Experienced

'Clever, sexy and joyful. I loved it' BETH O'LEARY 'A fizzing roller-coaster of a rom-com. The sexiest book you'll read all year and the most heartening’ CAROLINE O'DONOGHUE ‘A very relatable take on love that will pull at your heartstrings’ RED Bette is in love, for the first time in her life, and everything is perfect. That is, until her girlfriend Mei suggests they go on a break, so that Bette can catch-up on all the dating she missed out on in her twenties, before she came out. And it’s fine! All Bette needs to do is have lots of casual sex with lots of hot women and then she can return to Mei more ready to settle down. More experienced . What could go wrong? But as Bette throws herself headfirst into a dating odyssey she never could have anticipated –sometimes cringingly disastrous, sometimes completely thrilling – she realises that the best things in life are those you just can’t plan for…especially when it comes to love and heartbreak. Experienced is a sexy, witty, and heartfelt debut about figuring out what – and who – you really want. What readers are saying about Experienced … ‘An absolutely perfect romcom’ ‘More bonking than Jilly Cooper’ ‘384 pages of pure joy and heartbreak’ ‘Phenomenal! Fun, sexy, big recommend’ ‘I feel bereft now I’ve finished’

'Clever, sexy and joyful. I loved it' BETH O'LEARY 'A fizzing roller-coaster of a rom-com. The sexiest book you'll read all year and the most heartening’ CAROLINE O'DONOGHUE ‘A very relatable take on love that will pull at your heartstrings’ RED Bette is in love, for the first time in her life, and everything is perfect. That is, until her girlfriend Mei suggests they go on a break, so that Bette can catch-up on all the dating she missed out on in her twenties, before she came out. And it’s fine! All Bette needs to do is have lots of casual sex with lots of hot women and then she can return to Mei more ready to settle down. More experienced . What could go wrong? But as Bette throws herself headfirst into a dating odyssey she never could have anticipated –sometimes cringingly disastrous, sometimes completely thrilling – she realises that the best things in life are those you just can’t plan for…especially when it comes to love and heartbreak. Experienced is a sexy, witty, and heartfelt debut about figuring out what – and who – you really want. What readers are saying about Experienced … ‘An absolutely perfect romcom’ ‘More bonking than Jilly Cooper’ ‘384 pages of pure joy and heartbreak’ ‘Phenomenal! Fun, sexy, big recommend’ ‘I feel bereft now I’ve finished’

Jimi Hendrix road manager and confidante Eric Barrett breaks five decades of silence, revealing what it was like to live inside the rock legend's orbit - from Woodstock to the Isle of Wight, through a Toronto drug bust and the private moments when Hendrix let his guard down - set against the backdrop of a transatlantic rock 'n' roll career shaped in Britain . . . a rock odyssey for the ages. With 16 pages of photos - many never seen before. EXPERIENCED is an insider's account of Jimi Hendrix at the moment when Britain stood at the center of his world. Eric Barrett, Scottish-born road manager, fixer, and trusted confidant-was with Hendrix from 1968 until his death in 1970, witnessing the final, volatile years of a career shaped, tested, and defined on British soil. It was the UK that first recognized Hendrix's genius, and it was Britain where he found creative footing and renewal alongside British bandmates Mitch Mitchell and Noel Redding, whose playing helped define the sound of the Jimi Hendrix Experience. Barrett takes readers inside London clubs and hotels, Soho bars, BBC studios, and the Royal Albert Hall, where performances veered between transcendence and chaos. He captures a Hendrix rarely seen, nervous before British crowds and afraid that the country that had once embraced him might be moving on. The narrative builds toward the Isle of Wight Festival in August 1970, Hendrix's final UK appearance and one of the most mythologized concerts in rock history. Barrett's account ditches legend for the exhausting realities of technical failures, physical decline, flashes of brilliance, and the emotional toll of an unraveling European tour.

Jimi Hendrix road manager and confidante Eric Barrett breaks five decades of silence, revealing what it was like to live inside the rock legend's orbit - from Woodstock to the Isle of Wight, through a Toronto drug bust and the private moments when Hendrix let his guard down - set against the backdrop of a transatlantic rock 'n' roll career shaped in Britain . . . a rock odyssey for the ages. With 16 pages of photos - many never seen before. EXPERIENCED is an insider's account of Jimi Hendrix at the moment when Britain stood at the center of his world. Eric Barrett, Scottish-born road manager, fixer, and trusted confidant-was with Hendrix from 1968 until his death in 1970, witnessing the final, volatile years of a career shaped, tested, and defined on British soil. It was the UK that first recognized Hendrix's genius, and it was Britain where he found creative footing and renewal alongside British bandmates Mitch Mitchell and Noel Redding, whose playing helped define the sound of the Jimi Hendrix Experience. Barrett takes readers inside London clubs and hotels, Soho bars, BBC studios, and the Royal Albert Hall, where performances veered between transcendence and chaos. He captures a Hendrix rarely seen, nervous before British crowds and afraid that the country that had once embraced him might be moving on. The narrative builds toward the Isle of Wight Festival in August 1970, Hendrix's final UK appearance and one of the most mythologized concerts in rock history. Barrett's account ditches legend for the exhausting realities of technical failures, physical decline, flashes of brilliance, and the emotional toll of an unraveling European tour.