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  By Warren Lakin When comedian and broadcaster Linda Smith died in 2006 it left those who loved her devastated. What better way, one year on, to celebrate her than to have a show totally dedicated to who she was. Linda Smith established herself as one of the funniest and best-loved comedians on BBC Radio 4, but she was also a famous face on TV. The tour features carefully selected cuts of her comedy in audio and visual clips from shows such as News Quiz, Just A Minute, I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue, A Brief History of Time Wasting, Have I Got News For You and Room 101. Driving Miss Smith, A Memoir of Linda Smith written by her partner of 23 years, Warren Lakin. The book is a perfect accompaniment to I Think the Nurses are Stealing my Clothes, the hilarious anthology of her best comedy. Published by Hodder & Stoughton. Price £18.99.   By Shy Keenan One of the most shocking true stories of a brutal childhood you may ever read. Shy Keenan's life became a nightmare from a very young age. Her mother beat her so severely that Shy was deaf by her first day in school. She was punished by having boiling water poured over her and virtually ever day, from the age of four, Shy was raped by her stepfather Stanley. When she was ten, she was attacked so viciously by a 'gang,' she was left for dead in a field, her skull fractured. After years of mental breakdowns, living rough and a suicide bid, Sky found the courage to her abusers to court. Shy Keenan is now an internationally respected chief advocate for Phoenix Survivors, the campaigning group she founded with Sara Payne to fight for justice of child sexual abuse. However, by all accounts, it's a miracle she is still on this earth. Published by Hodder & Stoughton.  By Cupcake Brown A harrowing story of a life filled with pain and wisdom, hope and redemption. Following her mother’s death, Cupcake aged eleven years old entered the welfare system, moving from one disastrous placement to the next. She was, like so many, neglected and sexually abuse and developed a massive appetite for drugs, an appetite she fed by hustling and turning tricks. Before long she had stumbled headlong in the wild and dangerous world of the gansta. From beloved daughter to abused foster child to crack addict, this is the heart-wrenching true story of a girl named Cupcake Brown. Published by Bantam Books. Price £5.99.  By Laura Benedict Carystown, Kentucky is till scarred by the mysterious disappearance a year ago of Isabella Moon. Faced with an almost lack of evident, of even a body - the case of the missing girls is still open and though the commotion and media circus which engulfed the small town has long since subsided, Sheriff Bill Delaney is no nearer a resolution. However, Kate Russell knows that Isabella is not merely missing, she’s dead. She also knows her spirit is not resting in peace, for the ghost of the young girl has disrupted Kate’s quietly idyllic life, beckoning to her to follow. She wants to reveal to Kate the truth about her death. As the ghost of Isabella draws Kate into the investigation the town of charming Carystown begins to crumble. A page turner from the startling opening paragraph. Published by Heinemann. Price £12.99.   By Constance Briscoe In the first account of her life in Ugly, published in 2006, Constance Briscoe touched the minds and hearts of many. Ugly related her harrowing experience growing up in South London with an abusive and unloving mother. Now she has decided to expand on her story with Beyond Ugly. However, the question is: "What's that all about?" By all accounts book number 2 is not worth its salt. The book offers a blow-by blow account of the cosmetic surgery route Ms Briscoe took to adjust her features, purely based on her mother's description in Ugly of how she looked. Beyond Ugly is a page turner for all the wrong reasons – it was an easy read in that it required little real thought. It is clear the author is trying to convey to the reader how, despite the legacy of an unhappy childhood and total denigration by the one person on whom she should be able to rely that the discrimination she later experienced failed to deter the success she attained in her life. To conclude, she could have written Beyond Ugly in one or maybe two chapters and included them in the first book, which would have rounded up her autobiography nicely. In other words, there really was no need to go Beyond Ugly. Published by Hodder & Stoughton. Price £12.99.  By Ferzanna Riley Towards the end of 2001, Ferzanna Riley felt unwell. After tests, her cardiac consultant told her she urgently needed major heart surgery, or she could be dead within six months. With a gorgeous new husband who adored her, and a five-year-old daughter, this was devastating news. To make matters worse, her father died of the same heart condition days before she underwent major heart surgery in 2002 and, although the operation saved her life, Ferzanna spent the next couple of years simply waiting to die. Her medical records, according to her, read like a horror story and with Ferzanna too sick to get a proper job, she decided to write the book she'd been meaning to for years. Unbroken Spirit is her true story, which proved to be a harrowing trip down memory lane. Published by Hodder and Stoughton. Price £12.99.  By James E Cherry The festering racial tensions in a Tennessee backwater town called Forrest comes to the boil after b lack grandmother is raped and shot by a gang of white teenagers. Only one man has the capacity to keep a lid on the mounting violence and that’s the town’s senior black cop, Walter Robinson. But Walter’s own life is not in the best of shape. His constant infidelities is wrecking his marriage and his nephew Cebo is the street druglord who’s leading the charge to take revenge Published by Serpent’s Tail. Price £8.99.  By Sophie Hannah Last year, Sally took the opportunity of a cancelled business trip to have a secret holiday, away from work and family. What she wanted was piece and quiet. But it didn’t work out that way, what she had instead was an affair. Months later Sally is watching the news when she hears a name she ought not to recognize: Mark Bretherick. This person is on the news and his wife and daughter are dead. All the details are the same, the same name, the same family and the same job but not the same face. Sally had never seen this man before yet she had had an affair with him. Published by Hodder & Stoughton. Price £12 99 hardback. |
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