The Royal Shakespeare company, lead by Sir Ian McKellen and Sir Trevor Nunn, set off to captivate the world with their new production of King Lear. It's not long, however, before the star studded cast, including Romola Garai, Frances Barber and Sylvester McCoy, discover it's not all plain sailing on their Shakespearean journey. Enduring injuries, critical backlash, and almost constant controversy, the drama when the curtain falls threatens to overshadow the cast's successes on stage. As understudy to Sir Ian McKellen's King, Weston's frank and funny account takes us right through the London rehearsals to the historical Stratford Season, back to the glittering West End then out across the world - including Singapore, Sydney, LA and New York - before returning to film a DVD of the production. Weston provides entertaining commentary on the countries visited by the tour and charts how England's best loved theatre company are received around the world. Packed with celebrity anecdotes and full of lessons of experience, this story will appeal to theatre goers, students and the general reading public alike.

Covering McKellen: An Understudy's Tale

David, Weston

Rickshaw Publishing

TV Producer Stella Weston is over worked, over weight and under fire. Having battled uphill for years to balance her career with her family life, she is repaid by being put out to pasture on a religious gardening programme complete with a nervous vicar, his nymphomaniac wife, and 22 stone Britney wannabe gardener, Gerald.  Miles away from her husband and daughter she somehow turns the show into a comedic triumph, only to once more fall foul of her evil and twisted boss, stick thin MJ. Stella decides enough is enough but soon finding herself husbandless and penniless, she realises discovering the courage to quit is sometimes the easy part.  Desperate, Stella throws herself into her one true love, cakes, and asks the question: can you really turn a passion into a profession? What follows is a series of comical disasters, hilarious holidays, failed dates, super cakes, accidents, injuries and near death experiences. Full of spirit, heart and girl power, this is a high quality chick lit novel that will have readers everywhere laughing, crying, and reaching for the mixing bowl.

Fat Girls and Fairy Cakes

Sue Watson

Have you ever wondered what it's like to have everything?  Tanya Travis doesn't have to. As host of TV show 'The Truth with Tanya Travis,' she has glamour, luxury, success and public adulation while solving the problems of Britain's great unwashed every morning on her TV show.  However, things are not all they seem and Tanya's life of designer kitchens, Prada handbags and myriad TV awards is as difficult behind the scenes as those of her TV show guests. Tanya is hounded by the press, constantly reading damning headlines about her own life, looks, and body. But when she reads about her partner's weakness for young blondes and problems mount on her show, Tanya's carefully constructed celebrity life begins to come apart at the seams.  Her only lifeline is 'Celebrity Spa Trek' a reality show in the Himalayas 'Where bad celebrities go good.' But can clean-freak Tanya cope with no hot water, starvation, exhaustion, heartbreak and the sheer showbiz bitchiness of a celebrity trek through the Himalayas? Even with her relationship in crisis, cellulite on overdrive and career on the line, Tanya can't face the thought of prime time exposure with a desperate gaggle of C-List wannabes...but does she have a choice?   A sharp, witty novel about our celebrity obsessed culture from the author of bestselling Fat Girls and Fairy Cakes.

Younger, Thinner, Blonder

Watson, Sue

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Covering McKellen: An Understudy's Tale

Fat Girls and Fairy Cakes

Younger, Thinner, Blonder