Hancock
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Through deep friendships and love lost and found, from the peace marches of the fifties and the flowering of the swinging sixties, to the rise of Thatcher and the battle for gay rights, to the spectre of a new war, Sheila Hancock has created a powerful, panoramic portrait of Britain through the life of one very singular woman.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
When John Thaw, star of The Sweeney and Inspector Morse, died from cancer in 2002, a nation lost one of its finest actors and Sheila Hancock lost a beloved husband. In this unique double biography she chronicles their lives - personal and professional, together and apart. John Thaw was born in Manchester, the son of a lorry driver. When he arrived at RADA on a scholarship he felt an outsider. In fact his timing was perfect: it was the sixties and...
3) Just me
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Well now, prove it, Sheila. As John would say, "Put your money where your mouth is." Be a depressed widow boring the arse off everyone, or get on with life. Your choice.' In The Two of Us Sheila Hancock relived her life with John Thaw - years packed with love and family, work and houses, delight and despair. And then she looked ahead. What next? Gardening, grannying and grumbling, while they all had their pleasures, weren't going to fill the...
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Driving down to the cottage in Southwold she's newly inherited from her Aunty May, Ellie senses she is on the edge of something new. The life she's always dreamed of living as a successful artist seems as though it is about to begin. So excited is she that she barely notices when the car bumps against something on the road. That evening Ellie hears a news flash on the radio. A man was seriously injured in a hit and run on the very road she was driving...
5) Tideline
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
One winter's afternoon, voice coach Sonia opens the door of her beautiful riverside home to 15-year-old Jex, the nephew of a family friend. He's come to borrow some music. Sonia invites him in and soon decides that she isn't going to let him leave.
Author
Publisher
Century
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
In a drastic re-evaluation of man's past, using the high-tech tools of modern archaeology, geology and astronomy, Hancock exposes the network of connections between Egyptian pyramids, Andean temples, spherical geometry, and astro-navigation.
Author
Series
Thomlinson Library volume 1211
Publisher
printed by S. Roycroft, for Thomas Flesher, at the Angel and Crown in St. Paul's Church-Yard
Pub. Date
1682
Language
English