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Dry Bones by Richard Beard
Category: Fiction
The definitive novel about celebrity grave-robbing: completely original, very black, and very funny. Jay Mason is experiencing a crisis of faith. Disillusioned with his calling as a Deacon in the Anglican Church of Geneva, and estranged from his pregnant girlfriend, he's about to fall into the murky ...Show more
How to Beat the Australians by Richard Beard
Category: Sports and Hobbies
For 20 years, Australia has produced competitors so gritty they order sandwiches with sand in them. The nation placed fourth in the medals table at the Athens Olympics and have fielded Tour de France contenders, Davis Cup champions, and winning national soccer teams. For Richard Beard, soccer was the la ...Show more
Lazarus Is Dead by Richard Beard
Category: Fiction
Meet Lazarus: hero of the best story ever told about second chances. A novel like no other about a life like no other. Like most men in their early thirties, Lazarus has plans that don't involve dying. He is busy organising his sisters, his business and his women. Life is mostly good, until far away ...Show more
Muddied Oafs : The soul of rugby by Richard Beard
Category: Sport
There is Rugby Union: the fast, compelling, TV-friendly combat sport in which sponsored gladiators are sold on their ability to crash into each other at top speed, and sometimes even to avoid each other and score. And then there's rugger. Rugger was once the serious version of rugby, more than a mere ga ...Show more
Sad Little Men - Private Schools and the Ruin of England by Richard Beard
Category: History
'Read this book' ALASTAIR CAMPBELL'The most important book I've read this year' ADAM RUTHERFORDIn 1975, as a child, Richard Beard was sent away from his home to sleep in a dormitory. So were Boris Johnson and David Cameron.In those days a private boys' boarding school education was largely the same expe ...Show more
Sad Little Men - Private Schools and the Ruin of England by Richard Beard
Category: Politics
'Insanely readable and enjoyable' - TOM HOLLAND, author of DominionIn 1975, as a child, Richard Beard was sent away from his home to sleep in a dormitory. So were David Cameron and Boris Johnson.In those days a private boys' boarding school education was largely the same experience as it had been for ge ...Show more
The Day That Went Missing - A Family's Story by Richard Beard
Category: Biography
"Spellbinding, terrifying, deeply moving"-- an unflinching portrait of a family's silent grief, and the tragic death of a brother not spoken about for forty years (Joanna Rakoff).On a family summer holiday in Cornwall in 1978, Richard and his younger brother Nicholas are jumping in the waves. Suddenly, ...Show more
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