Lynn Barber

'A cautionary tale, a tragedy of innocence lost' Sunday Telegraph 1960: A stranger in a sports car offered sixteen-year-old Lynn Barber a lift. It changed her life. The stranger charmed his way not only into Lynn's life, but also that of her parents. He took her virginity, whisked her off to Paris, introduced her to his charming friends, and even offered to make her his wife. But he was neither who nor what he said he was. And only when Lynn's parents were on the point of accepting him into their family, did she realise the mistake she'd made in accepting that lift. Lynn Barber shows how this strange affair coloured the rest of her life - what she wanted from men and her instinctive distrust of others. Visit aneducation.com.au to see the film trailer and more 'Bracingly sharp. A chilling glimpse into the guileless limbo between girlhood and adulthood' Sunday Times 'Thrillingly readable, you'll want to finish it in one sitting' Tatler 'Moving, funny, frank' Evening Standard 'Magnificent, searing, honest' Mail on Sunday 'Absolutely marvellous, shocking, pacy, witty' Spectator

An Education

A wonderfully frank and funny memoir of Britain's greatest and most ferocious interviewer, Lynn Barber.

A Curious Career

Presents the memoir of a British journalist known for her interviews, beginning with her affair with an older man at the age of sixteen.

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Demon Barber

Lynn Barber, by her own admission, has always suffered from a compelling sense of nosiness. An exceptionally inquisitive child she constantly questioned everyone she knew about imitate details of their lives. This talent for nosiness, coupled with her unusual lack of the very English fear of social embarrassment, turned out to be the perfect qualification for a celebrity interviewer. In A Curious Career, Lynn Barber takes us from her early years as a journalist at Penthouse - where she started out interviewing foot fetishists, voyeurs, dominatrices and men who liked wearing nappies - to her later more eminent role interrogating a huge cross-section of celebrities ranging from politicians to film stars, comedians, writers, artists and musicians. A Curious Career is full of glorious anecdotes - the interview with Salvador Dali that, at Dali's invitation, ended up lasting four days, or the drinking session with Shane MacGowan during which they planned to rob a bank. It also contains eye-opening transcripts, such as her infamous interview with the hilarious and spectacularly rude Marianne Faithfull. A wonderfully frank and funny memoir by Britain's greatest and most ferocious interviewer, A Curious Career is also a fascinating window into the lives of celebrities and the changing world of journalism.

Lynn Barber

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