Joan Leigh Fermor’s biographer turns to Eddy Sackville-West, Desmon Shawe-Taylor and Eardley Knollys and the unusual salon they created at Long Crichel in Dorset, where Nancy Mitford, Benjamin Britten, Laurie Lee, Cyril Connolly, Somerset Maugham, E.M. Forster, Cecil Beaton were among the visitors.
The Crichel Boys: Scenes from England’s Last Literary Salon
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Edition:Hardback978147213247525/02/2021From a Bookshelf nearby
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The Story of Scottish Art
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London`s New Scene – Art and Culture in the 1960s
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Translated from the German, this is a substantial book on the man who led Europe out of the Napoleonic chaos; the father of realpolitik, according to Kissinger.
Metternich: Strategist and Visionary
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CC is the distinguished Australian publisher who founded Virago. Her forebear was transported for seven years for stealing a piece of hemp, but managed to prosper in Australia. He returned t... read more
Oh Happy Day
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