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Sophie From Romania: A Year of Love and Hope with a Rescue Dog Rory Cellan-Jones (67-76)
A Year of Last Things: Poems By Michael Ondaatje (54-62)
With A Year of Last Things , acclaimed novelist Michael Ondaatje returns to poetry, where he began his career over fifty years ago, and what a return it is. Born in Sri Lanka during the Second World War, Ondaatje was sent as a child to school in London and later moved to Canada. These poems merge memory with the present, looking back on a life of displacement and discovery, love and loss. Undoctored: The Story of a Medic who ran out of Patients By Adam Kay (93-98) Adam Kay returns and will once again have you in stitches in his painfully funny and startlingly powerful follow-up, Undoctored: The Story of a Medic Who Ran Out of Patients . In his most honest and incisive book yet, he reflects on what's happened since hanging up his scrubs and examines a life inextricably bound up with medicine. Battered and bruised from his time on the NHS frontline, Kay looks back, moves Posthumously published, Interwar offers a detailed review of a fascinating architectural era. At the time of his death in 2017, Gavin Stamp, one of Britain's leading architectural critics, was working on a deeply considered account of British architecture in the interwar period, correcting what he saw as the skewed view of earlier historians who were unable to see past Modernism. The result is more than an architectural history – it is the portrait of a changing nation. forwards and opens up some old wounds. Interwar: British Architecture 1919-39 By Gavin Stamp (59-67) Making it up as you go Along is the story of Bill MacCormick’s journey through the outer reaches of the music business in the 1960s and 70s. Brought up on an early teenage musical diet of Beethoven, Brahms, the Beatles, Stax, and Tamla Motown, an accidental meeting with Robert Wyatt and the newly formed Soft Machine transformed his world view. Here he describes his first faltering steps to musical anonymity with school friend Roxy Music's Phil Manzanera, and their school band, Pooh and the Ostrich Feather. Making it up as you go Along By Bill MacCormick (62-69) A hilarious and moving coming-of-age memoir of one man's search for fulfilment, One Sinha Lifetime is an unconventional odyssey through love, family, and the joy of general knowledge. Paul Sinha is an award-winning comedian, a quizzing mastermind and a happily married husband. But for much of his life none of these seemed remotely imaginable. Stumbling serendipitously into both a career in stand-up and the clandestine network of competitive quizzers introduced him to a new sense of purpose, a new identity, and, eventually, new love. Once Sinha Lifetime Paul Sinha (83-87)
Sophie From Romania follows the real journey of Sophie’s, a rescue dog from Romania, adoption – from her battles with anxiety, to the joys of play and her first time outside – as Rory and Diane work with expert dog trainer Si to win Sophie’s trust and navigate Rory’s Parkinson’s disease. This is a moving story of love, kindness and a lot of patience, paying tribute to rescue dogs and their tender communities. with the beatles Patrick Humphries (63-69) with the beatles is the first full biography of the group in nearly 20 years, written by bestselling author and music journalist Patrick Humphries. The book contains previously unpublished interviews with Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr conducted by the author during his 40-year career as a music journalist. Churchill: The Scottish Years: A Scotsman Book of the Year Andrew Liddle (00-07) In the popular imagination, Winston Churchill is the bulldog of 1940 – uncompromising and Conservative – but in 1922 he was the reforming, progressive Liberal MP for Dundee who could confidently claim to have a seat for life. Although one man had other ideas… This is the story of how God-fearing teetotaller Edwin Scrymgeour fought and won an election against Britain’s most famous politician. Andrew Liddle vividly brings to life an extraordinary rivalry as it unfolded over fifteen years, and explores for the first time Churchill’s controversial Scottish legacy, including his attitude to devolution. The Old Testament Guide and The New Testament Guide Reverend Canon Andrew Knowles (56-65) First published as The Bible Guide in 2001, Reverend Canon Knowles’s work has now been re-published in two volumes. Hailed as a “classic reference book” by the Right Rev James Jones, former Bishop of Liverpool, the guides unpack the content, meaning and relevance of each book of the Bible. Where Are We Now David Bowie? Richard Purden Richard Purden’s forthcoming book is to be published by Jawbone Press and includes contributions by Stephen Finer (61-66) relating to his paintings of musician David Bowie.
A selection of published books from OAs and those in our community.
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