Discover the joy of reading with us, your trusted source for affordable books that do not compromise on quality. In 1959, he became the host of his own TV drama series, The David Niven Show, which ran for 13 episodes that summer.

Our team is made up of book lovers who are dedicated to sourcing and providing the best books for kids. All the women were 'stunningly beautiful' and all the men were 'everyone's favourite fellow', and every story involved vast quantities of scotch or gin. BRING ON THE EMPTY HORSES is the second part of David Niven’s internationally bestselling autobiography, following the superbly entertaining THE MOON’S A BALLOON. Still well worth a read for the intimate insights into the lives of the stars of the wonderful age of Hollywood's prime. Never again will a particular zeitgeist carry the particular bouquet that lilted through the rarified air of the Tinseltown of those glamour years.David Niven wrote this book in Switzerland (where he then lived) when he was beginning to show the symptoms of the Motor Neurone Disease that would eventually take his life. Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page. We work closely with publishers and authors to ensure that we offer the best books on the market for your child.

He and Errol Flynn were filming The Charge of the Light Brigade for a director, Michael Curtiz, 'whose Hungarian-orientated English was a joy to us all'. The first part of his biography, The Moon in a Balloon, was a best seller as was the second part - Bring On The Empty Horses. Even though you are bound to know much of this already, you'll rarely hear these tales recounted so suavely.

Niven, above all things, is a storyteller; and his recountment of the Hollywood heyday (essentially the '30s through the 50's) is magical exploration of an era that was at once special and something impossible to mimic. Actor David Niven's volume of autobiography (after "The Moon's A Balloon"), well-written and entertaining. But they did feel rather disconnected, especially the segments at the end that went for just a few pages each, again and again.