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Ronnie Barker

Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd, 2001

It's good night from him ...
"All I Ever Wrote" is a big book from an immensely talented man - 734 pages containing 229 sketches and plays and 11 poems. A veritable cornucopia of English humour, it's amazing just how many classics of English hunour were penned by Ronnie Barker (under the pseudonym Gerald Wiley) - from "Futtock's End (the near silent film with almost no dialogue) to "Four Candles". A vast majority first ...

Royal Subjects : A Biographer's Encounters

3 reviews
Theo Aronson

Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd, 2000

An Affectionate But Realistic View
Theo Aronson is a well known biographer of European royalty past and present. Royal Subjects is a description in diary form of twenty years or so of contacts with British Royals both well known (The Queen Mother, Prince Charles) and almost unknown (Colonel Sir Henry and the Lady May Abel Smith). Aronson clearly enjoyed meeting these people and likes most of them quite a bit, but he is not blind ...

The Fame Formula: How Hollywood's Fixers, Fakers and Star Makers Shaped the Publicity Industry. by Mark ...
Mark Borkowski

Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd, 2008

The Fame Formula is a gripping study of the forgotten lives, and broken dreams, of the creators of the publicity industrymen who stepped out of the circus life carrying the legacy of P.T. Barnum and applied it liberally to vaudeville and the movies. Starting in the early twentieth century with Harry Reichenbach and Maynard Nottage, whose love of creating bizarre stunts for their clients sometimes outweighed their interest in money, The Fame ...

Mickey Rourke

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Bart Mills

Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd, 1988

OH, MICKEY YOU'RE SO FINE
Imagine my surprise when this out of print book showed up in my mailbox. Why surprised? I was expecting a quicky knock-off paperback (with it's requisite 8 page picture insert) and was pleasantly rewarded with an 80 page trade paperback book with lots of photos (color and b&w). Since this book was published in the U.K. back in 1988, it only covers Mickey's TV and movie work up to 1987'S Barfly ...

Georgette Heyer's Regency England

1 review
Teresa Chris

Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd, 1989

Good book, sloppy editing
If Georgette Heyer did not indeed invent a whole genre of fiction, she certainly brought it both to a mastery and a popularity that sparked a flood of imitations. Her Regency Romances are written with a verve, accuracy and feel for the period that few other writers have equalled. The results of her painstaking research, however, are always used as a backdrop to the narrative, and are taken ...

Stand and Deliver: The Autobiography
Adam Ant

Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd, 2007

The Truth at Last: My Story

3 reviews
Christine Keeler

Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd, 2001

christine keeler; my story at last.
Good light reading and revealing for someone who grew up in that era. The other side of the story.

"Bon Jovi"
Neil Jeffries

Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd, 1996

When I Loved Myself Enough

13 reviews
Kim McMillen, Alison McMillen

Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd, 2001

Wow
When I first received this book, I just openned to a page and ouch, it hit my heart what Ms McMillen wrote. Then I picked a different page to read and again felt that ouch in my heart. What she wrote was so appropriate to how I was feeling for myself, as if she was with me the entire day and wrote words that would help myself be stronger. It's a wonderful book, I ended up buying more to give ...

Living a Life That Matters

17 reviews
Harold S. Kushner

Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd, 2002

Do The Right Thing
Making hard choices gives us personal integrity. And this is pleasing to God as we can see in the story of Jacob wrestling with the angel. I love Rabbi Kushner's interpretation that the angel is not a demon but our own conscience. No amount of money, no success, no fruit of labor is as sweet as making right choices which lead to the lasting (and eternal?) satisfaction that is personal integrity.

You Can't Tell the People

1 review
Georgina Bruni

Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd, 2000

In Depth Investigation Of Britian's Roswell
Gorgina does a good job of this one. This subject has been of keen interest to me for many years now, and having read so many accounts of the Rendlesham case, this one is the most sober account I have so far read. It brings out new accounts from the U.S. Airmen, based at RAF Bentwaters and Woodbridge, in the early eighties. A good investigative account by all means, backed up by new facts. Since ...

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