Voltaire in Love (Mitford Nancy)(Paperback / softback)

Voltaire in Love (Mitford Nancy)(Paperback / softback)

The meeting of Voltaire, successful financier, famous poet and troublemaker, and the enchanting amateur physicist and countess Emilie du Chatelet, was a meeting of both hearts and

Nancy Mitford - The Autobiography (Mitford Nancy)(Paperback / softback)

The autobiography Nancy Mitford intended to write

Christmas Pudding (Mitford Nancy)(Paperback / softback)

Love From Nancy (Mosley Charlotte)(Paperback / softback)

Contains Nancy Mitford's humorous letters to her family and friends. Mitford never wrote an autobiography, but this collection of letters provides a portrayal of her life and the times in which she

Love in a Cold Climate (Mitford Nancy)(Paperback / softback)

Captures the foibles and fancies of the English upper class. Set in the privileged world of the county house party and the London season, this is a comedy of English

Pursuit of Love - Now a major series on BBC and Prime Video directed by Emily Mortimer and starring Lily James and Andrew Scott (Mitford Nancy)(Paperback / softback)

Nancy Mitford's The Pursuit of Love is one of the funniest, sharpest novels about love and growing up ever written. 'Obsessed with sex!' said Jassy, 'there's nobody so obsessed as you, Linda. Why if I so much as look at a picture you say I'm a pygmalionist.' In the end we got more information out

Love in a Cold Climate - The wickedly funny sequel to The Pursuit of Love (Mitford Nancy)(Paperback / softback)

Groomed for the perfect marriage by her mother, fearsome Lady Montdore, Polly instead scandalises society by declaring her love for her uncle 'Boy' Dougdale, the Lecherous Lecturer, and promptly eloping to France. But the consequences of this union no one could quite

Life in a Cold Climate - Nancy Mitford - The Biography (Thompson Laura)(Paperback / softback)

A biography of the most brilliant of the Mitford sisters, who dazzled and scandalised interwar high society with their wit and sometimes controversial

Complete Novels (Mitford Nancy)(Paperback / softback)

Provides a glimpse of the bright young things of the thirties, forties, fifties and sixties in the city and in the shires; firmly ensconced at home or making a go of it abroad; and what the upper classes really got up to in peace and in

Pursuit of Love - Now a major series on BBC and Prime Video directed by Emily Mortimer and starring Lily James and Andrew Scott (Mitford Nancy)(Paperback / softback)

Blessing (Mitford Nancy)(Paperback / softback)

It isn't just Nanny who finds it difficult in France when Grace and her young son Sigi are finally able to join her dashing aristocratic husband Charles-Edouard after the war. For Grace is out of her depth among the fashionably dressed and immaculately coiffured French women, and shocked by their

Sun King (Mitford Nancy)(Paperback / softback)

During his reign Louis XIV was the most powerful king in Europe. He presided over a golden age of military and artistic achievement in France, and deployed his charm and talents for spin and intrigue to hold his court and country within his absolute

Frederick the Great (Mitford Nancy)(Paperback / softback)

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY KATE WILLIAMSFrederick II of Prussia attempted to escape his authoritarian father as a boy, but went on to become one of history's greatest rulers. Nancy Mitford brings all these contradictions and achievements to sparkling life in an fascinating, intimate

Mitford Murders - Nancy Mitford and the murder of Florence Nightgale Shore (Fellowes Jessica)(Paperback / softback)

A Golden Age-style mystery bursting with period detail and set amid the Mitford household, The Mitford Murders is the glittering start to a thrilling and sumptuous new series written by Jessica Fellowes, author of the number one bestselling Downton Abbey books. 'A lively, well-written, entertaining

Wigs on the Green (Mitford Nancy)(Paperback / softback)

Nancy's sisters Unity and Diana were furious with her for making fun of Diana's husband, Oswald Moseley, and his politics, and the book caused a rift between them all that endured for years. Nancy Mitford skewers her family and their beliefs with her customary jewelled barbs, but there is froth,

Madame de Pompadour (Mitford Nancy)(Paperback / softback)

When Jeanne-Antoinette was nine, she was told by a fortune teller that she would one day become the mistress of the handsome young Louix XV - from that day she was groomed to become 'a morsel fit for a

Miracles and Idolatry (Voltaire)(Paperback / softback)

The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street (Hanff Helene)(Paperback)

Nancy Mitford meets Nora Ephron in the pages of The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street, Helene Hanff's delightful travelogue about her 'bucket list' trip to LondonWhen devoted Anglophile Helene Hanff is invited to London for the English publication of 84, Charing Cross Road--in which she shares two

Women Scientists in Medicine (Dickmann Nancy)(Paperback / softback)

Hons and Rebels - The Mitford Family Memoir (Mitford Jessica)(Paperback / softback)

'Whenever I read the words 'Peer's Daughter' in a headline, ' Lady Redesdale once sadly remarked, 'I know it's going to be something about one of you children.' The Mitford family is one of the century's most enigmatic, made notorious by Nancy's novels, Diana's marriage to Sir Oswald Mosley,

Women Scientists in Life Science (Dickmann Nancy)(Paperback / softback)

Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh (Waugh Evelyn)(Paperback / softback)

Offers a glimpse into the literary and social circles of London and Paris, during the Second World War and for twenty years

Women Scientists in Astronomy and Space (Dickmann Nancy)(Paperback / softback)

Men In Love (Friday Nancy)(Paperback / softback)

It is a study of the secret, erotic fantasies that men have always kept hidden, a taboo-shattering investigation that reveals the deepest, most conflicting feelings that men have about women, men and their own