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Viv Groskop

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Hampshire, The United Kingdom

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Nonfiction, Humor and Comedy, Self Help

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August 2011

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Viv Groskop is a writer, stand-up comedian and TV and radio presenter. She is the host of the chart-topping podcast HOW TO OWN THE ROOM, featuring women like Hillary Clinton, Margaret Atwood, Sandi Toksvig and Meera Syal talking about power, performance and public speaking. She has hosted book tours for Graham Norton and Jo Brand and is the veteran of four Edinburgh Fringe shows. She has presented BBC Radio 4's Front Row and Saturday Review and appears regularly on TV. She is also a playwright and has had four plays broadcast on BBC Radio 4. Subscribe to Viv's weekly newsletter here for book, TV and film recommendations and loads of great tips on writing creativity and mindset: https://howtoowntheroom.com ...more

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Average rating: 3.78 · 4,558 ratings · 570 reviews · 12 distinct works • Similar authors

	How to Own the Room: Women and the Art of Brilliant Speaking 3.66 avg rating — 2,020 ratings — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Anna Karenina Fix: Life Lessons from Russian Literature 3.96 avg rating — 1,608 ratings — published 2019 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Au Revoir, Tristesse: Lessons in Happiness from French Literature 3.73 avg rating — 407 ratings — published 2020 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lift as You Climb: Women and the Art of Ambition 3.66 avg rating — 228 ratings — published 2020 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	One Ukrainian Summer: A memoir about falling in love and coming of age in the former USSR really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 125 ratings — published 2024 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Happy High Status: How to Be Effortlessly Confident 3.75 avg rating — 88 ratings — published 2023 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	I Laughed, I Cried: How One Woman Took On Stand-Up and (Almost) Ruined Her Life 3.70 avg rating — 80 ratings — published 2013 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How to Own the Room, 10% Happier, Talk Like TED, TED Talks 4 Books Collection Set by Viv Groskop (Goodreads Author), Dan Harris (Goodreads Author) 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Komplekt Samorazvitie po tolstomu + Proshchaj grust 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How to Own the Room & Girls Just Wanna Have Impact Funds 2 Books Collection Set 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“The lesson of Pushkin is: don’t be an idiot. This is ironic, because Pushkin himself more or less died of being an idiot.”
― Viv Groskop, The Anna Karenina Fix: Life Lessons from Russian Literature

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“We spend our whole lives looking for things that are meant to be, hoping that fate will guide us, rather than taking responsibility for our own choices.”
― Viv Groskop, Anna Karenina Fix: Life Lessons from Russian Literature

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“His speaking does not have true conviction or emotion. It uses rhetorical tricks and catchphrases (‘Build a wall!’)”
― Viv Groskop, How to Own the Room: Women and the Art of Brilliant Speaking

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message 2: by Amanda

Dec 30, 2012 02:54PM

Thanks for connecting Viv, nice to meet you :-D

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message 1: by Derick

Jun 15, 2012 02:28AM

Thanks for the connection, Viv! You may like my 2012 debut,a hilarious Irish romcom called 'Dysfunctional Romance!' which has 19 five star reviews on Amazon and over 8,000 followers on Twitter already! see my blog for details:
www.derickhudson.blogspot.com
Kind regards,
Derick