12. Charlie Connelly

12. Charlie Connelly

By Daisy Buchanan

This week we're travelling to sunny Deal on the Kent coast to peruse the shelving of author, travel writer, sports scribe and broadcaster Charlie Connelly. Charlie has written books on a baffling array of subjects including Elvis, walking, weather and World War I. He is perhaps best known for his glorious book about the Shipping Forecast, Attention All Shipping and he has just released a wonderful book about the magic of radio listening, Last Train To Hilversum. We talked to Charlie about cricket, gothic plagiarists, fighting Ben Fogle and loving Margaret Rutherford.


BOOKS (CLICK ON THE TITLES FOR MORE)


Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood


Charlie Connelly - Last Train to Hilversum


Charlie Connelly - Attention All Shipping


David Seabrook - All The Devils Are Here


James Joyce - Ulysses


John Betjeman - The Best of Betjeman


Nick Hornby - Fever Pitch


Jan Morris - Fifty Years of Europe: An Album


Jan Morris - Conundrum


Jan Morris - In My Mind’s Eye: A Thought Diary


Jan Morris - The Matter of Wales 


Bill Naughton - The Goalkeeper’s Revenge


Gordon Boshell - Captain Cobwebb


Gordon Bushell - Captain Cobwebb’s Cowboys


Ronnie Barker - Book of Bathing Beauties


Ronnie Barker - Book of Boudoir Beauties


Leonard De Vries - ‘Orrible Murder


Melatu Uche Okorie - This Hostel Life


Margaret Rutherford - How Pleasant To Know Mr Lear


Margaret Rutherford - Autobiography


Maggie Stredder - The Girl With the Glasses


Alan Stafford - Wilson, Keppel and Betty: Too Naked For The Nazis


Emer McLysaght and Sarah Breen - Oh My God What a Complete Aisling


Various - 65 Great Tales of the Supernatural


Charles Maturin - Melmoth the Wanderer


Sarah Perry - Melmoth


Sarah Perry - The Essex Serpent


Bram Stoker - Dracula


Isak Dinesen - Gothic Tales


Various - Oxford Book of Gothic Tales


Peter Haining - The Shilling Shockers


Matthew Lewis - The Monk


Various - Wisden Cricketers' Almanack


Charlie Connelly - Gilbert: The Last Days of WG Grace


Bella Bathurst - The Lighthouse Stevensons


Douglas Adams - The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy


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