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

Facing up to Father : The pleasures and pains of a Cotswold childhood

David Worlock

• Imprint: Marble Hill Publishers
• Format: Paperback (BC)
• ISBN: 9781838303624
• Availability: Available
• Pub. Date: 27th May 2021

Hubert Howard: A Man for All Seasons

Esme Howard

• Imprint:
• Format: Hardback (BB)
• ISBN: 9781838303648
• Availability: Available
• Pub. Date: 29th Nov 2021

Crossing the Bar : The memoir of Bob Alexander QC

Jonathan Sumption

‘The rediscovered memoir of a fortunate man.’

• Imprint: Marble Hill Publishers
• Format: Hardback (BB)
• ISBN: 9781838303662
• Availability: Available
• Pub. Date: 12th Jan 2023

Boy on a Bicycle : a Mandarin's Memoir

Hayden Phillips, Peter Mandelson

• Imprint: Marble Hill Publishers
• Format: Hardback (BB)
• ISBN: 9781838303693
• Availability: Not yet available
• Pub. Date: 16th Mar 2023

My Back Pages : an undeniably personal history of publishing 1972-2022

Richard Charkin, Tom Campbell

• Imprint: Marble Hill Publishers
• Format: Paperback (BC)
• ISBN: 9781739265731
• Availability: Available
• Pub. Date: 17th Apr 2023

A Treasury of Legal Wit and Humour

Gareth J Davies, Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd

• Imprint: Marble Hill Publishers
• Format: Hardback (BB)
• ISBN: 9781739265779
• Availability: Available
• Pub. Date: 18th May 2023

Minding the Law : The hazardous and hilarious world of handling complaints against barristers

Michael Scott

• Imprint: Marble Hill Publishers
• Format: Hardback (BB)
• ISBN: 9781739265700
• Availability: Available
• Pub. Date: 8th Jun 2023

Foreign Relations : Memories of Germany and England

Alexander Oldham

• Imprint: Marble Hill
• Format: Paperback (BC)
• ISBN: 9781739265786
• Availability: Available
• Pub. Date: 11th Jan 2024

All Change : a life in politics, newspapers and books to the start of world changing digital by Clive Bradley

Clice Bradley

• Imprint: Marble Hill Publishing
• Format: Hardback
• ISBN: 9781738497058
• Availability: Available
• Pub. Date: 13th Aug 2024

A Shattered Idol : The Lord Chief Justice and his Troublesome Women

Tom Hughes, Sir Paul Coleridge KC

• Imprint: Marble Hill Publishers
• Format: Hardback
• ISBN: 9781738497010
• Availability: Available
• Pub. Date: 8th May 2025