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A Night at the Majestic by Richard Davenport-Hines
32.99 NZD
Category: Non-fiction
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
Enemies Within: Communists, the Cambridge Spies and the Making of Modern Britain by Richard Davenport-Hines
27.00 NZD
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
Ettie: The Life and World of Lady Desborough by Richard Davenport-Hines
40.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
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
Letters from Oxford - Hugh Trevor-Roper to Bernard Berenson by Hugh Trevor-Roper; Richard Davenport-Hines (ed.)
39.99 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
When they met in 1947 Trevor-Roper, a young historian at Christ Church, Oxford, was 33. Berenson, the world-famous art critic, was 82, frail but still intensely curious about the world. Trevor Roper promised to write to him and his letters continued until Berenson's death in in 1959. Elegantly construct ...Show more
Universal Man - The Seven Lives of John Maynard Keynes by Richard Davenport-Hines
25.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
From the bestselling and award-winning author of 'An English Affair', a dazzlingly original thematic biography which throws fresh light on the greatest economist of the twentieth century. John Maynard Keynes is the man who saved Britain from financial crisis not once but twice - over the course of two W ...Show more
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