Acting as Friends: The Story of the Samaritans

Religion & Spirituality

DE-LA-NOY, Michael

Christian Books & Bibles

HarperCollins Publishers,Inc.

Queen Behind The Throne

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

RANDOM HOUSE UK

Acting as friends: The story of the Samaritans

Constable

Denton Welch: The Making of A Writer

Puffin

Elgar: The Man

Elgar: the man

Hamish Hamilton

Mervyn Stockwood was the most controversial diocesan bishop of his generation. An innovator and enabler, he encouraged far-reaching experiments in Southwark, and recruited the most able and energetic clergy ever to enliven a cathedral chapter. Through a barrage of criticism he supported John Robinson when he published Honest to God; he put into operation the Southwark Ordination Course, which became a blueprint for the Church of England; he chose as his suffragans men like David Sheppard and Hugh Montefiore, who went on to become household names as diocesan bishops. A socialist, he was appointed by a Tory prime minister, an Anglo-Catholic by upbringing, he was a friend and supporter of evangelical missioners like Billy Graham and Bryan Green.

Mervyn Stockwood: A lonely life

Mowbray

<p>Heir to Knole and a peerage, novelist, critic and pianist, the intimate of Bloomsbury writers and painters, Edward Sackville-West appeared to have had bestowed on him every gift and opportunity. Yet all his life he was dogged by chronic ill-health and cursed with a masochistic psychological make-up that meant he could never attain the satisfaction in personal relationships he craved. Although the butt of ridicule from his cousin Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf and the model for Nancy Mitford's comic fictional character "Uncle Davey" in "The Pursuit of Love", Eddy Sackville-West is seen by the author as, in reality, a man of physical courage and moral stature. He was the translator of Rilke and one of the first to recognize the genius of Kafka, he also befriended, long before they were famous, Graham Sutherland, Michael Tippett and Benjamin Britten, with whom he fell in love. For this biography, Michael De-la-Noy has gathered information from his diaries and many unpublished letters - from Evelyn Waugh, Alix Strachey, Duncan Grant and Raymond Mortimer - to relate the story of Edward's life, which is set against the literary, musical and social history of Britain between the 1920s and 1960s. The author has also written biographies of Edward Elgar and Denton Welch.</p>

Eddy: The life of Edward Sackville-West

Arts & Literature

The Bodley Head

Elgar deliberately made a mystery of his private life, so that only his most perceptive friends ever really knew Elgar the Man. Born in 1857, the son of a piano-tuner and a farmer's daughter, Elgar spent his first forty years showing little sign that life had anything more to offer than his job as bandmaster in the Worcester Lunatic Asylum and a niche in the provincial music circuit. Then, in 1899, the success of his Enigma Variations made him a national celebrity. He crammed his whole life's work into the next twenty years, ending in 1919 with his Cello Concerto. He had fifteen years left to live, years spent in bitter disillusionment in which he felt his life had been a failure. In this penetrating and moving biography Michael De-la-Noy reveals for the first time the depth and complexity of a man whom, he believes, struggled against exceptional emotional difficulties to produce some of the finest music ever written.

Elgar the Man

iUniverse, Inc.

<p>1st edition, 1st printing HCDJ. New copy w/lightly rubbed DJ; paper on back board has 3" wrinkle.</p>

Denton Welch: The Making of a Writer

Viking Adult

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