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Best-selling biographer, internationally renowned psychologist, ex-comedienne and mother of four (three teenage girls and Billy Connolly), the extraordinary Pamela Stephenson now adopts a new guise - historian, sailor and circumnavigator of the globe. Pamela follows in the intrepid footsteps of Fanny Stevenson, maverick wife of the even more maverick Robert Louis. They have much in common - a fascination with the South Seas, a thirst for adventure, a fearlessness and great humour in the face of adversity and unpredictable husbands. Illustrated with archival and colour photographs. -
Dave Allen: Carolyn Soutar
$10.00The image of Dave Allen is seared into our minds: seated on a tall chair with a glass of J&B, smoking his Gauloises, a fingertip missing as he tells the most hilarious, irreverent stories. But who was the man behind the image? Having worked with him as his tour manager, Carolyn Soutar was able to see how he behaved both on and off screen. Here she discusses the Irish Catholic upbringing that brought him so much anger, which he was able to turn to humour, how he toured with the Beatles in the sixties and became a huge TV star in the following decades. This biography is the most revealing account of the famously private comedian, whose career began in the sixties but who remained influential to a whole new generation of comics in the 21st century. -
For more than forty years, Frederick Forsyth has been writing extraordinary real-world novels of intrigue, from the groundbreaking The Day of the Jackal to the prescient The Kill List . Whether writing about the murky world of arms dealers, the shadowy Nazi underground movement, or the intricacies of worldwide drug cartels, every plot has been chillingly plausible because every detail has been minutely researched. But what most people don’t know is that some of his greatest stories of intrigue have been in his own life. He was the RAF’s youngest pilot at the age of nineteen, barely escaped the wrath of an arms dealer in Hamburg, got strafed by a MiG during the Nigerian civil war, landed during a bloody coup in Guinea-Bissau (and was accused of helping fund a 1973 coup in Equatorial Guinea). The Stasi arrested him, the Israelis feted him, the IRA threatened him, and a certain attractive Czech secret police agent—well, her actions were a bit more intimate. And that’s just for starters... Illustrated with black and white photographs. -
At midnight on 14 August 1947, the Union Jack began its final journey down the flagstaff of Viceroy's House, New Delhi. A fifth of humanity claimed their independence from the greatest empire in history - but the price of freedom was high, as a nation erupted into riots and bloodshed, partition and war. This acclaimed account of the dying days of the British Raj and the drama played out between Lord and Lady Mountbatten, Mahatma Gandhi, Nehru and Jinnah inspired the major film The Viceroy's House. Illustrated with black and white archival photographs. -
Clarke looks back at the early days of the science fiction field, offering some humorous anecdotes and insightful observations of the Golden Age notables of the genre. He reminisces on Astounding Science Fiction (now Analog) and its effect on him as a schoolboy; it's half Clarke's two-pronged memoirs and half chronicle of his scientific/engineering career. Told with humor and humility and throughout, his lifelong love of learning shines through. Cover art by Chris Consani. -
Wells intended this volume to be straightforwardly, almost as a novel is read. It gives, in a most general way, an account of our present knowledge of history, shorn of elaborations and complications. Its special end is to meet the needs of the busy general reader who 'wishes to repair his faded or fragmentary conception of the great adventure of Mankind.' This edition was revised from the 1922 edition and prepared b y Professor G.P. Wells (H.G. Wells' son) and Raymond Postgate. Five new chapters have been added and the original maps are redrawn, with two new maps added. Cover: Detail from Prismes électriques by Sonia Delaunay. -
Kevin McLeod is once more amazed by the ingenuity and determination of the families who set out to build their dream homes. From an enormous loft-style apartment hidden underground in the middle of a field to a prototype factory-made kit home built in just four weeks, this series features extraordinary builds from: The isle of Wight; The Cotswolds; Woodbridge; Stowmarket; Ipswich; Lizard Peninsula; West Cumbria and the Lake District. -
An incredible voyage of discovery from the frozen summit of Ben Nevis to the white sands of the Isle of Scilly; and from the rain-drenched tip of western Ireland to the dry expanses of East Anglia. Alan descends a Yorkshire waterfall twice as tall as Niagara Falls, climbs one of the highest mountains in Scotland, forages with red squirrels in Formby, takes a trip back in time to find hippos roaming Trafalgar Square, a huge forest from Land's End to John O'Groats and prehistoric reptiles paddling Britain's tropical seas. Here is the evolution of the British landscape and wildlife through dramataic geological, cliatic and human change, and an examination of the land today with fresh challenges and responsibilities for us to face. -
Down the back. The throne room. Auntie Lou. The structure that supported the choko vine. It had plenty of names and euphemisims, but it was, at rock bottom, the dunny. This is an Australia wide selection, including those to be found in remote areas of the tropical north, offshore islands and the well-loved common and garden favourites. There's over 80 studies, captured in all aspects and settings with notes on characteristics and identification...such as the historic nine-holer, built by William Cox, holes-in-the-wall and the 'squats' of the old Dubbo jail. Illustrated with colour and black and white photographs.
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