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Author
Publisher
Cape Breton University Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Celtic music scholar and musician Liz Doherty is no stranger to Cape Breton music - in fact, she has made a study of it. Doherty's exposure to, and research of, the island's music tradition was the germination for this compendium on the Cape Breton fiddle: its history, its people, the tunes, the recordings. The fiddle music of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, has its own sound, artistic standards, performance practices and etiquette. The Cape Breton...
Author
Publisher
Waverley
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Entertaining, lively, informative and direct, this autobiography by Bill Anderson about his life and times as the editor of one of the UK's most successful Sunday newspapers chronicles a special view of Scotland, and 'The Sunday Post' itself, from the late 1930s to the 1980s. The memoir was written in 1982 while Anderson was recovering from a near-fatal car accident. The manuscript remained undiscovered until 2014 when Bill's wife Maggie came across...
Author
Publisher
Michael Joseph
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
In a career that has spanned six decades, Sir Tom Jones has performed with almost every major recording artist, from Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis and Sinatra, to Robbie Williams, Van Morrison and Jessie J, across every imaginable genre, from rock and pop to country, blues and soul. The one constant throughout has been his unique musical gift and unmistakable voice. In this autobiography, Tom will revisit his past, both personal and professional, exploring...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
With a good job in sales and marketing and a nice house in Manchester that he shared with his wife and kids, John Bishop began to take stock of his life as he faced up to the big '4-0'. But instead of spanking a load of cash on a car that would have made him look like a senior stylist at Vidal Sassoon, he stumbled onto a pathway that ultimately lead him to become one of the nation's best loved comedians. This book explains how John went from dreaming...
Author
Publisher
Harper Element
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
When 18-year-old Mary Hazard touched down in post-war Putney to begin her nurse's training, she could never have known that it was the beginning of a colourful career that would still be going 60 years later - one of the longest ever serving NHS nurses. This is her story.
Author
Publisher
Harper Element
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
All seems tranquil as newly qualified Health Visitor Sarah motors into a small Kentish hilltop village in her new green mini. She's barely out of the car when she's called to assist the midwife with a bride who's gone into labour in the middle of her own wedding reception. And so her adventures begin.
Author
Language
English
Description
In this witty, candid and utterly fascinating memoir, Baroness Trumpington looks back on her long and remarkable life. The daughter of an officer in the Bengal Lancers and an American heiress, she was born in 1922 into a world of privilege and luxury. But her mother lost most of her inheritance in the Wall Street Crash and the family retrenched from Mayfair to Sandwich, in Kent, where her mother became a succesful society interior decorator.
Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
When Oliver Sacks was twelve years old, a perceptive schoolmaster wrote in his report: 'Sacks will go far, if he does not go too far'. It is now abundantly clear that Sacks has never stopped going. From its opening pages on his youthful obsession with motorcycles and speed, 'On the Move' is infused with his restless energy. As he recounts his experiences as a young neurologist in the early 1960s, first in California and then in New York, it becomes...
Author
Publisher
Blink
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
'2sides' is set against the backdrop of this year's World Cup in Brazil where Rio will be presenting and commentating. With over 400 first team appearances and countless trophies to his name, the Manchester United defender has witnessed first-hand many changes in the football industry. As well as his personal story, this book will offer an insight to the modern day player and the training and discipline needed.
12) The second half
Author
Publisher
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
As part of a tiny elite of football players, Roy Keane has lived and experienced what very few people could ever imagine. His status as one of football's greatest stars is undisputed, but what of the challenges beyond the pitch? How did he succeed in coming to terms with life as a former Manchester United and Ireland leader and champion, reinvent himself as a broadcaster, and cope with the psychological struggles this entailed? This book is a personal...
13) Becoming Julie
Author
Publisher
Fledgling
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Julie Clarke was born a boy in the 50s in central Scotland. From a very early age she knew she was different from other boys, but growing up in the 50s and 60s was not conducive to discussing feelings of gender difference and for many years Julie didn't even know there was a medical term for her dilemma: she was transsexual. 'Becoming Julie' details how Julie Clarke spent many years battling her demons. As a man she married and became a firefighter...
15) War stories
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Having joined the BBC as a trainee in 1984, Jeremy Bowen became a foreign correspondent four years later. He had witnessed violence already, both at home & abroad, but it wasn't until he covered his first war that he felt he had arrived. This is his story, examining his desire to become a war reporter & how the nature of the job has changed.
Author
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Before Diana Mosley (nee Mitford) became a social pariah, she was the principal member of the Bright Young Things set in London's 1920s and 30s high society. As the young wife of Bryan Guinness, heir to the Guinness family brewing empire, she lived a gilded life until fascist leader Oswald Mosley turned her head. This biography adopts a new approach in exploring the life of Diana Mitford, removing her from her famous family and fascism to look at...
Author
Publisher
Pen & Sword Military
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Always marked out for high rank, Robert Laycock came into his own when selected to raise 8 Commando, a new 'crack' unit early in the Second World War. After training, 7, 8 and 11 Commandos were sent to the Middle East in early 1941 and all became Layforce under Laycock's command. Layforce was disbanded after Crete fell. Laycock took part in the abortive raid on Rommel's HQ. As commander of the Special Service Brigade, Laycock played an important role...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
In Mary's family, money is scarce. Clothes are hand-me-downs, holidays are a church day out to Hastings and meals are variations on a potato theme. But these are good times with everything revolving around the force of nature that is Theresa, Mary's mum. When tragedy unexpectedly blows this world apart, however, a new chapter in her life opens up. She takes to the camp and glamour of Harrods window dressing like a duck to water, and Mary, Queen of...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
In this volume, biographer Michael Bloch turns his attention to the men of British politics who were forced to lead double lives. Outwardly conforming to the requirements of heterosexual middle class society, many twentieth-century British politicians had illicit, clandestine and often thrilling queer sex lives. Some sought relationships with men of their own class, others with 'rough trade' and some confined themselves to fleeting, anonymous encounters...
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