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Royals (Paperback): Emma Forrest Royals (Paperback)
Emma Forrest 1
R272 R222 Discovery Miles 2 220 Save R50 (18%) View more sellers Ships in 9 - 15 working days

July, 1981. London. Shy, working-class Steven finds solace in beauty. Eighteen years old, he dreams of being a fashion designer. He's also gay, maybe – he hasn't decided yet. There's a lot Steven isn't sure about, like whether he hates himself or thinks he's amazing.

When he ends up in hospital after being brutally attacked by his father, he meets Jasmine, an heiress. Intoxicating, anarchic, fabulous Jasmine. Fuelled by their shared love of fashion, a friendship blossoms and soon, Steven finds himself swept into her hedonistic world, wholly beguiled. However, underneath the glitter and the frivolity, darkness lies.

Devastating, dazzling, queer and radical, Royals is a love story between unlikely friends from completely different worlds. It's about the power of art to transform lives and the power of families to destroy them. It's about working out who you are and what you want. It's a tale of giddy happiness, crushing lows and, ultimately, the fragility of lives lived too fast.

Your Voice in My Head (Paperback): Emma Forrest Your Voice in My Head (Paperback)
Emma Forrest 1
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R381 R308 Discovery Miles 3 080 Save R73 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

_______________ 'It's difficult to write a convincing tale of depression that's also an entertaining romp, but Forrest has done it' - Sunday Times 'An incredibly gifted writer ... I can't remember the last time I ever read such a blistering, transfixing story of obsession, heartbreak and slow, stubborn healing' - Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat Pray Love 'Emma Forrest is as hilarious as she is wise ... touching, funny and very real' - Gary Shteyngart, author of Super Sad True Love Story 'Heartfelt and touching and surprisingly funny. It's also wincingly, unflinchingly honest' - Florence Welch, Dazed & Confused _______________ Emma Forrest, an English journalist, was twenty-two and living in America when she realised that her quirks had gone beyond eccentricity. Lonely, in a dangerous cycle of self-harm and damaging relationships, she found herself in the chair of a slim, balding and effortlessly optimistic psychiatrist - a man whose wisdom and humanity would wrench her from the vibrant and dangerous tide of herself, and who would help her to recover when she tried to end her life. Emma's loving and supportive family circled around her in panic. She was on the brink of drowning. But she was also still working, still exploring, still writing, and she had also fallen deeply in love. One day, when Emma called to make an appointment with her psychiatrist, she found no one there. He had died, shockingly, at the age of fifty-three, leaving behind a young family. Processing the premature death of a man who'd become her anchor after she'd turned up on his doorstep, she was adrift. And when her significant and all-consuming relationship also fell apart, she was forced to cling to the page for survival. A modern-day fairy tale of New York, Your Voice in My Head is a dazzling and devastating memoir, clear-eyed and shot through with wit. In a voice unlike any other, Emma Forrest explores breakdown and mania, but also the beauty of love - and the heartbreak of loss.

Busy Being Free - Starting Again on Your Own (Paperback): Emma Forrest Busy Being Free - Starting Again on Your Own (Paperback)
Emma Forrest
R280 R224 Discovery Miles 2 240 Save R56 (20%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

'Beautiful' Nigella Lawson 'I adored it' Dolly Alderton 'Wonderful' Lisa Taddeo 'Intoxicating' Abi Morgan What happens when your story doesn't end the way you thought it would? When you realise - after getting married and having a baby - that you chose wrong? When the life you dreamt of becomes something you must walk away from? And when you then find yourself not lonely, but elated - elated to be alone with yourself?

Busy Being Free - A Lifelong Romantic is Seduced by Solitude (Hardcover): Emma Forrest Busy Being Free - A Lifelong Romantic is Seduced by Solitude (Hardcover)
Emma Forrest
R553 Discovery Miles 5 530 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

'Alluring, shocking, welcome and wonderful' Lisa Taddeo, author of Three Women 'The most delicious memoir that kept me in bed all day . . . I think she might be a genius' Sophie Heawood, author of The Hungover Games 'I've really never read about sex and been so sharply reminded about how much it is tied up with the fundamentals of being a woman' Minnie Driver From the author of Your Voice in My Head and Royals comes a beautiful, breath-taking, unputdownable memoir about love and heartbreak, sex and celibacy, growing up and starting again. What happens when your story doesn't end the way you thought it would? When the dream life you have been working towards becomes something you must walk away from? When you swap a Hollywood marriage and a LA mansion with waterside views, for a little attic flat shared only with your daughter, beneath the star-filled sky of deepest North London? When you find yourself not lonely, but elated - elated to be alone with yourself, who you genuinely thought you might never get to see again? When, after a life guided by romantic obsession, you decide to turn your back not only on marriage, but all romantic and sexual attachments?

Namedropper (Paperback, New edition): Emma Forrest Namedropper (Paperback, New edition)
Emma Forrest
R241 R201 Discovery Miles 2 010 Save R40 (17%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Meet Viva Cohen: a teenage schoolgirl bombshell. Her best friends are a drugged-out beauty queen and an ageing rock-star, and she lives in London with her gay uncle, Manny. Viva spends her days gate-crashing gigs, skiving her exams and trying to live life as glamorously as her number one icon, Elizabeth Taylor.
But then she sets out on a pilgrimage: in search of real love, experience and Jack Nicholson. Wicked-tongued and restless, Viva is like no other girl — and this is no ordinary summer.

Emma Forrest began her writing career as a journalist, contributing to The Sunday Times, Independent, Guardian and Saturday Telegraph magazine.

Your Voice in My Head - A Memoir (Paperback): Emma Forrest Your Voice in My Head - A Memoir (Paperback)
Emma Forrest
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R467 R414 Discovery Miles 4 140 Save R53 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Emma Forrest's memoir was called "a journey of healing" by "Interview "magazine and "a beautifully written eulogy for the doctor she credits with saving her life" by "Los Angeles Magazine. "The book received acclaim from reviewers across the country, the movie rights were snatched up quickly, and Emma herself enchanted audiences at readings in New York and Los Angeles. Brave, brilliantly written, and anchored in the reality of everyday life, "Your Voice in My Head "is destined to become a classic of the genre.

Damage Control - Women on the Therapists, Beauticians, and Trainers Who Navigate Their Bodies (Paperback): Emma Forrest Damage Control - Women on the Therapists, Beauticians, and Trainers Who Navigate Their Bodies (Paperback)
Emma Forrest
R482 R425 Discovery Miles 4 250 Save R57 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Traditionally, women share their secrets with their hairdressers. But what about their manicurists, masseurs, chi gong teachers, and tattoo artists? In Damage Control, women wax poetic about the experts and gurus who help them love themselves, sharing stories of everything from friendships born in the make-up chair to the utter dismay of a truly horrible haircut.

Minnie Driver finally meets a Frenchman who understands her hair . . . and tries to teach her not to hate it.

Marian Keyes remembers the blow-dry that pushed her over the edge.

Francesca Lia Block tells the ugly story of the plastic surgeon who promised to make her beautiful.

Rose McGowan explains why it's harder to be depressed when you're glamorous . . . and shows how it takes a village to transform from mere mortal to movie star.

Witty and wise, Damage Control is an intimate, sometimes dark, look at our experiences with the professionals who pluck, prod, and pamper every inch of our bodies--and a reminder why we surrender ourselves to their (hopefully) very capable hands.

Namedropper - A Novel (Paperback, 1st Scribner Paperback Fiction ed): Emma Forrest Namedropper - A Novel (Paperback, 1st Scribner Paperback Fiction ed)
Emma Forrest
R370 R322 Discovery Miles 3 220 Save R48 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Meet Viva Cohen: her bedroom walls are plastered with posters of silver-screen legends, and underneath her school uniform she wears vintage thigh-high stockings. Her best friends are a drugged-out beauty queen and an aging rock star. She lives in London with her gay uncle Manny.

A bitingly funny and fiercely intelligent first novel, Namedropper takes you on a rowdy romp from London to Los Angeles, where Viva and her two best friends search for love, experience, and Jack Nicholson. It's a wild ride as she uncovers the icon in every person she meets.

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