{"product_id":"9782915723946","title":"Pursued by Bishops - The Memoirs of Edwin Apps","description":"Today a successful painter in France, in the nineteen fifties and sixties Edwin Apps was a familiar face on British television. Born into a family of auctioneers and hop farmers in East Kent in 1931, a family break up led to his being sent to the Clergy Orphan School in 1940. Evacuated to a luxury hotel on the Cornish coast, he trained falcons and learnt Latin in a cocktail bar. At seventeen, he joined a weekly rep in the north of England. The 1949 Canterbury Festival saw him making angels' wings with Dorothy Sayers and rescuing her from a bomb crater after a festive evening. Reluctant National Service, the Central School, touring in the fifties, theatrical landladies, live television comedy with Jimmy Edwards and Harry Worth; visiting Corsica with Frank Muir and writing \"All Gas and Gaiters,\" are all part of this amusing, fast moving narrative supported by a wealth of contemporary letters and seventy photos.","brand":"Durand-Peyroles publisher","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47040665288944,"sku":"9782915723946","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9782915723946_p0.jpg?v=1763710499","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9782915723946","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}