This is the autobiography of one of Britain’s best-loved alternative comedians and Edinburgh Fringe comedy festival’s star performers, Arthur Smith.

My Name is Daphne Fairfax

Biographies & Memoirs

SMITH, ARTHUR

Arts & Literature

Hutchinson

Regarded as the major venue of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the Assembly Rooms over the years have housed comics like Griff Rhys-Jones, Ben Elton, Lenny Henry, Rik Mayall, John Sessions, Jools Holland, Gerry Sadowitz and Julian Clary. Here John Connor, cabaret editor of "Time Out", presents a decade of photographs, jokes and anecdotes in a book which aims to reflect the changing face of comedy during the 1980s.

Comics: A Decade of Comedy at the Assembly Rooms

Humor & Entertainment

Connor, John

Humor

Pan/Macmillan

<div>Arthur Smith is a national treasure, extremely well loved, with more than 45k Twitter followers. An anthology of Arthur Smith's uniquely varied written work, this is Arthur's first book for many years. 100 Things I Meant to Tell You brings together 100 stories, poems, and articles gathered over a colorful lifetime making a living on the comedy circuit. In 2005 Arthur turned down a Perrier Award for Lifetime Achievement, saying "They wanted to tell me I was old and cool; well, I know that already." Currently the popular host of BBC Radio 4 Extra's Comedy Club, he has traveled all over the British Isles and the rest of the world performing and reporting on a range of subjects as diverse as Flotsam and Jetsom in Holland (in a series for BBC 1's The One Show) and more recently, goat yoga in Ipswich, but never before has he corralled all these wonderful stories into book form. Some humorous, some anecdotal, some nostalgic, and some extremely poignant, the stories include the time Arthur was arrested for "breach of the peace and possession of a megaphone," the time he hitched a lift from a nun and heard his own voice (imitating Leonard Cohen) playing on her car radio, the fight he had with Billy Connelly, his flight in a Tiger Moth, and--in verse--his hatred of Teletubbies. Covering a huge range of subjects and emotions, tales of hilarious, chaotic antics are juxtaposed with gentle, bittersweet stories about love affairs that ended badly and his mother's journey into dementia, making this a cornucopia of delight for Arthur Smith fans everywhere.</div>

100 Things I Meant To Tell You: Rants, Rhymes & Reportage from the Original Grumpy Old Man

Memoirs

AA Publishing

Passing from China, where it was developed over 3,000 years ago, to Japan, where it today commands a vast and enthusiastic following, Go is probably the oldest intellectual game in the world. Similar to chess, it leaves nothing to chance, requiring great strategy and carefully plotted campaigns to achieve an impregnable position, block enemies from lines of communication and win a series of battles. To penetrate this complicated, challenging game requires a great guide— and this is it. Unsurpassable in its clarity and comprehensiveness, The Game of Go has been the classic guide to the game since it was first published in 1956.

The Game of Go: The National Game of Japan

Puzzles & Games

Tuttle+publishing

Planetary Exploration: 30 Years of Unmanned Space Probes

Science & Math

Technology

Borgo Pr

Gathers poems about fear, loss, memory, redemption, birth, death, childhood, love, sleep, nature, and secrets

Elegy on Independence Day

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Univ of Pittsburgh Pr (Trd)

Elegy on Independence Day (Pitt Poetry Series)

Univ of Pittsburgh Pr

Songwriter, Arthur Smith, best known for the instrumentals Guitar Boogie and Dueling Banjos, has been a serious Bible student and Sunday school teacher throughout his thirty-year career. As he shares his practical application of the Scriptures with you in this book, he includes several of his songs to enhance his message. By combining his favorite Scripture verses, humorous anecdotes, and ten of his inspirational songs, Smith shows how to effectively apply the messages found in Scripture to your life. Preface by Johnny Cash.

Apply It to Life

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

Thomas Nelson. Inc.

Nazi Germany utilized every available resource to fight the Second World War, and one significant weapon in Hitler's economic arsenal was gold - gold looted from the central banks of those European countries which were occupied by the Nazi regime between 1939 and 1942. Calculated at pre-1939 prices, the Germans gained access to about $625 million (US) in monetary gold, only about half of which was recovered by American Forces in April 1945 from a mine in central Germany. The 'Gold War' did not end then, however; it just assumed a different shape. Instead of fuelling Hitler's war effort, the recovered gold soon became a pawn in the Cold War struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union and has remained a controversial issue in international politics for years, one not completely resolved to this day.Although this is an important aspect of the Second World War and its aftermath, it has been largely neglected in historical research because of the lack of adequate source materials. The author succeeded in gaining access to hitherto unavailable but crucial records from archives in West Germany, Britain and the United States and is thus in a position to piece together, for the first time, the story of the Nazi gold loot and the long, complicated restitution of part of this gold by the Western Allies. Hitler's Gold represents an essential contribution to the economic history of the Second World War.

Hitler's Gold: The Story of the Nazi War Loot

Business & Money

Economics

Berg Publishers

The Late World (Carnegie Mellon Poetry)

Carnegie-Mellon University Press

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