Fathomless Riches: Or How I Went From Pop to Pulpit
Price
$64.22
Format
Hardcover
Pages
288
Publisher
Orion Publishing
Publication Date
October 1, 2014
ISBN-13
978-0297870302
Dimensions
6.25 x 1 x 9.5 inches
Weight
1.22 pounds
Description
Richard Coles is the presenter of Saturday Live on BBC Radio 4. He read Theology at King's College London, and after ordination worked as a curate in Lincolnshire and subsequently at St Paul's, Knightsbridge, in London. He is the author of Lives of the Improbable Saints .
Features & Highlights
- The Reverend Richard Coles is a parish priest in Northamptonshire and a regular host of BBC Radio 4's
- Saturday Live
- . He is also the only vicar in Britain to have had a number 1 hit single: the Communards' "Don't Leave Me This Way" topped the charts for four weeks and was the biggest-selling single of its year.
- Fathomless Riches
- is his remarkable memoir in which he divulges with searing honesty and intimacy his pilgrimage from a rock-and-roll life of sex and drugs to a life devoted to God and Christianity. Music is where it began. Richard Coles was head chorister at school, and later discovered a love of saxophone together with the magic of Jimmy Somerville's voice. Against a backdrop of intense sexual and political awakening, the Communards were formed, and Richard Coles's life as a rock star began.
- Fathomless Riches
- - a phrase characteristic of St Paul and his followers - is a deeply personal and illuminating account of a transformation from hedonistic self-abandonment to 'the moment that changed everything'. Funny, warm, witty and wise, it is a memoir which has the power to shock as well as to console. It will be hailed as one of the most unusual and readable life stories of recent times.
