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First Reported May 25 2012 - Updated May 25 2012 - 1 Documents

Jasper Fforde

Why everyone needs a comfort read

DO YOU have comfort reads? The literary equivalent of a nice bowl of chicken soup, or bread and butter pudding? My favourite comfort read is a dose of Pym.Barbara Pym writes dependably old-fashioned and slyly funny novels about gentlewomen trembling on ... [ Published May 25 2012 by Canberra Times ]

Entities: Barbara Pym, Margery Williams, Dodie Smith, Jasper Fforde

First Reported May 23 2012 - Updated May 23 2012 - 1 Documents

Shelf Life: Mary Killen

The journalist and author Mary Killen is in the limelight this week. In addition to writing the Dear Mary column in the Spectator every week, she has written a self-help book about the loving Queen. How the Queen Can Make You Happy will be published on ... [ Published May 23 2012 by Spectator ]

Entities: Shelf Life, James Boswell, Alex Comfort, Richmal Crompton, Sex

First Reported May 22 2012 - Updated May 22 2012 - 1 Documents

Peregrine Cavendish, 12th Duke of Devonshire

Pride and Prejudice House to be subject of new TV documentary; owner gives interview

As a new BBC series focuses on Chatsworth House, we talk to its proud but diffident owner "Nice to meet you,” says Peregrine Cavendish, 12th Duke of Devonshire , custodian of Chatsworth House, shocking me to the core. Then, to confound me even further, ... [ Published May 22 2012 by Oh No They Didn't! ]

Entities: Nancy Mitford, Oswald Mosley, Peregrine Cavendish, 12th Duke of Devonshire, Lady's maid, Denis Thatcher

First Reported May 21 2012 - Updated May 21 2012 - 1 Documents

Elizabeth Gilbert

In rediscovered treasure, a woman ahead of her time

Occasionally in reading, one comes across a book that seems so wholecloth—so complete, so utterly of its time and place — that it causes amazement.How, the reader thinks, can I not have known about this book before?“Anne of Green Gables” was an early ... [ Published May 21 2012 by Buffalo News ]

Entities: Elizabeth Gilbert, Nancy Mitford, Cornell University, Alcoholism

First Reported May 10 2012 - Updated May 10 2012 - 1 Documents

Daphne Guinness

Illustration by Robert BeckA few months ago, Daphne Guinness moved to Paris. And although staying put and clipping her metalized wings sounds unlikely this summer, I hope she’ll return in September and start a salon of sorts. Of course, her great aunt ... [ Published May 10 2012 by AnOther ]

Entities: Daphne Guinness, Sam Spiegel, Mervyn Peake

First Reported May 06 2012 - Updated May 06 2012 - 1 Documents

Damien Hirst

The Duke of Devonshire: a reluctant reality TV star

As a new BBC series focuses on Chatsworth House, we talk to its proud but diffident owner "Nice to meet you, says Peregrine Cavendish, 12th Duke of Devonshire, custodian of Chatsworth House, shocking me to the core. Then, to confound me even further, ... [ Published May 06 2012 by Telegraph ]

Entities: Nancy Mitford, Oswald Mosley, Denis Thatcher, Damien Hirst, University of Manchester

First Reported Apr 30 2012 - Updated Apr 30 2012 - 1 Documents

Boris Johnson

Need a book idea? Go back to your well-heeled roots

There were, he reasoned, always juicy secrets to be prised out of an eminent name. Now the old hackâs mantra has been taken up by the publishing world.There are three novels out this year from female writers who appear to have pillaged their famous familiesâ ... [ Published Apr 30 2012 by London Evening Standard ]

Entities: Frances Osborne, Oswald Mosley, Boris Johnson

First Reported Apr 24 2012 - Updated Apr 24 2012 - 1 Documents

Alexandra Shulman on literary girl gangs

, the novelist and editor of British Vogue, on her favourite groups of girls in literature Ive always loved reading about gangs of girls and women. Theres something about that group dynamic which I enjoyed even as a child. My first experience of them ... [ Published Apr 24 2012 by Telegraph ]

Entities: Alexandra Shulman, Nancy Mitford, Rona Jaffe, Ira Levin

First Reported Apr 22 2012 - Updated Apr 22 2012 - 1 Documents

Pigeon Pie by Nancy Mitford – review

Nancy Mitford honed her satirical edge with this witty spy story written in the first days of the second world warThis novel opens with the declaration of the second world war, but Mitford completed it by Christmas 1939. Her frivolous confection was not ... [ Published Apr 22 2012 by Guardian.co.uk ]

Entities: Nancy Mitford, Counter-Espionage, Pursuit, Infidelity, Espionage

First Reported Apr 19 2012 - Updated Apr 19 2012 - 1 Documents

The Horror of Love: Nancy Mitford and the colonel

Do admit, Mitford fans that you know very little about Nancy’s longtime flame “the Col” (Colonel Gaston Palewski), beyond, perhaps, that he was Charles DeGaulle’s sidekick, the inspiration for Fabrice in The Pursuit of Love and a lifelong womaniser who ... [ Published Apr 19 2012 by Abu Dhabi National ]

Entities: Nancy Mitford, Gaston Palewski, Pursuit

First Reported Apr 06 2012 - Updated Apr 06 2012 - 1 Documents

The Journal Culture Club: Win tickets to the Hexham Book Festival

A biography of the love affair between Nancy Mitford - novelist, socialite, most gifted of the famous sisters -and the Free French commander who inspired her to write her most famous novel, The Pursuit of Love. Drawing on unpublished correspondence, this ... [ Published Apr 06 2012 by Northeast Journal ]

Entities: Nancy Mitford, Trinity Mirror plc, Pursuit

First Reported Apr 03 2012 - Updated Apr 03 2012 - 2 Documents

Gay, straight sex explored

Edmund White is as celebrated as much for his honesty as he is for being one of America's pre-eminent writers. He is as renowned, too, for his astute social commentary, sexual candour and elegant prose style as he is for his role in pioneering gay li ... [ Published Apr 03 2012 by West Australian ]

Entities: Gay, Edmund White, Jack Holmes

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Why everyone needs a comfort read [ Published May 25 2012 by Canberra Times ]
Shelf Life: Mary Killen [ Published May 23 2012 by Spectator ]
Pride and Prejudice House to be subject of new ... [ Published May 22 2012 by Oh No They Didn't! ]
In rediscovered treasure, a woman ahead of her ... [ Published May 21 2012 by Buffalo News ]
Art out of anarchy [ Published May 14 2012 by Australian Art Review ]
Daphne Guinness [ Published May 10 2012 by AnOther ]
Joan Acocella: Henry Hitchings?s ?The Language ... [ Published May 07 2012 by New Yorker ]
The Duke of Devonshire: a reluctant reality TV ... [ Published May 06 2012 by Telegraph ]
Need a book idea? Go back to your well-heeled r... [ Published Apr 30 2012 by London Evening Standard ]
Alexandra Shulman on literary girl gangs [ Published Apr 24 2012 by Telegraph ]
Pigeon Pie by Nancy Mitford – review [ Published Apr 22 2012 by Guardian.co.uk ]
The Horror of Love: Nancy Mitford and the colonel [ Published Apr 19 2012 by Abu Dhabi National ]
Visit by author Morpurgo is sure to be a hi... [ Published Apr 10 2012 by Derby Telegraph ]
The Journal Culture Club: Win tickets to the He... [ Published Apr 06 2012 by Northeast Journal ]
Gay, straight sex explored [ Published Apr 03 2012 by West Australian ]
Gay, straight sex explored (The West Australian) [ Published Apr 03 2012 by West Australian ]
John Richardson: a life in art [ Published Mar 23 2012 by Guardian.co.uk ]
The queen of obliviousness [ Published Dec 03 2011 by Salon ]
How gossip took over the news [ Published Nov 26 2011 by Salon ]

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Pride and Prejudice House to be subject of new ... [ Published May 22 2012 by Oh No They Didn't! ] As a new BBC series focuses on Chatsworth House, we talk to its proud but diffident owner "Nice to meet you,” says Peregrine Cavendish, 12th Duke of Devonshire , custodian of Chatsworth House, shocking me to the core. Then, to confound me even further, ...