Most Popular Books by Hunter Davies

On 8 February 2016, Margaret Forster lost her life to cancer of the spine. For her husband, Hunter Davies, the days that followed were carried out on autopilot: arrangements to be made, family and friends to be contacted. But how do you cope after you have lost your loved one? As Hunter discovers what it means to be alone again after fifty-five years of marriage, he shares the wisdom and lessons he has learnt along the way. Charting his emotional journey, as well as the often ignored practical implications of becoming widowed, Hunter discovers that, ultimately, while bricks and mortar may change, the memories will always remain. Part memoir, part self-help, HAPPY OLD ME is the account of one year in Hunter Davies'' life, navigating bereavement and finding hope in the future.

Relative Strangers is a history of adoption in Britain, and the true-life tale of the seventy-one-year-old Hodder triplets. The book tells the unique and moving story of how the triplets, adopted as babies in 1932, were reunited in June 2001 - the first time the three of them had been together since their birth. Their life stories and how they found each other again are interspersed with the story of adoption, which began as a legal phenomenon in the UK in 1926. The book also describes the twenty-five-year legal battle fought by NORCAP (the National Organisation for the Counselling of Children and Parents) to change the adoption laws, which helped to bring the triplets, and other adoptees, together again. Hunter Davies is one of Britain''s most sympathetic and thoughtful interviewers, and the author of over thirty books. He has interviewed the triplets at length and has had access through NORCAP to other case histories, which are themselves profoundly affecting

A primeira coletânea dos manuscritos dos Beatles Hunter Davies conviveu com os Beatles no apogeu da banda e escreveu a primeira e única biografia autorizada do grupo. Desde então, pesquisou e encontrou mais de cem letras de músicas escritas à mão, que são reproduzidas aqui de maneira inédita. O quarteto compunha a qualquer hora, em qualquer lugar: as músicas podiam começar no verso de um envelope, num guardanapo ou num papel de carta de hotel. Estes escritos, entre eles vários rascunhos e versões revisadas, propiciam uma visão única e íntima do marcante processo criativo dos maiores compositores de música popular de todos os tempos: o que eles pensavam, como mudavam de ideia e de que maneira realizavam suas composições, hoje conhecidas em todo o mundo. Cada música é apresentada aqui em seu contexto: o que os Beatles estavam fazendo naquele momento, como compuseram e gravaram a faixa, como a primeira versão difere da final. Quase todas as canções dos Beatles têm uma grande história por trás, de "Yesterday" e "Eleanor Rigby" a "Yellow Submarine". Embarque nesta viagem aos bastidores destas obrasprimas do pop. Pela primeira vez, as versões originais das letras mais famosas dos Beatles agrupadas em livro! Atualmente, esses documentos pertencem a colecionadores e a amigos dos integrantes da banda, muitos deles sob a custódia de museus e universidades mundo afora.

The Labour Party, the Daily Express, West Ham United FC, Birmingham University and the opera Tosca all have one thing in common with the Queen Mother. They all first saw the light of day in the year 1900. Author and interviewer Hunter Davies follows the century through these people and institutions, exploring how we live now and how we lived then. Why isn''t education as valued today? Where are the great philanthropists? Why does work have so little meaning when it''s all people do? These are some of the questions provoked by Hunter Davies'' interviewees and their candid recollections of being born with the century. Amid huge technological changes, it is the lack of community and the belief of most people that they now live in an uncaring world, that appears to define the century''s end.

Revised and expanded edition of the bestselling guide to Lakeland. ''The Good Guide is the answer to every tourist''s prayer, a comprehensive assessment which treads on toes as well as sparking off satisfied grins.'' Lakescene ''I think he was most unfair to Barrow.'' Town Clerk, Barrow ''You''ll wonder how you managed without it.'' Yorkshire Post Life is too short, holidays too precious, to waste time going to places which turn out draggy or boring. So the object is very simple - to guide you to all that is best to see and do in Lakeland, from mountains and lakes and walks to museums, hotels, restaurants and the latest tourist attractions. Amazing how each year new wonders appear, new places pop up, new services get offered. Also things close, go off, disappear. So it''s vital, if you are one of Lakeland''s 24 million visitors a year, to be as up to date, up to scratch as possible. Note well that this book contains no advertising, no payments have been received, unlike some guide books we could mention. And also that it has been written and researched here in Cumbria.

In conversation with Hunter Davies this is Dwight Yorke''''s own account of his rise to superstardom at Old Trafford combined with Hunter Davies''''s interviews with the people Yorke met along his way.''

Wainwright''s biographer selects twenty of his and Wainwright''s favorite mountains and eloquently and entertainingly introduces them to the reader, with an account of how they came to be chosen.

Wimbledon manager Joe Kinnear reveals the secrets of his success in this autobiography. A stylish wing-back in the Tottenham side of the late 70s and 80s, capped over 50 times for Northern Ireland, and now one of the top managers in the country, Kinnear has spent over 30 years in the game.

Credit has been crunched, banks hammered, the economy battered, prices up, hopes down. All classes are being urged to economise, make do and mend, spin things out, avoid waste. It has been ever thus. In times of War, General Strikes as well as Economic Disasters, Governments as well as agony aunts, do-gooders, magazines, books and manufacturers have always exhorted us to tighten the old belts. Hunter Davies looks back at a hundred years of handy, and often hilarious, exhortations as they were applied to Food, Children, Health, Clothing, the Home, Money and Savings. Some of the hints and advice are mystifying, but all are part of social history, and some could prove very useful in today''s economic climate. For instance, you really might want to turn some cold scraps of meat into a succulent new dish or knit some old bits of string together in order to make a jolly useful dishcloth…

With the help of the magic fur coat, Flossie disguises herself as her older sister.