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A Different Class Of Murder - The Story Of Lord Lucan by Laura Thompson
32.99 NZD
Category: True Crime | Reading Level: very good
On 7 November 1974, a nanny named Sandra Rivett was bludgeoned to death in a Belgravia basement. A second woman, Veronica, Countess of Lucan, was also attacked. The man named in court as perpetrator of these crimes, Richard John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan, disappeared in the early hours of the following ...Show more
A Different Class of Murder: The Story of Lord Lucan by Laura Thompson
22.99 NZD
Category: True Crime
Laura Thompson re-examines the truths behind one of post-war Britain's most notorious murders: the bludgeoning to death of nanny Sandra Rivett in a Belgravia basement on 7 November 1974. Lord Lucan, found guilty of the murder, was only granted a death certificate in 2016. His wife Veronica - last survi ...Show more
Agatha Christie: An English Mystery by Laura Thompson
34.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
A passionate and accomplished writer, Laura Thompson now turns her highly acclaimed biographical skills to Agatha Christie. Arguably the greatest crime writer in the world, thirty years after her death Christie's books still sell over four million copies worldwide a year. Thompson describes the Edwardia ...Show more
Heiresses : The Lives of the Million Dollar Babies by Laura Thompson
37.99 NZD
Category: History
A survey of the world of the wealthy heiress – glittering and gleaming, flawed and fascinating – from the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuries. 'Life is less sad with money', said Emerald Cunard; Barbara Hutton was the 'Poor Little Rich Girl', but which is true? Laura Thompson explores the phenomen ...Show more
Life in a Cold Climate: Nancy Mitford the Biography by Laura Thompson
49.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Nancy Mitford was, in the words of her sister Lady Diana Mosley, "very, very complex." Her biographies and novels, her journalism, and the vast body of letters to her family, friends such as Evelyn Waugh, and to the great love of her life, Gaston Palewski, all tell an intriguing story. Drawing from thes ...Show more
Take Six Girls: The Lives of the Mitford Sisters by Laura Thompson
44.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The eldest was a razor-sharp novelist of upper-class manners; the second was loved by John Betjeman; the third was a fascist who married Oswald Mosley; the fourth idolized Hitler and shot herself in the head when Britain declared war on Germany; the fifth was a member of the American Communist Party; th ...Show more
Take Six Girls: The Lives of the Mitford Sisters by Laura Thompson
26.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The eldest was a razor-sharp novelist of upper-class manners; the second was loved by John Betjeman; the third was a fascist who married Oswald Mosley; the fourth idolized Hitler and shot herself in the head when Britain declared war on Germany; the fifth was a member of the American Communist Party; th ...Show more
Take Six Girls - The Lives of the Mitford Sisters (Illustrated Edition) by Laura Thompson
59.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: near fine
Writer, countrywoman, Fascist, Nazi, Communist, duchess. Born in that order, they were the Mitford sisters: Nancy, Pamela, Diana, Unity, Jessica and Deborah. The eldest was a razor-sharp novelist of upper-class manners; the second was loved by John Betjeman; the third was a fascist who married Oswald ...Show more
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