The Pride of The Coombe

[John C]

I just found a hardback copy of this in my mother's bookcase and picked it up to have a read on Christmas evening. I shouldn't have been (but nevertheless was) surprised to find the foreword was signed: Philip Chevron, Muswell Hill, London.

Did this book do well Mr C?

[philipchevron]

I just found a hardback copy of this in my mother's bookcase and picked it up to have a read on Christmas evening. I shouldn't have been (but nevertheless was) surprised to find the foreword was signed: Philip Chevron, Muswell Hill, London.

Did this book do well Mr C?

It did quite well. It was in the Irish bestsellers list (number 5, I think) soon after it came out and stretched to a paperback edition the next year. The subsequent Noel Purcell biography had nothing like the same success and was remaindered comparatively swiftly. Though Purcell had, in many ways, a more substantial and lengthy career, he never had quite the grip on the public's imagination that James A did.