Alan Clark: A Life in his Own Words

Author: Alan Clark
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN: 1780220359
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 841

Book Description
Some of the most talked about books of recent years, Alan Clark's diaries provide a witty and irreverant insider's account of political life in Britain. Now in one volume. 'From the moment the first scabrous and brilliant volume was published, people wanted more. Now they have it and they will not be disappointed... These diaries are not wonderful simply because they show a politician unafraid to say what he thinks, and refusing to suck up to those whom he represents. They are great because they show all sides of a man who was, within his complex personality, arrogant, sensitive, loyal, unfaithful, patriotic, selfish, selfless, and - at all times - completely Technicolour' Simon Heffner, DAILY MAIL

Alan Clark

Author: Ion Trewin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780753827062
Category : Diarists
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Celebrated diarist, famous womaniser, Tory MP and controversial minister - a castle-owning toff and lecherous cad to some, to others a colourful and life-enhancing figure - Alan Clark was politically incorrect before the term was invented. He is best remembered for his sensational diaries - but what of the man? Alan Clark rarely spoke about his upbringing, even to his family. Was it as unhappy as he hinted? Ion Trewin has had unrestricted access to extensive family papers (including twenty years of unpublished diaries). He has talked to politicians, to those who knew him at the prep school which burnt down, to friends at Eton and Oxford, and to some of the many women he found impossible to resist despite a loving marriage of forty-one years. From his struggles to teach himself to write to formidable historian and diarist, from his enthusiasm for Margaret Thatcher to the 'drunk at the Commons dispatch box' affair, ALAN CLARK THE BIOGRAPHY is a revealing and absorbing account of a remarkable and unforgettable man.

Aces High

Author: Alan Clark
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1448201519
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 147

Book Description
Aces High is the vivid chronicle of aerial warfare over the Western Front in World War One and the personalities that characterised the era. These were the airmen who became legends in their own lifetimes: Albert Ball, Manfred von Richthofen (also known as the Red Baron), Mick Mannock, René Fonck and Georges Guynemer. The key to maintaining military superiority was by perfecting the aeroplane, which meant many of these pilots were flying dangerous, untested machines. From the birth of powered flight for reconnaissance purposes to the development of strategic bombing and the creation of the Royal Air Force in 1918, this was as much a war of technological advances as it was of skill and endurance.

Diaries

Author: Alan Clark
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1780221282
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 305

Book Description
The first volume of the 20th century's most phenomenally successful diaries, published alongside first paperback of THE LAST DIARIES. INTO POLITICS begins in 1973 with Clark's selection as Tory candidate for Nancy Astor's old seat in Plymouth (rival candidates included future Conservative luminaries Michael Howard and Norman Fowler). Alan Clark describes his election to the Commons in the 1974 general election; his years as a backbencher coincide with Edward Heath as PM, his downfall and the arrival of Margaret Thatcher. This volume ends with the inside story of the Falklands War. In his private life Alan and his wife Jane and their two young sons take over Saltwood Castle, previously the home of his father Kenneth (Civilisation) Clark. His enthusiasms for the estate, skiing, fast cars and girls are never far away.

The Assassin's Cloak

Author: Irene Taylor
Publisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 1838852921
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 960

Book Description
'A diary is an assassin's cloak which we wear when we stab a comrade in the back with a pen', wrote William Soutar in 1934. But a diary is also a place for recording everyday thoughts and special occasions, private fears and hopeful dreams. The Assassin's Cloak gathers together some of the most entertaining and inspiring entries for each day of the year, as writers ranging from Queen Victoria to Andy Warhol, Samuel Pepys to Adrian Mole, pen their musings on the historic and the mundane. Spanning centuries and international in scope, this peerless anthology pays tribute to a genre that is at once the most intimate and public of all literary forms. This new updated edition is published to mark the twentieth anniversary of the book's original publication.

Alan Clark: A Life in his Own Words

Author: Alan Clark
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1780220359
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 841

The Last Diaries

Author: Alan Clark
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN: 1780221304
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 482

Book Description
'With his Diaries, he has written himself into the life of our times with a panache and candour that ranks him next to Boswell or Pepys' The Times The first two volumes of Alan Clark's were irresistible, irreverent, infamous, outrageous. This last volume is a fitting finale to the work of a man who has been described as 'the best diarist of his century'. The third volume begins in 1991 with Alan Clark contemplating quitting as an MP. Life at Saltwood Castle, his home, hangs heavy; then comes the Scott inquiry and the Matrix Churchill affair. Publication of the first volume of the Diaries leads 'the coven', a family of former girlfriends, to sell their story to the NEWS OF THE WORLD. This volume follows his attempts to return to Westminster, an affair that threatens his marriage, and closes with the tragedy of his final months when he is diagnosed with a brain tumour, but keeps his diary until he can no longer focus on the page.

A Parliament of Crows

Author: Alan M. Clark
Publisher: IFD Publishing
ISBN: 9780998846668
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 162

Book Description
Always in mourning clothes, secretive, devious, and deadly, the three Mortlow sisters might appear to be long lost members of the Addams Family or characters drawn by Edward Gorey. But their depiction is inspired by the Wardlaw sisters, actual criminals from history. The story of their lives and crimes is the very definition of Southern Gothic.

Educated Ranting

Author: Brad Alan Clark
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN: 1480954225
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 149

Book Description
Educated Ranting: B.A.C. Precious Speeches By: Brad Alan Clark Educated Ranting: B.A.C. Precious Speeches is a book that spans many different genres – education, self-improvement, current events, and more, all presented with relevant and personal short stories from author Brad Alan Clark’s life. The overall theme of this work is to challenge readers to learn about every subject in his or her life. Living life and all the situations, events, and encounters prompted Mr. Clark to write the book. His wish is that all who read the words of this work will be able to find and live a better life.

Diaries: In Power

Author: Alan Clark
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN: 1780221290
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 310

Book Description
The second volume of Alan Clark's bestselling DIARIES, covering the downfall of Margaret Thatcher The first volume of Alan Clark's diaries, covering two Parliaments during which he served under Margaret Thatcher - until her ousting in a coup which Clark observed closely from the inside - and then under John Major, constitute the most outspoken and revealing account of British political life ever written. Cabinet colleagues, royalty, ambassadors, civil servants and foreign dignitaries are all subjected to Clark's vivid and often wittily acerbic pen, as he candidly records the daily struggle for ascendancy within the corridors of power.