Confessions of a Ghostwriter
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Confessions of a Ghostwriter

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Confessions of a Ghostwriter

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HE'S WRITTEN MORE THAN 80 BOOKS. HE'S SOLD MILLIONS OF COPIES ACROSS THE WORLD. HE IS THE MAN BEHIND A DOZEN SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 HITS, SPENDING OVER 120 WEEKS IN THE BESTSELLER CHARTS.

BUT YOU PROBABLY HAVEN'T HEARD OF HIM.

Andrew Crofts is a ghostwriter, an author for hire, employed to write other people's stories – everyone from film stars to footballers, hitmen to hookers, world leaders to abused children. Ghostwriters are confidantes to the most famous people on earth, and they help give a voice to some of the most vulnerable and inspiring. They dip their toes into every corner of life, and inhabit worlds that are both shadowy and glamorous. They are the ones who write the books that top the bestseller charts.

Andrew is one of the world's most sought-after ghosts. In this book he confesses the truth about ghosting; how it feels to be an invisible author, to be given first class tickets to travel anywhere and permission to ask whatever questions you like. Confessions of a Ghostwriter gives an unrivalled peek into private worlds that few others gain admission to.

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Information

Year
2014
Print ISBN
9780007575404
eBook ISBN
9780007575411

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright
  3. Dedication
  4. Contents
  5. Introduction
  6. An eight-foot transsexual hooker in the living room
  7. A million books in an African warehouse
  8. Discovering ghostwriting
  9. The story of Stumpy
  10. The glamour model versus the ‘arbiters of taste’
  11. Secrets and confidentiality agreements
  12. Glimpses of hell
  13. That splinter of ice
  14. Suddenly you’re history
  15. Abused children find a voice
  16. Sacked by a glove puppet
  17. A debt to Dale Carnegie
  18. The first questions a ghostwriter should ask
  19. ‘You need to come to Haiti …’
  20. Tyrants and other interesting monsters
  21. Lunching with Imelda Marcos
  22. Afternoon tea with Mrs Mubarak
  23. Filthy lucre
  24. Big Brother is watching and listening
  25. A real-life Shades of Grey
  26. A gift for a billionaire
  27. Rich men’s toys
  28. The soporific brothel
  29. An opportunist hack
  30. A book goes global
  31. Revenge can be bitter
  32. The Princess speaks
  33. Confessions of my infidelity
  34. How can anyone write four books a year?
  35. Waking up in the orphanage
  36. Under armed guard in Lahore
  37. The tentative handling of firearms
  38. The faulty memories of rock gods
  39. Soldiers’ tales
  40. Win a ghost of your own
  41. Selling your story to a magazine
  42. Calls from out of the blue
  43. I am an addict
  44. Evangelists of technology
  45. ‘Mr Harris would like to quote you …’
  46. A confession of conceit
  47. Guilt and self-doubt
  48. The awesome power of a tear on daytime television
  49. Christina Foyle, queen of all she surveyed
  50. A new breed of stars
  51. The reality of reality television stars
  52. A genuine talent
  53. A real media circus
  54. Culture clashes and other bad marriages
  55. Clubs for gentlemen and players
  56. A Year in Provence unleashes an avalanche
  57. Jim Martin’s island
  58. A Russian in hiding
  59. Education at Madame Jojo’s
  60. From the lips of an Iraqi child
  61. I love supermarket bookshelves
  62. Confessions from the British Library
  63. ‘You may just have to get a job …’
  64. The forgotten rules of grammar
  65. A forgotten weekend in academia
  66. A little lone wolf
  67. The greatest living playwright
  68. The selling power of celebrities
  69. The soap star who came to stay
  70. Not everyone can be Hamlet
  71. Discovering Jay Gatsby
  72. ‘The Principessa is throwing a party …’
  73. A black BMW behind King’s Cross
  74. Tales of courtesans and mistresses
  75. Deathbed delivery
  76. The mid-book blues
  77. Addiction to charts
  78. Tales from below stairs
  79. A confession of cowardice
  80. Writing in two voices at once
  81. Just a single copy
  82. Family secrets
  83. One for the bank vaults
  84. On behalf of my client
  85. A movie star and her entourage
  86. A hit-man comes to lunch
  87. Writers as parasites
  88. Ordinary people who do extraordinary things
  89. Leaving London
  90. Soft times
  91. A pain in Baguio
  92. Whoring myself again
  93. The suppression of the ego
  94. The Pope’s secret mistress
  95. A writer’s pit
  96. Who moved my nuts?
  97. ‘Everyone says it would make a great movie’
  98. The strange delusions of world leaders
  99. Authors regain a little self-control
  100. Standing on the past
  101. The creation of Steffi McBride
  102. A gathering of ghosts
  103. Meeting the daughter of God
  104. My father’s departure by tractor
  105. And still I know nothing
  106. Acknowledgements
  107. Confessions Series
  108. About the Publisher

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