Nicky Samuel My Life And Loves

Author : Richard Perceval Graves
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781805146117

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Nicky Samuel: My Life and Loves by Richard Perceval Graves Pdf

When beautiful heiress Nicky Samuel (1951-2019) left school at the age of 16, she was caught up in the world of Sixties London. Her first job was with Yoko Ono, and she soon fell in love with the owner of the fashionable hippy boutique ‘Granny Takes a Trip’, Nigel Waymouth, whom she married and with whom she later attended the legendary Isle of Wight Pop Concert. She spent time with celebrities such as Andy Warhol, Jane Fonda, Roger Vadim, Bob Dylan, Keith Richards, and Robert Mapplethorpe. At nineteen, Nicky became a fashionable hostess. She was photographed by Norman Parkinson for Vogue; and her close friends included Mick and Bianca Jagger, Christopher Gibbs, David Hockney, Anita Pallenberg and the eccentric, reclusive heroin addict John Paul Getty Jr. Her marriage broke up when she became involved in a passionate menage-a-trois involving the film-director Donald Cammell. In 1974, Nicky married homosexual jewellery designer, New York socialite and fortune-hunter Kenneth Jay Lane. Her social success was such that she was featured as a ‘New Beauty’ by Time Magazine. However, she became so unhappy and drug-addicted that she attempted suicide in the London Ritz. Nicky’s is exactly the kind of superficially glamorous life to which many star-struck and celebrity-hungry people aspire; this memoir is also a uniquely vivid experience of a vanished world.

Author : Liliana Arkuszewska
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781838590253

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Was It Worth It by Liliana Arkuszewska Pdf

The arrival of the 1980s saw millions living behind the Iron Curtain flee their homeland in search of a better tomorrow. Step-by-step, they trudged persistently to reach their dream of happiness. These were the Columbuses of the 1980s – risk takers who had the courage to test themselves and explore the notoriety of the western world first-hand. Was It Worth It is a modern odyssey spanning three continents and following one family’s path to a new, unfamiliar future. It tells of the characters’ struggle to adapt to foreign places, languages and customs. With settings in Lima, Paris, Ottawa, and exploring venues in other countries, the book offers readers an insight into what it takes to start from scratch in an unknown land. Did they find what they were looking for?

Author : Rohan
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
Page : 67 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781803130248

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Child of the Raj by Rohan Pdf

Child of the Raj covers a unique and fascinating period of British and Indian history, as seen through the eyes of someone who lived through it.

Author : E. J. Lockhart-Mure
Publisher : Matador
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1789016436

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Front Line and Fortitude by E. J. Lockhart-Mure Pdf

During the Second World War, one of the largest British Commonwealth armies ever assembled fought the Japanese in South East Asia, first on the border between what was then British India and Burma and then pushing deeper into Burma itself. Supporting the Fourteenth Army were an intrepid group of women known colloquially as the Wasbies - the Women's Auxilliary Service (Burma) or WAS(B). This is the story of how Maria Pilbrow faced menace and heartbreak yet coped with fortitude and determination. In the course of her life she overcame loss, anguish, danger and desperation. She survived the jungle horrors and, after the war ended, again found love and the security she craved only to have them ripped away once more. She was forced to rebuild her life anew which she achieved with the friendship and support of her Wasbie friends. Astonishingly, there is very little information about the work of the Wasbies and no full-length book has been written which gives an account of their exploits - until now. For the first time in book form Front Line and Fortitudeprovides a personal record of these brave women and their magnificent contribution to the war effort. The book is based on and expanded from Maria Pilbrow's original diary, and her niece, Elizabeth Lockhart-Mure discovered her diary after Maria's death, and told this extraordinary story.

Author : Xinran
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781451610949

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Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother by Xinran Pdf

Originally published in Great Britain in 2010 by Chatto & Windus.

Author : Renée Taylor,Joseph Bologna
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0573693986

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Love Allways by Renée Taylor,Joseph Bologna Pdf

Author : Samuel Taylor
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : American drama
ISBN : 0573650268

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Perfect Pitch by Samuel Taylor Pdf

Author : Daisy-Jane Maxwell
Publisher : Austin Macauley Publishers
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781528962704

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Elizabeth by Daisy-Jane Maxwell Pdf

Elizabeth has passed through time, a witness to the great strengths and weaknesses of humanity. Trapped in an ageless body by her long-lost love, Elizabeth hides from the changing world in inconspicuous places, biding her time while she seeks the answer to the question that has burned within her since she was a girl: 'What is her purpose?' Little does she know that her world would soon be tipped upside down, her age-old question would be answered and a Guardian will rise through the darkness! Elizabeth is the first book in the series Blood-Rose Guardians. It is with Elizabeth Rose Smith that the journey, and indeed adventures, begins. Book 1 introduces the Guardians - a bloodline of warriors who, against all odds, will fight for the dominion of the Light.

Author : Christopher Petkanas
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781250161420

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Loulou & Yves by Christopher Petkanas Pdf

No one interested in fashion, style, or the high-flying intrigues of café society will want to miss Christopher Petkanas’s exuberantly entertaining oral biography Loulou & Yves: The Untold Story of Loulou de La Falaise and the House of Saint Laurent. Dauntless, “in the bone” style made Loulou de La Falaise one of the great fashion firebrands of the twentieth century. Descending in a direct line from Coco Chanel and Elsa Schiaparelli, she was celebrated at her death in 2011, aged just sixty-four, as the “highest of haute bohemia,” a feckless adventuress in the art of living—and the one person Yves Saint Laurent could not live without. Yves was the most influential designer of his times; possibly also the most neurasthenic. In an exquisitely intimate, sometimes painful personal and professional relationship, Loulou was his creative right hand, muse, alter ego and the virtuoso behind all the flamboyant accessories that were a crucial component of the YSL “look.” For thirty years, until his retirement in 2002, Yves relied on Loulou to inspire him, make him laugh and talk him off the ledge—the enchanted formula that brought him from one historic collection to the next. Yves’s many tributes shape Loulou’s memory, as if everything there was to know about this fugitive, Giacometti-like figure could be told by her clanking bronze cuffs, towering fur toques, the turquoise boulders on her fingers and her working friendship with the man who put women in pants. But another, darker story lifts the veil on Loulou, a classic “number two” with a contempt for convention, and exposes the underbelly of fashion at its highest level. Behind Yves’s encomiums are a pair of aristocrat parents—Loulou’s shiftless French father and menacingly chic English mother—who abandoned her to a childhood of foster care and sexual abuse; Loulou’s recurring desperation to leave Yves and go out on her own; and the grandiose myths surrounding her family. Loulou felt that her life had been kidnapped by the operatic workings of the House of Saint Laurent, and in her last years faced financial ruin. Loulou & Yves unspools an elusive fashion idol—nymphomaniacal, heedless and up to her bracelets in coke and Boizel champagne—at the core of what used to be called “le beau monde.”

Author : Jason Milligan
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Acting
ISBN : 0573695504

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His & Hers by Jason Milligan Pdf

Author : Neil Simon
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0573609713

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The Good Doctor by Neil Simon Pdf

A collection of vignettes including an old woman who storms a bank and upbraids the manager for his gout and lack of money, a father who takes his son to a house for sex only to relent at the last moment, a grafty seducer who realizes it is the married woman who is in command, the tale of a man who offers to drown himself for three rubles, etc.

Author : Phil Alexander
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-12
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190064440

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Sounding Jewish in Berlin by Phil Alexander Pdf

How can a traditional music with little apparent historical connection to Berlin become a way of hearing and making sense of the bustling German capital in the twenty-first century? In Sounding Jewish in Berlin, author Phil Alexander explores the dialogue between the city's contemporary klezmer scene and the street-level creativity that has become a hallmark of Berlin's decidedly modern urbanity and cosmopolitanism. By tracing how klezmer music engages with the spaces and symbolic meanings of the city, Alexander sheds light on how this Eastern European Jewish folk music has become not just a product but also a producer of Berlin. This engaging study of Berlin's dynamic Yiddish music scene brings together ethnomusicology, cultural studies, and urban geography to evoke the sounds, atmospheres, and performance spaces through which klezmer musicians have built a lively set of musical networks in the city. Transcending a restrictive framework that considers this music solely in the context of troubled German-Jewish history and notions of guilt and absence, Alexander shows how Berlin's current klezmer communitya diverse group of Jewish and non-Jewish performersimaginatively blend the genre's traditional musical language with characteristically local tones to forge an adaptable and distinctively twenty-first-century version of klezmer. Ultimately, the music's vital presence in Berlin is powerful evidence that if traditional music is to remain audible amid the noise of the urban, it must become a meaningful part of that noise.

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1074 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : Copyright
ISBN : STANFORD:36105006281302

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Catalog of Copyright Entries by Library of Congress. Copyright Office Pdf

Author : Nicky Cruz
Publisher : WaterBrook
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780307551269

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Soul Obsession by Nicky Cruz Pdf

New from the author of the best-selling Christian classic, Run Baby Run. The God we love is passionate about finding lost souls, with freeing human hearts enslaved to sin. To truly know God, this must become our life’s driving desire as well… our Soul Obsession. And when we fall obediently in step with God, we’ll see Him perform miracles through us to rescue people and give them new life. In his powerful new book, internationally known author Nicky Cruz shares powerful personal stories of faithful obedience, even in the midst of difficult circumstances–including the amazing story of his mother’s deathbed conversion and healing. You, too, can move past doubts, understand both the natural and supernatural worlds, and develop a faith that can move any mountain, no matter how high or wide or difficult. “Do we truly understand the power we have at our fingertips? Do we grasp the significance of the message that we bring to a lost world? Do we comprehend how easily evil can be beaten and revoked by simply opening ourselves up to the moving of the Holy Spirit among us? Do we know what God is capable of doing among us? “If you want to change the world, begin by letting God change you. By letting the passion of Jesus become your passion. By letting the Holy Spirit be your only guide and mentor, every step, every minute of the day. By allowing God to set your heart on fire with a Soul Obsession!”–Nicky Cruz

Author : Enid Bagnold
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0573612048

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A Matter of Gravity by Enid Bagnold Pdf

At its center is eccentric dowager Mrs. Basil, who chooses to live in only one room of her Oxford mansion. Her quiet existence is disrupted by the arrival of her grandson Nicky and four of his friends and new cook-housekeeper Dubois, who startles the mistress of the house by levitating in the air. The miracle confounds the woman, who begins to question her lifelong belief that God does not exist.\