Books
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One Chance
by Terroll Lewis
"It’d be easy for me to go back to my old life, but I know where that old life leads you. You’re either behind prison bars or six feet underground."
Terroll Lewis has lived a crazy life. Growing up on Brixton's Myatt's Field estate, he was surrounded by gang culture, and like so many other young people, he found it hard to resist the lifestyle. By the time he was 15, he had already joined a gang, been stabbed, shot at, and was selling drugs.
A chance to play professional football offered a way out, but the lure of an easier life — the promise of girls, money, and cars — led him back to South London and the notorious OC, or Organised Crime, gang.
Violence and drug dealing were the norm in OC, but Terroll has long since turned his back on this world, though the association with OC endures through the ink on his skin.
These days Terroll's giving something back; Block Workout, a street-gym he founded in his old neighbourhood, gives young men an opportunity to follow a different road to the one he took during his adolescence — helping them develop their minds as well as their bodies — and the chance to live a better life.
Cabin Fever: “The Sizzling Secrets Of A Virgin Air Hostess”
by Mandy Smith
Shortlisted for The People’s Book Prize 2015.
BUCKLE UP FOR THE RIDE OF YOUR LIFE...
Mandy Smith spent twelve years strutting down the aisles as one of Richard Branson’s sexy and sassy flight attendants. In Cabin Fever she tells the good, the bad and the downright naughty tales of life in the air.
From dealing with projectile vomit and celebrity tantrums to sipping Manhattans and shopping in New York, this is riotous good fun. Set against a backdrop of exotic locations, the cast of zany characters includes everyone from Courtney Love to Sir Richard himself.
Mandy’s jet-setting job allowed her to search the globe for Mr Right, which led her to many steamy love affairs. She even joined the Mile High Club, though not with a clumsy quickie in the toilet but a leisurely bonk in a Cessna. She’s no Virgin, and in-flight entertainment has never been so risqué!
‘This fun read dishes on what it's like to live with your head literally in the clouds - from in-flight fist fights to sneaky sex at Luna Park during a Sydney stopover.’
Cosmopolitan
Born Ganster
by Jimmy Tippett Jnr
A fast-paced and funny, honest and uncompromising, this is the story of one of London’s most connected crime bosses.
Jimmy Tippett Junior is from gangster aristocracy. Son of the legendary boxer and South London heavy, Jimmy Tippett, he has lives his life rubbing shoulders with the most recognizable faces in British organized crime, including Ronnie and Reggie Kray. Jimmy is a natural raconteur who has led an incredible life as a career criminal; from violent gang warfare to affairs with well-known models and porn stars, he’s seen and done it all. But as he descended into the underworld, mired in cocaine and paranoia, his operation began to come off the rails. Jimmy even made Daily Mail headlines in February 2013 when busted for a £250,000 jewel heist.