FRINGE BENEFITS
The Good, the Bad, the Beautiful...and the O'Briens
by Donough O'Brien
From the perilous pre-war Thirties, through the Forties and Fifties to the Swinging Sixties and beyond, this extraordinary memoir features a kaleidoscope of entertaining and unusual characters - actresses, advertising gurus and ancestors ... Celts and criminals ... debutantes and dictators ... the disgraced and the disgraceful ... girlfriends and guardsmen ... heroes and hedonists ... monarchs, murderers and musicians ... photographers and politicians ... pop stars and publicists ... racing drivers and reprobates ... schoolmasters and soldiers ... sinners, swimmers and spin doctors ... terrorists and two-lipped door snails ... thieves and trumpeters ... the middle of the road (literally) and the seriously fast - all these and many more race across the pages of this exhilarating book.
ISBN: 1-903071-20-X
Size: 246 x 189 mm
Pages: 352
Price: £19.99