Cilla

Cilla Black is one of our most bubbly, well-loved television stars, loved by millions of fans around the world, and once again back in the public eye in the light of her shock revelation that she is to leave the hit show Blind Date. Yet the real Cilla remains an enigma - an intensely private woman who has overcome tremendous adversity and overwhelming heartache on her way to the top. Cilla: The Biography is the first-ever intimate portrait of the Liverpool docker's daughter who became a star. This book recounts the setbacks, scandals and heartbreaks of the First Lady of Television.

Douglas Thompson is the bestselling co-author of Christine Keeler's autobiography The Truth at Last, and Madonna: Queen of the World. He has also written ten other significant biographies which have been translated into more than a dozen languages.