Sir John Mills is one of Britain's best-known, and best-loved, actors. This autobiography charts his life from the early beginnings in music hall song-and-dance routines, to the days of Cavalcade and Jill Darling to the film epics, "In Which We Serve", "Ice Cold in Alex", "Scott of the Antarctic" and his Oscar-winning performance in "Ryan's Daughter". A new chapter brings the book fully up-to-date, revealing the drama, farce and tragedy - not to mention some spectacular falls - which have been a part of a life that is as varied as it is successful.

Up in the Clouds, Gentlemen Please

Biographies & Memoirs

Mills, John.

Arts & Literature

Ticknor

Unlike the diaries, which were scribbled hastily at night, the letters, over 300 of them, were written and designed to entertain and amuse his many friends. The letters are annotated and a number of replies are included.

The Letters of Evelyn Waugh

AMORY, Mark (editor)

Vanessa Bell

Vanessa Bell was a central figure within the Bloomsbury Group and lent to it a stability and coherence it might otherwise have lacked. A talented artist, she held sway with her acuity, integrity and a sense of humour. Yet she remained inscrutable, glimpses of her life only appearing through her sister, Virginia Woolf.Â In this authorised biography, Frances Spalding draws upon a mass of unpublished documents to reveal Vanessa Bellâ€™s considerable achievements, in both her art and her increasingly unorthodox life. A sympathetic account is given of her marriage to Clive Bell, her affair with Roger Fry and the complex nature of her lasting relationship with Duncan Grant. It is a fitting tribute to a woman of great paradox, wit and honesty.

SPALDING, Frances

A twelve-year-old boy in a small Australian town loses his innocence when his training of a racing pigeon brings him into contact with the greed of the adult world

My Blue-Checker Corker and Me

Literature & Fiction

RADLEY, Paul John

Essays & Correspondence

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Up in the Clouds, Gentlemen Please

The Letters of Evelyn Waugh

Vanessa Bell

My Blue-Checker Corker and Me