Nancy Mitford was witty, intelligent, often acerbic, a great tease and an acute observer of upper-class English idiosyncrasies. With the publication of her novels, above all The Pursuit of Love, Love in a Cold Climate and The Blessing, she became a huge bestseller and a household name. An inspired letter writer, she wrote almost daily to a wide variety of correspondents, among them Evelyn Waugh, Harold Action, John Betjeman, Lord Berners, Lady Seafield, and, of course, her sisters. Selina Hastings captures equally the gaiety and frivolity and the unhappy truth of Nancy Mitford's life: her failed marriage and her long, unfulfilled relationship with 'the Colonel' contrasting sharply with literary celebrity and glittering social success. Selina Hastings has written a biography that is superbly entertaining and clear-eyed, of a life that Diana Mosley spoke of as being 'so sad one can hardly bear to contemplate it'.

Nancy Mitford (Vintage Lives)

Biographies & Memoirs

SELINA HASTINGS

Arts & Literature

Vintage

Nancy Mitford

Papermac

The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham

The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham

John Murray

John Murray Publishers, Ltd.

Winner of the 1985 Kate Greenaway Medal.

Sir Gawain and the Loathly Lady

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

WALKER BOOKS LTD.

Sir Gawain is perhaps the most famous of all the legendary knights of King Arthur's Round Table. In this exciting story, his honour and bravery are put to the test when challenged by the mighty Green Knight.

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Children's Books

"How many times have I told you never to leave the gate open?" Grandfather asks Peter. "What would you do if one day a wolf came out of the forest?" But hardly has he spoken these words, when a lean and hungry wolf comes slinking from the cover of the trees...Selina Hastings has taken this oft-told traditional story, perhaps most famous for being set to a dramatic score by Prokofiev, and breathed new life into it. Accompanied by Reg Cartwright's striking illustrations of the cold, forested landscape, this is a truly captivating version.

Peter and the Wolf

Walker Childrens Paperbacks

Evelyn Waugh

Minerva

The narrative illustrations in this book not only record the scenes as the Bible describes them, but also help to convey the sense of the story. 500 photogrpahs and maps evoke each story's sense of time and place.

The Children's Illustrated Bible

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

DORLING KINDERSLEY CHILDREN'S

In this magnificently illustrated edition, all the best-loved stories of the Bible are retold for young readers by Selina Hastings. Her fluent, lively style reflects the character & poetry of the original Bible, while color photographs & vivid & finely detailed illustrations by Eric Thomas bring to life the people & places referred to in the stories. To help explain the stories & set them in their historical & geographical context, background information is included, together with photographs & maps of places mentioned in the Bible. This volume has been carefully prepared with a panel of religious consultants, historians, educators, & scholars. Foreword by Rabbi Joseph Potasnik.

Illustrated Jewish Bible for Children

Dorling, Kindersley

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