Elizabeth Day
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Description
Based on Elizabeth Day's hugely popular podcast, and including fascinating insights gleaned from her journalistic career of celebrity interviews, 'How to Fail' is part memoir, part manifesto. It is a book for anyone who has ever failed. Which means it's a book for everyone. Including chapters on success, dating, work, sport, relationships, families and friendship, it is based on the simple premise that understanding why we fail ultimately makes us...
3) The party
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Publisher
4th Estate
Pub. Date
2017
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Martin Gilmour is an outsider. When he wins a scholarship to Burtonbury School, he doesn't wear the right clothes or speak with the right kind of accent. But then he meets the dazzling, popular and wealthy Ben Fitzmaurice, and gains admission to an exclusive world. Soon Martin is enjoying tennis parties and Easter egg hunts at the Fitzmaurice family's estate, as Ben becomes the brother he never had. But Martin has a secret. He knows something about...
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Publisher
4th Estate
Pub. Date
2023
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As a society, there is a tendency to elevate romantic love. But what about friendships? Aren't they just as - if not more - important? So why is it hard to find the right words to express what these uniquely complex bonds mean to us? In 'Friendaholic', Elizabeth Day embarks on a journey to answer these questions.
Author
Publisher
4th Estate
Pub. Date
2020
Description
In this handbook for when things go wrong, Elizabeth Day, author of 'How to Fail', and creator of the award-winning podcast, brings together all the lessons she has learned from her own life, from conversations with her podcast guests - including Malcolm Gladwell, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Lemn Sissay, Nigel Slater, Emeli Sande, Meera Syal, Dame Kelly Holmes, Andrew Scott and many, many more - and from meeting readers and listeners who have shared their...