Being Boycie
Being Boycie is the story of a born actor who embraced the idea of role-play as a child and matured into a character actor of great originality and distinctiveness.
David Hemmings shot to stardom after the release of the great 60s film, Blow Up. This first volume of his autobiography covers David’s early life and career up to the making of The Charge of the Light Brigade, as well as the extraordinary changes to his life following Blow-Up, and his adventures on his first trip to Hollywood. John Challis, as publisher, has written a personal foreword to the book
John Challis recounts his arrival in Herefordshire and why he and his wife, Carol, decided to buy Wigmore Abbey. Arriving there in the late ’90s, they threw themselves into the task of restoring the abbot’s lodging – the only habitable part remaining of what had once been a great monastery.
Wigmore Abbey
Wigmore Books is run from the historic Wigmore Abbey in Herefordshire and was set up in 2011 to publish books of general and local interest, fiction and non-fiction.
Our first book is the autobiography of John Challis. "Being Boycie" is an enjoyable journey through John's early life and career and takes the reader up to 1985 when 'Only Fools and Horses' was established as a TV comedy favourite and the character of Marlene was first introduced. Part 2 "Boycie and Beyond" was published in 2012 and continues the story up to the present day.
The Ten Days of Christmas
by Rentaflop
In 1968 John Challis and Andrew Jack recorded this track as a 7" single. And now as a gift to you
"A real Granny frightener"
- Kenny Everett