New Releases by Hunter Davies

En 1967, les Beatles autorisent pour la première et dernière fois un biographe à partager leur intimité. L''heureux élu, Hunter Davies, passera dix-huit mois aux côtés du groupe le plus légendaire de la planète, alors à son sommet créatif. John, Paul, George et Ringo lui feront, en toute liberté, des confidences sur leur vie, leur musique, l''engouement qu''ils suscitent. Ils l''introduiront auprès de leurs familles, de leurs proches et de leurs amis, y compris ceux des débuts. L''ouvrage de Hunter Davies, seule biographie " autorisée " des Beatles, a été un best-seller dans le monde entier. Il est publié pour la première fois en langue française, dans une édition mise à jour et agrémentée de nombreux documents iconographiques inédits. Hunter Davies, resté proche des Beatles après la séparation du groupe, y évoque l''assassinat de John Lennon, la disparition de George Harrison, le destin de Paul McCartney, de Ringo Starr, et des autres grandes figures de la galaxie Beatles. Les chapitres consacrés au quotidien des Beatles en 1967 et 1968 sont particulièrement émouvants. Hunter Davies, témoin privilégié, y décrit dans les moindres détails la naissance de chansons aussi mythiques que With A Little Help From My Friends, Getting Better ou I Am The Walrus. Rarement nous aura été donné un témoignage aussi précis et intime de la collaboration entre John Lennon et Paul McCartney. Fourmillant d''anecdotes et de témoignages sur l''enfance et l''adolescence des Fab Four, sur leurs débuts à Liverpool et à Hambourg, ainsi que sur la Beatlemania, la personnalité des membres du groupe et leur remarquable sens de l''humour, ce document indispensable ravira tous les fans d''hier et d''aujourd''hui.

Wainwright''s biographer selects twenty of his and Wainwright''s favorite mountains and eloquently and entertainingly introduces them to the reader, with an account of how they came to be chosen.

A vivid and evocative account of Hunter Davies'' exploration of some of Britain''s disued railway lines

Relative Strangers is a history of adoption in Britain, and the true-life tale of the seventy-one-year-old Hodder triplets. The book tells the unique and moving story of how the triplets, adopted as babies in 1932, were reunited in June 2001 - the first time the three of them had been together since their birth. Their life stories and how they found each other again are interspersed with the story of adoption, which began as a legal phenomenon in the UK in 1926. The book also describes the twenty-five-year legal battle fought by NORCAP (the National Organisation for the Counselling of Children and Parents) to change the adoption laws, which helped to bring the triplets, and other adoptees, together again. Hunter Davies is one of Britain''s most sympathetic and thoughtful interviewers, and the author of over thirty books. He has interviewed the triplets at length and has had access through NORCAP to other case histories, which are themselves profoundly affecting

When the first edition of The Glory Game was published in 1972, it was instantly hailed as the most insightful book about the life of a football club ever published. Hunter Davies was, and still is, the only author ever to be allowed into the inner sanctum of a top-level football team (Tottenham Hotspur) and his pen spared nothing and no one. ''His accuracy is sufficiently uncanny to be embarrassing,'' wrote Bob Wilson in the New Statesman. ''Brilliant, vicious, unmerciful,'' wrote The Sun. Davies spent a whole season with the team, training with them, visiting the players'' homes and witnessing the dressing-room confrontations. In the modern era of painstaking media management and tight security, no sportswriter will ever again be granted such unprecedented access. While some features of the game have changed beyond all recognition - notably the all-consuming role that money now plays - inside every club the dramas and tensions revealed by Davies remain, making the book a timeless classic and securing its position as one of the best books about football ever written.

Hadrian''s Wall stretches 73 miles along the neck of England and about ten miles are now left. In this personal account, the author, who grew up at one end of the wall, gives readers a taste of what human life was and is like along this stretch of northern Britain.

Three ''Snotty Bumstead'' stories in one bumper edition.

Flossie Teacake is not content with her lot--she is 10 years old, flatbroke, and she never has adventures. Well, that''s not strictly true. Since she discovered her magical fur coat she has had amazing escapades and even won the lottery.

Wimbledon manager Joe Kinnear reveals the secrets of his success in this autobiography. A stylish wing-back in the Tottenham side of the late 70s and 80s, capped over 50 times for Northern Ireland, and now one of the top managers in the country, Kinnear has spent over 30 years in the game.

Following in the footsteps of J.B. Priestley, whose book English Journey told the tale of his 1934 voyage, Hunter Davies embarks upon an epic journey at the end of the century. He spends a year travelling from London to the Lake District, observing the people and places of England today and noting the mood of the English nation at the end of the millennium. It is also a journey into his own life, as he recalls incidents and people from his past.

Reissued with Beatrix Potter illustrations and previously unpublished materials, this book combines authoritative text with colour photographs taken during the course of a complete year to show the Lake District in all its seasons and moods.

In conversation with Hunter Davies this is Dwight Yorke''''s own account of his rise to superstardom at Old Trafford combined with Hunter Davies''''s interviews with the people Yorke met along his way.''

Flossie Teacake is a teensy bit miserable - she''s ten years old, flat broke, and it''s Saturday night and she''s NOT going out! So flossie turns to her magical fur coat to spice things up. As a glam 18 year old she''s eligible to buy her own lottery ticket - and win the lottery.

Flossie Teacake, the put upon youngest member of the family, is back! As always she is clad in her magical fur coat which turns our heroine from a timid ten year old into an extremely exciting 18 yr old!Nothing stops Flossie and her helter-skelter life which races along at its usual frantic pace. This time she manages to become a dancing teacher at the Grapefruit Dance Studios in Covent Garden...

To mark the hundredth anniversary of Stevenson''s death, Hunter Davies has gone travelling with him, searching out the man and his motivation, following him in the past and in the present. He has visited those places which will always be associated with him -- from his birthplace in Edinburgh, to France, California, and then his final home in the Pacific. His book is half travel, half biography. And all of it, as one would expect from the pen of Hunter Davies, is entertaining, amusing and informative.

When Snotty''s mother takes a sudden trip away he turns the house into a multi-purpose adventure playground and life is wonderful, provided that he can keep the nosey grown-ups away and make the money last.

Davies tries to find the man behind the legend and unravel all the mysteries surrounding Columbus. He also gives us a 20th-century view of the New World Columbus found and people''s impressions of the explorer. The mixture of biography and travel writing works well.