Misadventures of a Big Mouth Brit

An eye-opening, shocking and hilarious account of bestselling author Piers Morgan's adventures across the pond

The outrageously indiscreet Piers Morgan has become the ultimate celebrity insider

A heady combination of cut-throat current affairs and celebrity tittle tattle

As entertaining as his previous two diaries

Expect name-dropping galore, Barack Obama fever, lots of laughs and even a visit to the Playboy mansion

Morgan ... spills the beans in a fabulously frank fashion

Piers Morgan worked as a gossip columnist for the Sun before going on to edit the News of the World and then the Daily Mirror, until he was sacked in 2004 when he published photos of British soldiers apparently abusing Iraqi prisoners of war. He has since presented a number of TV shows - including The Dark Side of Fame, You Can't Fire Me, I'm Famous for BBC1 - and written for the Mail on Sunday and GQ. He shot to fame in the US as a judge on the top-rated show America's Got Talent and wowed American audiences on Celebrity Apprentice. He is also a judge on the hit UK series, Britain's Got Talent. Most recently, he presented the documentary travelogue series Piers On..., and hosted the chat show Piers Morgan's Life Stories on ITV1.

Piers has got a new job. He's off to America to be the 'Nasty Brit' judging the show America's Got Talent - surely a role he was made for? And with unprecedented access to people, places and parties on both sides of the pond, he'll get the inside scoop on the world of celebrity Stateside. So what could possibly go wrong? 
 
Well, it's not all plain sailing. Piers finds himself snubbed by the paparazzi and subjected to national ridicule by Alan Sugar. As well as foolishly embarking on a visit to the Playboy Mansion with his girlfriend he also becomes one of the only people to fall off the 'idiot-proof' Segway (George Bush fell off one too). 
 
Somehow though, Piers still manages to get invited to all the best parties. Perhaps because he keeps being mistaken for David Cameron? From chinwags with Naomi Campbell to a cigar-smoking session with Arnold Schwarzenegger; hilarious tête-à-têtes with everyone from Boris Johnson to Cheryl Cole; and many bizarre encounters with the likes of Paris Hilton, Tony Blair and Jay-Z, Piers is his usual candid, honest, loudmouth self as he lifts the lid on Tinsel Town. 
 
With the background cries of 'Please don't embarrass us Dad!' from his sons, the Big Mouth Brit embarks on his hilarious American adventure, and suffers just a few mishaps along the way.

Insider Diaries of Fame, Power and Naked Ambition

Don't You Know Who I Am?

The No.1 bestseller that lifts the lid on the world of celebrity - as Piers tries to become one himself...

Reading this book really is like peering into Morgan's head. But it's a fascinating head - its contents are clever and silly, sharp and gullible, occasionally incredibly funny. I'd say he has another bestseller on his hands.

A typically ribald account of life both making the news and reporting it, as wildly implausible and riotously entertaining as the man himself

An illuminating, very readable study of the essentially hapless, frequently humiliating and often hilarious nature of media stardom today

Piers Morgan was born in 1965. He studied journalism at Harlow College, starting his career in local newspapers and going on to edit his own showbiz column, Bizarre for the Sun. Rupert Murdoch made him Editor of the News of the World in January 1994 and two years later he was headhunted to edit The Mirror, staying there until 2004. He left following a decision to publish photos of British soldiers apparently abusing Iraqi prisoners of war. He has presented two series of Tabloid Tales for BBC2, You Can't Fire Me, I'm Famous, the C4 current affairs show Morgan and Platell, and recently shot to fame in the US as a judge on the top rated America's Got Talent. He is also a judge on the hit UK version, Britain's Got Talent.

'They say you can always remember where you where when pivotal moments happen, such as losing your virginity or Elvis dying. Let me add another to the list: the moment I sang a duet to the the "Macarena" with Timmy Mallett, live to millions of people...' 
 
Sacked from his high-profile job as a national newspaper editor, Piers Morgan dived helplessly into the world of celebrity. But even twenty years of commenting on the lives of the rich and famous couldn't prepare him for the extraordinary world he uncovered... 
 
A riveting, scandelous and brutally honest account of one man's quest for celebrity, Don't You Know Who I Am? lifts the lid on the egos and outrageous behaviour of everyone from Paris Hilton to Cherie Blair, Kate Moss to the legend that is the Hoff.

The Private Diaries of a Scandalous Decade

The Insider

The most talked-about book of the year - now in paperback

A riveting read with splendid anecdotes on almost every page

A compelling read on any level, whether you want to consider the relationship between politics and the press, royal behaviour, the red-top world - or just want a good laugh

Funny and fabulously indiscreet, this is a book that holds up a mirror to the spinning and posturing of our celebrity age ... scurrilously entertaining

One of the most uproarious and indiscreet accounts of public life in recent times

An amusing, revealing and (mostly) true look at all the news that's fit to print, and some that wasn't

One of the best-ever books about journalism

The best account we have so far of what life has really been like in No.10 for the past eight years... I do, on the whole, trust this amazing account. In the first place, his depiction of the three main characters - Mr Blair, Cherie Blair and Alastair Campbell - is consistent with what we already know of them. And, in the second place, it all hangs together. We see these people in moods of rage, self-pity and treachery, and in the round each of them is all too credible

An irresistible read, whether you love him or hate him, are friend or foe, or wouldn't touch the Mirror with decontaminated tweezers. And there is enough arrogant boasting, self-immolation and sweet boyish charm to convert you from one category to another and back again

Hundreds of wonderful tales, some funny, some profound, some just fascinating - Book of the Week

An extraordinary insight into the personality of the Prime Minister

Many books have been written about the character of the Blair era, but this is the most readable and most devastating

If in years to come this book is remembered and consulted, it will be for its vivid evocation of the tawdry atmosphere of the court surrounding the present occupant of number 10

One of the most revealing narratives on the nature of power and the media in modern Britain ...The conspiring of politicians in their own trivialisation is one of the untold stories of our times.  It is time we were told - and Morgan's document is a good start

You couldn't wish for a more scintillating settling of bitter scores

His diaries are hilarious, but within them lies the tale of a cocky young gossip columnist who grew up and found the moral compass that Mrs Blair famously thought he lacked

Enormously indiscreet ... this is the most entertaining book about the culture of celebrity in ages

Fast and furious, juicy and jaundiced, racy and revelatory, scandalous and saucy, witty and wanton...a rollicking read - Paperback of the Week

Fun, very revealing and entertaining. Brilliant!

Red-top rascal tells all through a decade's diary of scoops, scandals and celebs

Shockingly indiscreet ... a compulsive piece of entertainment, and an immensely instructive peek behind the scenes of public life and tabloid journalism ... In keeping with Morgan's editorial style it's blunt and irritatingly moralistic, but also uproarious and admirably bold

Will leave your jaw scraping on the ground. A compelling insight into the rich and famous - *****

Loud, brash and hilarious...there is much here to fill even the most refined with secret guilty delight

The incidents will have you laughing out loud and shocked into incredulity.  This is an irresistible insight into British media and politics

An exhilarating run through the news of the last decade, from the inside ... Morgan describes everything in a deliciously indiscreet style

You will literally not sleep until you've devoured it all

Absolutely astonishing.  I'd highly recommend it

Piers Morgan was born in 1965. He studied journalism at Harlow College, beginning his career in local south London newspapers before being spotted by Kelvin MacKenzie of The Sun and given his own showbiz column, Bizarre. Rupert Murdoch made him Editor of the News of the World in January 1994; he was headhunted two years later to edit The Mirror where he stayed until 2004 when he left following his decision to publish photos of British soldiers apparently abusing Iraqi prisoners of war. He has presented two series of Tabloid Tales for BBC2 and most recently has co-hosted the current affairs show Morgan and Platell on Channel 4.

The Insider dominated the media on publication in March 2005 and instantly became a No.1 bestseller. Not only did it fill thousands of column inches with its revelations about prominent political and showbiz figures, it was critically acclaimed across the broadsheets for its unique and fascinating insight into the worlds of celebrity, royalty, politics and the media. 
 
Piers Morgan was made editor of the News of the World, the UK's biggest-selling Sunday newspaper at the record-breaking age of 28. The decade that followed was one of the most tumultuous in modern times. In a world of indiscreet dinners, private meetings and gossipy lunches, Piers Morgan found himself in the thick of it. His diaries from this remarkable period reveal astonishing and hilarious encounters with an endless list of celebrities and politicians alike: Diana, William, Charles and Camilla; Tony Blair, Cherie, Gordon Brown; Paul McCartney, George Michael and Elton John; Jeremy Clarkson, Paula Yates and Gazza to name just a few. 
 
Entertaining, engaging and compulsive, The Insider was the most talked-about book of 2005, blowing apart every notion we have of politics, media and celebrity.

Piers Morgan

Guns, Gays, God, and George Clooney

Despite many wanting him to fail, Piers Morgan took over from US TV legend Larry King at CNN in 2010 and went on to cover some of the most shocking news events in recent US history, such as the killing of Osama bin Laden, the devastation caused by Hurricane Sandy and horrific shooting rampages including the Newtown school massacre. 
 
In Shooting Straight Piers shares the diaries that he kept in this rollercoaster period of his life. 
 
Thrown right into the maelstrom of the US media, Piers finds himself rubbing shoulders with everyone from Mel Gibson and Charlie Sheen to the US President himself. Not to mention, Oprah, Rod Stewart, Meryl Streep, Woody Allen, Dustin Hoffman, Janet Jackson, Stevie Wonder, Barbra Streisand, Goldie Hawn, the Dalai Lama and Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad… 
 
As Piers gets more and more drawn into commenting on American culture, one issue – gun control – provokes the most incredible and heart-rending response of all, dividing the country dramatically. And, as usual, Piers is in the thick of it.

Piers Morgan

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