Bold Reads by the Babylon Series
Tuesday, July 6, 2010It’s always interesting to take a peek behind the scenes, don’t you think? Imogen Edwards-Jones takes us on a special backstage pass to witness the “happenings” behind the glamourous outlook of the airline craft, a luxurious hotel, a fashion designer’s life, the wedding industry and finally the pop sensation world of a star!
Air Babylon by Imogen Edwards-Jones RRP: RM35.90 Price: RM17.90
Air Babylon is a trawl through the highs, the lows, and the rapid descents of the travel industry. It catalogues the births, the deaths, the drunken brawls, the sexual antics, and the debauchery behind the scenes of the ultimate service industry – where the world is divided into those who wear the uniform and those who don’t…
Hotel Babylon RRP: RM49.90 Price: RM17.90
Everything you read in “Hotel Babylon” is true. Only the names have been changed to protect the guilty. All the anecdotes, the characters, the highs, the lows, the drugs, the scams, the misery and the debauchery are exactly as experienced by Anonymous – someone who has spent his entire career working in some of the most luxurious hotels in London. More than a decade is compressed into twenty-four hours.
Fashion Babylon RRP: RM35.90 Price: RM17.90
Taking the reader through six months in a designer’s life, it explains how a collection is put together — from the objects of inspiration to the catwalk, into the shops and, hopefully, onto the cover of a magazine. Narrated from the point of view of an anonymous A-list British fashion designer looking to break out across the pond and structured around three of the annual “must” industry events in London, Paris and New York, this irresistible work of reportage goes inside the well-cut seams of the fashion world, where women are paid tens of thousands of dollars for simply getting dressed and where a wrong skirt length can cost you your career.
Wedding Babylon RRP: RM69.90 Price: RM19.90
Now, in the bestselling Babylon tradition, Imogen Edwards-Jones lifts the lid on the excesses of the wedding industry. The scams which inflate the prices of everything from flowers to cakes to marquee hire. And the wedding disaster stories of high jinks at the altar and disastrous low comedy in the speeches. The potential for things to go horribly, horribly wrong is never higher than at a wedding. Hilarious, shocking and thoroughly entertaining, “Wedding Babylon” is proof positive that the dream day is never far from becoming a nightmare…
Pop Babylon RRP: RM69.90 Price: RM19.90
How do you make it as a pop star? Packed with scandal and intrigue, Pop Babylon” “takes you to the dark heart of one of the world’s most wicked and secretive industries. Tracking a year in the making of a brand new boy band, Pop Babylon” “is pure, unadulterated reading pleasure. Disgraceful, revelatory and great down-and-dirty fun, it’s essential reading for anyone who wants to know what it really takes nowadays to be top of the pops.