Life's Too F***ing Short - Softcover

Street-Porter, Janet

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1844005860 ISBN 13: 9781844005864

Publisher: Quadrille Publishing Ltd, 2008

Synopsis

Janet Street Porter has a unique view on life and this is no ordinary 21st Century survival guide. Drawing on the experiences of her fascinating life and incredibly successful career Janet Street Porter dispenses advice and tips on how to live life to the full, get what you want, do the things you crave, achieve more, feel happier and healthier and most importantly live the life you want to lead. Janet s philosophy is to believe in yourself totally to get out of bed every morning and tell yourself you re bloody brilliant to put yourself first at all times. In Life's Too F***ing Short she shows how we can successfully combine work, relationships, fitness, health, shopping, buying and preparing food for our self and others without spending a fortune, using up valuable time and making unnecessary effort. This book is the sum total of Janet's life's experiences, she proves that there are plenty of ways to get exactly what we want from life and feel better about who we are. Divided into eleven chapters, Janet focuses on why life is too f***ing short to spend hours cooking the way chefs tell us to; believe what men tell us; talk to people who are boring; spend £100 on face cream; diet; spend it in the same dreary job; shop for clothes that won t work; put up wallpaper; have a set of rules you can t live up to. Life s Too F***ing Short is here to help us clear away the (Word removed) and start again.

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Review

In print her forthrightness works to hilarious effect. More importantly, she does actually talk a lot of sense. --BIG ISSUE, 4th February 2008

Regardless of your view of JSP, this is a hugely entertaining read from a hugely ballsy woman who, crucially, knows how to laugh at herself and takes no nonsense from anyone ----THE OBSERVER, 20th January 2008

How to live lifee to the full while kicking out the (Word removed), JS-P style - straight from the mouth of the lady herself. **** (out of 5) ----HEAT magazine, 9th February 2008

About the Author

Janet Street-Porter s successful career in the media spans nearly 40 years. Starting as a columnist on the Daily Mail at the age of 21, she then wrote for many national newspapers and magazines including the Observer, the Telegraph, the London Evening Standard, Vogue and Harpers. She edited the Independent on Sunday for two years. She currently writes regular weekly columns for the Independent on Sunday and the Daily Mail, and was short listed as columnist of the year in the 2007 press awards. She helped to launch commercial radio in the UK with a daily show on LBC, and went on to devise and present hundreds of television programmes for ITV, Channel 4 and the BBC. She has won a BAFTA for originality and the Prix Italia for Arts programming. In 2004 Janet wrote and presented a successful one-woman show at the Edinburgh Festival, which then toured the UK. She has written two volumes of memoirs, Baggage and Fallout. She appears in a wide range of television programming, from I m a Celebrity... in 2004, to regular appearances on Question Time and GMTV, Deadline for ITV2 and So you think you can Teach for Five, as well as documentaries for Sky. She has been a regular contributor in four series of C4 s F Word, as well as Grand Designs Live. Last year, her abrasive guide to coping with modern living, Life s Too F***ing Short, was a bestseller. Janet is Vice President of the Ramblers Association, as well as a Trustee of the Science Museum, and in 2009 she was awarded an MA from UCA (University for the Creative Arts).

About this edition

• Publisher: Quadrille Publishing Ltd
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1844005860
• ISBN 13: 9781844005864
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160