Sean Smith

Sunday Times bestselling author Sean Smith tells the extraordinary story of a modern cultural icon: Harry Styles.

Harry Styles: The Making of a Modern Man

The Making of a Modern Man

Harry Styles

Recounts the life and career of the author of the "Harry Potter" books.

A Biography

J.K. Rowling

The definitive biography of the world’s number-one reality star, Kim Kardashian West—the savvy entrepreneur and fashion forward woman who has defined fame for today’s generation—from the UK's leading celebrity biographer. A thoroughly modern woman, Kim Kardashian West, the daughter of headline-making lawyer Robert Kardashian, grew up like a princess in a Beverley Hills mansion. As a young girl, Kim’s ambition was to appear on The Real World, the groundbreaking hit series. But reality proved even bigger than her dreams, when just a few years later she became the star of her own smash show, Keeping Up With the Kardashians. While Keeping Up with the Kardashians took us into Kim’s privileged world and made her a household name, the details of her life story—murder, elopement, domestic violence, a sex tape, a quickie divorce, religious worship, and unbelievably glamorous designer fashions—played out like an X-rated version of the 1980s soap opera Dynasty. But Kim’s story has only just begun. Married for a second time—to one of the biggest stars on the planet, Kanye West—she has begun her own dynasty with the birth of daughter, North, and another baby due in November 2015. Filled with delicious, painstakingly researched, eye-popping detail, KIM uncovers what it took for Kim to rise to the top—and how she intends to stay there. Sean Smith offers a multidimensional portrait of this remarkable woman, exploring her childhood, her family, her turbulent love life, and her glitzy multi-millionaire lifestyle. From her fabulous fashion-sense, to her world-famous physique, to her devotion to her family, including her relationship with her stepparent, Bruce Jenner and his transition to Caitlyn Jenner, this sensational, addictive biography tells the unvarnished truth about the undisputed Queen of Celebrity—the real story of Kim Kardashian.

Kim Kardashian

Ed Sheeran has conquered the musical world. Avoiding flashy showmanship and fleeting fashion, he has let his talent do the talking. His moving and uplifting songs forge a lasting connection with the millions of people around the world who love his music. Bestselling biographer Sean Smith has travelled to the quiet Suffolk backwater that Ed still calls home. Seeing the sunset over the famous 'Castle on the Hill' for himself, he follows in the footsteps of Ed's amazing journey from the boy who could barely hold a tune to the man who sold out Wembley Stadium. He tells the story of Ed's remarkable mum and dad who gave their son the courage and confidence to pursue his dream, the friends and mentors who taught and encouraged him and the lovers who inspired his most famous songs. Ed Sheeran was fifteen when he recorded his first album in his bedroom. But while he was well known for performing his own songs in local pubs and clubs before he was even old enough to drink, he was not 'discovered' or groomed for stardom. Instead he left High School before completing his A-Levels and moved to London where he went to college two days a week, performed hundreds of gigs on the capital's thriving music scene and sold his self-financed CDs from his rucksack. At the end of the evening, he would head to friends' flats to sleep on a sofa or on the floor. It was far from glamorous and sometimes the struggle threatened to overwhelm him. Somehow, Ed's determination won through and his fortunes changed when he was taken on by Elton John's management company. Smith explores the joy of a record deal when past rejections were forgotten; the song that changed everything and how he conquered America with a little help from Taylor Swift. After three number one albums, he is now the biggest earning music star in the UK and the richest under thirty, worth more than £80 million. Surrounded by a world of excess, he found it difficult to cope with his phenomenal fame before a new relationship with a girl from his home town brought him stability and a fresh purpose in life. Ed Sheeran the book is a fascinating and revealing insight into Ed Sheeran the man...and his music.

Ed Sheeran

Adele touches the hearts of millions of people who love her for her music and share the real and honest emotion she brings to each and every song. In a cynical age, she is a phenomenon.

Adele

The Unauthorized Biography of Britney Spears

Britney

Ein Porträt der Schöpferin der legendären Kultfigur Harry Potter und ihres unnachahmlichen Aufstiegs und Erfolges.

das Leben der J. K. Rowling

Die Schöpferin von Harry Potter

[1996] Depois do almoço [o editor] apertou a mão da sua última autora, dizendo: «Nunca conseguirá ganhar dinheiro com livros para jovens, Jo.» Esta observação tornou-se uma das histórias favoritas de Joanne. Dois anos após a publicação de A Pedra Filosofal, Joanne era oficialmente milionária. Criadora da mais amada e famosa personagem de ficção da actualidade – Harry Potter – J. K. Rowling é também a autora da sua própria fuga de uma existência depressiva, à beira da destruição. A imagem da mulher tranquila que escreve à mesa de café, frente a uma chávena fumegante e a um copo de água, enquanto um bebé dorme sossegado no carrinho, pode ter-se transformado num cliché, mas constitui também uma inspiração para milhões de pessoas.

J. K. Rowling: uma biografia: o génio por detrás de Harry Potter

With record sales of 40 million and a fortune of over £100 million, Britney Spears has become one of the world's biggest female recording artists. Sean Smith charts her life, from her early days as a Mickey Mouse club presenter to her infamous Vegas wedding and speculates on what her future holds.

The Biography

Having amassed a fortune of over $100 million and record sales of 40 million, at the age of twenty-two Britney Spears is the world's biggest female star. This is the first biography to chronicle how the little girl with a crucifix in each ear, described by her teacher at Disney as 'the sweetest, most wholesome, most innocent person that you'd ever want to meet' has become the ultimate in tabloid fodder. Britney will follow her roller coaster life from her time on the Mickey Mouse Club where she first met Justin Timberlake to the moment she sashayed down the hallway dressed in school uniform and shot to fame becoming the all-American pop princess. Somehow it all fell apart - scarred by her break up with Timberlake, roundly booed at the London premiere of her first film, the downward spiral culminated with her infamous 55-hour Las Vegas marriage. The press went crazy over second marriage to dancer Kevin Federline, yet her fans remained loyal and she went on to win MTV Europe female of the year 2004 and the 2005 Grammy for best dance record. Speculating on what an uncertain future holds for Mrs Federline-Spears, Britney will be a gossipy and revealing biography of one of the most fascinating figures in pop.

to followBritney tells the full, amazing story of the rollercoaster life of one of the world's most popular stars. Travel with best selling author Sean Smith across America as he paints a picture of the real Britney Spears - a little church-going Southern girl described by her tutor at Disney as 'the sweetest, most wholesome, most innocent person that you'd ever want to meet', who became a desperately unhappy victim of fame. Britney Spears was a child star on Broadway at ten, with Disney at eleven, a number one recording artist at seventeen and a multi millionairess before her eighteenth birthday. But that success counted for nothing as she faced the agony of a marriage break-up that left her battling for custody of her two sons. Her eventual breakdown was seen on television by millions around the world. Few could forget the sight of a distressed Britney strapped to an ambulance trolley on her way to a psychiatric unit. But, incredibly, it was not the last we heard of Britney and phoenix-like she recovered to produce a US number one single and album, and headline a sell out world tour in 2009. Using a series of exclusive interviews Sean Smith reveals a complex yet genuinely nice young woman who at last seems to be winning.

The Unathorized Biography

Kylie Minogue

J.K. Rowling's rise to superstardom status is the stuff of tabloid legend, how she spent hours in an Edinburgh cafe, nursing a single coffee and a glass of water while she wrote the Harry Potter novels. This is the life story of this popular author.

J K Rowling

KYLIE is a major new biography, telling the life story of Kylie Minogue, a true pop icon, now back on our screens in hit show The Voice. Everybody loves Kylie. No popular figure in modern culture deserves the description 'iconic' more than the star whose name alone evokes more than twenty-five years of memories. KYLIE charts the incredible journey of a complex and misunderstood woman from the suburbs of Melbourne, who was never the girl next door. She captured our hearts as Charlene Mitchell in Neighboursbefore rising to her position today as a member of music royalty. She is more popular than ever thanks to her acclaimed role as a judge on The Voice. Her phenomenal success was threatened in 2005, when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. The world held its breath as she braved surgery and chemotherapy before she was given the all clear. Her honesty and dignity throughout gained her universal respect and improved awareness of the disease among young women - the Kylie Effect. KYLIE is the essential book for those wanting to learn more about how she has continually reinvented herself - as teen actress, chart star, creative musician, sex goddess, gay icon, style queen and female role model. It reveals her true loves, the men who have brought her disappointment and those that have helped her achieve the status of most popular female icon of our times. KYLIE is an inspirational celebration of a star we should never take for granted.

Kylie

A portrait of Kylie Minogue, the Queen of Pop, who has transformed herself from innocent girl-next-door to the world's sexiest woman, with all the twists and turns in between. In a series of self-contained 'pen portraits' which together form a complete picture of her life in our times, Kylie Confidential takes the approach of looking at the pop icon in her many extraordinary incarnations - as pop puppet, as an original style setting talent and as one of the most desirable women on the planet.

Confidential

Cherylis the definitive biography of the nation's favourite star. From her Newcastle childhood to her stellar success with Girls Aloud, as a number one solo artist and on TV with The X Factor, Sean Smith tells the true, roller-coaster story of how a cheeky and feisty girl from a grim, working class area became the iconic figure for modern women in Britain today. Cheryl's path to fame and fortune has often been difficult, facing the problems drugs and unemployment have brought to those she loves. Now, her turbulent marriage to footballer Ashley Cole is sadly under the spotlight, but, with insight and understanding, Sean Smith reveals the real woman behind the beautiful public face. 'Sean Smith gives a remarkable account of Cheryl's struggle to the top…A first-rate biography' Sunday Express Sean Smith is the UK's leading celebrity biographer whose best-selling books have been translated throughout the world.

Cheryl

Horrific car accidents, the Bali bombing, too many sausages ... Sean Smith survived them all. This is one man's story of his journey back to health and fitness and recapturing his passion for life....

The Fat Paddler

She is the creator of probably the most famous - and certainly the best-loved character in contemporary fiction. She is also the author of her own escaperom an existence on the brink of poverty, with no job and few prospects. Onhe one hand there is J.K. Rowling, who wrote, and continues to write, thearry Potter novels,a literary phenomenon. O the other, there is Joanneowling, a quiet, dreamy, rather shy woman whose brilliance in translatinger dreams into prose transformed her own life. JK - The Story of J.K.owling details her life from her childhood and schooling in the West Country;he effect upon her of the wasting illness that struck down her mother; herime at Exeter University; her long-term relationship and her career andarriage, which collapsed after thirteen months, leaving her to return toritain with her baby daughter. The Harry Potter novels are more than fantasy:here is a toughness to the writing, a sense of realism and a questingorality that go beyond mere adventure, magic and the battle between good andvil.;How those books came to be written, and the influences that shaped both

Are you hungry for the power of the Holy Spirit? Are you fed up with tired religious traditions? Do you want revival? I Am Your Sign is an inspiring, invigorating look at some of history’s most powerful moves of God. If you think that faith has been drying up for two millennia, get ready to read about numerous believers who have come upon seemingly dead regions and they were ignited by the most unlikely ministers—affecting incredible changes. You will be challenged to press forward in prayer, asking God to begin a new revival, today! Personal, present-day testimonies as well as exciting examples from history and plenty of Scripture support makes I Am Your Sign one of the best revival books in years. It prepares a new breed of revivalist in the same way that the priest Hilkiah brought the truth to Josiah—and he became a Kingdom revolutionary. I Am Your Sign presents prophecies, history, and the Father’s intention to inspire hearts, concluding in a summons to change the course of history!

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