Perdita Cargill Knihy

It's time for the Year Seven residential trip to Cadabra Castle and new witch Bea can't wait! But with rumours of a ghost haunting the grounds, the class will need to learn some serious teamwork if they're to solve the spooky mystery!

When Bea's dad accidentally enrols her at the local witch school, she has to get to grips with casting spells, like, NOW! But with the Halloween Ball on the horizon, will she be able to master her wand skills in time to WOW?

Geek Girl meets Fame meets New Girl in this brilliantly funny new series!When Elektra is discovered by an acting agent, she imagines Oscar glory can't be far away, but instead lurches from one cringe-worthy moment to the next! Just how many times can you be rejected for the part of 'Dead Girl Number Three' without losing hope? And who knew that actors were actually supposed to be multi-lingual, play seven instruments and be trained in a variety of circus skills?Off-stage things aren't going well either - she's fallen out with her best friend, remains firmly in the friend-zone with her crush and her parents are driving her crazy. One way or another, Elektra's life is now spent waiting for the phone to ring - waiting for callback.Can an average girl-next-door like Elektra really make it in the world of luvvies and starlets?

This is the story of Messalina - third wife of Emperor Claudius and one of the most notorious women to have inhabited the Roman world. The scandalous image of the Empress Messalina as a ruthless and sexually insatiable schemer, derived from the work of Roman historians such as Tacitus and Suetonius, has taken deep root in the Western imagination. The stories they told about her included nightly visits to a brothel and a twenty-four-hour sex competition with a prostitute. Tales like these have defined the empress's legacy, but her real story is much more complex. In her new life of Messalina, the classicist Honor Cargill-Martin reappraises one of the most slandered and underestimated female figures of ancient history. Looking beyond the salacious anecdotes, she finds a woman battling to assert her position in the overwhelmingly male world of imperial Roman politics - and succeeding. Intelligent, passionate, and ruthless when she needed to be, Messalina's story encapsulates the cut-throat political manoeuvring and unimaginable luxury of the Julio-Claudian dynasty in its heyday. Cargill-Martin sets out not to 'salvage' Messalina's reputation, but to look at her life in the context of her time. Above all, she seeks to reclaim the humanity of a life story previously circumscribed by currents of high politics and patriarchy.

Wahnsinn – ich habe eine Filmrolle bekommen! Meine erste Filmrolle! Ich schwebe auf Wolke 7 – jedenfalls bis sich herausstellt, dass »Straker« ein Weltuntergangsfilm ist, bei dem SO viel schiefläuft, dass sich nach kurzer Zeit die gesamte Crew wünscht, die Welt möge WIRKLICH untergehen (am besten schon vor der ersten Szene). Die gute Nachricht ist, dass Archie und ich endlich ein Paar sind. Die Dinge wären jedoch deutlich einfacher, würde er nicht gerade in Transsilvanien einen Film drehen, als Vampirjäger, »umringt von bildhübschen Mädchen« … LG, Elektra xxx --- Ein Buch mit Gute-Laune-Garantie!

Endlich! Elektra hat ihren ersten Film „Raw“ abgedreht (ja, okay, ihre Figur ist nach der Hälfte des Drehs gestorben) und – entgegen aller Erwartungen – DIE Party des Jahres geschmissen (na ja, zumindest bis ihre Mutter aufgetaucht ist und alle rausgeworfen hat). Es läuft also absolut super, auch wenn sie noch nicht so richtig weiß, wie das mit ihr und Archie weitergeht und die Abschlussprüfungen vor der Tür stehen. Außerdem kommt „Raw“ bald in die Kinos, und Elektra stellt fest, dass es ganz schön aufregend ist, einen Film zu promoten. Ein witziges und charmantes Buch über den Traum, Schauspielerin zu werden.