Ever since being brought up by The Beatles, Frankie Boyle has been a tremendous liar. Join him on his adventures with his chum Clangy The Brass Boy and laugh as he doesn’t accidentally kill a student nurse when a party gets out of hand.

I don’t think anyone can have written an autobiography without at some point thinking “Why would anyone want to know this shit?” I’ve always read them thinking “I don’t want to know where Steve Tyler grew up, just tell me how many groupies he f**ked!”‘ So begins Frankie’s outrageous, laugh-out loud, cynical rant on life as he knows it.

From growing up in Pollokshaws, Glasgow (‘it was an aching cement void, a slap in the face to Childhood, and for the family it was a step up’), to his rampant teenage sex drive (‘in those days if you glimpsed a nipple on T.V. it was like porn Christmas’), and first job working in a mental hospital (‘where most evenings were spent persuading an old man in his pants not to eat a family sized block of cheese’), nothing is out of bounds.

Outspoken, outrageous and brilliantly inappropriate, Frankie Boyle, the dark heart of Mock the Week, says the unsayable as only he can. From the TV programmes he would like to see made (‘Celebrities On Acid On Ice: just like Celebrity Dancing On Ice, but with an opening sequence where Graham Norton hoses the celebrities down with liquid LSD’), to his native Scotland and the Mayor of London (‘voting for Boris Johnson wasn’t that different to voting for a Labrador wearing a Wonder Woman costume’), nothing and no one is safe from Frankie’s fearless, sharp-tongued assault.

Sharply observed and full of taboo-busting, we-really-shouldn’t-be-laughing-at-this humour, My Shit Life So Far shows why Frankie Boyle really is the blackest man in show business.

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Paul O’Grady, apart from being one of Britain’s best loved entertainers, is a classic example of reinvention, as At My Mother’s Knee demonstrates. The young Liverpool entertainer, an altar boy from Irish Catholic Birkenhead, becomes the acid-tongued and outrageous drag queen Lily Savage, and moves from gay pubs to national television, creating something of a British comic institution en route (O’Grady’s caustic drag character was a world away from safer predecessors such as Danny La Rue). But O’Grady (like other comic performers such as John Cleese) realised that comic creations can have a limited shelf life, and reinvented himself as ‘Paul O’Grady’, coming out from behind the false breasts and towering wigs as a toned-down (but still camp), more audience-friendly TV presenter (wisely, he retained the abrasive voice and a Scouse accent that could be cut with a knife).

At My Mother’s Knee and Other Low Joints is an entertaining autobiography from someone who really does have a life that is worth writing about. Gossipy, sharp and colourful, the cast of characters in Paul O’Grady’s life includes rogues and rascals galore, all of whom are evoked here with great comic skill. O’Grady was variously a boxer, a civil servant, a conman and even a cat burglar – all of these failed careers are on display here, as is a surprisingly pungent picture of the Liverpool nightclub scene. When so many showbiz autobiographies these days are written by people who have a barely had a life outside of their fame, it’s refreshing to encounter one by somebody whose story would be interesting even if he were not a major TV star. –Barry Forshaw

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Don’t forget to try Waterstones

The American Gardener provides over 150 pages of helpful gardening how to information, and tips that will help you grow plants with ease without them dying like they did on me!

Even if you’re a professional gardener, you’ll find many tips to help better your growing success!

This ebook has a retail price of $37, which many would say is a small price to pay for the wealth of information it contains. Here at the Soopa Store we believe the information should be more readily available after all, gardening is not an inexpensive hobby.

So, we found a place that is selling it not for $37…not $27…not even $17!! We’re sorry if you bought your copy of The American Gardener somewhere else because at the Gardening Soopa Store can you buy a copy for $7!!

Here’s What You’ll Find In The American Gardener:

* Choosing the right location on your property for growing plants. You’ll find in depth information on slope of your land, and what spot is best for growing successfully.

* Preparing the soil properly to provide nutrition for healthy plants.

* Fencing techniques for your garden. I LOVE this section. The author provides humorous techniques for using hawthorn trees as fencing, to keep troublesome lads from stealing their fruits and vegetables! You do not need to spend hundreds for a chain link, wooden or brick fence. Use hawthorn trees and with a little love and time you’ll have a fence that will make your neighbors green with envy!

* Designing, or laying out, your garden so that it’s pleasing to the eye yet functional as well.

* You’ll learn how to make hotbeds, so that you can start your vegetables earlier in the season and have edible produce as many as 15 days earlier than normal! This can be a moneymaker if you sell produce. Be the first in your neighborhood to have fresh green tomatoes and watermelons!

* Learn the benefits of operating a hobby greenhouse, and how it can be beneficially to your household.

* Learn about true seeds and the soundness of seed. You’ll learn how to test seed before you plant them, to determine if you have good seed or bad. Some seed will not grow if it’s bad, and by using a simple technique you can throw out the bad instead of laboring with planting them only to find no lovely sprouts growing where they were sowed.

* Learn proper methods for saving and preserving seed. I find this the most fun of gardening! I now save seed regularly and have a yard full of beautiful blooms from seeds I have saved and sown.

* Learn proper sowing methods to improve your seeds germination rate, and to ensure healthy plants. Proper spacing and depth can mean success or failure in the garden!

* American Gardener provides proper transplanting methods, to ensure your plants survival when moving from one area to another. This is the chapter that covers the information I was looking for, to ensure my Japanese Maples survival. I now have two Japanese Maples growing successfully in my yard, and what beauty they both bring!

* Cultivating your garden properly and methods for tilling, trenching and sowing to ensure your gardens success.

* Learn propagating methods so that you can grow many more plants form just one stock plant. Learn propagating from cuttings, by grafting, by using stock tress, by budding and by layering. All of these are easy and fun methods that you and your family are sure to enjoy!

* There is a nice section on growing grapes in minimum space while producing so many grapes that it’ll make your mouth water!

* Learn how to successfully grow 81 different vegetables and herbs, 26 tasty fruits and nuts and the most popular flowers and shrubs with the most gorgeous blooms!

You are sure to love the information, guidance and tips provided in American Gardener!

The American Gardener is available for the incredibly low price of $7, a $30 discount on the suggested retail price. To get your copy, visit the Gardening Soopa Store.

Another great site for everyone interested in gardening is www.myGardening411.com which you can easily spend hours finding out all manner of information, hints and tips; from starting a garden, growing indoors and to the joys of organic and hydroponic vegetable growing. What we really like is the fact that as well as informative articles there are literally hundreds of videos to watch which we’re sure will help you avoid any confusion. It certainly helped us and our strawberries this year!

What if 2 people who’ve made hundreds of thousands of dollars promoting other peoples products told you everything they know for under $25.

Would you be interested?

Well – that’s the reality with a new product by the creators of Build A Niche Store (also known as BANS) called:

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They’ve spent the last 6 months going over, detailing and then refining their own method for making money in this way and have packaged all of this knowledge up into a 9 step guide which illustrates how you can make more than a good salary, even build a 6 or 7 figure business without ever creating content websites over 100 pages.

Having made money in this way for over 4 1/2 years and having helped thousands do the same through their development and support of Build A Niche Store- these guys know what they’re talking about.

If you want to know what they know – jump on this one.

For under $25 it’s probably the best make money online product of 2009.

You can view the presentation and access the guide at:

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You can now find a wide selection of Rachael’s cook books including the ever popular 30 Minute Meals together with cooking related accessories at Amazon so now you too can prepare great tasting food, on a budget, quicker than the pizza delivery scooter can get to your house!  Why not have a look at what’s in stock in the Rachael Ray Cook Book Store today.

In my mind a good wine is simply one that you can enjoy without sucking in your cheeks as if you had just sucked on a lemon. This can easily be £5 wine from the supermarket or a £500 vintage from a specialist wine merchant and I do believe that’s where this class distinction comes into play, it is assumed that a good wine has to be expensive. This is a notion I do not buy into, it is true however that by and large you have a better chance of drinking a consistently good wine when you’re prepared to spend a few pounds more than the supermarket own brand special. That said I have drunk some very poor wine costing in excess of £100 a bottle!

So, why all this verbiage I hear you cry? Well, I wanted to tell you about a little wine tasting soiree I was invited to earlier this month that was sponsored by Penfolds. It’s fair to say that Penfolds are arguably one of the better known New World wine producers and they also seem to have a reputation, unfairly I might add, for being expensive. Now, it’s true they may not make many wines that you’ll pick up for £3.99 but they do make some of the most consistently delicious wines around and have been doing so more or less since they were founded by Dr Christopher Penfold in 1844.

The event was the first in a series of events entitled Penfolds Vintage Years presents. The premiss is simple, a guest speaker is invited along to share with the audience their vintage year in business and Penfolds selects a handful of wines from around that year for everyone to sample. The venue for the inaugural event was The Hospital Club which is one of London’s many private members clubs and the speaker was John Caudwell; who chose 2006 as his Vintage Year, the year he sold his group of companies for an eye watering £1.46 billion, in cash!

John was a very engaging speaker who gave us a synopsis of his life growing up in Shelton, Staffordshire before progressing to the point where he could sell the fruits of his hard work for a tidy sum. Despite his immense wealth, John is very much involved with charity work and heads the charity Caudwell Children that he founded in the 1990′s. It’s a fantastic organisation which helps a great many children, including those of a friend of mine so as you can imagine, being in the audience was quite a treat as I have heard only good things about him.

Speaking of treats, I can’t forget the Penfolds wines! There were eight wines for tasting and it was very difficult to pick one over another. We were very fortunate to not only sample the Bin 28 Kalimma Shiraz from 2006 but also the 1990 offering which, when tasted directly after the other, really allowed you to taste how a good wine just gets better with time. I now have to figure out how to build myself a cellar so I can start laying down my wines but truth is, I don’t think I have the patience or will-power to leave a bottle of wine for that amount of time!

The wines were billed as premium but in all honestly I’d say that was more about quality than price, which was not what you might think. Starting at a very reasonable £8.99, 80% of those tasted are priced at under £12 a bottle while the most expensive, the delicious RWT Shiraz was a bargain at £47. This was a wine I would certainly consider buying a few bottles of to hide away for 10 years or so as it was obvious it’s going to go from a fantastic wine to an amazing wine in that time although Penfolds suggest it will peak between 2012 & 2030 so I may need to buy a case so I have enough bottles to test over the years!

As if the talk by John Caudwell and the opportunity to sample some fine wines was not enough, Penfolds also saw fit to let me have a copy of the most recent edition of The Rewards of Patience which they publish every five years. It’s a fascinating read which includes tasting notes for nearly every wine Penfolds has ever produced. What’s more you can download a digital copy of The Rewards of Patience for use on your computer free of charge!

My understanding is these events will happen 4 times a year, presumably they will evaluate the first one to see if it is worthwhile and it would seem to me to be so. We had good wine, an entertaining guest speaker and the venue was perfect with very helpful and attentive staff. All in all it was a most enjoyable evening so, should you have the opportunity to attend a Penfolds Vintage Years event don’t hesitate to go, you’ll enjoy it immensely.

You place product listings in the eBay marketplace, buyers bid, you pay your eBay seller fees and what you have left is your profit margin… that is so last season!

There is another, more profitable way, to build a business which still revolves around eBay but which doesn’t involve you selling a single thing in the eBay marketplace. Curious? Then read on…

This “other way” is based on the eBay affiliate program and a great tool which makes entry into this opportunity not only possible but also super easy. This tool is called “Build A Niche Store” or BANS to those in the know

Now if you don’t know – an affiliate program enables you as an individual internet entrepreneur to promote the products of a company in exchange for a commission on all sales that you refer. You are basically operating as an internet middleman and connecting internet browsers to particular products and companies through you own network of websites and marketing methods.

If we return to the eBay affiliate program, eBay actually invites you to promote all of the product listings in the eBay marketplace and in exchange for your efforts will pay you up to 75% of the revenue they make from each sale you refer plus up to $35 for each new active eBay member you refer.

You can have a read about the eBay.com affiliate program here

What this means is that you can earn up to three quarters of eBay’s revenue simply for connecting people to the products listed in the eBay marketplace.

Not only do you get to partner with the best branded marketplace in the world, you also get access to and control over ALL of the products listed in this marketplace. The eBay product inventory becomes YOUR product inventory and yet you do NOT have to stock items, deal with customers, organize shipping or process refunds.

You are no longer limited to selling only those products which you can buy and sell for a profit margin. You can choose ANY niche market and promote those eBay products relevant to your chosen niche outside of the eBay marketplace, funnelling targeted traffic through to eBay and into your own affiliate commissions.

Golf clubs, sewing kits, laptops, dog collars, diamond rings, Florida real estate…

If you know eBay you know how BIG it is – there are NO limits.

At this point you might be thinking – well this sounds interesting but in reality is there any money in it? Well, here’s the shocker – eBay’s top affiliates make over 1 million dollars a month. That’s right… 8 figures a year without stocking, selling or shipping a single thing!

Now eBay does provide some basic free tools to help you succeed as an eBay affiliate and build an affiliate business BUT it has been the development of a tool outside of eBay that has really opened this up as a legitimate business opportunity.

The tool, as I mentioned earlier, is called “Build A Niche Store” and what it enables you to do is build eBay affiliate websites targeted to any eBay niche you want. These act as the medium through which you funnel targeted visitors to eBay.

Here’s an example of a store selling Clarice Cliff Pottery – Clarice Cliff eBay Affiliate Website

As you can see, it’s a professional looking website containing all of those eBay products related to their target niche inside a searchable store format, each of which automatically contains your eBay affiliate id.

These stores then automatically update as new products are listed for sale and old listing expire from the eBay marketplace and the software has built in development features which enable you to create new store pages, add content to these pages, create content pages, modify your template etc etc.

Basically, in the space of about 10 minutes (once you are familiar with how the software works) you can create a fully functional eBay affiliate website targeted to the niche market of your choice. Make no mistake, your first attempt might seem a little ‘ugly’ but once you’ve played around a bit and tinkered with the settings there will be no stopping you!

Your store content is all search engine friendly which will provide the foundation for attracting targeted traffic from the search engines and you can then use the development features to attract more targeted visitors which will in turn mean more eBay affiliate commissions.

It really is a brilliant concept and the guys behind the project are great. I regularly log on to the member forum which you get lifetime access to when you purchase the product and let me tell you, it’s second to none, if you have a question, no matter how stupid it might seem, within a few hours, someone will reply with an answer or a solution.

Build A Niche Store comes with a step by step user manual which will walk even the most technically inexperienced through setting up their eBay affiliate website, 9 professional template layouts which can be customized (from inside your admin panel) to match your target niche, lifetime member forum access, comprehensive product support and possibly most importantly – an UNLIMITED domain license which means you can build as many of these niche websites as you want for the small one time fee.

Think about how many niches eBay caters to! How big could your eBay affiliate business be?! This product gets Mr Omneo’s full recommendation – YOU should check it out today…

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