hugely entertaining, bubbly and glamorous Essex girl on the hit ITV show The Only Way Is Essex. But there is more to Chloe than viewers see on the TV, and the drama doesn’t stop when the camera stops rolling. Just two years ago, Chloe was a single mother struggling to make ends meet doing a string of jobs she hated and wondering if she would ever find happiness. Since joining the cast of The Only Way Is Essex, her life is now a whirlwind of glitzy parties and jet-set holidays, but life hasn’t always dealt Chloe a good hand. Her story is one of triumph over adversity, with plenty of laughs along the way. From her turbulent childhood where she was raised by a neighbor after her mother abandoned her, to battling with bullies and struggling with an eating disorder, to the magical moment when she met the man of her dreams.

Chloe Sims: The Only Way Is Up: My Story

Sims, Chloe

At about 0600 hours on Tuesday, October 13, 2009 while leading a patrol in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, Corporal Andy Reid, 3rd Battalion, The Yorkshire Regiment, was blown up by a Taliban improvised explosive device (IED). Airlifted back to the UK that evening to the specialist military wing of Selly Oak Hospital it was touch and go for a while. He had lost both legs, the left one above the knee, and his right arm. His left hand had the index finger almost completely removed. Yet he survived and on Remembrance Day 2009, less than a month after being blown up, was reunited with his patrol back in his home base in Warminster. From there he went on to have a pair of prosthetic limbs fitted at the Defence Rehabilitation Centre at Headley Court. In 2010 he won the Sun Newspaper’s Military Award. In between times he has cycled from Land’s End to John O’Groats, skydived, and made a number of appearances on behalf of service charities. In this book, Andy sets himself a simple aim: to tell his story. In fact he has not just one, but two stories to tell. The first is the story of Corporal Reid, Burma Company, 3rd Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment: Infantry Section Commander and then there is the story of Andy Reid, triple amputee skydiver, cyclist, and charity fund raiser, husband, and new father.

Standing Tall

Reid,Andy

Leaders & Notable People

Mary Berry: Queen of British Baking: The Biography

Mary Berry is one of Britain's most respected and well-loved gurus of the kitchen. The undisputed "Queen of the Aga" has been the focus of many television shows and regularly contributes her expertise to Woman's Hour. The recent hit BBC show The Great British Bake Off has once again put Mary back into the limelight and has reignited a passion for baking across the nation. Mary published her first cookbook, The Hamlyn All Colour Cookbook, in 1970 and hasn't looked back since. With more than 70 cookbooks under her belt, there is no doubt that Mary Berry is one of Britain's most successful cooking writers. Awarded the CBE in 2012, her gentle personality and classic "family" cooking style are a remarkable contrast to some of the more outspoken celebrity television chefs.

Dagnell, A.S.

Arts & Literature

Find Olympic athlete Mo Farah as he takes part in a variety of sports with his athletic friends, Zara Philips, Bradley Wiggins, Tom Daley and Jessica Ennis. Don’t forget to look out for the gold medals too! With 15 double page colour illustrations you’ll go from track and field, rowing and cycling to equestrian and the marathon, spotting Mo, his friends and a variety of other topical objects and people.

Where's Mo?

Children's Books

Cywinski, Sara

Activities, Crafts & Games

Beyond Evil - Inside the Twisted Mind of Ian Huntley

Nathan Yates

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