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<body> <noscript> <div id="resultpage" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <div id="top"> <h1 xmlns:html="http://www.medialab.nl/schemas/aquabrowser/html" xmlns="">Catalogue and website search – Auckland City Libraries</h1> <form xmlns:html="http://www.medialab.nl/schemas/aquabrowser/html" id="searchform" action="accessible.ashx" method="GET" xmlns=""> <input class="inputfield" size="30" id="q" name="q" value=""></input> <input class="searchbutton" type="submit" value="Search"></input> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="find"></input> <input type="hidden" name="rctx" value="AAMAAAABAAAAAwAAAEJMAQAKYWNjZXNzaWJsZQAAAAAAAAAEZnJlYwAefGxpYnJhcnkvbWFyYy9hY2wtaWlpfGIyMzA5NDA3AAAAAAABAAAAAAAAAAJlbgAA/////wAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA="></input> <input type="hidden" name="cs" value="user"></input> <a href="help.aspx?skin=accessible&uilang=en" target="_blank">Help</a> </form>  <br /> </div> <head> <title>Trying to please / John Julius Norwich. - Catalogue and website search – Auckland City Libraries</title> </head> <body> <div id="fullrecordview"> <div id="content"> <h1>Trying to please / John Julius Norwich.</h1> <table class="dtable"> <tr> <th class="key">Publish info:</th> <td>Stanbridge, Dorset : The dovecote press, 2008.</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"> <div class="separator"></div> </td> </tr> <tr> <th class="key">ISBN:</th> <td>9781904349587<br />1904349587</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"> <div class="separator"></div> </td> </tr> <tr> <th class="key">Description:</th> <td>384 p., [24] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 25 cm.</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"> <div class="separator"></div> </td> </tr> <tr> <th class="key">Subject:</th> <td> <a href="accessible.ashx?q=subject:"Authors+Great+Britain+Biography."&rctx=AAMAAAABAAAAAwAAAEJMAQAKYWNjZXNzaWJsZQAAAAAAAAAEZnJlYwAefGxpYnJhcnkvbWFyYy9hY2wtaWlpfGIyMzA5NDA3AAAAAAABAAAAAAAAAAJlbgAA/////wAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA=">Authors -- Great Britain -- Biography.</a> <br /> <a href="accessible.ashx?q=subject:"Norwich%2c+John+Julius%2c+1929-"&rctx=AAMAAAABAAAAAwAAAEJMAQAKYWNjZXNzaWJsZQAAAAAAAAAEZnJlYwAefGxpYnJhcnkvbWFyYy9hY2wtaWlpfGIyMzA5NDA3AAAAAAABAAAAAAAAAAJlbgAA/////wAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA=">Norwich, John Julius, 1929-</a> <br /> <a href="accessible.ashx?q=subject:"Great+Britain+Politics+and+government+20th+century+Biography."&rctx=AAMAAAABAAAAAwAAAEJMAQAKYWNjZXNzaWJsZQAAAAAAAAAEZnJlYwAefGxpYnJhcnkvbWFyYy9hY2wtaWlpfGIyMzA5NDA3AAAAAAABAAAAAAAAAAJlbgAA/////wAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA=">Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 20th century -- Biography.</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"> <div class="separator"></div> </td> </tr> <tr> <th class="key">Note:</th> <td>Includes index.</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"> <div class="separator"></div> </td> </tr> <tr> <th class="key">Summary:</th> <td>In 1957 John Julius Cooper (later Norwich) was keeping open house in Beirut, {u2018}the Clapham Junction of the world{u2019}s air routes{u2019}.Guests were given dinner on the terrace, where the Coopers liked to watch their faces {u2018}as, promptly at ten minutes past nine, an immense, luminous grapefruit appeared from behind Sannine and climbed slowly up into the eastern sky{u2019}. JJ{u2019}s passions {u2014} for history, for Venice, for music {u2014} have always been enlivened by a sense of theatre: his books are erudite and entertaining. His mother, Lady Diana, took to the stage at the age of 30; she had some of the instincts of a stage manager, too, never more in demand than when she became the chatelaine of the British embassy in Paris after the war. His father, Duff Cooper, was a diplomat. JJ{u2019}s uncle, the Duke of Rutland, always had 60 or 70 people to Belvoir Castle over Christmas and New Year {u2014} JJ, as an only child, skipped merrily between the battlements and the cousins. The Coopers{u2019} weekend guests included H. G. Wells, the Churchills, and Hilaire Belloc, who sang ancient French songs in an old, cracked voice. JJ performed, too, for pocket money: there was never any question of not including him. He was a longed-for miracle {u2014} Diana was 37 and had been told she would never have children. She once told her son that by 1916 Duff Cooper was the only boy she{u2019}d ever danced with who was still alive. Duff drank hard and toured America to drum up support for the war. When it broke out, the 11-year-old JJ found himself spirited away for safety to a prep-school in Canada, an experience he seems to have enjoyed although it kept him away from his parents for a year. Eventually he returned to Eton, where a boy{u2019}s life was still largely a Victorian pantomime of fagging and hot buttered toast. His parents got the Paris embassy job in 1944, making JJ possibly the youngest British visitor to Paris since 1939; he flew there in an RAF transport, too. In splendid contravention of publishing fashion, these are memoirs of almost unalloyed happiness, and they recreate a world which seems, on the whole, safer, wittier and richer than our own.</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"> <div class="separator"></div> </td> </tr> <tr> <th class="key">Url for this record:</th> <td> <a href="http://search.aucklandcitylibraries.com/accessible.ashx?itemid=|library/marc/acl-iii|b2309407" target="_new">http://search.aucklandcitylibraries.com/accessible.ashx?itemid=|library/marc/acl-iii|b2309407</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"> <div class="separator"></div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"> <div class="separator"></div> </td> </tr> <tr> <th class="key">Tags:</th> <td> <a href="accessible.ashx?cmd=find&q=md_tags:autobiography&rctx=AAMAAAABAAAAAwAAAEJMAQAKYWNjZXNzaWJsZQAAAAAAAAAEZnJlYwAefGxpYnJhcnkvbWFyYy9hY2wtaWlpfGIyMzA5NDA3AAAAAAABAAAAAAAAAAJlbgAA/////wAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA=" title="count:2">autobiography</a>, <a href="accessible.ashx?cmd=find&q=md_tags:biography&rctx=AAMAAAABAAAAAwAAAEJMAQAKYWNjZXNzaWJsZQAAAAAAAAAEZnJlYwAefGxpYnJhcnkvbWFyYy9hY2wtaWlpfGIyMzA5NDA3AAAAAAABAAAAAAAAAAJlbgAA/////wAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA=" title="count:1">biography</a></td> </tr> </table> <div id="sideinfo"> <div id="coverimage"> <img src="http://www.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781904349587/mc.gif&upc=&oclc=&client=elgar" alt="Large Cover Image"></img> </div> </div> </div> </div> </body> <br /><div id="availability"><table class="availtable" cellspacing="5" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><tr class="availtitle"><td class="basecolor" colspan="4"><b>Item availability</b></td></tr><tr class="availheader"><td class="basecolor"><strong>Branch</strong></td><td class="basecolor"><strong>Location</strong></td><td class="basecolor"><strong>Status</strong></td><td class="basecolor"><strong>Returndate</strong></td></tr><tr class="oddfalse"><td colspan="3" xmlns=""><dl></dl></td></tr><tr class="oddtrue"><td class="basecolor" xmlns="">Location/map</td><td class="basecolor" xmlns="">Call number</td><td class="basecolor" xmlns="">Volume</td><td class="basecolor" xmlns="">Status</td><td class="basecolor" xmlns="">Message</td></tr><tr class="oddfalse"><td xmlns="">Remuera non-fiction </td><td xmlns="">Biography 920 NOR</td><td xmlns=""></td><td xmlns="">AVAILABLE </td><td xmlns="">---</td></tr></table></div><div id="accessible_syndeticsice"></div><div id="search"><br /></div><div id="footer"></div></div> </noscript> </body>