BIOGRAPHY, MEMOIR & LETTER S 2
David Lough (ed.) Darling Winston: Forty Years of Correspondence Between Churchill and his Mother £30.00 Including many letters which have never been published before, Darling Winston provides new insight into Churchill’s early emotional and intellectual development. Both mother and son write with great verve, revealing a complex and intimate parent-child relationship.
Adam Sisman (ed.) More Dashing: Further Letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor £30.00 Our famous former neighbour, and regular customer, Patrick Leigh Fermor was a man of exceptional wit and insight. His letters brim with warmth and exuberance and feature countless fascinating glimpses of twentieth-century figures, ranging from Jackie Onassis and Oswald Mosely to Camilla Parker-Bowles and Peter Mandelson.
Diarmaid MacCulloch Thomas Cromwell: A Life £30.00 One of British history’s most notorious and elusive figures, Thomas Cromwell rose to power during a period of unprecedented upheaval, yet his exact role in this has been difficult to define. In this masterful new biography, MacCulloch uncovers new connections, providing the most persuasive and complete portrayal of Cromwell yet.
Adam Zomoyski Napoleon: The Man Behind the Myth £30.00 Elegant, incisive, and revealing, this new landmark biography is the first written in English to return to original-language European sources. Zomoyski presents Napoleon Bonaparte as neither god-like genius nor megalomaniac villain, but as a man, and seeks only to understand the conditions that led to his extraordinary trajectory.
Andrew Roberts Churchill: Walking with Destiny £35.00 Over 1000 biographies later, Winston Churchill continues to fascinate contemporary readers. This latest addition to his legend promises to be the most intimate and revealing yet: Roberts draws on over 40 new sources, including the diaries of King George VI, to produce a portrait of Churchill which is fresh and unexpected.