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Heiresses : The Lives of the Million Dollar Babies by Laura Thompson
$10.00 AUD
$34.99 (71% off)
Category: Biographies
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: Biographies
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
Rex V Edith Thompson: A Tale of Two Murders by Laura Thompson
$22.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
'Another dark parable of society's vilification of women. Intelligent ... A tantalizing investigation' Kate Colquhoun. On the night of 3 October 1922, in the quiet suburb of Ilford, Edith Thompson and her husband Percy were walking home after an evening spent at a London theatre, when a man sprang out ...Show more
Take Six Girls - The Lives of the Mitford Sisters (Illustrated Edition) by Laura Thompson
$55.00 AUD
Category: Biographies
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
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