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Charles Paris: An Amateur Corpse
Charles Paris: An Amateur Corpse
Oct 5, 2024 10:28 PM

Author:Simon Brett,Jeremy Front,Bill Nighy,Full Cast,Suzanne Burden,Geraldine McEwan

Charles Paris: An Amateur Corpse

Charles is out of work again, and to make matters worse his mother has come to stay and he's no way of escaping her. So when he's offered some voiceover work by old friend, Hugo, he's delighted to get out of the house. But Hugo's marriage is in trouble: his much younger wife, Ellie, spends all her time at her Amateur Dramatic Group, and Hugo is drinking too much.

When Ellie is found drowned in their swimming pool, it seems Hugo is guilty of murder. It's up to Charles to prove his friend's innocence...

Bill Nighy, Suzanne Burden and Geraldine McEwan are among the star cast in this entertaining mystery, dramatised by Jeremy Front.

Written by Jeremy Front, based on the novel by Simon Brett.

Reviews

Visually scrumptious, filled with fun gimmicks and cut-outs, and acts as a guide to the series as well as the production challenges

—— Independent on Sunday

The next best thing to Morrissey’s autobiography

—— GQ magazine

A superb achievement

—— Mojo

The perfect gift for any Morrissey fan

—— Daily Telegraph

A witty, well-informed collection of fact and anecdote, full of fascinating bits and pieces

—— Uncut

Goddard widens his previous book's mixture of detail and passionate celebration to Morrissey's entire aesthetic universe

—— Dave Hill , The Guardian

An exemplary introduction to a star in the making...excellent at placing the sexuality-stretching Bowie within the context of a decade struggling to find its identity

—— Metro

Part historical commentary, part fanboy's breakdown of every Bowie song from the era

—— The Times

Doggett exhaustively chases Bowie's inspirations and intentions as he morphs from the gender-bending glam rock Ziggy Stardust to the plastic soul-spinning Thin White Duke

—— Daily Telegraph

This book tracks Bowie's ever changing masks and alter egos... [and] helps answer the question that most Bowie fans have asked at one time or another: what the hell is he on about?

—— Irish Times

Doggett is no uncritical fan – his intimate knowledge of the industry lends him a cool eye when assessing the extent of Bowie’s originality… Overall it will leave readers of a certain age yearning for the days when they could throw their homework on the fire and take the car downtown

—— Sally Morris , Daily Mail

Superb

—— The Word

an eminently readable and richly entertaining journey through Rod’s life...with a real sense of fun pervading...a rollicking read

—— Beat Magazine

wonderfully written...a page-turner

—— Pat Kenny

Ridiculously funny and astonishingly candid, Rod Stewart's memoir is the rock autobiography of the decade

—— Daily Mail

One of the most entertaining, revealing, captivating books of the year

—— Independent

It’s impossible not to warm to him in this account of booze, drugs and blondes…The tales of on-the-road bad behavior…leave nothing to the imagination…his painful admission of how ex-wife Rachel Hunter broke his heart reveal a man happy to wear his heart on his sleeve….And he wears it well…

—— Daily Mail

In Rod Stewart’s raucous, laddish autobiography….his attitude towards women in his life is frequently indefensible but otherwise it’s often laugh-out-load funny

—— Herald

Rod Stewart reveals all in a hilarious and, at times, moving book…A brilliant read—you’ll be hooked.

—— Best

[Rod] has warm good humour and a nice line in self-deprecation...He wears it well—and tells it even better.

—— Daily Mail

By some distance the most entertaining of last year’s...rock star memoirs.

—— Uncut Online

This book takes readers on an adventure, that is at times deeply moving, through the life of one of the UK's greatest singers.

—— Hello! online

Ruthlessly entertaining

—— telegraph.co.uk
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