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Elvis Presley was strongly connected to Nashville and recorded
approximately 260 songs at RCA Studio B in Nashville. He also
performed in several concerts in the area and, during his early
days, often came to Nashville to confer with his manager, Colonel
Tom Parker, who lived in Nashville.
The fascinating full account of how the prime minister lost his grip on power.
Sebastian Payne, Whitehall Editor for the Financial Times, tells the essential behind-the-scenes story, charting the series of scandals that felled Johnson: from the blocked suspension of Owen Paterson to Partygate, and, finally, the Chris Pincher allegations, which were the final death blow. This is the full narrative of the betrayals, rivalries and resignations that led to the dramatic Conservative coup.
With unparalleled access to those who were in the room when key decisions were made, Payne tells of the miscalculations and mistakes that led to Boris’s downfall, only two years after he first entered No.10 Downing Street. This is a gripping and timely look at how power is gained, wielded and lost in Britain today.
A deeply personal and powerful memoir from beloved music icon Neneh
Cherry
Top of the Pops, December 1988. The world sat up as a young woman made
her debut: gold bra, gold bomber jacket, and proudly, gloriously, seven
months pregnant. This was no ordinary artist. This was Neneh Cherry.
But navigating fame and family wasn't always simple. In this beautiful
and deeply personal memoir, Cherry remembers the collaborations, the
highs and lows, the friendships and loves, and the addictions and
traumas that have shaped her as a woman and an artist. At the heart of
it, always, is family: the extraordinary three generations of artists
and musicians that are her inheritance and her legacy.
Musician. Songwriter. Collaborator. Activist. Mother. Daughter. Lover.
Friend. Icon. This is her story.
This authentic account is a tribute to the courage and resolve with
which soldiers and their loved ones confront uncertainty, fear,
hardship and the loss of their comrades. Subjected to continual
changes of affiliation as the Falklands campaign unfolds, 2 Troop
has to create its own identity and sense of belonging drawing on
its professional belief, strength of leadership, and intrinsic
camaraderie. This is the story of how they did it, and the
contribution they made, in one of the toughest campaigns since
World War 2. A 'must read' for aspiring junior commanders and
students of the realities of war. -- General Sir Peter Wall GCB,
CBE, DL, FREng
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My Mother Laughs
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Chantal Akerman; Introduction by Eileen Myles; Translated by Danielle Shreir; Afterword by Frances Morgan
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J. Michael Wilson (1916-1999), Soldier, Medical Doctor, Priest and
Academic, may be best known for his often ground-breaking
professional achievement, from working with lepers in Ghana to his
seminal work in Pastoral Studies. For all his successful
accomplishments, however, he thought accolades, titles and
qualifications were no more than vain baubles for obituary columns.
Becoming a fully human being was, he believed, best manifested in
community, through art, poetry, prayer and revelling in the wonders
of Nature. Here, finally, is your chance to share a merry dance
through his creative life and works...
The son of pastors and gospel artists, PJ Morton grew up in church,
singing gospel music, grounded by its soulful sound. As he was drawn to
R&B and pop, PJ experimented in combining genres to create his own
sound that record labels struggled to categorize. Pressured to align
with industry standards but committed to his own dream of his original
music, he defied expectations and risked launching his own label,
Morton Records. Under it, he developed six self-released and
self-produced albums that garnered twenty Grammy nominations and
awards, and included collaborations with such acclaimed artists as
Stevie Wonder, Kirk Franklin, and Lil Wayne.
PJ Morton is the rare artist who has straddled the tensions of life,
whether in music or faith expressions, or in racial and cultural
identities, while staying true to his New Orleans and Christian roots.
A pioneer blazing his own path, he developed an independent sound
without even knowing what that was in an industry he didn't fully
understand, setting the way for artists who follow him. Saturday Night,
Sunday Morning captures his powerful, courageous journey of combining
his two worlds, showing readers how to overcome obstacles as they seek
their own dreams.
A searingly honest, funny and moving family memoir in which David
Baddiel exposes his mother’s idiosyncratic sex life, and his father’s
dementia, to the same affectionate scrutiny.
On the surface, David Baddiel’s childhood was fairly standard: a
lower-middle-class Jewish family living in an ordinary house in Dollis
Hill, north-west London. But David came to realise that his mother was
in fact not ordinary at all. Having escaped extermination by fleeing
Nazi Germany as a child, she was desperate to make her life count,
which took the form of a passionate, decades-long affair with a golfing
memorabilia salesman. David’s detailing of the affair – including a
hilarious focus on how his mother turned their household over to golf
memorabilia, and an eye-popping cache of her erotic writings – leads to
the inescapable conclusion that Sarah Baddiel was a cross between Jack
Niklaus and Erica Jong.
Meanwhile, as Baddiel investigates his family’s past, his father’s
memories are fading; dementia is making him moodier and more
disinhibited, with an even greater penchant for obscenity. As with his
mother’s affair, there is both comedy and poignancy to be found:
laughter is a constant presence, capable of transforming the darkest of
experiences into something redemptive.
My Family: The Memoir is David Baddiel’s candid examination of his
childhood, family and memory offering a twisted love letter to his
parents.
In the telling of his own tale, children's author and screenwriter
Paul Jennings demonstrates how seemingly small events can combine
into a compelling drama. As if assembling the pieces of a jigsaw
puzzle he puts together fragments, memories and anecdotes to reveal
the portrait of a complex and weathered soul. The accounts of the
trials and joys of turning his stories into episodes of the
television program Round The Twist will be of special interest to
the millions of fans of this series. Untwisted is revealing, moving
and very funny. Paul Jennings has crafted perhaps his most
masterful story yet ...the story of his life
The Sunday Times top 10 bestseller. Laugh along with Michael
McIntyre as he lifts the curtain on his life in his revealing
autobiography. Michael's first book ended with his big break at the
2006 Royal Variety Performance. Waking up the next morning in the
tiny rented flat he shared with his wife Kitty and their
one-year-old son, he was beyond excited about the new glamorous
world of show business. Unfortunately, he was also clueless . . .
In A Funny Life, Michael honestly and hilariously shares the highs
and the lows of his rise to the top and desperate attempts to stay
there. It's all here, from his disastrous panel show appearances to
his hit TV shows, from mistakenly thinking he'd be a good chat show
host and talent judge, to finding fame and fortune beyond his
wildest dreams and becoming the biggest-selling comedian in the
world. Along the way he opens his man drawer, narrowly avoids
disaster when his trousers fall down in front of three policemen
and learns the hard way why he should always listen to his wife.
Michael has had a silly life, a stressful life, sometimes a moving
and touching life, but always A Funny Life.
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