Imogen Edwards-Jones Books In Order

Hotel Babylon

‘Something strange occurs to guests as soon as they check in. Even if in real life they are perfectly well mannered, decent people with proper balanced relationships, as soon as they spin through the revolving hotel doors the normal rules of behaviour no longer seem to apply.’ All of the following is true. Only the names have been changed to protect the guilty. All the anecdotes, the stories, the characters, the situations, the highs, the lows, the scams, the drugs, the misery, the love, the death and the insanity are exactly as was told by Anonymous someone who has spent his whole career working in hotels at the heart of London’s luxury hotel industry. However, for legal reasons, the stories now take place in a fictitious hotel known as Hotel Babylon. More than a decade is compressed into a day. Everything else is as it should be. The rich spend money, the hotel makes money and the chambermaids still fight the bellboys over a two pound coin. It’s just another twenty four hours in an expensive London hotel.

Air Babylon

Heard the one about the airline that has introduced ‘corpse cupboards’ on new planes to cope with the number of people who die in the air? Heard the story about the First Class air hostess who got fired for sitting on the face of a passenger during a long haul flight? Heard about the amount of knickers and false teeth that are left behind in the body of the plane? Heard how pissed off stewards put laxatives in your drinks? Heard about the pilot who ran out of runway? Heard of the disabled passengers who miraculously walk again? No? Then you haven’t read Air Babylon. Do you know the best place to have sex on a plane? Do you know how to dress for an upgrade? Do you know that one drink in the air equals three on the ground? Do you know who is checking you in? Who is checking you out? Do you know exactly what happens to your luggage once it leaves your sight? Is it secure? Are you safe? Do you really know anything about the business that you entrust your life to several times a year? Air Babylon is a trawl through the highs, the lows, and the rapid descents of the travel industry. It catalogues the births, the deaths, the drunken brawls, the sexual antics, and the debauchery behind the scenes of the ultimate service industry where the world is divided into those who wear the uniform and those who don’t…

Fashion Babylon

What is fashion? What is fashionable? Who decides what’s in and what’s out? Why is it green one year and blue the next? Why is one little black dress worth five thousand dollars and another worth fifty? Is the catwalk really that catty? What makes a supermodel so super?And a designer too hot to touch? Who is making money? Who owns whom? Who hates whom? And who’s in each other’s pockets? The answers are all to be found in Fashion Babylon. Taking the reader through six months in a designer’s life, it explains how a collection is put together from the objects of inspiration to the catwalk, into the shops and, hopefully, onto the cover of a magazine. It examines who goes to the shows and where they sit…
and whose backside they have to kiss to get there. Narrated from the point of view of an anonymous A list British fashion designer looking to break out across the pond and structured around three of the annual ‘must’ industry events in London, Paris and New York, this irresistible work of reportage goes inside the well cut seams of the fashion world, where women are paid tens of thousands of dollars for simply getting dressed and where a wrong skirt length can cost you your career. Fashion Babylon decodes the markups and the comedowns, the fabulous extremes and the shoddy shortcuts behind one of the most lucrative and secretive businesses in the world. Witty, naughty and packed with celebrity gossip, this book will forever change the way you peruse the racks at Bergdorf’s or flip through the pages of Vogue.

My Canape Hell

This is a satire on celebrity culture glamorama meets cause celeb meets Ab Fab. When journalist Abigail Long gets her own column, she is propelled into a world of celebrity, champagne and canapes. And so begins her final descent into true canape hell.

Tuscany for Beginners

Oh, the dream of escaping to Italy and the nightmare of reality…
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Belinda Smith has found her very own Tuscan valley in the sun, having abandoned a dreary cheating husband and an even drearier English town. Running Casa Mia, her own too, too divine bed and breakfast, everything is coming up sunflowers and olive groves for La Contessa of the Valley. Life couldn t be more perfecto!

Until, that is, the arrival of Lauren a beautiful, feisty Wall Street ball breaker who has the gall to announce her plans to open a new B&B. A place just like Belinda’s only much more glamorous. Even worse, Lauren, whose charmingly calculated smile Belinda recognizes as quite like her own, threatens Belinda s existence as the epicenter of all things ex patriot in the valley.

Have Belinda s fabulous days of ruling supreme in this corner of the world come to an end? Will the carnivorous Lauren consume Belinda s dreams al fresco? Will Lauren s gorgeous son Kyle steal Belinda s lovely, overworked daughter away from home and hearth who will do the cleaning, for God s sake?. War has come to lovely Tuscany let the fur and focaccia fly!