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Garry O'Connor

Biography

Garry O’Connor has worked as daily theatre critic for the *Financial Times*, and as a director for the RSC, before he became a fulltime writer. As well as his novels and plays, Garry has published many books on actors, literary figures, religious and political leaders, including Pope John Paul II and the Blairs. He has had plays performed at Edinburgh, Oxford, Ipswich, London and on Radio 4, and contributed dramatised documentaries to Radio 3, scripts and interviews for BBC 1, as well as having his work adapted for a three-part mini-series.

Where to find Garry O'Connor online

Website: http://www.garryoconnor.co.uk
Twitter: @@OconnorGarry
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Books

The Darlings of Downing Street by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 118,120. Language: English. Published: September 10, 2020 by CentreHouse Press. Categories: Nonfiction » Biography » Political biography
Garry O’Connor, better known for his probing researches into the lives, loves and professional craft of figures large on stage and screen, is eminently well placed to deconstruct theatrical trends in modern political life. His insights into the duality and mimetic display of Tony and Cherie Blair encapsulate at a stroke the tasteless descent of public debate.
The Butcher of Poland by
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 15,440. Language: English. Published: August 23, 2020 by CentreHouse Press. Categories: Plays » European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Condemned to death and hanged in 1947, Hans Frank’s public repentance was unique among the leading Nazi criminals tried at Nuremberg. One psychiatrist pointed out Frank’s ‘beatific tranquillity merely hid his own tensions’. But what of such carefully acted out piety? Didn’t this hastily cultivated yet forceful and theatrical piety have something about it which was so patently flimsy..?
Alec Guinness: A Life by
Price: $5.00 USD. Words: 161,900. Language: English. Published: February 14, 2020 by CentreHouse Press. Categories: Nonfiction » Biography » Celebrity biography
A definitive, revealing biography of actor Alec Guinness, whose career spanned much of the twentieth century. Biographer Garry O’Connor gives us the full story, including revelations on Guinness’s childhood, his secret relationships and the fears that haunted him throughout his life.
The Vagabond Lover by
Price: $5.32 USD. Words: 94,220. Language: English. Published: December 18, 2019 by CentreHouse Press. Categories: Nonfiction » Biography » Personal memoir
A racy, opinionated and highly entertaining account of life, loves and gossip in the English theatre since the 1960s, centred on and contrasted with a moving account of the writer’s famous and very much more strait-laced father, the Variety singer Cavan O’Connor.

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