The wurd

Literature & Fiction

CHRISTOPHER WILSON

Literary

Flamingo

Absolutely...Goldie: A Biography

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Harpercollins Entertainment

The story of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor is one of the most romantic of all time: Edward VIII abdicated his throne and gave up an empire so that he could marry the woman he loved, American divorcee Wallis Simpson

Dancing with the Devil: The Windsors and Jimmy Donahue

Leaders & Notable People

HarperCollins Publishers, Ltd

The story of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor is one of the most romantic of all time: Edward VIII abdicated his throne and gave up an empire so that he could marry the woman he loved, American divorcee Wallis Simpson. Very few people suspected, and even fewer actually knew, that the Duchess cuckolded him-and almost gave him up-for a gay playboy twenty years her junior. Blond and slender, Jimmy Donahue was the archetypal post-war playboy. He could fly a plane, speak several languages, play the piano, and tell marvelous jokes. People loved him for his wit, charm and personality. The grandson of millionaire Frank W. Woolworth, Jimmy knew he would never need to work. Instead, he set about carving for himself a career of mischief. Some said evil. Gay at a time when the homosexual act was still illegal, Jimmy was notorious within America's upper class, and loved to shock. Though press agents arranged for him to be seen with female escorts, his pursuits, until he met the Duchess of Windsor, were exclusively homosexual. He was thirty-five when he was befriended by the Duke and Duchess of Windsor in 1950. The Duchess was fifty-four, and despite the difference in age, there was an instant attraction. A burgeoning sexual relationship - a perverse sort of love - was formed between Jimmy and the Duchess. Together with the Duke, they became an inseparable trio, the closest of friends. As Jimmy had planned, the royal couple became obsessed with him. With information from surviving contemporaries, Dancing with the Devil is the extraordinary tale of three remarkable people and their unique and twisted relationship.

Harpercollins

The Wurd

Contemporary

Shortlisted for the Whitbread Fiction Prize.A novel from the author of BLUEGLASS about a young boy, found in the Brazilian rainforest as an abandoned infant from a tribe which has been wiped out, who concludes that because of his strange appearance he is some kind of ape and has to learn to pass as a person if he is to survive in 20th century England.

Mischief

British & Irish

Andre Deutsch Ltd.

Shakespeare and Music

Franklin Classics Trade Press

The Ballad of Lee Cotton

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Hurdy Gurdy: 'A cure for pandemic gloom' - The Times

Religion & Spirituality

Faber&Faber

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