Tenpenny Dip in Paradise and other flights of fancy
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- ISBN 9781914913860
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 22 Jul 2022
- Publisher: The Conrad Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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The medical consultant of Oxford University’s Bodleian Library told Don Chapman to strip off, took one look at him and demanded: ‘Young man, how do you expect to get through life with a body like that?’ Seventy years later he is still trying.
In this, his latest book, a tongue-in-cheek memoir called ‘A Tenpenny Dip in Paradise and other flights of fancy’, Don draws on some of the wackier articles he wrote during forty years in journalism to explore the excitements, fascinations and absurdities of the twentieth century and dip a wary toe into the turbulent waters of the twenty-first.
Don was born and educated in Oxford. In 1956 he became a graduate trainee with the Westminster Press. He spent most of his working life at the ‘Oxford Mail and Times’ as reporter, columnist, theatre critic, feature writer and arts editor. Since he retired he has written ‘Oxford Playhouse: High and low drama in a university city’, for which he gained a doctorate from Leicester University, and the widely acclaimed analysis of rational dress, ‘Wearing the Trousers: Fashion, Freedom and the Rise of the Modern Woman’.
Don Chapman has lived for the last fifty-two years in Eynsham, seven miles upstream from where he spent the first two years of his life, overlooking the Thames at Folly Bridge.
