Fathomless Riches, Richard Coles
Fathomless Riches, Richard Coles
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Fathomless Riches
Or How I Went From Pop to Pulpit

Author: Richard Coles

Narrator: Richard Coles

Unabridged: 9 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/16/2014

Synopsis

'The best vicar ever' Caitlin Moran

'Sex, drugs, death, religion, more sex... it has got it all' Guardian

FATHOMLESS RICHES is the Reverend Richard Coles' warm, witty and wise memoir in which he divulges with searing honesty and intimacy his pilgrimage from a rock-and-roll life of sex and drugs in the Communards to one devoted to God and Christianity.

'All the humour, quirky characters and incidents that life - and death- serve up' Mail on Sunday

'One of the most immensely readable - and redeemable - memoirs of the year' Sunday Times

'A frank, worldly-wise, bleakly comic memoir' The Times

'Full of wit and humour ' Independent on Sunday

About Richard Coles

THE REVEREND RICHARD COLES is a writer, broadcaster and an Anglican priest. He co-presented Saturday Live on BBC Radio 4 for a number of years and appears, from time to time, on QI, Have I Got News For You and Would I Lie To You? He has won Christmas MasterChef, Celebrity Mastermind twice, and captained Leeds to victory in Christmas University Challenge in 2019. A contestant on Strictly Come Dancing (2017) and a third place finalist on I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! (2024) he exhibits huge bravery. He writes regularly for the Sunday Times, and is the author of half a dozen books, including a bestselling autobiography, Fathomless Riches, and the bereavement bestseller The Madness of Grief, written after the death of his partner, David Coles. The first three books in the Canon Clement series have all been No.1 Sunday Times bestsellers.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Andrew on October 19, 2014

Difficult to review a book written by a friend, especially when it is a very personal look back at his life. It's the first time I think I've read a friend's memoir, so it was interesting to put certain jigsaw pieces in the right places and gain a great many more pieces to almost complete the puzzle......more

Goodreads review by David on May 26, 2017

On the face of it, I have little in common with someone like Richard Coles. Although we are both ordained in the Church of England, he's a former pop star, cultural commentator, gay, high church Anglo-Catholic. I'm not. But his humility shines through this book, telling the story of his life up to t......more

Goodreads review by Katie on January 19, 2023

Oh wow.... This book is so close to home. As a person who lives in Burton Latimer myself. His family here etc. I had goosebumps reading this. It was hard to put down. If I ever get a chance to meet Richard Coles it be. Dream come true. I have been a fan of the Communards since they started. So this......more

Goodreads review by Jennifer on October 10, 2015

For the first third or so of the book I felt I'd struck gold - I read with a permanent smile on my face and laughed aloud several times. I enjoyed the rest of the book but not in the same way. The combination of the promiscuous, sex-obsessed culture and the issue of religious faith was fascinating an......more

Goodreads review by Jo on October 03, 2015

I really enjoyed this book. I admired the honesty which at times does not put author in the best light. However if we are all honest with ourselves who would come out great I wonder? I was left feeling deeply saddened as I read about loss after loss to the AIDS crisis and felt the pain associated wi......more

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One of the most immensely readable - and redeemable - memoirs of the year. His book is an engaging account of eccentricity, curiosity and a profound spiritual journey. I give it a screamingly camp, happy-clappy thumbs up SUNDAY TIMES

Sex, drugs, death, religion, more sex, many more deaths - it has got it all. Like a sparkling old-style chasuble worn by a Spanish priest, it is difficult to ignore GUARDIAN

He writes with charm and erudition and his take on 1980s Britain is fascinating SUNDAY EXPRESS

Beautifully written, disarmingly frank and utterly charming MAIL ON SUNDAY

Richard's devastating honesty makes his journey from gay pop-star to celibate parish priest comprehensible even to atheists

[O]ne of the most readable memoirs of 2014 SUNDAY TIMES - Books of the Year 2014

It is a tale of redemption and of a sinner come to transformation... The Church of England is all the better for having such a priest within its ranks. LITERARY REVIEW

Full of wit and humour about finding god, and Jimmy Somerville. INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY - Books of the Year 2014

Richard Coles has achieved a rare thing in writing an astonishingly honest autobiography, which, alongside the sex and drugs, presents Christian faith in a way that will surely be invitingly intriguing to an audience well beyond the church ... An immensely enjoyable memoir, whether a reader's primary interest is the music industry, the impact of AIDS, the Church of England, or a wonderfully Anglican combination of all three. CHURCH TIMES

Witty, honest and - no pun intended - irreverent, it is very much a personal and at times heartbreaking account about what it was like to be gay during the period with a bit of pop-world gossip thrown in as well. Readable to say the least. MORNING STAR

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