Beginners Guide to Acting English

Informationen zum Autor Shaparak Khorsandi is one of the country's finest comedians, having launched herself back in 2006 with her sell out Edinburgh show, Asylum Speaker. Shaparak's career has taken her to all corners of the globe, she has appeared on countless TV & Radio shows including; Live At The Apollo, 8 Out Of 10 Cats, Have I Got News For You, QI, The Graham Norton Show and Friday Night with Jonathan Ross. She is also the author of the bestselling childhood memoir, A Beginner's Guide To Acting English and Nina is Not OK . Klappentext A funny and heartwarming memoir about an Iranian girl growing up in 1980s Britain, now in paperback. Shappi Khorsandi's profile as one of our leading female comics is really growing, and this memoir has much in common with such bestselling books as "The Buddha Of Suburbia, Anita & Me" or "Reading Lolita In Tehran". Zusammenfassung But for five-year-old Shappi Khorsandi all this means is that she must flee, leaving behind a mad extended Iran clan and everything she has ever known. Shappi and her beloved brother Peyvand arrive with their parents in London - all cold weather and strange food - without a word of English.

Product details

• Authors: Shaparak Khorsandi, Shappi Khorsandi, Shappi (Author) Khorsandi
• Publisher: Ebury Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.04.2010
• EAN: 9780091924775
• ISBN: 978-0-09-192477-5
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 126 mm x 198 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Iran, England, HUMOR / General, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, Memoirs, Humour, Autobiography: arts and entertainment, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs