{"product_id":"fathomless-riches-or-how-i-went-from-pop-to-pulpit-9781399628457b","title":"Fathomless Riches: Or How I Went From Pop to Pulpit","description":"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eThe 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' \"\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eDon't Leave Me This Way\u003c\/span\u003e\" 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. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eMusic 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. \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eFathomless Riches\u003c\/span\u003e - 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e'All the humour, quirky characters and incidents that life - and death- serve up' \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eMail on Sunday\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'One of the most immensely readable - and redeemable - memoirs of the year' \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eSunday Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A frank, worldly-wise, bleakly comic memoir' \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eThe Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weidenfeld \u0026 Nicolson","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42824110538832,"sku":"9781399628457B","price":6.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/8173\/5760\/files\/9781399628457-l.jpg?v=1785895238","url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/products\/fathomless-riches-or-how-i-went-from-pop-to-pulpit-9781399628457b","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}