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Category: Books

Stories about Old Haileyburians who have seen books published

1990s…

John S Tregoning (L 90) – Live Forever?

15 Jan 20253 Feb 2025
Live Forever? John S Tregoning (L 90), Professor of Vaccine Immunology at Imperial College, London has written a second popular science book entitled Live Forever? (a Curious Scientist’s Guide to…
1960s…

From Musician to Writer…

11 Dec 20243 Feb 2025
We were interested to hear from Nick Malicka (Tr 68) about his musical career. Nick writes: I am living in Brittany and I work as a professional musician with a…
1990s…

There’s a Monkey on your Shoulder by Tana Macpherson-Smith (Former Staff)

3 Dec 20243 Feb 2025
What Tana Macpherson-Smith has achieved with this extraordinary book is the power to take all the key elements that make up our mental health issues in the young today -…
1960s…

Book Release – Stories From A Military Life

3 Dec 2024
Following the success of his Paul Stanton SAS novels, Chris Darnell (M 65), a prolific writer, has written a further autobiographical book, entitled Stories From A Military Life. All Chris’…
1960s…

New book release by an OH author

9 Oct 20243 Feb 2025
The Flight of the Vikings (Daring Escapes in Small Boats from Nazi-Occupied Norway 1940-45) by Andrew Orr (Th 60) reveals the little-known history of the brave journeys of people who…
1960s…

Gavin Selerie (E 62) – writer, poet and author of Riverside Interviews

7 Dec 2023
The Haileybury Society is saddened to learn of the death of Gavin Richard Selerie (E 62) who ho has died on 18th June 2023, aged 73. At Haileybury, Gavin was…
1930s…

Book – Recalling the WW2 minesweeping days of Richard Goodwin (Ha 27)

3 May 20233 May 2023
The children of OH Richard Goodwin (Ha 27) have recently published their late father's memoir A View from the MInesweeper's Bridge, which tells of his wartime experiences in one of the most…
1960s…

Charles Manson (BF 64) speaks at US Library of Congress

5 Apr 2023
Charles Manson (BF 64), whose biography of Karma Pakshi, Tibetan Mahasiddha was published in 2022, was recently invited to speak to specialist divisions of the US Library of Congress about their Tibetan collections. …
1950s…

Book – Ted Loveday (L 57) celebrates a life in theatre and so much more

2 Feb 20237 Feb 2023
OH Ted Loveday (L 57) has recently published Variety is the Spice of Life, an autobiography which tells how the son of a theatrical scenery designer not only followed the career of his…
1940s…

General Lord Ramsbotham GCB, CBE (Mil) (M 48)

15 Dec 20225 Jun 2023
The Haileybury Society is deeply saddened to learn of the death of General Lord Ramsbotham GCB, CBE (Mil), (M 48), former adjutant-general of the army and HM’s chief inspector of…
1950s…

Adrian Allan (C 56) – university archivist

2 Aug 202212 Jun 2023
The Haileybury society is saddened to learn of the death of Adrian Reginald Allan (C 56) who has died at the age of 79 on 21st June 2022. After Haileybury, Adrian…
1950s…

Is it time to reform public schools? OH autobiography asks challenging questions

29 Mar 202115 Dec 2023
Jeremy Bourne (L 52) recalls joining Haileybury, his happy days there,  and his thoughts on education. In Looking West, a privately-published autobiography written for his family, OH Jeremy Bourne (L…
1940s…

A play well-received, remembering Edward Miller (Staff 1943-62)

18 Mar 202112 Dec 2023
The Haileybury Society was delighted to hear from David Hart (Tr 45) who has been in contact concerning his time at Haileybury and his memories of a play written by one of…
1940s…

Remembering the Forgotten War – an OH and the Chindits

26 Aug 202011 Dec 2023
Richard Rhodes James (Staff 1947-81), former HM of Melvill and erstwhile Haileybury Head of Economics, must count as one of those people  who, if you'd never met him, you wish…
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