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Heiresses : The Lives of the Million Dollar Babies by Laura Thompson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A survey of the world of the wealthy heiress – glittering and gleaming, flawed and fascinating – from the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuries. 'Life is less sad with money', said Emerald Cunard; Barbara Hutton was the 'Poor Little Rich Girl', but which is true? Laura Thompson explores the phenomen ...Show more
Life in a Cold Climate - Nancy Mitford - the Biography by Laura Thompson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Nancy Mitford was, in the words of her sister Lady Diana Mosley, 'very, very complex'. Her biographies and novels, her journalism, and the vast body of letters to her family, friends such as Evelyn Waugh, and to the great love of her life, Gaston Palewski, all tell an intriguing story. Drawing from thes ...Show more
Take Six Girls: The Lives of the Mitford Sisters by Laura Thompson
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Category: Biography
The eldest was a razor-sharp novelist of upper-class manners; the second was loved by John Betjeman; the third was a fascist who married Oswald Mosley; the fourth idolized Hitler and shot herself in the head when Britain declared war on Germany; the fifth was a member of the American Communist Party; th ...Show more
Take Six Girls - The Lives of the Mitford Sisters (Illustrated Edition) by Laura Thompson
$55.00 AUD
Category: Biography
Writer, countrywoman, Fascist, Nazi, Communist, duchess. Born in that order, they were the Mitford sisters: Nancy, Pamela, Diana, Unity, Jessica and Deborah. The eldest was a razor-sharp novelist of upper-class manners; the second was loved by John Betjeman; the third was a fascist who married Oswald ...Show more
The Last Landlady: An English Memoir by Laura Thompson
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography
*Shortlisted for Harper's Bazaar Book of the Year 2019* *A Book of the Year 2018 — Guardian, Spectator and Mail on Sunday* Laura Thompson's grandmother Violet was one of the great landladies. Born in a London pub, she became the first woman to be given a publican's licence in her own name and, just as p ...Show more
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