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| Title Statement | Boy in a china shop: life, clay and everything / Keith Brymer Jones, with Michael James. |
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| Author | Jones, Keith Brymer, 1965- |
| Additional Contributors | James, Michael |
| Publication | London: Hodder & Stoughton,2023.©2022 |
| Extent of Item | vii, 261 pages |
| ISBN | 9781529385250 (trade paperback) |
| Other Number | pr07030477 |
| General Notes | Originally published in hardcover: London : Hodder & Stoughton, 2022. |
| Contents | That satisfying thump --'Come on! Concentrate boy!' --Built like a sparrow --'Can you shovel clay?' --Leather, sweat and booze --As green as the first leaf on a sapling tree --'I've got Sade in tears next door' --Even the rats wouldn't mess with the ferrets --A piece of Victorian London still hidden away --Staring into the abyss --'May I bother you for some milk?' --The mad, bad, never-ending 'Isaac Button' years --Hot --'You do the pots and I do the pennies' --Big fat, white hairy gorilla --Pots that talk --TV gold --An early Christmas present --Absent tribes --It's all about connection. |
| Summary | Keith Brymer Jones is the star presenter and judge of Channel 4's The Great Pottery Throw Down famous for his emotional responses to the heartfelt and personal pieces made by contestants on the show. He is also the ultimate professional craftsman who's done the hard yards to get where he is today, working his way up from being a skivvy in an industrial pottery to running his own hugely successful international ceramics business. Here, in his first ever memoir, Keith tells the story of his life and inspiring rise to success through the objects and images that have been meaningful to him every step of the way, as he recounts key moments and events as well as the people and places that have shaped him. From his childhood and early devotion to dance to discovering clay at the age of eleven, to his tough apprenticeship at Harefield Pottery and struggles to establish his own business, this memoir goes beyond the TV show to offer us a rare insight into Keith's own philosophy and outlook on life. |
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| By Topic | Potters--Biography--Great Britain |
| By Name | Jones, Keith Brymer,1965- |
| By Genre | Biographies |
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| Personal narratives | |
