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Richard E. Grant emigrated from Swaziland to London in 1982, with dreams of making it as an actor. Unexpectedly, he met and fell in love with a renowned dialect coach Joan Washington. Their relationship and marriage, navigating the highs and lows of Hollywood, parenthood, and loss, lasted almost forty years. When Joan died in 2021, her final challenge to him was to find a “pocketful of happiness in every day.”

Richard E. Grant’s life changed almost overnight when he was cast as the lead in Withnail & I in 1986. He kept a diary of the experience, the bestselling With Nails, and now it is published for the first time in audio, read by the author. Funny and revealing, told with trademark candour, join Richard E. Grant on the shoot of a lifetime.

Natchez, Mississippi, once had more millionaires per capita than anywhere else in America, and its wealth was built on slavery and cotton. Today it has the greatest concentration of antebellum mansions in the South, and a culture full of unexpected contradictions. Prominent White families dress up in hoopskirts and Confederate uniforms for ritual celebrations of the Old South, yet Natchez is also progressive enough to elect a gay Black man for mayor with 91 percent of the vote.

When Richard Grant and his wife moved with their four-year-old daughter back to Tucson, Arizona, where the couple first met, he expected to easily rekindle his love of the region. Instead, he found a housing market gone haywire, rampant election conspiracies, and right-wing political violence alarmingly close to his home and family. In A Race to the Bottom of Crazy, Grant mixes memoir, research, and reporting in a quest to understand what makes Arizona such a confounding and irresistible place

Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society. In this volume we offer up a small selection of talents from the literary landscape of 1800 to 1849 and its male authors whose time has now come again.

This book will teach you how to achieve weight loss through intermittent fasting. It is beginner-friendly and written with simple terminologies for everyone to enjoy. It also contains detailed explanations of other weight-loss strategies that complement intermittent fasting, which you can incorporate to rapidly lose weight.

Here are the very personal diaries of Richard E. Grant's debut behind the camera, as writer and director of his autobiographical movie of the same name.

It is both a fascinating insight into the intrigues and agonies he encounters along the way, and also a deeply moving portrait of his childhood and his love affair with Swaziland, where he was born and brought up during the last throes of the British Empire.

A gripping novel of historical espionage, about an 11th-hour attempt by members of the German elite to unseat Adolf Hitler, and its endlessly complex consequences. In late 1937, the young lieutenant Oskar Langweil is recruited to this cause while attending a party at the lavish home of a baroness. A high-ranking officer in Germany's counterintelligence agency brings Oskar into the fold because of their mutual involvement in a patriotic youth league, and soon dispatches him to Washington, DC.

Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, and Moses; Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John; The Lord's Supper and the Lord's Prayer; The Good Samaritan, the Parable of the Sower, and 12-step recovery programs all make an appearance in this amazing scriptural expository of the Myers-Briggs personality types. (And believe it or not, Captain Kirk, Scotty, Bones, and Spock pop in to make important points as well!) You'll feel as though you're staring into the mirror of your life.

With his “wildly honest, funny, and inspiring memoir,” Jeremy shares the ups, downs, and all-arounds that led him from the perpetuity of the vice principal’s office and being chased by the cops to living the soaring life of a ‘high-altitude mindset.’ In both his short-term ‘failures’ and his overarching joys, Jeremy shows and tells and entertains as he lays out a plan for ultimate and awakened consciousness in this life—right now.