“QUOTE ... UNQUOTE”
NEW BOOKS AND E-BOOKS
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My
autobiography is now published as a paperback and as an e-book – and here it
is. I became ‘broadcasting-struck’ at a
very early age but, although I maintained my ambition to go in to radio or
television when I grew up, through school in Liverpool and at university in
Oxford, I had no very clear idea of what I wanted to do if and when I got
there. This is the story of how I
eventually found out what I wanted to do in broadcasting – and how I found a
way of doing it ...
Go to the Kindle store at amazon.com,
amazon.co.uk or your local amazon for more details. A small note: you don’t actually have to have
a Kindle to read Kindle e-books. You can download (for free) a ‘Kindle for PC’
program that lets you view the books on your PC screen and on other devices.
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My
latest hardback book is published by Batsford, is
entitled Don’t You Know There’s a War On!
and sub-titled Words
and Phrases from the World Wars.
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From ‘Your country needs you’ to Churchill’s ‘Blood, toil, tears and sweat’,
this fascinating book is a wide-ranging exploration of words and phrases from
the two world wars.
• Covers
phrases from both home and abroad, including military terms (‘dreadnought’),
political slogans (‘a bayonet is a weapon with a worker at each end’), slang
used by soldiers abroad (‘basket case’) and comic radio-show catchphrases
(‘this is Funf speaking’).
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Packed with information on the provenance and development of these intriguing,
quirky and sometimes crude phrases that were born out of times of conflict and
have become part of our language.
My substantial tome A Word In Your
Shell-Like is already available as a Kindle e-book and seems to be doing
well. Accordingly, I have it in mind to
produce Kindle editions of several on the backlist of my reference and other
books. Apart from keeping the books
available, it will also enable me to update them, correct them and generally
revive them.
First out was a Kindle version of my five collections of humorous and
pointed graffiti which, it is not an exaggeration to say, were a publishing
phenomenon of the early 1980s and sold millions of copies. I have long wanted to produce a ‘complete
graffiti’ book and now I have done so.
Called The Golden Age of Graffiti, the e-book brings together the
text of the five collections, more or less exactly as originally
published. In addition there are photos
from my archive of some of the major graffiti, background notes on the most
famous ones, as well as thoughts on what has happened to the type of graffiti
jokes and stuff that was so current back then but which has now all but
disappeared under the spray-painted rubbish that bedaubs so many of our cities today. This
e-book is available from the Kindle store at amazon.com, amazon.co.uk and amazon,de.
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Also available now are e-books by me, with the generic title The Best Guide to –––––
This is the biggest, best and funniest collection of humorous
quotations you will find, embracing as it does over 5,000 comic utterances of
all types: aphorisms and epigrams, retorts and putdowns, quips and one-liners, sayings
and proverbs, together with examples of unintentional humour such as gaffes and
malapropisms.
The quotations are drawn from a world-class cast of wits and humorists:
comedians, novelists, playwrights, journalists, politicians, actors,
songwriters and many others. Oscar
Wilde, Mark Twain, Noël Coward and Woody Allen are, of course, well represented
but hundreds of other exponents of the bon mot are included here, even if they
have brightened the world with only one or two of their sayings.
Nigel Rees draws on over 35 years experience of
sourcing quotations through his BBC Radio show Quote ... Unquote. This is
not just another collection of funny sayings, it is the ultimate authority on
who actually said what and is a major attempt to pin down the quotations that
readers really want to know about. Using
the search button you can find what you are looking for in The BEST GUIDE to HUMOROUS QUOTATIONS whether it be
through a word or phrase or under one of the 1,200 thematic headings.
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And then:
From
a database of some 10,000 quotes, I have selected a breathtakingly
comprehensive and entertaining collection from all areas of cinema. Great and memorable lines from the movies are
coupled with quotable comments by and about film-makers and film-goers. This specially revised e-book also celebrates
the language of the movies – the catchphrases and titles, the slogans and
clichés. Above all The Best Guide to Movie Quotes hears from the professionals – the
actors, directors, producers, writers and critics – and tells us what they
love, loathe and lament about the business, the pictures, the
players – and about each other.
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