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A Short Walk from Harrods

Author : Dirk Bogarde
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1448208319
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (482 download)

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Download or read book A Short Walk from Harrods written by Dirk Bogarde and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01-15 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: _______________ 'The autobiography comes full circle - appropriately enough, because this is a book in which people come to terms with the past, make peace with inner demons, learn to say goodbye to loved ones and become sensitive, caring human beings' - The Independent _______________ First published in 1993, A Short Walk from Harrods is volume six of Dirk Bogarde's best-selling memoirs. Forced to return to London because of his manager and his partner's rapidly deteriorating health, Bogarde learned to re-adapt to life in the west London neighbourhoods that groomed him as an aspiring young actor. With his fame fading and his descent into old age, the entire process had become rather difficult to endure. He writes of stalking the streets like an 'apologetic turtle' and avoiding society, announcing that he would, from then on, only do 'matinees' because he is too tired to go out in the evenings. Although this memoir finds Bogarde at his most vulnerable, he retains the lucidity and charm that makes his writing so enjoyable. As ever, he expresses a deep sentimentality that ensures no detail goes unnoticed or unfelt.

A Gentle Occupation

Author : Dirk Bogarde
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1448206774
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (482 download)

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Download or read book A Gentle Occupation written by Dirk Bogarde and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-10-28 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1980, this is Dirk Bogarde's first novel. In the uneasy aftermath of WWII, a group of ordinary British soldiers and their families find themselves stationed as peacekeepers at an outpost in the Java Sea. Whilst attempting to return the island to Dutch control, they are subject to violent attacks by the locals who want their freedom. As the Empire crumbles, the island is plunged into chaos and violence amidst a nationalist uprising. Selfishness, sex, greed, fear and revenge, all play their part; though so too do the finer instincts of love, loyalty and concern. At times gloriously funny, never sitting in judgement, Dirk Bogarde portrays mankind's fallible, complex humanity as the thin skin of conventional behaviour, tautened in the corrosive atmosphere of Southeast Asia, gradually begins to split.

Ever, Dirk

Author : Dirk Bogarde
Publisher : Phoenix House
ISBN 13 : 9780753825891
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (258 download)

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Download or read book Ever, Dirk written by Dirk Bogarde and published by Phoenix House. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Dirk Bogarde (1921-1999) was known principally as the star of more than sixty films and a critically acclaimed author. To a privileged few, however, he was a prolific, stimulating and treasured correspondent." "This selection of his letters opens as he and his companion Anthony Forwood start a new life on the Continent, from where Bogarde writes extensively to - among others - the director Joseph Losey, the critic Dilys Powell, the publisher Norah Smallwood, and the authors Penelope Mortimer and Kathleen Tynan. In more than one case, we have an insight into 'a kind of love affair without the carnality' - the description he gave to his epistolary relationship with the American 'Mrs X', which was the basis of his eighth bestseller, A Particular Friendship (1989)." "Collected here, his letters represent an alternative autobiography, covering three decades. On display are the qualities familiar to those who knew the private Bogarde: acute observation, a laser-like intelligence, an easily-provoked waspishness, an aversion to the politically correct, a directness which could wound and offend, a robust compassion for the needy, a relish for the striking metaphor, and a catastrophic disdain for correct spelling and punctuation. As clouds gather over the Provencal idyll, forcing a return to London, his confidences grow more and more poignant. But the incisive humour survives."--BOOK JACKET.

Backcloth

Author : Dirk Bogarde
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1448208238
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (482 download)

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Download or read book Backcloth written by Dirk Bogarde and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-01-15 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ______________ 'Desperately moving' - The Daily Telegraph First published in 1986, Backcloth is volume four of Dirk Bogarde's best-selling memoirs Filling the gaps left between his previous memoirs, as well as highlighting new episodes, Backcloth explores the patterns of pleasure and pain that have made up Bogarde's extraordinary life. Based on personal letters, notebooks and diaries and covering many aspects of a celebrated life, we share experiences from his family home in Hampstead through to his farmhouse retreat in Provence. This memoir highlights the people, emotions and experiences that made him into the man loved by so many. Written with all the honesty, wit and intelligence that made Bogarde such a popular writer, Backcloth is both eloquent and touching.

Murder Being Once Done

Author : Ruth Rendell
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
ISBN 13 : 0375704884
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (757 download)

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Download or read book Murder Being Once Done written by Ruth Rendell and published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard. This book was released on 1999-03-30 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young girl is murdered in a cemetery. And Wexford's doctor has prescribed no alcohol, no rich food and, above all, no police work. When a young girl's body is found in a London cemetery and the local police, under the command of Wexford's nephew, are baffled, Wexford decides to brave his doctor's wrath and the condescension of the London police by doing a little investigating of his own. A compelling story of mysterious identity and untimely death, Murder Being Once Done is Rendell at her most sublime. With her Inspector Wexford novels, Ruth Rendell, winner of the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Award, has added layers of depth, realism and unease to the classic English mystery. For the canny, tireless, and unflappable policeman is an unblinking observer of human nature, whose study has taught him that under certain circumstances the most unlikely people are capable of the most appalling crimes.

There's a Spider in This Book

Author : Claire Freedman
Publisher : Macmillan Children's Books
ISBN 13 : 9781509830787
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book There's a Spider in This Book written by Claire Freedman and published by Macmillan Children's Books. This book was released on 2019-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There's a spider in this book. Are you brave enough to take a look?Eric the spider can't understand why people scream and run away from him. He only wants to say hello. But Fluffy the cat wants to eat Eric, so he's hiding. It's up to the reader to find Eric on every spread and maybe finally catch a glimpse of him with the surprise lift-the-flap ending!A funny and engaging story written by internationally bestselling author, Claire Freedman, and brought to life by Mike Byrne's hilarious and colourful illustrations.

An Orderly Man

Author : Dirk Bogarde
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 144820819X
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (482 download)

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Download or read book An Orderly Man written by Dirk Bogarde and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01-15 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ________________ 'Absorbing... his gift for dialogue is exceptional' - The Observer ________________ First published in 1983, An Orderly Man is volume three of Dirk Bogarde's best-selling memoirs. After completing work on Visconti's Death in Venice, the celebrated actor seeks a refuge from 20 years of 'continual motion'. This dream of a peaceful retreat materialises itself in the form of a neglected farmhouse in the South of France. However, before he is rewarded with the calm he craves, he is forced to endure the relative evils of dying olive trees and the rampaging mistral. In this pursuit of the tranquil, Bogarde manages to portray the simplest of issues in the most delicate and humane way. This volume also covers the years in which Dirk Bogarde gave some of his finest acting performances and began his career as a gifted writer, imposing order on a rich and varied life.

Other Names for Love

Author : Taymour Soomro
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374604665
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (746 download)

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Download or read book Other Names for Love written by Taymour Soomro and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2022-07-12 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A charged, hypnotic debut novel about a boy’s life-changing summer in rural Pakistan: a story of fathers, sons, and the consequences of desire. At age sixteen, Fahad hopes to spend the summer with his mother in London. His father, Rafik, has other plans: hauling his son to Abad, the family’s feudal estate in upcountry, Pakistan. Rafik wants to toughen up his sensitive boy, to teach him about power, duty, family—to make him a man. He enlists Ali, a local teenager, in this project, hoping his presence will prove instructive. Instead, over the course of one hot, indolent season, attraction blooms between the two boys, and Fahad finds himself seduced by the wildness of the land and its inhabitants: the people, who revere and revile his father in turn; cousin Mousey, who lives alone with a man he calls his manager; and most of all, Ali, who threatens to unearth all that is hidden. Decades later, Fahad is living abroad when he receives a call from his mother summoning him home. His return will force him to face the past. Taymour Soomro’s Other Names for Love is a tale of masculinity, inheritance, and desire set against the backdrop of a country’s troubled history, told with uncommon urgency and beauty.

Superkid

Author : Claire Freedman
Publisher : Scholastic UK
ISBN 13 : 1407171550
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Superkid written by Claire Freedman and published by Scholastic UK. This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wish you could beat any bully and make broccoli disappear? Then make a date with Superkid. He may look like an ordinary schoolboy, but don't be fooled! He's super-fast, super-brave and he has x-ray vision. He can petrify pirates and make vegetables vanish. Does he sound at all like you? A heroic rhyme by the super-funny author of 'Aliens Love Underpants'. Need a great read? Superkid is here to save the day!

For the Time Being

Author : Dirk Bogarde
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1448208297
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (482 download)

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Download or read book For the Time Being written by Dirk Bogarde and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-01-15 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: _______________ 'Such a companionable writer you just don't want to let him go' - The Times _______________ First published in 1998, For the Time Being brings together Dirk Bogarde's published work outside of his novels and autobiographies. In 1988, Dirk Bogarde returned from two idyllic decades in France to live in England, due to his partner's serious illness. Shortly afterwards, the then literary editor of the Daily Telegraph, admiring the 'lucid frankness' of Bogarde's memoirs, invited him to review some books for the newspaper. This collection includes the famous article 'A Short Walk from Harrods', which Bogarde wrote for the Independent on Sunday soon after returning to London. In it he describes what it feels like to walk among familiar ghosts and to dine with those he considers 'the living dead'. A momentous review of three Holocaust books is accompanied by an article in which he describes the extraordinary postbag he received from its readers. In another piece which had a profound impact, he gives forceful vent to his support for euthanasia. It stands as a testimony to a wonderfully varied life, a wide range of interests and sympathies, and a remarkable gift for writing.

Dirk Bogarde

Author : John Coldstream
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 1780221746
Total Pages : 661 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book Dirk Bogarde written by John Coldstream and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2011-09-08 with total page 661 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Biographies only tend to be definitive until the next one comes along, but there's no danger of Coldstream's erudite, moving analysis ever being superseded' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY. As an actor Dirk Bogarde was a Rank contract artist and matinee idol who became a giant of the intellectual cinema, working on films such as Death in Venice, The Servant and Providence. Fiercely protective of his privacy, and that of his partner of 40 years, he left England in the 1960s to live abroad, where he carved a second career for himself as a bestselling author. Although Bogarde destroyed many of his papers, John Coldstream has had unique access to his personal archives and to friends and family who knew him well. The result is a fascinating biography of a complex and intriguing personality.

Oops-a-Daisy!

Author : Claire Freedman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781589253988
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (539 download)

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Download or read book Oops-a-Daisy! written by Claire Freedman and published by . This book was released on 2006-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With Mama's warm, steady gaze and patient smile, she conveys to readers that parents are with their children every step of the way---even when those steps may be tentative. And, in the book's final pages, when Daisy finally hops, skips and jumps, the happiness that radiates from the tip of her floppy ears to the bottoms of her paws proves that persistence really does pay off.

The Sleepy Way Home to Bed

Author : Claire Freedman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781848952782
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (527 download)

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Download or read book The Sleepy Way Home to Bed written by Claire Freedman and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Little Hare is full of energy at the end of the day, so his mother takes him for a walk through the woods where they meet other animals. The sights and sounds of nature finally make him sleepy enough for bedtime.

The Spellmount Guide to London

Author : James Beardon
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752497472
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)

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Download or read book The Spellmount Guide to London written by James Beardon and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2013-11-04 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the lead up to and over the course of the Second World War, London was a city transformed as it simultaneously became the front line and the command centre of Allied operations. The scale and speed of the city’s transformation has been unparalleled in London’s history as the government requisitioned buildings and defences were built while bombing wrought devastation across the city, changing it forever. This book will guide the reader, as a virtual tourist – or a real one – around war-time London.Buildings that had a specific war time use or have a link to an important event that occurred during the war are revealed, along with the often secret activities, known only to a select few at the time, of the organisations who occupied them. Buildings used as air raid shelters, iconic buildings damaged by enemy bombing and how London itself changed is all brought to life. Clear maps make this a user-friendly guide for the London explorer and the fascinating background information will enthrall the virtual tourist. Selfridges was still a shopper’s paradise during the war – but what did the emporium hide in the basement?

Cuddle Bear

Author : Claire Freedman
Publisher : Koala Books
ISBN 13 : 9781742760223
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Cuddle Bear written by Claire Freedman and published by Koala Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you need cuddles, cheer-up hugs, or snuggle times to share? Then Cuddle Bear is made for you-a hug-you-happy Bear! Meet Cuddle Bear, the unforgettable hero with hugs for everyone!

Rick Steves London 2020

Author : Rick Steves
Publisher : Rick Steves
ISBN 13 : 1641711728
Total Pages : 752 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (417 download)

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Download or read book Rick Steves London 2020 written by Rick Steves and published by Rick Steves. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the sacred stones of Westminster Abbey to the top of the London Eye, the city is yours to discover with Rick Steves! Inside Rick Steves London 2020 you'll find: Comprehensive coverage for spending a week or more exploring London Rick's strategic advice on how to get the most out of your time and money, with rankings of his must-see favorites Top sights and hidden gems, from Trafalgar Square and the Tower of London to where to find the best tikka masala or fish and chips Connect with local culture: Catch a show in Soho, take afternoon tea, or have a pint of English ale with Londoners in a pub Beat the crowds, skip the lines, and avoid tourist traps with Rick's candid, humorous insight The best places to eat, sleep, and relax with a Pimm's Cup Self-guided walking tours of lively neighborhoods and world-class museums like the British Museum and the Victoria & Albert Day trips to Windsor, Cambridge, and Stonehenge Detailed neighborhood maps and a fold-out city map for exploring on the go Useful resources including a packing list, popular British slang, a historical overview, and recommended reading Over 600 bible-thin pages include everything worth seeing without weighing you down Make the most of every day and every dollar with Rick Steves London 2020. Spending just a few days in the city? Try Rick Steves Pocket London.

Ever, Dirk

Author : John Coldstream
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 0297856200
Total Pages : 1329 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (978 download)

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Download or read book Ever, Dirk written by John Coldstream and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2011-09-08 with total page 1329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hitherto unpublished Dirk Bogarde - the best of his marvellous letters The success of John Coldstream's bestselling biography of Dirk Bogarde demonstrates that the interest in one of Britain's leading actors, memoirists and novelists does not diminish, even though it is a decade since his death. Bogarde was a secretive man, who destroyed many of his own papers and diaries. Fortunately, the recipients of his letters treasured them, enabling John Coldstream to bring together this fascinating collection of hitherto unpublished material. Bogarde wrote to each correspondent according to the nature of the friendship, but invariably he was frank, gossipy, funny and often malicious. The joy of writing, particularly as he grew older and chose to live in France, was never far away. The letters display the qualities familiar to those who knew the private Bogarde: acute observation, laser-like intelligence, impatience with the foolish, compassion for the needy, a relish for the witty metaphor, and a catastrophic disdain for correct spelling and punctuation. Above all, to read his letters is to hear him talk, and no conversation with Dirk Bogarde was dull. Recipients included the film director Joseph Losey, Bogarde's first publisher Norah Smallwood, the film critic Dilys Powell, and the novelist Penelope Mortimer.