Alan Gordon Walker
Posted in Autobiographies on Oct 13th, 2020
DESCRIPTION: Brian Kay has spent his entire working life in a career that is both successful and rewarding. His fascinating collection of memories and anecdotes throws a hugely entertaining light on a life entirely devoted to the joy of music and music-making. He was the founder bass of the internationally renowned vocal group The King’s […]
Posted in Autobiographies on Apr 28th, 2017
DESCRIPTION: Giles and Esmond Romilly were the nephews of Winston Churchill and Giles Romilly married Jessica (Decca) Mitford, one of the notorious Mitford girls. They both attended traditional Wellington College, where they rebelled against the military and disciplinary traditions of the time. There was fear that this august school was subject to the corrupting influence […]
Posted in Autobiographies on Sep 18th, 2014
DESCRIPTION: By the time she had reached twenty-one, Joy Hunter had worked in the Offices of the War Cabinet in Churchill’s underground war rooms in preparation for D-Day 1944; been included in the Three Power Conference at Potsdam in 1945 between the victorious allies, Great Britain, USA and the Soviet Union; and then went to Washington for the […]
Posted in Autobiographies on Sep 18th, 2014
DESCRIPTION: In 1958 Nina decided to explore Italy; although she had only £3 in the world and no job to go to, she had just the promise of a mattress on the floor of a friend’s apartment. This is the fascinating account of how she virtually fell into the movie biz in Rome. Sophia Loren, […]
Posted in Autobiographies on Mar 11th, 2013
Life Between the Lines John Izbicki has an exciting story to tell. Berlin-born, he lived through the horrors of Nazi persecution and, on the day after his eighth birthday, he witnessed the Kristallnacht, and the smashing of his parents’ shop windows. The Izbickis escaped to England and he began a remarkable journey from school to […]