Emma: The Many Facets of Emma Thompson [Hardcover]

Chris Nickson (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 261 pages
• Publisher: Taylor Pub; 1ST edition (September 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0878339655
• ISBN-13: 978-0878339655
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,326,953 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

I'm the author of the Richard Nottingham books, historical mysteries set in Leeds in the 1730s and featuring Richard Nottingham, the Constable of the city, and his deputy, John Sedgwick. The books are about more than murder. They're about the people of Leeds and the way life was - which mean full of grinding poverty for all but the wealthy. They're also about families, Nottingham and his and Sedgwick, and the way relationships grow and change, as well as the politics, when there was one law for the rich, and another, much more brutal, for everyone else.

Why Leeds? It's where I was born and raised, and that puts a place in your bones. You know it the way you can never quite know anywhere else...

In addition to this I'm also a music journalist, reviewing for magazines and online outlets, something I've been doing since the mid 1990s, specializing these days in world and roots music.

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Does not do justice to Greatness., April 15, 1999

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This review is from: Emma: The Many Facets of Emma Thompson (Hardcover)

Unlike the fortunate reviewer from New Jersey, I spent a fortune on obtaining my copy of this book. I liked this book in that it filled in a lot of the blanks about her early life and career, as in Australia we really only got to know this wonderful woman when she burst forth onto our screens as the magnificent Beatrice in "Much Ado About Nothing." However, on the whole I must agree with the other reviewers. I could have paid $2.80 for the latest Woman's Day magazine and got the same amount of depth. If you can get it from the bargain bin do it! But don't be a chump like myself and pay $45 for it. I suggest all Lady Emma fans out there should band together and persuade the magnificent lady to feed our voracious appetites and pen her autobiography. Did anyone else sense a very strong anti-Ken vibe?

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A True Emma Thompson Fan, February 15, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Emma: The Many Facets of Emma Thompson (Hardcover)

I have read this book and fortunately I purchased it from my local Barnes & Noble store for only $4.95 (Hardback). I found it on the "dud" shelf where it belongs! This book is a compulation of magazine articles previously published about Emma. The author even writes his references in the back of the book. If you are a true Emma fan and crave information about her then you probably have already read from other sources the information that is in this book. We'll never know the true story until Emma writes her autobiography. In the meantime, the closest we'll get to an autobiography is the Sense and Sensibility diary that Emma wrote.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars "Unauthorized" means..., August 30, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Emma: The Many Facets of Emma Thompson (Hardcover)

For those of you who don't live on the level of Emma-fandom that I do, a newsflash. This woman will record her life story when she is good and ready. This biography is merely a patchwork of what might be true and what probably isn't. What we are ment to know of Emma Thompson, we will know the truth of, and what we aren't to know are things no person needs to know of another. If you are an Emma fan, however, you'll appreciate the nice cover shot and picture section inside. Take these, put the whole of the text aside for bathroom reading, and wait about thirty years until the real story comes out.