Books by Old Amplefordians

John Paul II - Man of History
Edward Stourton attempts to make sense of a remarkable life, and to rescue John Paul the man from the myths that have grown up around the cult of John Paul the Great. Neither the plaster saint, nor the wicked ultra conservative old man describe what is a genuinely complex and compelling story. The last pope was a bundle of paradoxes: a high intellectual who also believed in peasant cults, a moral conservative but a social radical, a champion of freedom who cracked down on dissent within the Church, the most modern of popes in the way he conveyed his messge but the most traditional in his ideas.

History formed him and explains much about him, but it is also true that this man shaped history.
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Snobs
For his first novel since winning the 2002 Academy Award for his script of Gosford Park, Julian Fellowes, has written a comedy of manners.

Edith Lavery, a middle class telephonist, marries into the aristocracy and raises eyebrows when she arranges for a TV company to make a period drama in the family home, Broughton Hall. (paperback)
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Touching the Void
by Joe Simpson. An account of how he survived a terrifying ordeal and injuries during a mountain-climbing expedition in the Andes. It has been made into an award winning film recently and a new epilogue has been added to the book.
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White Mughals
by William Dalrymple. James Kirkpatrick was the British representative at the court of the Nizam of Hyderabad when in 1798 he fell in love with a beautiful young Mughal princess, converted to Islam and married her. This romantic and ultimately tragic tale of love across boundaries took place in a world almost entirely unexplored by history. [Winner of the 2003 Wolfson History Prize.]
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The Monks of War
by Desmond Seward. The Templars, the Hospitallers (later Knights of Malta), the Teutonic Knights, and the Knights of the Spanish and Portugeuese orders were 'noblemen vowed to poverty, chastity and obedience, living a monastic life in convents which were at the same time barracks, waging war on the enemies of the Cross'. This celebrated book tells the whole enthralling story, recreating such epics as the sieges of Rhodes and Malta and the destruction of the Templars by the Inquisition. Acclaimed on publication, it has now been revised and updated, with a concluding chapter to take events into the 1990s.
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War Diary (Hugh Dormer)
Hugh Dormer's authentic diary of 15 months in 1943-44 captures the excitement and terror of SOE's secret operations. But it is the clarity of his understanding of the war as nothing less than the defence of Christian civilzation which gives the War Diary its greatness. The diary ends with his account of the D-Day landings, and the armoured push into Normandy in which he was killed..
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Supping with the Devils
This book brings together Hugo Young's incisive commentary and analysis, covering the Thatcher years, her resignation, the rise of New Labour and the war in Iraq. These articles are drawn from The Guardian, New Yorker and The London Review of Books et al. They confirm Hugo Young's reputation as our most influential and morally engaged commentator.
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Remembering India
by Sir David Goodall GCMG.

Fifty one of his watercolours of India have been brught together to mark the 50th Anniversary of Indian Independence, one for each year since Independnece and one for the future. Sir David Goodall was the first British High Commissioner to have followed in the footsteps of the great watercolourists of earlier centuries. Although he learnt to paint at Ampleforth from Fr Raphael Williams, but only undertook it seriously 20 years ago after reading Sir Winston Churchill's 'Painting as a Pastime'.
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Ryedale Pilgrimage
by Sir David Goodall GCMG. When Sir David was a boy at Ampleforth College more than 50 years ago he, with many others, contributed to a little guidebook to the neighbourhood called 'The Ampleforth Country'. Living nearby now in retirement he has undertaken here 52 watercolours of the churches in Ryedale, each supported by informative, witty and affectionate descriptive text.
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