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A Short Walk from Harrods

Author : Dirk Bogarde
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1448208319
Total Pages : 282 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 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Short Walk from Harrods

Author : Phyllis McGinley
Publisher : Viking Adult
ISBN 13 : 9780670642373
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (423 download)

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Download or read book A Short Walk from Harrods written by Phyllis McGinley and published by Viking Adult. This book was released on 1951-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Short Walk from Harrods

Author : Dirk Bogarde
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780745177083
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book A Short Walk from Harrods written by Dirk Bogarde and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Short Walk from Harrods

Author : Dirk Bogarde
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (939 download)

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Download or read book A Short Walk from Harrods written by Dirk Bogarde and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This part of the author's autobiography describes events in an area of France which is now altered almost beyond recognition. This is his tribute to a time and area that he greatly loved. It is also a tribute to the memory of a valiant and courageous man who loved it with an equal passion.

Dirk Bogarde

Author : John Coldstream
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 1780221746
Total Pages : 640 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 640 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.

Cleared for Take-Off

Author : Dirk Bogarde
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1448208270
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (482 download)

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Download or read book Cleared for Take-Off written by Dirk Bogarde and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-01-15 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1997, Cleared for Take-Off is the seventh and final volume of Dirk Bogarde's best-selling memoirs During his many reconnaissance missions in Europe and the Far East, the young Bogarde experienced the terror of enemy attack and the horror of its aftermath, together with the intense camaraderie and bitter humour of the battlefield. He also felt, like countless others, a feeling of utter hopelessness at the war's end, when these youthful, but hardened comrades-in-arms were dispersed to find their feet in a traumatised world. Less than a year after demob, Bogarde found himself starring in his third feature film with car, chauffeur and five-storey house in Chester Row. He had somehow 'arrived' in the movies.

Dirk Bogarde

Author : David Huckvale
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476678030
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Dirk Bogarde written by David Huckvale and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2019-10-22 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English actor Dirk Bogarde dominated the films in which he starred. Exploring the tension between his matinee idol appeal and his own closeted sexuality, this book focuses on the wide variety of genres in which he worked, and the highly charged interaction between his life and his roles. Beginning with an expose of gay life in post-war Britain and his relationship with partner/manager, Anthony Forwood, each chapter explores Bogarde's performances by genre--his juvenile delinquent movies, his military roles, his contribution to Basil Dearden's overtly gay thriller Victim (1961), and his "outsider" roles in such films as The Servant (1963), The Fixer (1968) and Despair (1978). Bogarde's "camp" cinema, espionage thrillers and various roles as artists are also examined, along with the misogyny of the Doctor films and his later television work.

For the Time Being

Author : Dirk Bogarde
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1448208297
Total Pages : 316 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 316 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.

Murder Being Once Done

Author : Ruth Rendell
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
ISBN 13 : 0375704884
Total Pages : 244 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 244 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.

The Spellmount Guide to London

Author : James Beardon
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752497472
Total Pages : 299 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 299 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?

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.

Singularity 1 Book 3 Red

Author : James E. Jackson
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1493118986
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (931 download)

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Download or read book Singularity 1 Book 3 Red written by James E. Jackson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-10-26 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following his salvation of the Homo Colossus species, and several other even more endangered species, Wil established an empire that became known as the Celestian Empire after a long naming competition sponsored by Wils and Jens ship, Firefly who turned out to be canny investor. Numerous species on hundreds of planets participated in the competition, with the ten million dollar prize being won by a teen-aged human girl from the original Earth. The Empire grew powerful under Wils strong leadership. Wil kept his hareem, including his sister Jen, and his great aunt Ruth and his grandmother Glee and his favorite mother, Rika. He had two hundred five mothers in all. The harem was extended by five additional female giants, Stephanie, Emmanuelle, Constanza, and Arabella and Brigitte. This took the total in numbers to seven hundred twenty five, but the gain from the giants was greater because each was nine meters tall, and each was dedicated to Wil alone. Their brother, Michael, was one meter taller. Not all of the concubines were Wils mothers. Wil made few more girls. Instead, the Imperial Palace rang to the sound of growing boys and girls fathered by him at first, and then by his male offspring. He imported some new boys, humans and Gideonese, but mostly HCs. Amber repaid Aisha, and to some extent Wil, by showing Aisha the secrets of her double vagina. With a specialized womb for boys and another for girls, Aisha at last had real children, of both sexes, fathered by Wil. The last seventeen confiscated concubines joyously took service contracts which pledged lifetime bonds to Wil, although not so strongly as the giants pledge. Male giants were too big to penetrate other species.

Germs

Author : Richard Wollheim
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 168137496X
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (813 download)

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Download or read book Germs written by Richard Wollheim and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant, sinuous exploration of family and childhood memory by one of the most original British philosophers of the twentieth century. Germs is about first things, the seeds from which a life grows, as well as about the illnesses it incurs, the damage it sustains. Written at the end of his life by Richard Wollheim, one of the major philosophers of the late twentieth century, the book is not the usual story of growing up and getting on but a brilliant recovery and evocation of childhood consciousness and unconsciousness, an eerily precise rendering of that primitive, formative world we all come from in which we do not know either the world or ourselves for sure, and things—houses, clothes, meals, parents—loom large around us, as indispensable as they are out of our control. Richard Wollheim’s remarkably original memoir is a disturbing, enthralling, dispassionate but also deeply personal depiction of a child standing, fascinated and fearful, on the threshold of individual life.

The Book of Lost Things

Author : John Connolly
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743298853
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)

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Download or read book The Book of Lost Things written by John Connolly and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2006-11-07 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 12-year-old boy, mourning the death of his mother, takes refuge in the myths and fairytales she always loved--and finds that his reality and a fantasy world start to meld.

The Brother's War

Author : Florence O'Neill
Publisher : Booktango
ISBN 13 : 1468944169
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (689 download)

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Download or read book The Brother's War written by Florence O'Neill and published by Booktango. This book was released on 2014-02-15 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Brother's War is made up of eight fictional short stories that take place in the setting of the Spanish Civil War. Lives destroyed by war and the struggle of the survivors to overcome their losses, rebellion against intolerance and injustice, and the aftermath of civil war that lasted for decades all come to life in The Brother’s War. The warmth and immediacy of these accounts reach out and touch you in a way that facts alone cannot. These stories will speak to you about courage and endurance and the time it takes for the wounds of war to heal. When you read these extraordinary stories you will feel the passions, heartbreaks and triumphs from a time gone by that still plays out in today’s modern world.

Rick Steves' Great Britain

Author : Rick Steves
Publisher : Rick Steves
ISBN 13 : 1612386806
Total Pages : 1114 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (123 download)

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Download or read book Rick Steves' Great Britain written by Rick Steves and published by Rick Steves. This book was released on 2014-02-11 with total page 1114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel TV host Rick Steves' candid, humorous advice will guide you to good-value hotels, B&Bs and restaurants in the big cities and small villages of Great Britain, as well as transportation tips and which sights are worth your time and money. Original.

Rick Steves England

Author : Rick Steves
Publisher : Rick Steves
ISBN 13 : 1641710071
Total Pages : 1153 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (417 download)

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Download or read book Rick Steves England written by Rick Steves and published by Rick Steves. This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 1153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hike the wild moors of Dartmoor, explore the scenic bays of Cornwall, and dive into history at Hadrian's Wall: with Rick Steves on your side, England can be yours! Inside Rick Steves England you'll find: Comprehensive coverage for spending a week or more exploring England 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 the ancient and mysterious Stonehenge to cozy corner pubs How to connect with local culture: Catch the premier of a new musical, chat with fans about the latest football match, or take high tea in a classic hotel Beat the crowds, skip the lines, and avoid tourist traps with Rick's candid, humorous insight The best places to eat, sleep, and relax over a pint Self-guided walking tours of lively neighborhoods and incredible museums Detailed neighborhood maps for exploring on the go Useful resources including a packing list, a phrase book of British slang, a historical overview, and recommended reading Over 900 bible-thin pages include everything worth seeing without weighing you down Complete, up-to-date information on London, Windsor and Cambridge, Canterbury, Dover, Brighton, Portsmouth, Dartmoor, Cornwall, Penzance, St. Ives, Penwith Peninsula, Bath, Glastonbury, Wells, Avebury, Stonehenge, Salisbury, Oxford, the Cotswolds, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwick, Coventry, Ironbridge Gorge, Liverpool, Blackpool, the Lake District, Yorkshire, Durham, and more Make the most of every day and every dollar with Rick Steves England. Spending just a few days in the city? Try Rick Steves Pocket London.