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THE PERFECT BIRTHDAY OR CHRISTMAS GIFT
THE DATE ESCAPE
Hardback 375 pages - signed first edition - £17 Free Postage
The perfect birthday or celebration gift. Every day of the year celebrated in rhyme including events, birthdays, inventions and even deaths. Discover who shares a birthday with who in an interesting way.
If you wish the book to be dedicated to someone special you can email rdigance@btinternet.com with your message and it will be signed upon purchase.
SAMPLE PAGE
JANUARY 1
New Year and a thumping head
Celebrations and late to bed
Oh well serves you right
You should have had an early night
This day in 1660 came to be
Samuel Pepys’s famous diary
Longer than yours and longer than mine
He kept going until 1669
Sam wrote in long-hand painfully slow
Well he had little choice so long ago
1962 The Beatles auditioned this day
But Decca Records sent them away
After their songs the executives heard
Brian Poole and the Tremeloes the bosses preferred
In 1964 the penny drops
On the very first showing of Top Of The Pops
This day under protest the EEC
In 1958 came to be
De Gaulle originally blocked Britain’s advance
Ignoring what they’d done to liberate France
Births; 1933 Joe Orton, dramatist, 1895 J Edgar Hoover
1912 Kim Philby, spy
Deaths; Alexis Korner, blues guitarist 1984
Quickies
1955 Luncheon vouchers arrived.
1896 German physicist, Wilhelm Rontgen, developed x-rays.
1975 Charlie Chaplin received a knighthood.
HOW I MET ISAMBARD KINGDOM BRUNEL
Hardback 235 pages - signed first edition - £15 inc P&P
The true story of how a remarkable friendship began at a museum with Britain's Greatest Briton, a man who died in 1859, when Richard touched his original signature on a letter he had written to Florence Nightingale. The result was a musical audiobook and this book that describes how Richard visited the man's life, from birthplace in Portsmouth to his final resting place in London, and all stations in between.
VICTORIAN JACK
Bumper 450 page paperback - £12 inc P&P (signed first edition)
What must it have been like being on the road in Victorian times? A new fun novel that tells the story of a ficticious Victorian music hall star, the first successful ventriloquist, with a romantic social life that had more ups and downs than his act. He didn't fall in love, he tumbled, many times.
NEW BOOK - MY LIFE IN SHORT TROUSERS
Bumper 450 page hardback book available on Amazon - £25
The book that tells the life story of Richard the person and not the performer. A failed schoolkid who dreamt of becoming a professional footballer but settled as a shelf-stacker at Safeway until he discovered music and became an evergreen performer over five decades. Lots of fun and memories that may well trigger some of your own nostalgic moments from birthdays, Christmases and the school tuck shop.
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BOOKS THAT NEVER QUITE HAPPENED
Hardback, 239 pages signed by the author - £16
Richard at his funniest, a description of 100 titles and why they never quite happened. From Romeo and Gillian, to War Of The Worms, Fifty Shades of White, Under Milk Bottles and War and Pizza. It's fun and strangely informative.
SONGS THAT NEVER QUITE HAPPENED
Hardback, 260 pages, signed by the author - £16
Socket Man, I Got Flu Babe, Midnight Train To Glasgow, The Sound of Muesli and Another One Bites The Crust. It's fun and informative.
THE MAN WHO SUCKED SWEETS
Hardback, 224 pages, hilarious novel, signed by the author - £15
Michael is a high-ranking barrister with a passion for sweets. He also travels to court on a BMX bike. Like Peter Pan, he never grew up. A young author, Ruby Stevens, has had her book plagiarised and he takes on her case.