This week we're travelling to sunny Deal on the Kent coast to peruse the shelving of author, travel writer, sports scribe and broadcaster Charlie Connelly. Charlie has written books on a baffling array of subjects including Elvis, walking, weather and World War I. He is perhaps best known for his glorious book about the Shipping Forecast, Attention All Shipping and he has just released a wonderful book about the magic of radio listening, Last Train To Hilversum. We talked to Charlie about cricket, gothic plagiarists, fighting Ben Fogle and loving Margaret Rutherford.
BOOKS (CLICK ON THE TITLES FOR MORE)
Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood
Charlie Connelly - Last Train to Hilversum
Charlie Connelly - Attention All Shipping
David Seabrook - All The Devils Are Here
John Betjeman - The Best of Betjeman
Jan Morris - Fifty Years of Europe: An Album
Jan Morris - In My Mind’s Eye: A Thought Diary
Jan Morris - The Matter of Wales
Bill Naughton - The Goalkeeper’s Revenge
Gordon Boshell - Captain Cobwebb
Gordon Bushell - Captain Cobwebb’s Cowboys
Ronnie Barker - Book of Bathing Beauties
Ronnie Barker - Book of Boudoir Beauties
Leonard De Vries - ‘Orrible Murder
Melatu Uche Okorie - This Hostel Life
Margaret Rutherford - How Pleasant To Know Mr Lear
Margaret Rutherford - Autobiography
Maggie Stredder - The Girl With the Glasses
Alan Stafford - Wilson, Keppel and Betty: Too Naked For The Nazis
Emer McLysaght and Sarah Breen - Oh My God What a Complete Aisling
Various - 65 Great Tales of the Supernatural
Charles Maturin - Melmoth the Wanderer
Sarah Perry - The Essex Serpent
Various - Oxford Book of Gothic Tales
Peter Haining - The Shilling Shockers
Various - Wisden Cricketers' Almanack
Charlie Connelly - Gilbert: The Last Days of WG Grace
Bella Bathurst - The Lighthouse Stevensons
Douglas Adams - The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
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