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Comedian Jack Whitehall and his father, Michael, open up the rich and plentiful family lore archives on topics such as Jack’s nanny’s enormous feet, Michael’s lifetime touchline ban from Jack’s prep school and the Whitehall collection of downright weird and eccentric relatives. With family photographs and sketches by Jack himself, the result is an entertaining insight into a hilarious and sometimes bumpy journey of self-discovery and into the unique relationship between a father and a son.
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Jennifer Saunders’ brilliant comic creations have brought joy to millions for three decades. From ‘Comic Strip’ to ‘Comic Relief’, from Bolly-swilling Edina in ‘Absolutely Fabulous’ to Meryl Streep in ‘Mamma Mia’, her characters are household names. This is her funny, touching and disarmingly honest memoir, filled with stories of friends, laughter and occasional heartache – but never misery.
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For more than 30 years, no commentator on Irish sport, politics and culture has been the object of so much love, hatred and fascination as Eamon Dunphy. Now, in ‘The Rocky Road’, Dunphy takes us behind the scenes of a passionate life – from childhood poverty in Dublin to the Football League to the forefront of journalism and debate in Ireland.
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Jeremy Clarkson had a dream: a world where the nonsensical made sense, the idiotic was abolished and the sheer bloody brilliant was embraced. In this book, our hero embarks on a quest to set the world to rights – again.
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In 1971, the author joined the National Theatre as Associate Director under Laurence Olivier. In this book, he recalls the theatrical triumphs and flops, the extravagant dinners in Hall’s Barbican flat with Harold Pinter, Jonathan Miller and other associates, the opening of the new building, and his brave and misrepresented decision to speak out.
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At 26, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother’s death, her family disbanded and her marriage crumbled. With nothing to lose, she made the most impulsive decision of her life: to walk 1,100 miles of the west coast of America – from the Mojave Desert, through California and Oregon, and into Washington State – and to do it alone. She had no experience of long-distance hiking and the journey was nothing more than a line on a map. But it held a promise – a promise of piecing together a life that lay in ruins at her feet.
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In September 2011 Judith Tebbutt and her husband David set out on an adventurous holiday to Kenya. A couple for 33 years, they had first met in Zambia – Africa had played a major part in their life together. After a joyous week on safari in the Masai Mara, they flew on to a beach resort 40 kilometres south of Somalia. And there, in the early hours of 11 September, tragedy struck. Judith was torn away from David by a band of armed pirates, dragged over sea and land to a village in the arid heart of lawless Somalia, and there held hostage in a squalid room, a ransom on her head. There, too, she learned the terrible truth that the responsibility of securing her release now rested with her son Ollie. But though she was isolated, intimidated and near-starved, Judith resolved to survive – walking endless circuits of her nine-foot prison, trying to make her captors see her as a human being.
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‘The Time by the Sea’ is about Ronald Blythe’s life in Aldeburgh during the 1950s. He had originally come to the Suffolk coast as an aspiring young writer, but found himself drawn into Benjamin Britten’s circle and began working for the Aldeburgh Festival. Although befriended by Imogen Holst and by E.M. Forster, part of him remained essentially solitary, alone in the landscape while surrounded by a stormy cultural sea. But this memoir gathers up many early experiences, sights and sounds.
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Comedian, writer and mental health campaigner shows us why and how our minds can send us mad and how we can rewire our thinking, especially through mindfulness, to calm ourselves in a frenetic world.
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These fascinating, never-before-published early diaries of Count Harry Kessler?patron, museum director, publisher, cultural critic, soldier, secret agent, and diplomat?present a sweeping panorama of the arts and politics of Belle Ãpoque Europe, a glittering world poised to be changed irrevocably by the Great War. Kessler’s immersion in the new art and literature of Paris, London, and Berlin unfolds in the first part of the diaries. This refined world gives way to vivid descriptions of the horrific fighting on the Eastern and Western fronts of World War I, the intriguing private discussions among the German political and military elite about the progress of the war, as well as Kessler’s account of his role as a diplomat with a secret mission in Switzerland. Profoundly modern and often prescient, Kessler was an erudite cultural impresario and catalyst who as a cofounder of the avant-garde journal Pan met and contributed
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‘You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed …’ Julian Barnes’s new book is about ballooning, photography, love and grief; about putting two things, and two people, together, and about tearing them apart. One of the judges who awarded him the 2011 Man Booker Prize described him as ‘an unparalleled magus of the heart’. This book confirms that opinion.
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The first nonfiction book-searing, revealing, unforgettable-from one of our most acclaimed writers.
