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Barbara Cartland's daughter, Princess Diana's stepmother, who is said to left the Althorp estate with just a few bin bags of clothes. She was irrepressible, controversial - and perfectly man... read more
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Neutral for fifty years in his work for the BBC, now he tells us what he thinks and thought about all those prime ministers, presidents, elections and scandals.
Keep Talking: A Broadcasting Life
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A portrait of the scandalous Oxford club, of which EW was briefly secretary, and looks at the lives of several of his contemporaries too. Seven of them found their way into Brideshead... The... read more
Hellfire: Evelyn Waugh and the Hypocrites Club
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The whys and wherefores of frivolities in stone, shells, plaster, even glass and steel. An illustrated survey.
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English Food: A People’s History
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The rise and fall of the Bacris and Busnachs, two Jewish families whose prominence in trade and banking led them to play a small but crucial diplomatic and logistical role in the Napoleonic ... read more
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To misquote Peter Sellers, some of the greatest Tudors started their lives as children... An impeccably researched account.
Tudor Children
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A mix of memoir and analysis that recognises the challenges facing us now and salutes the social progress of the last five decades.
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From 1945 to the present. This is also a defence of the unprecedented progress of the last decades, faltering now.
Homelands: A Personal History of Europe
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These small utopias were described by one interviewee - a gardener with an impressively Eeyore-like dispostiion - as '51 per cent hard work, and 49 per cent disappointment'. They've never be... read more
The Allotment
Paperback £16