For more than 40 years broadcaster and comedian Kenneth Williams kept a journal of his experiences. This book is a selection of these diaries. In addition to offering evidence as to the nature of Williams's death in 1988, the diaries reveal a side to his character that many suspected but only few understood. They look at his own tortured sexuality, his relationship with Louie his mother, his thoughts on religion and his verdicts on friends and colleagues such as Noel Coward, Tony Hancock, Sheila Hancock, Maggie Smith and Joe Orton.

The Kenneth Williams Diaries

Biographies & Memoirs

Russell Davies

Arts & Literature

HarperCollinsPublishers

Following the publication of "The Kenneth Williams Diaries", this is a collection of his letters. Corresponding with all manner of people, including Alec Guinness, Maggie Smith, Joe Orton, Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor, and the Stokers' Mess of "HMS Leverton", the letters call forth the performer in Williams - many are virtual comic monologues. They evoke the likeable and constructive nature of a man who remains, neverthless as outrageous and "difficult" as ever.

The Kenneth Williams letters

Harpercollins

"Wormwood", read here by Robert Powell, follows the exceptional success of GP Taylor's bestselling first book, "Shadowmancer". Dr Sabian Blake - astronomer, scientist, and master of the Kabbalah - is in possession of the Nemorensis, an ancient leather-bound book which holds the secrets of the universe. Leafing through it one night, he reads a mysterious inscription in the margin: 'Wormwood ...the bright star shall fall from the sky ...and many will die from its bitterness.' Deciphering this prophecy could prove the key to saving London from a catastrophic fate. But there are others interested in the Nemorensis too - for more sinister reasons. Blake and his serving maid Agetta Lamian soon become enmeshed in a web of sorcery, as agents of both good and evil battle to possess the book and gain its power. They will face great danger, and must decide who to trust - for the wrong decision could cost them their souls...

Spike Milligan: Vivat Milligna! (BBC Radio Collections)

Humor & Entertainment

Radio

Foreign Body

This is an account of the origins of Robert Maxwell's business success in the intelligence community, his links thereafter with the world's foremost intelligence agencies, and the backroom diplomacy which took him to the heart of world affairs.

Business & Money

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.

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Everything I Know About Life I Learned from Powerpoint

Humor

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