Playing Off The Roof & Other Stories: A patchwork of memories (Memoirs)

Biographies & Memoirs

BROWN, SIMON

Professionals & Academics

Marble Hill Publishers

The War Next Door, My Journeys Into Ukraine

Blackburn, Will

History

No Telephone to Heaven

Worlock, David

Literature & Fiction

Second Helpings: & Last Scrapings (Memoirs)

Richard Charkin's experience as a publisher is unique among his generation. Over the past half century he has been (at different times) a scientific and medical publisher, a journal publisher, a digital publisher and a general publisher. He has worked for family-owned, publicly-owned, university-owned companies and start-ups. In this memoir he uses his unrivalled experience to illustrate the profound changes that have affected the identity and practices but not the purpose of publishing.\nOf course there are stories about well-known personalities he has encountered in his career - Madonna, Jeffrey Archer, Robert Maxwell, Paul Hamlyn, Mohammed Al-Fayed and many more. But his primary purpose is to provide an insider's account of the social, technological, commercial and geographical developments as seen through the eyes of a gifted all-round publisher who has made a very significant contribution to the profession.\nThis is an insider's account of the last fifty years of the publishing industry: the 
essential guide for writers, readers, students of publishing, and book industry 
professionals including librarians, booksellers, literary agents, printers, 
copyright lawyers, digital experts.

My Back Pages

Charkin, Richard

Business & Money

The View from Churchill

Stevenson, Matthew Mills

Travel

Written with humour and insight, this informal memoir is a delightful celebration of the passions that have driven Simon Brown's life. 
Whether recalling incidents from his early years as a barrister (courageously breaking away from the family business) or as Treasury Devil, or during the later stages of his legal career (ending as a Justice of the Supreme Court) - or whether talking about his family, telling us his golfing tales, or describing his enjoyment of the Garrick and his many travels around the world - he exudes a zest and delight in what he does and an affection for those he works with and meets that is a deeply endearing characteristic. Friendship is a constant theme, the pleasure he takes in other people. It is this extraordinary energy and enthusiasm for life that defines Simon Brown and lends this memoir its huge attraction.

Treat yourself to Second Helpings and more choice cuts in the style of Simon Brown's much lauded first volume of memoirs, Playing off the Roof & Other Stories. 
Exuberantly revisiting his early years in National Service, at Oxford and as a young barrister, Lord Brown recalls matters grave and trivial from his time at the Bar and on the Bench, along the way regaling us with tales of Paddington Bear, Nigel Lawson and Mozart at the Warsaw opera. He also has something to say about the current legal scene and considers such thorny problems as the 2019 prorogation judgment and whether trial by jury might be dispensed with in order to clear a mounting backlog of criminal cases. Drawing witty lessons from a life of trials, Lord Brown finds time to muse on when a judge might choose to change a sentence already imposed, what to say after dinner and why the game of golf is strictly for the birds!

Second Helpings (Memoirs)

'Farmers in my childhood were as anxious for a male heir as any Tudor monarch securing dynastic succession.' 
A small Cotswold farm is the setting for a classic struggle of wills. 
Robert Worlock, eccentric and demanding, resolutely maintains the old ways, determined above all to make his son into a farmer fit to take over the family acres. 
His son, David, is equally determined not to be bullied into something he neither wants nor likes. His childhood becomes a battleground: can he find a way to make his father love him without denying his right to determine his own life? 
Sometimes heart-rending, sometimes amusing, always elegantly written and deeply honest, this account of a young man finding himself in the most difficult of circumstances deserves to take its place among the great childhood memoirs.

Facing up to Father: The pleasures and pains of a Cotswold childhood

Memoirs

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