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A Night at the Majestic by Richard Davenport-Hines
Category: Culture
One May night in 1922, in a grand hotel in Paris, five of the greatest artists of the twentieth-century sat down to supper. It would be the only time that novelists Joyce and Proust, the young painter Picasso, choreographer Diaghilev and the composer Stravinsky were in a room together. Each of these exp ...Show more
An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo by Richard Davenport-Hines
Category: Biography
A sharp focus snapshot of Britain in the late 1950s and early 1960s, published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the Profumo Affair. Published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the Profumo scandal, An English Affair is a sharp-focused snapshot of a nation on the brink of social rev ...Show more
Edward VII : The Cosmopolitan King by Richard Davenport-Hines
Category: History | Series: Penguin Monarchs
Enemies Within: Communists, Spies and the Making of Modern Britain by Richard Davenport-Hines
Category: History
What pushed Blunt, Burgess, Cairncross, Maclean and Philby into Soviet hands?With access to recently released papers and other neglected documents, this sharp analysis of the intelligence world examines how and why these men and others betrayed their country and what this cost Britain and its allies.Ene ...Show more
Enemies Within: Communists, the Cambridge Spies and the Making of Modern Britain by Richard Davenport-Hines
Category: History
What pushed Blunt, Burgess, Cairncross, Maclean and Philby into Soviet hands? With access to recently released papers and other neglected documents, this sharp analysis of the intelligence world examines how and why these men and others betrayed their country and what this cost Britain and its allies. E ...Show more
Enemies WithinCommunists, the Cambridge Spies and the Making of Modern Britain by Richard Davenport-Hines
Category: History
What pushed Blunt, Burgess, Cairncross, Maclean and Philby into Soviet hands?With access to recently released papers and other neglected documents, this sharp analysis of the intelligence world examines how and why these men and others betrayed their country and what this cost Britain and its allies.Ene ...Show more
Ettie: The Life and World of Lady Desborough by Richard Davenport-Hines
Category: Biography
Born in 1867 and orphaned at three, Ettie Fane was brought up by a beloved grandmother and then two adoring, almost incestuous, bachelor uncles. At twenty she married Willy Grenfell, later Lord Desborough. Beautiful, rich, charming and clever, Ettie soon became a leading hostess at the two magnificent c ...Show more
One Hundred Letters from Hugh Trevor-Roper by Richard Davenport-Hines (Editor); Adam Sisman (Editor)
Category: History
The one hundred letters brought together for this book illustrate the range of Hugh Trevor-Roper's life and preoccupations: as an historian, a controversialist, a public intellectual, an adept in academic intrigues, a lover of literature, a traveller, a countryman. They depict a life of richdiversity; a ...Show more
The China Journals - Ideology and Intrigue in The 1960s by Hugh Trevor-Roper; Richard Davenport-Hines (Volume Editor)
Category: History
These private journals, made available here for the first time, record Hugh Trevor-Roper's visit to the People's Republic of China in the autumn of 1965, shortly before the outbreak of the Cultural Revolution, and describe the controversial aftermath of his journey on his return to England. The visi ...Show more
The China Journals - Ideology and Intrigue in The 1960s by Hugh Trevor-Roper; Richard Davenport-Hines (Volume Editor)
Category: History
These private journals, made available here for the first time, record Hugh Trevor-Roper's visit to the People's Republic of China in the autumn of 1965, shortly before the outbreak of the Cultural Revolution, and describe the controversial aftermath of his journey on his return to England. The visit wa ...Show more
The Pursuit of Oblivion by Richard Davenport-Hines
Category: Classic Fiction
The Pursuit of Oblivion is a history of drug-taking, telling the story across five centuries of addicts and users: monarchs, prime ministers, great writers and composers, wounded soldiers, overworked physicians, oppressed housewives, exhausted labourers, high powered-businessmen, playboys, sex workers, ...Show more