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ENGLISH JOURNEY
JB PRIESTLEY

Rediscovering Priestley
Special Anniversary Edition
Featuring an exploration of the book’s social, political and literary legacy.
With contributions from Nina Bawden, Tom Priestley, Roy Hattersley contributions from  Dame Margaret Drabble, Alan Plater, William Woodruff, Dame Beryl Bainbridge and Doctor John Baxendale.

Great Northern Books Limited

“An important book that has a literary importance and social value that far exceeds the time it was written.”
Dame Beryl Bainbridge

In 1934, JB Priestley published an account of his journey through England from Southampton to the Black Country, to the North East and Newcastle, to Norwich and home. In capturing and describing an English landscape and people hitherto unseen in literature of its kind, he influenced the thinking and attitudes of an entire generation and helped formulate a public consensus for change that led to the formation of the welfare state.
Prophetic, profound, humorous and as relevant today as it was 75 years ago, English Journey expresses Priestley’s deep love of his native country and teaches us much about the human condition and the nature of Englishness. A book that anyone interested in England should read.
This fully illustrated special Anniversary Edition of one of Priestley’s most enduring and widely-read works comes with a first word from Nina Bawden, forewords by Tom Priestley and Roy Hattersley; an exploration of the book’s social, political and literary legacy; and personal contributions from  Dame Margaret Drabble, Alan Plater, William Woodruff, Dame Beryl Bainbridge and Doctor John Baxendale.

In this second installment of Terence Stamp's captivating memoirs, Stamp takes us right into the heart of the swinging ‘60s. From his Academy Award nomination for Billy Budd to his coming of age under the direction of the legendary Federico Fellini, the "marmalade skies" are the limit. With beautiful women and beautiful people from London to California, Stamp captures the spirit of the decade. He was the face, the man to be seen with. And then the decade ended, along with his romance to famous model Jean Shrimpton. While the Beatles play their last concert on the rooftop of the Apple building in Mayfair, Stamp, unemployed and broken-hearted, boards a plane for a solo pilgrimage to India.

'People say I made the Stones. I didn't. They were there already. They only wanted exploiting. They were all bad boys when I found them. I just brought out the worst in them.'

Andrew Loog Oldham was nineteen years old when he discovered and became the manager and producer of an unknown band called The Rolling Stones. His radical vision transformed them from a starving south London blues combo to the Greatest Rock 'n' Roll Band That Ever Drew Breath, while the revolutionary strategies he used to get them there provoked both adulation and revulsion throughout British society and beyond.

An ultra-hip mod, flash, brash and schooled in style by Mary Quant, he was a hustler of genius, addicted to scandal, notoriety and innovation.

The Truth About Wyatt Earp is the result of extensive research done by the author, Richard E. Erwin. After retiring from his career as a Criminal Defense Lawyer, he took up the task of ferreting out the truth surrounding the life and times of Wyatt Earp.

He presents here solid evidence, based on old newspaper accounts, public records, documents buried in museums, state and national archives and libraries and reports of other researchers, to substantiate his view of what he believes to be The Truth About Wyatt Earp.

That Wyatt Earp was once indicted for horse stealing (He was never convicted.)?

That there were four witnesses who could have testified that Tom McLaury was armed at the commencement of the O.K. Corral fight?

That both Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday spent more than two weeks in jail in the custody of John Behan while the hearing on the O.K. Corral shoot-out was going on?

The truth comes out in this illuminating essay on one of the most fascinating characters in history.

In this enchanting memoir, Terence Stamp takes readers with him on his unlikely journey from pre-war London’s East End, where his birth heralded the unification of two Cockney clans, to the beginnings of the stardom that would transform his life.

A born storyteller, Terence looks back on his life with humor and affection for everyone from his beloved mother—whose unswerving conviction that he was special instilled in Terence a belief that his life would be different—to the teacher who informed him that he “would make a good manager at Woolworth’s.”
 
That was not to be. After winning a scholarship to the Webber Douglas Academy, Terence teamed up with another struggling actor, fellow Londoner Michael Caine. The two shared a mews house, running their lines together and sharing one suit for auditions. But the lean times were about to end.