How to be Famous

Why be a nobody when you can be famous? Johanna Morrigan (AKA music journo 'Dolly Wilde') has a problem - her unrequited love, singer-songwriter John Kite, has become an unlikely heartthrob to the Britpop masses. He has become an unlikely Number One pin-up. And what's more painful than unrequited love? Unrequited love with someone the whole world wants too! Johanna decides to use everything she's observed about the perils of fame to write a genius monthly column for Britain's coolest magazine, The Face. After all, she knows a bit about this cooler-than-thou-elite - she lives in Camden; has interviewed 3/4 of Blur already - and Liam Gallagher once bummed a fag off her! Plus she's now part of fierce rising indie maverick Suzanne Banks of The Branks' inner circle. She even had a one-night stand with Jerry Sharp, a famous comedian, although that was mainly because 'it would make a great anecdote'. But with her own star rising fast now, that one looks like it's going to come back to seriously haunt her... Caitlin Moran's riotous new novel HOW TO BE FAMOUS - sequel to the Sunday Times Number One bestseller HOW TO BUILD A GIRL - is a filthy, funny coming of age tale set in the boozy, hedonistic London of Britpop, where fame is not always the shortcut to happiness that it promises to be.