Fathomless Riches: Or How I Went From Pop to Pulpit

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Orion, Oct 16, 2014 - Biography & Autobiography - 288 pages

'The best vicar ever' - Caitlin Moran

THE NO. 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE CANON CLEMENT SERIES

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. The result is one of the most unusual and readable life stories of recent times, and has the power to shock as well as to console.

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

'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 about finding God, and Jimmy Sommerville' - Independent on Sunday

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About the author (2014)

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 in 2017, he scored a lamentably low mark for a paso doble.

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. Murder Before Evensong, the first book in the Canon Clement Mystery series, was an instant no.1 Sunday Times bestseller.

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