Please do not under any circumstances try to find me. I have gone forever. I have joined the circus. You do not understand me. You are not listening to me. I do not need O levels where I am going. I am going to join the circus. I have gone. This is how Gerry Cottle's book (published by visionpaperbacks) starts and yesterday was the book presentation in Covent Garden (Many thanks for the invite, Konstantin!) at the Theatre Museum.  And what a show it was! Instead of just the usual boring signing and reading, Gerry and his publisher had a proper circus show going. And free drinks. It was fab. The only thing missing were the elephants. Now go and buy the book.  Gerry Cottle, Confessions of a Showman
Gerry Cottle, a stockbroker's son, ran away to join the circus when he was just 15 and soon married into Britain's oldest circus dynasty. In time he was the owner of the biggest circus in the world until his growing cocaine addiction led to his arrest and bankruptcy. He recovered, and, ever the showman, went on to make millions with the first ever non-animal circus, the Moscow and Chinese State circuses, and the Circus of Horrors.   
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