Hotel Babylon
  • Published: 1 September 2005
  • ISBN: 9780552151467
  • Imprint: Corgi
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $32.99

Hotel Babylon

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30 Nov 2011
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1 Sep 2005
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A journey through the entrails of the luxury hotel business

'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.
  • Published: 1 September 2005
  • ISBN: 9780552151467
  • Imprint: Corgi
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $32.99
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About the author

Imogen Edwards-Jones

Imogen Edwards-Jones is the bestselling author of Hotel Babylon, Air Babylon and Fashion Babylon, as well as novels such as My Canape Hell and Shagpile. She lives in west London with her husband and their young daughter.

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Also by Imogen Edwards-Jones

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Hospital Babylon
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Praise for Hotel Babylon

Informative, disgusting and utterly fascinating

Closer

Reading Hotel Babylon is like mainlining Popbitch

Metro

Fascinating

Daily Telegraph

Explosive

Sun

Makes shock revelation after shock revelation

Daily Mail

An eye-opener...with plenty of tips for the frequent traveller

The Economist

Five stars for excess... amusing and appalling

Sunday Telegraph

A 5-Star read. Imogen Edwards-Jones takes readers on a brilliant romp that's just as luxurious as the presidential suite and definitely a whole lot funnier

Candace Bushnell
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