Alleyn Club Yearbook 114th Issue

Richard J Garrett (52–61) The Peak: An Illustrated History of Hong Kong’s Top District (Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Studies) The Peak is Hong Kong’s top

tell them that Lizzie was dead. She had been murdered. This is a story full of tears, but also of love and family and redemption.

Andrew Liddle (00–07) Ruth Davidson and the Resurgence of the Scottish Tories Ruth Davidson has enjoyed a stratospheric rise to prominence within the Scottish Conservative Party, winning her surprise leadership victory an astonishing six months

residential district, where property prices are as high as the altitude. This book describes how the now- popular tourist area developed over time and adapted as needs changed.

Gabriel Hershman (80–85) Black Sheep: The Authorised Biography of Nicol Williamson

after becoming an MSP. Under her redoubtable leadership, the Tory Party have revitalised their fortunes north of the border, more than doubling their seats and overtaking Labour for the first time in 60 years.

Once hailed by John Osborne as ‘the greatest actor since Brando’, but latterly known as a ruined genius whose unpredictable, hellraising behaviour was legendary, Nicol

Dr Keith McCarthy (71–78) A Kiss Before Killing: Nothing can keep the doctor away... In the wake of several unexpected deaths at the hospital, suspicions arise that there is a killer amongst

Williamson always went his own way. As Gabriel Hershman explains in this authorised biography, a premature end was perhaps inevitable for an actor who always went the extra mile in every performance. Strolling Player: The Life and Career of Albert Finney Albert Finney was a Salford-born, homework-hating bookie’s son who broke the social barriers of British film to become a five-time Oscar nominee. This colourful and riveting account of Finney’s life and work, drawing on interviews with many of his directors and co-stars, examines how one of Britain’s greatest actors built a glittering career without sacrificing his integrity.

the staff. As Detective Chief Inspector Beverley Wharton and her new sergeant Tom Bayes begin to investigate, they too start to wonder whether patients are dying naturally or if they’re being … helped along.

Tom McCarthy (78–86) The Greatest Medal of Honor Stories Ever Told

Tom McCarthy has collected some of the finest writings about heroes awarded the highest military honour. Chosen from hundreds of accounts of singular devotion to duty, the stories in Medal of Honor will capture readers’ imaginations with their jaw- dropping tales of bravery. The highly anticipated prequel to the New York Times bestselling Summoner trilogy, and an extension of the eBook novella Origins , The Outcast continues Arcturus’s story in a feature-length novel. Only the chosen few have the power to summon demons… 39 Taran Matharu (04–09) The Outcast

Jeremy Howe (68–75) Mummydaddy

In the summer of 1992, Jeremy Howe and his wife, Lizzie, were tending to last-minute holiday preparations. Lizzie was leaving to teach at a summer school before she could join

Jeremy and their two daughters, Jessic a, six, and Lucy, four, at the seaside. That night, arriving at his mother’s in Suffolk, Jeremy managed to get the excited girls to go to sleep, irritated that their mother hadn’t called to say goodnight as she had promised. Just after midnight the household was woken by a policeman who had come to

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