Böcker av Sue Perkins

Immediately prior to her first year at Spires Magic College, Ash discovers her parents adopted her as a toddler. This explains her silver purple hair which sets her apart from her peers. Despite working hard at her studies, the Spires magic seems wrong to her and the maeven consider her style of magic to be alien and some of them try to expel her. Ash is compulsively drawn to the ruined North Spire but students are not allowed anywhere near this ruin. She believes the broken spire holds the answer to her origins, but doesn't want to get thrown out of Spires for breaking the rules.Her boyfriend Orm, another talented student, promises to help her enter the North Spire at the end of their time at Spires, but will Ash's alien magic get her expelled before then and end her dreams of discovering her past?

Discover the woman behind the spectacles in the hilarious, incredibly moving memoir from much loved comedian, writer and presenter Sue Perkins.'Very funny. It seems there are two Sue Perkins: the TV one, who gabbles and pratfalls, and the sensitive one who aches. The first of course, exists to protect the second. They can both write. The first writes comedy, the second tragedy; in this sense, reading her memoir is very like meeting her' Sunday TimesWhen I began writing this book, I went home to see if my mum had kept some of my stuff. What I found was that she hadn't kept some of it. She had kept all of it - every bus ticket, postcard, school report - from the moment I was born to the moment I finally had the confidence to turn round and say 'Why is our house full of this shit?'Sadly, a recycling 'incident' destroyed the bulk of this archive. This has meant two things: firstly, Dear Reader, you will never get to see countless drawings of wizards, read a poem about corn on the cob, or marvel at the kilos of brown flowers I so lovingly pressed as a child. Secondly, it's left me with no choice but to actually writethis thing myself.This, my first ever book, will answer questions such as 'Is Mary Berry real?', 'Is it true you wear a surgical truss?' and 'Is a non-spherically symmetric gravitational pull from outside the observable universe responsible for some of the observed motion of large objects such as galactic clusters in the universe?'Most of this book is true. I have, of course, amplified my more positive characteristics in an effort to make you like me. Thank you for reading.Order Sue Perkins new book, East of Croydon now.Praise for Spectacles'Drama, tears and laughs - Spectacles has got it all. A brilliant, touching memoir suffused with love, it reminds you that life is best lived at wonky angles. I ADORED it' Jessie Burton, bestselling author of The Miniaturist'Very funny . . . It seems there are two Sue Perkins: the TV one, who gabbles and pratfalls, and the sensitive one who aches. The first of course, exists to protect the second. They can both write. The first writes comedy, the second tragedy; in this sense, reading her memoir is very like meeting her' Sunday Times'It's a proper book . . . so well written. Tight & bright & full of inspiration' Chris Evans, Radio 2