The popular actor, comedian, and writer traces his unlikely Cambridge education, his relationships with such contemporaries as Hugh Laurie and Emma Thompson, and his hedonistic rise to stardom.
Authors, English
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Author:Fry, StephenSummary: -
Author:Leavy, Barbara FassSummary:Aside from Ruth Rendell’s brilliance as a fiction writer, and her appeal to mystery lovers, her books portray a compelling, universal experience that her readers can immediately relate to, the intra-familial stresses generated by the...
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Author:Milne, ChristopherSummary:The autobiography of Christopher Milne and the background to the poems and stories about Winnie-the-Pooh and Christopher Robin.
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Author:Pepys, SamuelSummary:Presents excerpts chronicling one of the most colorful periods of the Restoration.
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Author:Kempe, MargerySummary: - Author:DICKENS, MonicaSummary:
A witty and humorous account of the experiences of a junior reporter recruited to a weekly paper in a small town.
- Author:Fraser, AntoniaSummary:
Biographer Antonia Fraser recounts her 33 years with husband Harold Pinter--a Nobel Prize winner and one of the most acclaimed modern-day playwrights. Here Antonia draws an intimate portrait of her marriage to Pinter--and reveals him to...
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Author:Beechey, AlanSummary:When a teenage girl disappears from a north London suburb a few days before Christmas, Detective Sergeant Effie Strongitharm puts would-be cult leader and reputed exorcist Nigel Tapster on her list of people to be questioned. But when...
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Author:Wilson, FrancesSummary:Thomas De Quincey--opium eater, celebrity journalist, and professional doppelgänger--is embedded in our culture. In this biography, Frances Wilson tells the riches-to-rags story of a figure of dazzling complexity and originality.
- Author:Marsden, George M.Summary:
Mere Christianity, C. S. Lewis's eloquent and winsome defense of the Christian faith, originated as a series of BBC radio talks broadcast during the dark days of World War Two. Here is the story of the extraordinary life and afterlife...
- Author:Dahl, RoaldSummary:
Roald Dahl's life was as bizarre, exciting and funny as the stories he wrote, and here is the whole of his own extraordinary autobiography in one volume. With a new Quentin Blake cover and a whole new end section of fascinating...
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Author:Beechey, AlanSummary:Scotland Yard is hunting the worst kind of serial killer—one with a sense of humor. When children's book author Oliver Swithin, reluctant creator of the notorious "Finsbury the Ferret," finds an old friend's body floating in a Trafalgar...
- Author:Johnson, SamuelSummary:
In 1773, a 63 year old literary giant and a 32 year old Scottish lawyer set out on horseback to travel the roads of Scotland.
