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Beatles Lyrics - The Unseen Story Behind Their Music by The Beatles / Hunter Davies
Category: Performing Arts
The first-ever collection of the original handwritten Beatles' lyrics. Never before has anyone attempted to track down and publish the original versions of the classic songs, many of which have never yet been published. These documents have ended up in the hands of collectors and friends of the Beatles, ...Show more
Happy Old Me: How to Live A Long Life, and Really Enjoy It by Davies Hunter
Category: Self-Help
'If anyone knows how to be happy and old, it's Hunter. Read a page before breakfast and two at night, preferably with food'- Michael Palin. 'As long as I'm alive, I'll be with her, and she'll be with me.' Hunter Davies on Margaret Forster. Happy Old Me is a moving yet uplifting account of one year in ...Show more
Happy Old Me - How to Live a Long Life, and Really Enjoy It by Hunter Davies
Category: Biography
'As long as I'm alive, I'll be with her, and she'll be with me.' Hunter Davies on Margaret Forster.Happy Old Me is a moving yet uplifting account of one year in Hunter Davies' life, navigating bereavement and finding hope in the future. On 8th February 2016, Margaret Forster lost her life to cancer of t ...Show more
London Parks by Hunter Davies
Category: Travel
Join Hunter Davies on a celebratory stroll around London’s greatest glories – its parks. We need our parks more than ever before, for our health and spirits, our bodies and souls, to keep us fit, to save us from pollution, to protect nature and wildlife; and Londoners are lucky enough to enjoy more gree ...Show more
Love in Old Age: My Year in the Wight House by Hunter Davies
Category: Biography
A wryly humorous memoir from Hunter Davies, as he falls in love again in his eighties and chronicles the first year of living with his new girlfriend in their cottage on the Isle of Wight. King Charles I was imprisoned here; Queen Victoria so liked its mild climate and coastal scenery that she built an ...Show more
The Beatles Book by Hunter Davies
Category: Performing Arts
THE BEATLES BOOK is the ultimate authority on the fab four.Hunter Davies, the only ever authorised biographer of the group, brings together three eminent Beatles experts to compile an invaluable and essential guide. Divided into four sections - People, Songs, Places and Broadcast & Cinema - The Beat ...Show more
The Beatles Book by Hunter Davies
Category: Performing Arts
THE BEATLES BOOK is the ultimate authority on the fab four. Hunter Davies, the only ever authorised biographer of the group, brings together three eminent Beatles experts to compile an invaluable and essential guide. Divided into four sections - People, Songs, Places and Broadcast Cinema - The Beatles B ...Show more
The Beatles Lyrics: The Unseen Story Behind Their Music by Hunter Davies
Category: Performing Arts
Over 100 handwritten manuscripts of the Beatles' original lyrics, tracked down from friends of the band, museums, universities and collectors. Hunter Davies, author of the only authorised biography of the Beatles, worked with the band in their heyday. Here he reveals each song's context with vivid behi ...Show more
The Co-Op's Got Bananas: A Memoir of Growing Up in the Post-War North by Hunter Davies
Category: Biography
Despite the struggle to make ends meet during the tough years of warfare in the 1940s and rationing persisting until the early 1950s, life could still be sweet. Especially if you were a young boy, playing football with your pals, saving up to go to the movies at the weekend, and being captivated by the ...Show more
The Heath - My Year on Hampstead Heath by Hunter Davies
Category: Nature
An engaging portrait of Hampstead Heath - a place rich not just in natural wonders but in history and monuments, emotions and memories, people and places. 'I enjoyed every inch of the way, from Parliament Hill to the Pergola... A late-life little masterpiece' Ferdinand Mount'A love letter, both to the ...Show more
The John Lennon Letters by HUNTER DAVIES (ed)
Category: Non-Fiction
John Lennon was a writer as well as a musician. It was entirely natural for him to put pen to paper whenever he had an idea, a thought, a reaction or a desire to communicate. He lived - and died - in an age before emails and texts. Pen and ink was what he turned to. John wrote letters and postcards all ...Show more