Chosen as a BOOK OF THE YEAR in the Sunday Times, Stylist and ObserverA multifaceted novel that is funny, verbally inventive and movingSunday Times, Book of the YearIn Mercury Pictures Presents . . . the story moves between the real war and the better version Hollywood is busy creating. Sometimes tragic, often hilarious KAREN JOY FOWLER, Observer, Books of the YearIts prose pulses with humour, wit and affection Mail on SundayThe epic tale of a brilliant woman who must reinvent herself to survive, moving from Mussolinis Italy to 1940s Los Angeles-a timeless story of love, deceit, and sacrifice from the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of A Constellation of Vital PhenomenaLike many before her, Maria Lagana has come to Hollywood to outrun her past. Born in Rome, where every Sunday her father took her to the cinema instead of church, Maria immigrates with her mother to Los Angeles after a childhood transgression leads to her fathers arrest.Fifteen years later, on the eve of Americas entry into World War II, Maria is an associate producer at Mercury Pictures, trying to keep her personal and professional lives from falling apart. Her mother wont speak to her. Her boss, a man of many toupees, has been summoned to Washington by congressional investigators. Her boyfriend, a virtuoso Chinese American actor, cant escape the studios narrow typecasting. And the studio itself, Marias only home in exile, teeters on the verge of bankruptcy.Over the coming months, as the bright lights go dark across Los Angeles, Mercury Pictures becomes a nexus of European emigres: modernist poets trying their luck as B-movie screenwriters, once-celebrated architects becoming scale-model miniaturists, and refugee actors finding work playing the very villains they fled. While the world descends into war, Maria rises through a maze of conflicting politics, divided loyalties, and jockeying ambitions. But when the arrival of a stranger from her fathers past threatens Marias carefully constructed facade, she must finally confront her fathers fate - and her own.Written with intelligence, wit, and an exhilarating sense of possibility, Mercury Pictures Presents is a love letter to lifes bit players, a panorama of an era that casts a long shadow over our own, and a tour de force by a novelist whose work TheWashington Post calls a flash in the heavens that makes you look up and believe in miracles.

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Neste livro de memórias, ao traçar cronologicamente os filmes que produziu, Zelito mescla a sua vida, a história do cinema brasileiro e as mudanças sociais e políticas pelas quais o país passou. Os filmes e eu, de Zelito Viana, produtor e um dos fundadores da Mapa Filmes, no e um livro "apenas" sobre cinema. Ao pecorrer sua carreira como produtor, Zelito escreve tambem sobre a propria vida, a historia do cinema brasileiro e as mudanças politicas e sociais pelas quais o pais passou.Estruturado em episodios curtos, escrito com fluidez e com o humor caracteristico do autor, Os filmes e eu traz revelaçes e reflexes sobre cinema e o fazer cinenamatografico de sua geraço, que enfrentou diversos obstaculos, como a censura e o exilio de varios amigos na ditadura militar. Alem disso, narra episodios curiosos, engraçados e ate mesmo insolitos, que fazem com que a leitura do livro seja agil, cheia de movimento e graça.Ana Maria Machado, que assina a orelha do livro, escreve: "O livro de Zelito ainda nos leva a deslizar pela historia recente do pais e pelas transformaçes da sociedade brasileira. A começar pelos paragrafos iniciais, em que, como se seguisse os postulados da epopeia classica, nos joga de saida "in media res", no meio da aço. Em seguida, navegando por marcos cronologicos que vo recapitulando nossa historia das ultimas decadas, ele aos poucos recria os impasses e conquistas de sucessivas geraçes em sua luta pela democracia. E traz a consciencia do leitor a força de historias simultaneas que convivem, contemporaneas, neste pais em que povos originarios tem sido desrespeitados e ameaçados de toda maneira."Os filmes eu funciona quase como um almanaque, fundamental para estudiosos, especialistas e amantes de cinema, sobretudo do cinema brasileiro. E tambem uma otima oportunidade para a nova geraço conhecer este que e um dos maiores cineastas brasileiros.

Besides the deliciously well executed fake-dating, How to Fake it in Hollywood delivers a raw, character-driven and heart-touching read. I absolutely loved it ELENA ARMASA talented Hollywood starlet and a reclusive A-lister enter into a fake relationship . . . and discover that their feelings might be more than a PR stunt in this sexy chemistry-filled debut for fans of Beach Read and The Unhoneymooners.Early readers cant get enough!Super fun, spicy and has a core of overwhelming love. The banter is amazing, characters are brilliant and the ending is EVERYTHING!! (I cried) reader reviewIm giving this book all of the stars. I cant believe that this is Ava Wilders debut novel, its really something reader reviewAva Wilder has a fantastic voice with just the right doses of humour and gravitas to get you onside with the characters reader reviewA film-star worthy five-star read . . . it has everything you need, drama, passion, romance and some next level gut wrenching emotion wringing scenes . . . I simply adored this story reader review................................Grey Brooks is on a mission to save her career now that her long-running TV show is over. With the role of a lifetime on the line, shes desperate enough to agree to her publicists scheme: fake a love affair with a disgraced Hollywood heartthrob, who just happens to also need the publicity boost. Ethan Atkins just wants to be left alone. Between his high-profile divorce, his struggles with drinking, and his grief over the death of his longtime creative partner and best friend, hes slowly let himself fade into the background. But if he ever wants to produce the last movie he and his partner wrote together, Ethan needs to clean up his reputation and step back into the spotlight. A juicy affair with a gorgeous actress might be just the ticket, even if its the last thing he wants to do. With their plan working perfectly, the sizzling chemistry between Grey and Ethan soon starts to feel like more than just an act. But in this ruthless industry, are they both too used to faking it to open themselves up to the real thing?................................This empathetic, sexy, utterly radiant book has my whole heart . . . How to Fake it in Hollywood is the real deal RACHEL LYNN SOLOMONThe banter and sexual tension . . . is fire-emoji immaculateLILLIE VALEA fresh, witty, high-emotion story with compelling characters and stylish backdrops . . . The perfect novel for fans of modern, smart romance SARAH HAYWOOD

** CONTAINS NEW MATERIAL ** THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTELLER & WINNER OF THE ATTITUDE BOOK AWARD Refreshing, inspiring and candid. ATTITUDE I love this man so much. He was, and always will be, my knight in shining Westwood. DAVINA MCCALLThis is a story that should never have been told KATE MOSSThe perfect beach read THE SUNDAY TIMESAs one of club cultures most notorious - and best loved - figures, Tony is a complete force of nature.Here he tells the most extraordinary stories of depravity and hedonism, of week-long benders and extreme self-destruction - and of recovery, redemption, friendship and the joy of a good tune.___________________________________________________________________________Anyone can get a party started, but no one keeps it going like Fat Tony, the energy never dips andwhat a life hes lived.. Hes a tosser but we still love him.ELTON JOHN & DAVID FURNISH___________________________________________________________________________Harrowing, honest and funny, this is the candid and outrageous memoir of a life of extremes. Its a story of getting it all and losing it all. Addiction, recovery, and starting again. Drawing a vivid portrait of Britains street culture from the 1980s to the noughties, DJ Fat Tony describes his childhood on a London estate where he honed his petty criminality, was abused by an older man and became best friends with Boy George. He spent his teenage years parading the Kings Road in his latest (mostly stolen) clobber, worked as a receptionist at a brothel, hung out with Leigh Bowery and Andy Warhol, and created his drag persona, before becoming DJ to the stars (including Prince and Madonna) and spiralling into a life-threatening drug addiction.This is a story of loss and redemption and living to tell all the tales in glorious, funny and often heart-breaking detail, from one of social medias best-loved meme-thieves and the world-renowned DJ.__________________________________________________________________________If you want to change your life but cant.. I strongly advise you read this book TRACEY EMINThere is nobody in London, let alone the world who has lived a more extraordinary life... his journey from villain to real life hero is one of the most beautiful examples of humanity I have ever witnessed. I wouldnt be without this c*nt.KELLY OSBOURNEHearing Tonys story is brutal and shocking. He is nothing short of a miracle and his willingness to be of service to others seeking sobriety is testament to how far he has come from the days of pulling his own teeth out.MARC JACOBS

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Magical and transporting . . . Wayward proves that Bunyan has lived the best possible life, on her own idiosyncratic termsMaggie OFarrellA gorgeous account of outsiderness and survival: a map of how to live outside the boundaries and of striving for an authentic artistic life. A quietly defiant and moving workSinead GleesonAn epic in miniature . . . I loved - and lived - every sentenceBenjamin MyersIn 1968, Vashti Bunyan gave up everything and everybody she knew in London to take to the road with a horse, wagon, dog, guitar and her then partner. They made the long journey up to the Outer Hebrides in an odyssey of discovery and heartbreak, full of the joy of freedom and the trudge of everyday reality, sleeping in the woods, fighting freezing winters and homelessness. Along the way, Vashti wrote the songs that would lead to the recording of her 1970s album Just Another Diamond Day, the lilting lyrics and guitar conveying innocent wonder at the world around her, whilst disguising a deeper turmoil under the surface. From an unconventional childhood in post-war London, to a fledgling career in mid-sixties pop - recording a single written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards - to the despair and failure to make any headway with her own songs, she rejected the music world altogether and left it all behind. After retreating to a musical wilderness for thirty years, the rediscovery of her recordings in 2000 brought Vashti a second chance to write, record and perform once more. One of the great hippie myths of the 1960s, Wayward, Just Another Life to Live, rewrites the narrative of a barefoot girl on the road to describe a life lived at full tilt from the first, revealing what it means to change course and her emotional struggle, learning to take back control of her own life.

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