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Playing off the roof & other stories : a patchwork of memories
Simon Brown
Written with humour and insight, this informal memoir is a delightful celebration of the passions that have driven Simon Brown. Whether recalling incidents from his early years as a barrister (courageously breaking away from the family business) or as Treasury Devil, or during the later stages of his legal career (ending as a Justice of the Supreme Court) - or whether talking about his family, telling us his golfing tales, or describing his enjoyment of the Garrick and his many travels around the world - he exudes a zest and delight in what he does and an affection for those he works with and meets that is a deeply endearing characteristic.
- Imprint: Marble Hill Publishers
- Format: Hardback
- ISBN: 9781527254268
- Availability: Available
- Pub. Date: 16th Feb 2020
Second Helpings
Simon Brown
Treat yourself to Second Helpings and more choice cuts in the style of Simon Brown's much lauded first volume of memoirs, Playing off the Roof & Other Stories. Exuberantly revisiting his early years in National Service, at Oxford and as a young barrister, Lord Brown recalls matters grave and trivial from his time at the Bar and on the Bench, along the way regaling us with tales of Paddington Bear, Nigel Lawson and Mozart at the Warsaw opera. He also has something to say about the current legal scene and considers such thorny problems as the 2019 prorogation judgment and whether trial by jury might be dispensed with in order to clear a mounting backlog of criminal cases. Drawing witty lessons from a life of trials, Lord Brown finds time to muse on when a judge might choose to change a sentence already imposed, what to say after dinner and why the game of golf is strictly for the birds!
- Imprint: Marble Hill Publishers
- Format: Hardback (BB)
- ISBN: 9781838303617
- Availability: Available
- Pub. Date: 15th Feb 2021