Fred Secombe

• Jan-1991
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Set in the sleepy Welsh Valleys at the close of World War II, these fictionalized memoirs are about an ingenuous young curate. Fred Secombe is the founder of three Gilbert & Sullivan opera companies and won the Waterford International Festival of Lig...

• Jun-1993
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The continuing fictionalized memoirs of a young curate in the Welsh valleys. The third volume about the hazards and surprises of life in the small town of Pontywen. Fred Secombe won the Waterford International Festival of Light Opera Award for "Utopi...

• Jul-1993
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"How Green Was My Curate" introduced a delightful character, young Fred Secombe, who struggled to survive as an innocent curate under the eyes of a stern vicar. "A Curate For All Seasons" follows his adventures in the Church, with the setting in the ...

• Aug-1993
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With his fifth book of fictionalized memoirs set in the small Welsh town of Pontywen, Fred finds his duties as vicar more complex as he deals with problems as diverse as parish corruption and a pit tragedy. Fred combines humour and sincerity in his a...

• Aug-1994
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This is the fourth in a series of fictionalized memoirs set in the small Welsh town of Pontywen. Newly married and promoted to vicar, Fred is rightly pleased with life, but he soon finds that his elevation exposes him to new problems....

• Jan-1996
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In this seventh volume of his fictionalized clerical memoirs, Fred Secombe, having been newly promoted to a more demanding parish encompassing an unruly housing estate, tells of how he deals with the challenges and foibles of his eccentric parishione...

• Apr-1996
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The sixth in Fred Secombe''s bestselling seri es of hilarious curate books finds the village of Pontywen i n excited preparation for Coronation Year. As always, Fred a dopts the slightly caricatured comic approach. '...

• Jan-1997
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Times are changing in Fred's life. His father-in-law dies unexpectedly. He watches his wayward young curate Hugh Thomas learn to put his vocation and his fiancee before rugby, and when Fred and his wife found a Gilbert and Sullivan society, they relu...

• Jul-1997
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This is an excellent value omnibus edition of the first three books in Fred Secombe's entertaining and nostalgic series. It is comprised of: How Green Was My Curate, A Curate for All Seasons and Goodbye Curate. Set in sleepy Welsh valleys at the clos...

• Jul-1999
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This is the long-awaited collection of Fred Secombe's three vicar stories: Hello Vicar!, A Comedy of Clerical Errors and The Crowning Glory. Newly appointed as vicar of Pontywen in South Wales, Fred throws himself into the responsibilities his post e...

• Apr-2000
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As we join Fred Secombe, Vicar of Abergelly, for the tenth in this series of humorous accounts of his life and ministry in South Wales, he has recently been appointed the new Rural Dean. Two Vandals and a Wedding opens with the desecration of one of ...

• Jan-2002
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An entertaining new collection of Fred Secombe's stories of his life as a clergyman in 1950s Wales The third trilogy of this series, More Chronicles of a Vicar describes Fred's move to the new parish of Abergelly and the challenges that await him the...