Going Gently

This unique book is a fully illustrated biography of a very modern, some would say unprecedented, British royal romance between the man who will, one day, be king and a beautiful, middle-class English girl. It is also the story of a love that will, arguably, help shape the future of the monarchy as a 21st century institution.

In August 2008 Jade Goody received the shattering news that she had cervical cancer. She was only 27 years old. But with her usual strength of character, Jade was determined to beat the disease and carry on with life as normal with her two little boys. But in February 2009, Jade received the tragic news that any mother dreads to hear – the cancer had spread and was untreatable. Covering her initial diagnosis while appearing on Celebrity Big Brother in India, their emotional last Christmas as a family, her magical wedding to her partner Jack Tweed and her dying wish to be christened with her boys, Jade’s heart-breaking diary of her final months is set against a backdrop of flashbacks to her difficult early years and her rise to fame in the Big Brother house.

Provoked by the events of 9/11 and the us reaction, Jakob Arjouni has written a clever and satiric novel focusing  on a state intelligence officer and the workings of mass hysteria