Books - Ray Connolly

For schoolteacher Jenny her basement in the River House is the perfect home, while for divorced art restorer, Richard, his attic flat is an ideal studio. So, along with the other tenants, they are dismayed when a new landlord plans to redevelop the property, and, ignoring their legal rights, demands that they leave. When they refuse, the electricity is cut off and the locks are changed.

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Within a few days of interviewing Elvis Presley, Ray Connolly was answering Bob Dylan’s questions about the Elvis encounter. A week later it was the turn of John Lennon to ask the same questions. No matter how famous a star might be, he or she is always in awe of someone who went before. For Dylan and Lennon it was Elvis.

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A novella based on Ray Connolly’s radio play of the same name, is now available from Amazon.

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This is Ray Connolly’s first novel, about a show business columnist into whose life a young nurse appears, creating “a tension which douses the dazzle of club-life, film stars, fashion models and glittering parties” that the columnist had been enjoying.

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In a small university town, two old friends meet for the first time in twenty years. Father Michael, the priest with the leather jacket and the rock’n’roll guitar… and Jimmy, the cynical visiting academic. Twenty years ago, they’d played their music together and dreamed of making the big time. Now, together again by chance, the old cycle moves round once more. Mary, attractive available and in need of a man, draws them both to her. Just as another girl had drawn them both, so many years ago, when she cut the wounds of lost innocence and cruel betrayal that are about to open once again…

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Jim McClaine is a product of the fifties.When boys were spotty and girls were out of reach-and nobody could play rock music like the Americans. Jim opts out of the academic rat-race and lives out his fantasies working for a holiday camp and a fair. But the humdrum realities of life don’t seem to have much to do with James Dean, Marlon Brando or Chuck Berry….

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The extraordinary decade of the 1960’s was always slightly out of sync. It began late – with a remarkable flourish in 1963 with The Beatles, That Was the Week That Was, the Profumo affair and the Great Train Robbery all competing in an atmosphere of giggling frivolity for newspaper headlines – and ended in the early seventies in disillusionment, growing unemployment and accelerating inflation.

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In this anthology Ray Connolly looks at the Sixties, and the momentous events that shaped the decade, through the eyes of the journalists who witnessed them and depicted what they saw. Encapsulates some of the very best journalism from the Sixties. Includes articles by writers such as Alistair Cooke and Irma Kurtz.

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An attractive academic in her late forties asks an Indian young man of twenty to mend her computer…; a timid little boy and pretty little girl meet at a playgroup…; a sad widower, gets in touch with a girl he met for just one night fifty years earlier…; a wife remembers a one night stand she had with a neighbour’s husband when she fears she’s about to be found out…; a lonely man is flattered but puzzled when a beautiful woman wants to spend time with him…; and an unemployed father will do anything so that he afford to give his wife and children a merry Christmas…

A handful of short stories in a short book about love in its different shapes.